Posted on 04/10/2012 7:51:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
David Leonard has spent years fighting racism and White privilege--and he's ready for his Caucasian brethren to get on board and see just how wrong things still are in this country.
Dear White folks:
Between the racist comments, the constant use of the race denial card (this country's most frequently used "race card") and the absurd claims of White victimhood, you have really grated my last nerve.
Sure, we got teary during The Blind Side and Antoine Fisher; we maybe even gave money to KONY2012 and after Hurricane Katrina; we maybe even donned a hoodie to protest the murder of Trayvon Martin. I don’t even doubt there are individuals out there who are genuinely concerned about racism and injustice; I don’t doubt that there are many Whites that marched with Dr. King and whose “best friends” might be Black. None of this matters if African Americans continue to die at the hands of guns held by security guards and police officers all without justice.
I have heard that “we are all Trayvon Martin” over the last few weeks, yet we are not Trayvon Martin – and we never could be. White America is never suspicious. White America can walk to the store without fear of being hunted down. White America can count on justice and a nation grieving at the loss of White life. We aren't Trayvon Martin, we are George Zimmerman: presumed innocent until proven innocent.
I want you to close your eyes for a second, and imagine that your son or daughter, sister or brother, granddaughter or grandson, ventured to the corner store for some Skittles and tea but never returned? Can you imagine if Peter or Jan were gunned down right around the corner from your house and the police didn’t notify you right away? Can you imagine if little Sydney or Bobby sat in the morgue for days as you searched to find out what happened them? Can you even imagine the police letting the perpetrator go or the news media remaining silent? Can you even fathom learning about background and drug tests on your child? Can you imagine the news media demonizing your child, blaming your child for his own death?
Can you imagine the outcry if seven White youths had been gunned down by police and security guards in a matter of months? Can you imagine the extensive political interest, the media stories that would saturate the airwaves? Can you imagine Fox News or any number of newspapers reporting about a school suspension for one of the victims or doctoring pictures in an attempt to make these victims less sympathetic? Can you imagine a person holding up a sign calling these victims “thugs” and “hoodlums.”Just think about the media frenzy, the concern from politicians, and the national horror every time a school shooting happens in Suburbia or every time a White woman goes missing...can you imagine if women routinely went missing from your community and the news and police department simply couldn't be bothered?
No, you can't. And you don't have to.
Yet, from Florida to Los Angeles, from Atlanta to Wisconsin, from Chicago to Ohio, Black families are burying the innocent and the future. Doesn’t that make you sad; doesn’t that make your angry? Our silence is telling. We can barely say their names much less acknowledge the epidemic in our midst: Stephon Watts. Trayvon Martin. Ramarley Graham. Wendell Allen. Dante Price. Bo Morrison. Rekia Boyd. Kendrec McDade.
All have lost their lives; and we don’t even say their names. All have died under similarly disturbing circumstances. All should have prompted national outrage and action; or at the least for us to say their names.
I don’t care if you cried during The Help and if the 'feel good' movie of the year featuring chicken-frying maids and affluent White women made you feel all post-racial tingly on the inside. Did you cry at the report of yet another lost Black life? If so, what have those tears done – have they led you to join a rally, to demand justice? I don’t care if you voted for President Obama; have you demanded dramatic changes to our criminal (in)justice system? It is time for us to check ourselves, to listen and demand a better America starting with ourselves. It is time to stop denying racism and defending White privilege, distracting and deflecting with “what ifs” and excuses. It is time to demand justice for the Trayvons and the Rekias, not because it could have been one of our sons and daughters--it couldn't--but because it is simply the right thing to do.
Sincerely
A member of White America
I used to know a Black student who was from Africa. He was probably very rare as he was conservative.
His name was Kofi (no relations to the other Kofi). He attended a Southern Baptist University. His room mate was an American Black.
Once I was talking to Kofi about his room mate and Kofi told me he was as sorry as he could be. He said all he did was try to think of things to steal or some evil act to try to get by with.
I suspect Kofi’s room mate was pretty typical of a lot of American Blacks.
Sincerely,
a socialist house cracker
This is what the liberal white racist is saying here:
It is guns that are killing black people - an evil constitutional right -the second amendment. That freedom does not see white people killed by white people with guns! Only black kids are killed by their guns. This is because, according to elitist socialists, Blacks can not be trusted with that “white” freedom - Blacks will use the guns to murder each other. And whitey don’t care that black people are murdering black people with their gun rights. All whitey cares about is freedom. He don’t care about dead blacks who have been shot by other blacks.
