This is an argument that I continuously have with my mother.
She says that this current generation does nothing to further the struggle. I ask, Why do you say that? Everything that you fought for has been realized. I have the education that you marched and boycotted to obtain. We can go to the same places they go. The problem is y'all set the bar too low and didn't ask for what y'all really wanted. You wanted to be able to do as the white man. And you can. But now you realize that you should have asked for more and different.
It's backwards for us to aspire to be like the white man. And it's stupid to look for validation from them. Who are they to validate us? Civil rights did not free our minds. Some of us are now far more dependant on the white man than we were a generation ago. And why? Because now we are 'free' to act and do like them. We have forgotten who we are.
Peace
She says that this current generation does nothing to further the struggle. I ask, Why do you say that? Everything that you fought for has been realized. I have the education that you marched and boycotted to obtain. We can go to the same places they go. The problem is y'all set the bar too low and didn't ask for what y'all really wanted. You wanted to be able to do as the white man. And you can. But now you realize that you should have asked for more and different.
It's backwards for us to aspire to be like the white man. And it's stupid to look for validation from them. Who are they to validate us? Civil rights did not free our minds. Some of us are now far more dependant on the white man than we were a generation ago. And why? Because now we are 'free' to act and do like them. We have forgotten who we are.
Peace