AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Just a hint to members of the KKK out there, if you are going to drive by a group of 200 black people with a truck full of weapons and a noose hanging from the back, don’t do it when bazillions of national media and African American leaders are in protest mode around the general vicinity. Also, if you are going to go ahead and do this (though I must repeat, I don’t recommend it) don’t do it while you are intoxicated with a minor in the truck!
Not the sharpest tools in the shed these folks.
Also, I know there was some debate about the necessity of the march on Jena going on on local radio stations yesterday. I hope this puts that to rest. But, knowing what I know about racist white folks, they will never give an inch to the other side. Even when overwhelming evidence is presented against them.
The funny thing is if you call them a racist, they will deny it! That’s because our great country has done an excellent job communicating to its masses that racism is wicked. But we have poorly executed the tutelage of what racism actually is.
(sigh)
And they can vote…
If you want to see how African Americans feel about White People behind closed doors; log onto the New Black Panther Party website. Enough said.
Racism as taboo. Racism is wicked. Yeah, great dialogue there. You’re right.
We’re human, we’re all capable of irrational thought. It’s what we do with it (or don’t, in the matter of nooses hanging from the back of a truck) and how we grow past it that counts.
See, many people don’t see the thought as irrational. They know that “racist” reads “bad” but they can’t or don’t translate their own actions into it.
Someone could go one and on about how their goal in life is to bring segregation and Jim Crow back, and then if someone were to say, “but, that’s racist.” They would respond, “No it’s not, it’s the way it should be!”
They say that because it’s now ingrained into people’s heads that being CALLED a racist is bad, but actually BEING one is okay. Absurd I know.
I really do not understand why here in America,one of the greatest countries in the world,that is supposed to symbolize freedom and equality amongst all people within it’s boarders and afar,there are still people who rather in-slave the minds and bodies of are fellow Citizens and friends,by misleading them in to thinking that any form or symbol of hate could be passed off as a public joke.Thinking like that may keep us in this War against the people whom support Terrorism for a very long time.Don’t get Me wrong,I do believe that people who harm other people should be punished by the law,and that gos for all people,no-matter ones race!
Acknowledging racism involves abdication of a certain type of power, which many people find terribly threatening. Racists don’t admit they’re racist because to do so would mean that they now have to do something about it.