You go to a stock car race and don't need a program....
What is up with Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume? Why do they seem to feel that because they are the leadership of the NAACP, that they speak for me? Why does Spike Lee think that ALL people who go to Nascar Races are white? And that ALL those people are thinking of lynching black people? Why does the leadership of the Black community (whoever that might be) feel the need to constantly divide? And why is it that virtually none of that said Black community stood up and applauded Bill Cosby and his comments? However, it goes virtually unoticed by the mainstream that the "mainstream" black community agrees with Mr. Cosby, and that the mainstream Black Community yearns for a legitimate person to speak to them to the issues that are actually important. Of course, the actual question might be more of whether or not the Black community actually has to have a "leader" or " spokesperson". I am tired of the "40 acres and a mule" bit exposed by Spike Lee and etc. While I have enjoyed his movies and the messages in some of what he has tried to portray, I am not an extremist in that sort of thought. I understand that my Grandparents had a fight on their hands to be treated fairly, and that they made it better for my parents, who still had issues to deal with. Then I had it better than them, and (given a probable generation skip with my delay in having kids) my kids are in a far better world than what it was... at least in the USA concerning these issues. Are there still racists who would do nothing better than try to keep blacks, women, asians, muslims...whoever they are against, in a place of percieved inferiority? Yes.... hell, I know blacks that do the same thing toward other races, so it works all ways. What i do know is that when I see my kids at Daycare go get hugs from white, black, hispanic and asian kids everyday as they leave, there doesnt seem to be any racist thoughts among ANY of them. And it makes me smile to see that...and it saddens me to think that somewhere along the line, some of those kids wil be tainted by people like Spike Lee, or Julian Bond, into thinking that everyone is trying to keep them down... and thet Rylee and Ian are priviledged because of their heritage and light skin. It saddens me to think that there are people reading this who think that i was wrong to marry the person I did, and that i have somehow sold out. Well, as I have told people before...the good ship Happy Jackson Family left dock 5 and a half years ago, and the gloom and doom forcast by all the obsolete people we left behind has yet to come to pass...the boat is sailing along, heading toward to new horizon. Of course, some of those left behind seem to have caught a motorboat and caught up somewhat, but I have no room for the type of racist bullshit Julian Bond, Spike Lee, the KKK, NOW...whoever... wants to try to throw at me. I have left all that behind, and while I acknowlege that it exist, that I still have to fight it, that others still have to fight it, and that it will never truly go away (as all people are different)... I aint playin that game.
Ok..so that rant went from subject to subject..kinda shows how deep and complex the actual topic is... it also makes me think of the frat Im involved with, and how some brothers are always trying to bring that sort of stuff into it... some people are always tryin to make it a "women in the frat" issue...or "blacks in the frat" issue... they lose sight that it is a service to music issue that is what the Frat is all about. If you want to bring the women's right issues into the FRAT, NOW is what you need to be trolling with...the Black issue...NaaCP might be where you can rant and scream about that sort of stuff...
ANYWAY....
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
- Paul Brown
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