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BlkTallFullfig -> RE: I was wrong about racism in New Orleans (9/25/2005 2:19:54 PM)
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You know, we got to live in the now, the reality......life ain't gonna get better if we dream about it, nor are you alone gonna change the world. I agree. My present is not bad at all in that I have those things I need, a lot of what I want, and those days that the world being phucked up gets under my skin, I sit with my family, we talk, drink, dance, and believe there is a higher power we have a higher purpose for being in the world.
We even acknowledge that all things considered, we'd rather live here than in other countries with a different set of problems, because the devil you know....
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The truth is, they are black and we are white.........that distinction will be with us our lifetime (everyone who reads this and I know that there are kids in their early twenties who might land here by mistake)..so don't be color blind. There isn't a single problem as far as I am concerned in someone saying I am different, as long as in being different you're not insinuating I am superior, especially if your complex is derrived from lacking melanin.
I haven't ever suggested anyone be colorblind since that is BS, doesn't work. What I have suggested is treat others as you would have them treat you (or your children), and go from there based on what you learn thereafter about each.
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See alot of profiles on here BLK/WHT and so on. What we can all hope for someday is that means the same as SAE/METRIC, different but the same. I love your standing and saying I think this way; I've always respected difference of opinion, especially if it is informed, and respectful to me and mine. I'm always open to learning your position whether we agree or not... I can't say I understand your position though with this rant to be honest...
I don't mind disctintive traits placed in profile, because they give me a hint into someone's appearance and their perception sometimes of their appearance. Mine is BlkTall, because I am a brown skinned bodacious babe, and I know men are visual, so that if the visual gives them a rise, they can write and tell me about what they find intriguing/interesting. I will always have a respectful reply to someone who says I don't know you, but I like what I see, and would like to learn what it feels to be with someone like you. I will also always tell those people that approach me with "I want you because I hear black women are *insert whatever stereotype you want* gets told exactly where to shove those ideas, to prevent them from seeing the sun again.
It's not at all about being the same, it's about being equal.
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People are people wherever you go. While I am not gonna recommend reading Fredrick Douglass in this day and age, unless you really like books........I would say that Before The Mayflower is a decent history of Black Folk in america.............
But if we sit here on every post for every post and say the same goddamn thing over and over and over, COMMUNICATE.......
This is not about history lessons, it's more about present day attrocities of the human spirit. We have to say it, because every day something phucked up happens in the world, and it's always because some asshole who is insecure/afraid for whatever reason is in a position to show "who's da man."
Frederick Douglass? Okay maybe not, but how about Henry Louis Gates, Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson?
I really don't mind honest people with decent souls who lack knowledge about me or people who look like me; I'm thrilled to answer questions about curly hair... What absolutely drives me nearly insane is assumptions based on bad media/bad communication, lack of reading, lack of desire to learn, which suit your thinking/mentality/need to feel superior to another human being projected onto me.
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Perhaps there is history that we ain't read and that's why we keep repeating these same mistakes. It's partly that, and partly the fact that people suck, and a lot of folks don't mind what happens to their neighbors as long as it isn't leaving shit on their driveways.
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Now, I gotta say, if you had to wake up everyday a nigger, and you got some money together.........
Wouldn't you try for an easier life?
Don't they want children to have better lives than we? This is also the part about being unable to divorce race and class. I mean how many blacks do you know have Oprah and Powel's disposable income?
An easier life as not as simple to come by when there are institutions which prevent it, and some people see first, assume, than maybe at some point wake up to the facts (when that assumption is about children, they are sometimes killed before they grow); some people never do, and they don't feel they have to, I mean really who wants to question the fact that he may have an unreasonable advantage, and ought to be aware of it enough to try and change it for the greater good?
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At least we got guys now crackin on us back and forth like Bernie Mac (I love that fuckin' guy) and Dave Chappelle and so we are more comfortable now in our skin.
The government who is the people........ Did you see Chris Rock's lates HBO stand up "Never Scared"? He says a black C student can't even get a manger's job at Burger King; a white C student is the president.
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The checkbook has the effect of law. Well Yes, but how often could you afford to go through the bureaucracy of proving someone did something wrong to you which didn't leave a visible scar? How often have you considered complaining about people in power than being afraid you won't have mortgage money next month..... Lots of things to ponder, and the reason one weighs the good with the bad.
After all, how diginified are you going to feel if you're homeless and jobless?
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Government policy has the effect of racism. Yup, I said that too. M
Editted once again for one or 2 inappropriate comments.[8D]
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