Posted on 12/21/2005 8:28:48 AM PST by Pikamax
Tribal identity (of which racism is an aspect) has been the norm throughout human history. There's no need to apologize for it. What's needed is a genuine attempt to transcend it, a recognition that it is no longer appropriate, no longer an advantage.
I remember a high school assembly in '70. The only ones allowed in were the "negroes", when they came out they wanted to be called "black". The demeanor they exhibited the rest of the day was of open hostility, physically bumping into me and my group of friends, and laughing about it. This was a small high school, one of them was a neighbour of mine, that walked to school with me daily, and hung with me during lunch. That never happened again, and in fact, during a intramural touch football game, the "black" team, (of course allowed to be formed by the coach) played our team, they wore real metal cleats, and purposely used them during play, (an occurrence ignored by faculty) and razzed our team with racist taunts. Thanks civil rights movement, you turned neighbours and friends into opposites and enemies.
No, SOME of us aren't there yet. And some of us are.
The ones who aren't seem to have vested interest in maintaining the myth, irrespective of its validity.
the only way to eliminate racism is to just stop talking about it.
All the other stuff has been done.
He is not a historian. He is projecting an idealism. We should leave this debate to historians."
Then sit down and shut up, Jesse.
Mr. Freeman, if I understand correctly, did not suggest we wipe early Black American history from our conscience. He expressed the idea that we should not identify individuals, or give special attention to a group of individuals simply because they are of a particular ethnicity, especially when the intent; by political motivation, is to divide.
Jesse Jackson is one of the worst at practicing exclusion. Do you recall his comments regarding Project 21? Jesse Jackson: "Who are they? What are they to this debate? Why should we listen to them? Who are they?"
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I think it is for two reasons.
Oddly the latter reason is the most insidious. The same Democrats who wanted them enslaved (later, merely segregated) get to keep them down by telling them that they aren't capable of succeeding on their own. Jesse Jackson is the worst thing in the world for blacks. He's been doing the work of the slave owning Democrats for years.
I know, I know... I'm preaching to the choir.
Somebody wasn't listening. Morgan said that black history should be studied all the time, not just one month out of the year.
What's interesting in all this is when I was a young girl, I was the only one in class who knew who Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and of all people Jackie Robinson were. It wasn't because it was taught in the classroom but because my mother encouraged me to READ books about them. I also had a better knowledge of the War of Northern Aggression than most kids in my history classes because of her.
Bedamned then. All these years I thought Jews were white!
d.o.l.
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