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To: mafree
Mostly, blacks themselves have to change the perpetual victim attitude.

That's what I've come to, but I can't see many signs in the Black community that point in that direction. I see increasing hostility (Maxine Waters, a Representative from a nearby area, is a case in point). Barbara Lee didn't do the concept of unity a lot of good, either, and neither do the Black Congressional Caucus, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP and other influential Black organizations that focus mainly on divisive issues.

There's an old science fiction notion that an invasion of Earth by space aliens would unify all the peoples of the world against a common enemy. I had hoped that one good result of this attack on the U.S. would be the unification of all Americans against a common threat: Americans of all colors died in this tragedy. Jesse Jackson's attempt to carry out what can only be interpreted as a separatist "Black" foreign policy in opposition to that of the administration's, is a nasty symbol and very worrisome to me. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and wait to see the final result -- if he rescues Christian hostages that would be wonderful -- but the racial and political overtones of his venture are unmistakable and do not appear to be unifying.

36 posted on 09/28/2001 10:32:42 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx
..Jesse Jackson's attempt to carry out what can only be interpreted as a separatist "Black" foreign policy in opposition to that of the administration's, is a nasty symbol and very worrisome to me...

Slight correction- Jesse's foreign policy is his and his alone. I never heard or read one black person ask him to do anything about it or care much about his opinion on the matter. Support for him within the black community is always mixed.

45 posted on 09/28/2001 12:35:46 PM PDT by mafree
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