Bethnai
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Good, maybe he can shake things up. I am ready for people to stop pretending that many incidents are isolated and want to see progress.
Since it was mentioned, I'll rant for a minute.
Some years ago, I read a book by Randall Kennedy called "Nigger: the strange career of a troublesome word". Personally, the ending was shot out and I thought it could have been done better. In this book is where I ran across the information that Bill Cosby wanted Mark Twain pulled from the education system as it used the word. I lost a lot of respect for him. There is a lot of things that are done in this world, that ain't one of them. That is one extreme. His problem and one I do support, is that its use is entirely too frequent. See, the name of the game, (through the younger generations) is that through overuse it would diminish its last card effect. I mean, I'm going to try to lay it out like the author stated, its the last card, the "I WIN" card. A white guy/girl argue with a black guy/girl and the moment that "nigger" comes out of the mouth.......its the last card. It's the my "I have verbally jacked with you and you don't have shit to say back" card. Cracker don't get it. Overuse isn't working. If the sentiments on BOTH sides was equal, it could have worked.
It is not ok. What was won? The ability to use it and pretend its become acceptable. White people have a back up?
In 1998, Esquire printed an article called "DWB", or Driving While Black, it was the first time racial profiling came to the front. 1998. Say that outloud. So, basically, we had an actual account and evidence that had made it to the pages that not only were you going to be pulled over if your of color but, the police were using training videos to shoot perpetrators, they just all happened to be black. 1998.
The thing of it is, the laws are in place, that was the civil rights movement.
For every white person, who states that he/she is discriminated against (and usually its poverty/cash) there is an awsome guy, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who wrote about the laws that were put into motion in the US to "create" racism. As long as your at each other throats, your not paying attention to what is really going on. It works splendidly with immigration policies to this day. Powerless vs.Powerless.
I hope that now, we will finally begin to see things as they are and start jumping up and down on the shit that is happening but nobody wants to address.
I feel better now.
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