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Haven't posted lately, having been caught up in the election goings on , and have spent too much time battling my inferiors in the blogoshere. Enjoy the slings and arrows

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After all and not some Anime Utopia where everyone is pretty, holds hands and sings Kumbaya. The writer's ignorance of Black/White dynamics and American history are betrayed by statements that could only be made from the outside looking in. The one drop rule is not a Black invention. It is the Ante Bellum and Jim Crow designation of racial impurity. When Black people say someone isn't Black enough it has nothing to do with skin tone (witness Huey P Newton, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan etc) it means that a person is not strong ehough to hold on to our trust without selling us out. Therefore Clarence Thomas was not Black enough since he's proved to be Scalia's bootlicker. Colin Powell would not be a race traitor. He is an intelligent thoughtful and strong man who only recently wasted his ethical capital in service to George Bush. But he would have gained 75 to 80 percent of the Black vote easily.

The issue is that in the course of attempting to become color blind, certain segments of society would like black folks to forget that their physical characteristics were labelled as sub human by the White Supremacists that ran this country. To forget that yes, we too had Apartheid in America and not that long ago. That is why the public pretends to be shocked when the old social order rears its ugly head. You think Obama is post racial? Ask Geraldine Ferraro and those so-called liberal white women who called him an "inadequate black male" or decry his inexperience when he has as much or more experience as half the men already elected. Ask the Clintons who dog whistled Appalachia to come out against him. I believe the Clinton supporters were more racially animated than the Republicans will be. Republicans KNOW the power of the lynch mob and use it more selectively.

It's not Black people who won't let this race thing die. It's the "white man (including women)" who sees the ultimate symbol of his power, Leadership of the Free World, slipping into the hands of one that was meant to be ruled and not to rule. Wake up and smell the coffee. Most black people who have been to a family reunion see the gamut of color shades in our kin folk. We already know that skin tone is no indicator of character. But we don't have to PRETEND it doesn't exist to ACT and LIVE as if it doesn't.

When enough people of the older generations die out, race will be irrelevant. The question then will be, How will people measure superiority, class and rank and why will that criteria be more acceptable?
Permalink Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:49 AM