Posted on 12/26/2016 10:15:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I think I see the problem here:
“I am a black college student in a part of the country where a a lot of people had just made it very clear that they do not respect my skin color”
PUT THE PIPE DOWN and things will start to become clear.
Yes, Hillary, the first black female president, I guess, would have really taken care of the black community! (Can’t they ever learn to take care of themselves?!)
“They had came to the same realization I had”
Fusion and this author don’t proofread. Or they are illiterate.
They do not respect your skin color by voting against your candidate? Now you are not safe? Young lady, you have been intellectually abused to believe that your feelings are paramount. I sincerely hope you expand your mind and experience base before you become a bitter, angry old lady.
One can nurture a sense of alienation indefinitely if it makes one feel special, and that's exactly what's going on here, a perpetual child in a perpetual pout. There will never be "justice" as she defines it because it would ruin everything for her. And I don't care to be a perpetual punching bag for her carefully contrived sense of resentment and entitlement.
Or both.
Dear Imani (snowflake extraordinaire),
You may think it is a good idea to make an early appointment to get fitted for a comfortable pair of shackles. Avoid the rush, you know!
But you don’t need to. You are already wearing them. You just do not have the self awareness to realize that fact. Go look in the mirror and put some thought into what you see.
They had come to the same realization I had:
Still putting my high school diploma to work for me after 45 years.
Simply reinforces the fact that propaganda is a very powerful weapon. Even reality is powerless against it.
Universities are programming millions of these mush brains into delusional robots. Only de-programming is effective against them.
If her self confidence wasn’t built and grew under President Obama and his view of blacks and whites nothing will help her. Confidence comes from within and apparently her choices have been made out of wearing colored glasses she put on herself. Until she stops making excuses and find peace inside she will never be happy. I tend to see people for how they tend to see themselves. Self pity isn’t pretty.
Comments that she and her brothers and sisters should just worry about living their own lives, free of binding oneself to the Black community - become simply Americans, post racial and be the best in your studies, your work, and in your hearts. If you want to self identified at black, gay, liberal or someone not a simply citizen you will always be angry.
A young American woman of any race or creed should feel empowered, not threatened, by a candidate willing to take on the power structure in both major Parties which has allowed such erasing of the very ideas of freedom, all in the name of accumulations of power to those who promise much and deliver nothing to those whom they can "use" for their own purposes: for instance, the Clintons.
This young woman's disappointment will melt away if the new administration can demonstrate that shrinking the size and scope of the load which big government places on individuals will, in fact, benefit her and the family she may one day want to raise in a free society.
John Adams’ son, John Quincy, who was a 9-year-old when the Declaration of Independence was written, 20 when the Constitution was framed, and from his teen years, served in various capacities in both the Legislative and Executive branches of the government, including as President. His words on the kind of government framed by the Constitution of 1787 should be instructive on the subject at hand.In 1839, JQA was invited by the New York Historical Society to deliver the “Jubilee” Address (www.lonang.com) honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington. He delivered that lengthy discourse which should be read by all who love liberty, for it traced the history of the development of the ideas underlying and the actions leading to the establishment of the Constitution which structured the United States government. His 50th-year summation seems to be a better source for understanding the kind of government the Founders formed than those of recent historians and politicians. He addresses the ideas of “democracy” and “republic” throughout, but here are some of his concluding remarks:
“Every change of a President of the United States, has exhibited some variety of policy from that of his predecessor. In more than one case, the change has extended to political and even to moral principle; but the policy of the country has been fashioned far more by the influences of public opinion, and the prevailing humors in the two Houses of Congress, than by the judgment, the will, or the principles of the President of the United States. The President himself is no more than a representative of public opinion at the time of his election; and as public opinion is subject to great and frequent fluctuations, he must accommodate his policy to them; or the people will speedily give him a successor; or either House of Congress will effectually control his power. It is thus, and in no other sense that the Constitution of the United States is democratic - for the government of our country, instead of a Democracy the most simple, is the most complicated government on the face of the globe. From the immense extent of our territory, the difference of manners, habits, opinions, and above all, the clashing interests of the North, South, East, and West, public opinion formed by the combination of numerous aggregates, becomes itself a problem of compound arithmetic, which nothing but the result of the popular elections can solve.
“It has been my purpose, Fellow-Citizens, in this discourse to show:-
“1. That this Union was formed by a spontaneous movement of the people of thirteen English Colonies; all subjects of the King of Great Britain - bound to him in allegiance, and to the British empire as their country. That the first object of this Union,was united resistance against oppression, and to obtain from the government of their country redress of their wrongs.
