Thank you for the history lesson, racer4. But I lived through that history. There is one thing I disagree with though. Why do we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther KIng, Jr., and not the ment who made him a household name? Namely we do not have a celbration on the anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or his brother Robert Francis Kennedy, who were also assinated in the 1960's. Another thing I toally disagree with is that blacks always blames white pepople for keeping the black poor, and downtrodden. I agree with Bill Cosby in that it is the black community itself that is keeping itself poor and downtrodden. While I agree that all people (men and women) are created equal, and certain inherent rights, I disagree that the white community is the cause of it.
I am not a racist, I have never been one. But when a black person tells me that the whites owe them aliving for keeping their ancestors in slavery for over 350 years, I just have to throw up, it makes me so sick.
I drive taxicab in MIlwaukee, Wisconsin, and one night a black woman passenger told me that the most racist person in the world is a black person. She told me not only are blacks prejudiced against whites, but also more so against their own race. With this kind of thinking, and rampant drug use, illiteracy, and not wanting to succeed, the black community is going to be in its rut for 350 years more, or better.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's., dream is finally realized, we will have gone through more than just 350 years. His dream of living side by side with the white community, and that little black children shall play with little white children, may never come to pass at all. No matter how much time goes by, it seems that the black community is satisfied to live as they are. Now even though we have successful blacks, such as doctors, lawyers, professors, police officers, congress persons and senators, the black community will always be poor, because they lack the spirit to succeed, thinking it is their color holding them back. It isn't.
The black community needs to stop placing blame for their plight and wake up and look around them, and they will see that the once nice homes, and yards that were there, are just tenements in a ghetto, and the white community didn't make the ghetto, the black community did, because of their ignorance. Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever. Which of these two do you think the black community should be?
This historical story was written from your heart; anyone can see that. But still, I do agree that the black community has miles to go, before they sleep. WRITE ON!!!!!
Love & hugs,
Barbara |
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