So am I and I don't hate America.
a black woman i know said wright was correct because she remembers black men in her home town when she was a child in alabama being hung.
I was bussed to my jr hi school in 1960s Florida. Hardly a day went by that our bus wasn't attacked by angry whites pelting it with rocks and any thing they could find to throw. I also remember the day our bus had to take a detour around a black man hanging from those spikes used by linemen on a telephone pole. Every child on that bus saw it and like me will probably never forget it.
But I still don't hate America.
I remember accompanying my eldest brother to his job at a filling station, a station that had three bathrooms; men, women and blacks. I remember angry whites yelling "Hurry up, Nigger" while my brother, obviously embarrassed could say nothing but continue filling their tanks.
All this, yet I still don't hate America.
Blacks who choose to hate 21st century America do so because they want to, not because they have bad memories of days gone by.
Very commendable, but it seems to me that most human beings who had to endure the type of treatment you describe could be forgiven for retaining some lingering bitterness about it.
Maybe this wouldn't always translate to hatred of one's country, but it would probably reduce the amount of love.
I am of the white race and I wonder if I would be in a booby-hatch--nut house--psyche ward if I had witnessed what you did. I never lived in the south and maybe that is a good thing.
I admire your strength. Regardless of our race, culture and religion, we all need strength to get through the tough things we're forced to endure. I've got enough years behind me to know that no one has an easy road through life.
For a period of my life, I prayed every night for strength, because I knew I needed it. I'm stronger now, hopefully, that I used to be.
I wish you the life you'd like to enjoy.
Game, set and match. God bless you, and your family. And I have a million times more sympathy for your honest sharing of shameful past events than I will ever have for a man who damns me and my country. Hatred is an ingestive poison. Why can't some people see that?