“2. That failing in this object, their petitions having been spurned, and the oppressions of which they complained, aggravated beyond endurance, their Delegates in Congress, in their name and by their authority, issued the Declaration of Independence - proclaiming them to the world as one people, absolving them from their ties and oaths of allegiance to their king and country - renouncing that country; declared the UNITED Colonies, Independent States, and announcing that this ONE PEOPLE of thirteen united independent states, by that act, assumed among the powers of the earth, that separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitled them.
“3. That in justification of themselves for this act of transcendent power, they proclaimed the principles upon which they held all lawful government upon earth to be founded - which principles were, the natural, unalienable, imprescriptible rights of man, specifying among them, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - that the institution of government is to secure to men in society the possession of those rights: that the institution, dissolution, and reinstitution of government, belong exclusively to THE PEOPLE under a moral responsibility to the Supreme Ruler of the universe; and that all the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.
“4. That under this proclamation of principles, the dissolution of allegiance to the British king, and the compatriot connection with the people of the British empire, were accomplished; and the one people of the United States of America, became one separate sovereign independent power, assuming an equal station among the nations of the earth.
“5. That this one people did not immediately institute a government for themselves. But instead of it, their delegates in Congress, by authority from their separate state legislatures, without voice or consultation of the people, instituted a mere confederacy.
“6. That this confederacy totally departed from the principles of the Declaration of independence, and substituted instead of the constituent power of the people, an assumed sovereignty of each separate state, as the source of all its authority.
“7. That as a primitive source of power, this separate state sovereignty,was not only a departure from the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but directly contrary to, and utterly incompatible with them.
“8. That the tree was made known by its fruits. That after five years wasted in its preparation, the confederation dragged out a miserable existence of eight years more, and expired like a candle in the socket, having brought the union itself to the verge of dissolution.
“9. That the Constitution of the United States was a return to the principles of the Declaration of independence, and the exclusive constituent power of the people. That it was the work of the ONE PEOPLE of the United States; and that those United States, though doubled in numbers, still constitute as a nation, but ONE PEOPLE.
“10. That this Constitution, making due allowance for the imperfections and errors incident to all human affairs, has under all the vicissitudes and changes of war and peace, been administered upon those same principles, during a career of fifty years.
“11. That its fruits have been, still making allowance for human imperfection, a more perfect union, established justice, domestic tranquility, provision for the common defence, promotion of the general welfare, and the enjoyment of the blessings of liberty by the constituent people, and their posterity to the present day.
“And now the future is all before us, and Providence our guide.”
In an earlier paragraph, he had stated: “But this institution was republican, and even democratic. And here not to be misunderstood, I mean by democratic, a government, the administration of which must always be rendered comfortable to that predominating public opinion . . . and by republican I mean a government reposing, not upon the virtues or the powers of any one man - not upon that honor, which Montesquieu lays down as the fundamental principle of monarchy - far less upon that fear which he pronounces the basis of despotism; but upon that virtue which he, a noble of aristocratic peerage, and the subject of an absolute monarch, boldly proclaims as a fundamental principle of republican government. The Constitution of the United States was republican and democratic - but the experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived; and it was obvious that if virtue - the virtue of the people, was the foundation of republican government, the stability and duration of the government must depend upon the stability and duration of the virtue by which it is sustained.”
______________________ (End of excerpt)
You have to have on an incredible set of blinders to have the view of the world that this girl has. She desperately needs some new friends and teachers.
No Obi said Elections have consequences and at the end of the day, I won.
Such BS. Blacks have been moving south for the better part of a decade because the living is easy and race relations are better than almost any place in the nation. She is delusional.
I did not touch a coloring book after fourth grade. I would be embarrassed to admit I was still using coloring books while attending supposedly one of the top colleges in the US. It is obvious this student was admitted to Emory because of racial quotas.
Poor little snowflake! (or would she consider that racis?) She doesn’t realize her post-graduation prospects just improved by a quantum - unless she is a Black Studies major or other such nonsense. And her French prof? Didn’t she realize when choosing classes that in the sHrillary world she wanted, Spanish or Arabic would be of far more utility to her?
As to her skin color and being afraid ... she is in Atlanta fer cryin out loud. Try walking-while-white in many, many areas of that city.
I wonder if she identifies with those mall creatures who rioted on Christmas Eve.
The sad part is that this young woman believes this rot. She has been told all of her life that she is regarded as less than human due to her skin color. She has no idea that people don’t give a rat’s patootie about her skin color, but what she chooses to do with her life that will earn her respect. Unfortunately, she is choosing the wrong path, wearing her skin color on her shoulder expecting the world to knock it to the ground.
Get back to the books, honey. Work hard and succeed. Avoid the numbskulls that had rather spend their time whining and rabble-rousing than studying and working hard. Stop rubbing your skin color in every person’s face you meet and you might just be surprised at what you can accomplish.
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