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shared by Levy Rivers on 05 Apr 08 - Cached
  • And you know what? It wasn't just about skin color. It was always first and foremost about accepting an identity of racial supremacy. Even the Irish in America were "black" before they were "white." Don't believe it? Look it up.
    • Levy Rivers
      Levy Rivers on 05 Apr 08
       
      I had forgotten that the Irish where once called "black" - as a way to degrade them by the English!
  • Wow, no wonder white folks are bitter. Having to carry around all that self-deception willful ignorance all those years. And for what? A lousy seat at the front of the bus and a place at the front of the job queue that are no longer even guaranteed by law!
  • Once upon a time -- not so very long ago -- there was no such thing as whiteness or the white race, just as there was no such thing as blackness or the black race. Those unscientific distinctions and associated invidious stereotypes had to be invented. It so happens that they were invented by folks who invented their own identity of whiteness to establish their moral superiority to people being held in slavery.
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  • Billy Jack says, "Far too many white people are filled with hatred and bitterness toward people of other races. Far too many black people find their identity, personality and even careers in their blackness..."
  • When I was kid there was this committee of Congress called the "House Un-American Activities Committee". To be an "American" you had to believe in certain things and not believe in other things. The things you couldn't believe in included socialism or self-determination for people in other countries where American corporations had business investments or, sometimes, just being against Jim Crow segregation
  • you need to wake up
  • There is no denying the atrocities that took place against black folks in those days. There is also no denying that discrimination still exists to some extent today. I admit all of those things, and I am sorry about them. I wonder if you are just as willing to admit that things are much better for black people today?
  • let's get on with solving race problems that exist today. Remembering the past is fine. We can learn from it. But dwelling exclusively on the past is not productive of any useful solutions. Rather, it stirs up more hatred and resentment and the negative cycle continues into the next generation. Someone has to stop the insanity. I am willing to do my part. Are you???
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