White liberals think Blacks are inferior and can not survive or handle freedom like whites can. Rather than changing the gangster murder and rage culture that is murderous, they would rather enslave whites and blacks in the name of keeping blacks from killing themselves with evil whitey freedom.
I want you to close your eyes for a second, and imagine that your son or daughter, sister or brother, granddaughter or grandson, ventured to the corner store for some Skittles and tea but never returned?
LOL... does this jackass have ANY idea about crime in America? Hey Chump come live in a big city instead of hiding out in your little eastern Washington white enclave. Come get a load of Sec. 8 housing in your neighborhood or Trayvon type thugs walking on your lawn at 2 a.m. Come to a big city and “diversify” an inner city neighborhood and see just how “welcome” you are.
Pullman, Washington 2.4% black
Way to show us rednecks how easy we have it living with Trayvon types Davey.
I got the crap kicked out of me in high school. The attackers were a group of black kids. They wanted my money. They got it, but it took a fight.
Tell me about justice.
There are lots of poor dumb white boys who get shot in my city. I used to wear my hair long and dress scruffy when I was a young punk, I got stopped and questioned quite often just on principle. The police generally are not fond of teenagers and young adults prowling around the streets.
I am reminded of my first experience with what we have come to know as a "liberal".
It was my first job out of college back in the sixties. My boss spent his vacation that summer as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi.
I admired his committment. But, several weeks after he returned he came into the office steamed!. "Y'know what my damned landlord did?", he asked. Of course, none of us had any idea...
"He let a G.D. n_____ move into the apartment next door to me!", he finished. "I'm movin' out!" And he did.
That was first experience with a liberal. And I voted for Goldwater that November, without a second thought.
Check out the photo at #17. He’s white as milk.
David J. Leonard is not black.
He's a self-hating honky.
Translation: Don’t hurt me, please!
What an idiot, a person who hasn’t really lived life anywhere outside his own comfort zones.
I won’t rely on dipshits like him when the shit goes down, that’s for sure.
This kind of White-hating propaganda is a racist slap in the face of every White person who ever worked hard to get what they have.
Because he's too damn dumb to get a real degree in a real subject. I'd like to kick him in the groin with my solid wooden leg.
j/k, I don't have a wooden leg. But my dad did. Maybe I could just swing that at him. What a dumb SOB.
Those are supposed to be ignored because publicizing them compromises the Blacks are Oppressed and Whites are Oppressors thing.
He's a Professor of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies. He wouldn't know shit about history.
Yawn.
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Congressional black Caucus
NAACP
Black Panthers
California Legislative Black Caucus
Georgia Legislative Black Caucus
South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus
Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus
The Council of Black Political Organizations
National Conference of Black Political Scientists
American Association of Blacks in Energy
Assn for Study of African Amer Life & History
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
Black Enterprise/Bank of America Entre.
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
Black Psychiatrists of Amer Transcultural
Black Women’s Network
Blacks In Government
Congress of National Black Churches
Harvard Black Law Students Association
International Black Women’s Congress
International Org. of Black Security Execs.
Nat’l. Alliance of Black School Educators
Nat’l. Assn. of Black Accountants Inc.
Nat’l. Assn. of African American Studies
Nat’l. Assn. of Black College Broadcasters
Nat’l. Assn. of Black Journalists
Nat’l. Assn. of Black Scuba Divers
Nat’l. Assn. of Black Social Workers
Nat’l. Assn. of Black Telecomm. Profs. Inc.
Nat’l. Assn. of Black Women Entrepreneurs
Nat’l. Assn. of Black-Owned Broadcasters Inc.
Nat’l. Assn. of Blacks in Criminal Justice
Nat’l. Assn. of Negro Bus & Prof Women’s Club
Nat’l. Black Caucus of State Legislators
Nat’l. Black Flight Attendants of Amer.
Nat’l. Black MBA Association
Nat’l. Black Nurses Association
Nat’l. Black Police Association Inc.
Nat’l. Conference of Black Mayors
Nat’l. Forum for Black Public Administrators
Nat’l. Council of Negro Women Inc.
Nat’l. Org. of Black Law Enforcement Execs.
Professional Women of Color
The Organization of Black Airline Pilots
I am tired!
This list is maybe 5% of organizations devoted to one race.
I always wonder what makes a seemingly uninterested poster post something like “yawn.” What made you do it?
Douchebaggery transcends race....
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