Thanks for sharing your feelings I think the first step in our healing as I said our .... I mean yours and mine... whitey,s healing.... the first step is validating our feelings and saying them instead of just keeping them inside and being quiet.
You’ve expressed how I feel and I’m sure many others feel so well expressed it in a way that is articulate yes direct and right to the point.
I feel like that guy in the movie that yells out the window..” I’m so mad and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
Maybe the reason that black sons are in danger is because what we see is black thugs behaving like gangsters. I was thinking today I am afraid to get into an elevator alone if there is one black man in the elevator. However I would not be afraid to get on the elevator if there was one black woman in the elevator now why is that?
Maybe it’s because of the behavior the ghetto trash Behavior of black males on TV in the news and on our streets.
Found this article...
Jesse Jackson, as quoted in the NY Times on12/12/93, by Times columnist Bob Herbert (who is also black):
“Jesse Jackson is traveling the country with a tough anti-crime message that he is delivering to inner city youngsters. In Chicago, he said:
‘There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
I also recall Jackson saying (though I am as yet unable to find the exact quote) that if he was walking in Harlem at night and saw three black teen approaching him, he’d cross the street to avoid them.