Posted on 06/02/2002 12:36:57 PM PDT by tricky_k_1972
It might be easier if all racists were like Bobby Frank Cherry: easily identified, cartoon character good old boys. It might be simpler if all racism manifested itself in violent, clumsy ways. But like any virus, in order to survive, racism adapts to its conditions. These complex times call for a more subtle approach. Today, some racists wear suits and ties, run big bureaucracies or work in government and private corporations. Some are those who have declared racism dead, that the playing field has been leveled, and that affirmative action unnecessary and in itself racist.
Todays racists are those who willfully ignore the existence of both discrimination against African Americans and their own white privilege. They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude. Like Cherry, todays racists take lives and livelihoods, crush spirits, and then blame the victim. Im pleased that Bobby Frank Cherry will spend the rest of his days in prison, but his conviction wont bring those four girls back. And racism still is not dead. That can only happen when Americans recognize the entrenched system of white privilege that disenfranchises not only black Americans, but all people of color, not only here, but around the world, and work to dismantle it.
I like to question elite white women (liberals),on where their posteriors fit in the great scheme of things. They are very often in positions ,that reflect the "racist" society that they criticise. Oh well, one can merely ask- pathetically, of Super Jill, this question. "Black people don't kill white people- (whine in voice) do they?
I saw the old dignified man, a talking head(white) on MSNBC, after the day of the sentencing of Cherry. I thought, yes, if he (Cherry) did it, serves him right. I do have grand daughters too. Then I thought, you old hypocrite(talking head)- does he care about wanton crime that singles out the other racial group? He does not. It is more than his job is worth.
Pure common sense, and yet many still don't seem to be able to grasp this simple concept in their approach to life.
SHUT UP WHITEY AND GET BACK IN LINE. Just kidding
I guess that Madame C.J. Walker, a black millionairess in the latter 1800s got where she was through government handouts. http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/walker.html
I have news for this cluck, not all white people are rich. Not all white people are guaranteed a job, a college education, and success by virtue of being white. White people have to work hard just like everyone else.
Whoa there, Bucko, she is/was married to the first BLACK President ;-)
This kind of black victim-mentality which portrays whites as the master of all men's fates, just reinforces the inferior, helpless and irresponsible attitude that keeps blacks down.
Liberal racism is absolutely sickening.
Hmmmmmm....wasn't it the Egyptians who enslaved the Jews?
LOL. In high school we had to interview someone who had lived during the Depression. I asked my grandmother that same question, and her answer was, "What Depression?" Before, during, after -- made no difference to poor folks just making do.
Neither of my grandparents went to college, but they made darn sure both my mother and uncle did. They wanted better for their kids, and worked hard to make it happen. No hand-out, no welfare, no whining. Just work.
The author of this article gets no sympathy from me, nor guilt. Barf alert is right.
But....but....their victims still vote for them. That's what really counts. If they can get the African Americans to lose more, they gain more. Get it? Hold them down like slaves, and they'll vote Democrat every time. The Democrat think tanks are making a killing off these folks.
The truth is black homes with both a mother and father have an income that is nearly equal to that of white households.
The lack of two parent homes is holding blacks down more than anything any "racists" could possibly do to them.
But then we wouldn't expect the above liberal racist author who wants to blame all blacks problems on others to understand the impact of personal responsibility on life.
While I don't personnaly believe that all crime is a "Hate" crime, if your going to have the stupid law it at least should be applied equally.
Any investigator can tell you that ex-wives make great sources - but also that they aren't trustworthy unless it is possible to really verify what they said.
Guilty or wrongly convicted, Bobby Cherry was the victim of a racially-inspired lynching.
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