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neo-rascism

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, May 15 2015, 15:15:34 (UTC)
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I remember years, decades, ago when Martin Luther King first swam into my consciousness.....around 1966....when in an interview he discussed how difficult it was for him to have "that talk" with his five year old daughter....when he had to explain to this young child, a child with all the sensitivity and eagerness and desire for joy as all kids have at that age, when he had to explain to her why she couldn't play in certain parks, or drink from certain water fountains...he said how it broke his heart to see the cloud come over her eyes as she had to deal, for the first time in her young life, with the sudden realization that there was something terribly wrong and unfixable in her, just in her...not for anything she had done, but for what white people had done to her, and now wanted to punish her for some more. It was then that he decided that he could not be the agent of the white man in breaking the heart and spirit of his own children, FOR the white man....just as for 1000 years Chinese mothers had been the agents of their men in breaking the feet, and the spirit too, of their own daughters...after theirs had been broken by their mothers.

Much has changed since then, but much more has gone underground, where the Right White would like to keep it...keep it from view while keeping it alive and well and thriving, underground where the damage can go on but not so easily noticed....till it accidentally breaks out somewhere in the country and they rush to put out the fire, above ground.

It was a mistake for Blacks to allow the word "NIGGER" to ever be driven underground....they should have used it and used it and used till the white man couldn't STAND, not just to hear it, but be reminded daily of what he had done to innocent people and was still doing....Blacks HELPED whites drive the truth underground.

Just as Prussian officers took pride in scars gotten through duels, or soldiers in their medals, Afro-Americans should take pride in the word Nigger...it is THEIR scar, their badge of courage and endurance and transcendence and patience and humanity and also the badge of shame and cruelty and inhumanity of the white man, and he should be reminded daily of that wound he continues to inflict.

It is the white man who plays THE Race Card...and always has.

That particular conversation King had with his daughter, and all Black parents had to have with their children has also changed...it is no longer "that talk" about whites only water fountains or playgrounds and schools and theatre seats etc....now "that talk" is about not saying anything to a cop....of even getting down and kissing his shoes when ordered to because otherwise he might just shoot you and say he felt "fear for my life"....nothing has changed, not the heart of the matter anyway.....some parents, Black ones, now have to fear the police, as murderers, of their children....that situation existed before of course...but now it is an epidemic.....lynchings may be gone, but judicial murder is alive and well.....in this "free" country which decided to teach the world about freedom and liberty and democracy and, oh yes, human rights....they said HUMAN rights and to most whites, Blacks still aren't human, not fully...and that's what Michelle was talking about...that was her truth.

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