Posted on 01/09/2015 8:13:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When we look back on what happened in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage ignited by yet another police killing of an unarmed African-American male. But that has it precisely backward. What we've actually seen is the latest outbreak of white rage. Sure, it is cloaked in the niceties of law and order, but it is rage nonetheless.
Protests and looting naturally capture attention. But the real rage smolders in meetings where officials redraw precincts to dilute African-American voting strength or seek to slash the government payrolls that have long served as sources of black employment. It goes virtually unnoticed, however, because white rage doesn't have to take to the streets and face rubber bullets to be heard.
Instead, white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors, who cast its efforts as noble, though they are actually driven by the most ignoble motivations.
White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision and took on its latest incarnation with Barack Obama's ascent to the White House. For every action of African-American advancement, there's a reaction, a backlash.
The North's victory in the Civil War did not bring peace. Instead, emancipation brought white resentment that the good ol' days of black subjugation were over....
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I see what you did there, Carol Anderson. You put ‘rage’ where the word ‘outrage’ is belongs. Did they teach that at the graduate school you became a professor?
it will be easy to think of it as yet one more episode of black rage
Alright then.
My snarky comment would have been better if I hadn’t included the ‘is’. I’m sure of it.
Missed that ... good catch. ;-)
So the thug shoved the store clerk because he was enraged about gerrymandering?
“Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African-American studies “
Well, of course she is.
I’ll remember it as just another case where a thug fought the law and the law won.
“So they feel entitled to government jobs, whether they produce any public benefit or not? “
Yes, absolutely.
USPS is a major one, a ‘company’ whose time has passed. But that won’t stop a battle royale over slashing it to the bone.
A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
-- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
“Bad culture drives out good.”
If you’re black is it possible to fail African-American studies?
A liberal:’’ A person too broad-minded to take their own side in an argument.’’
Classic angry negress.
Depends entirely on what your definition of "is" is.
Professor Anderson seethes with rage.....
Bad ole white boys caused this pore ole aspiring rappa gentle gint to just loose it, and lash out against the white oppression, and it costed him his life for just a few stole cigars. Whut’s this country comin to?
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