- Feb 9, 2001
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Oh, YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy69...you are so right!!! I applaud your passion and your articulate dissertation. Self-love people!!! That's where it starts!!! Love who you are and open your EYES!!! I'm happiest when I'm around my own people; there's no question about it. There's something to be said when you don't have to explain yourself all the time or defend your existence. Why is it that we're always made to feel "different" no matter where we are...boardroom or washroom, it's the same. Don't you get tired of being the token and spokesperson for your race when you're around other people not like you? I know I do. I'm not a racist but I am discriminating. I fight these battles every day and when I go home, I don't want to fight there too. Yes, when are we going to figure out this thing called "racism"? When are we going to take a stand for ourselves and ourselves alone? When are we going to stop believing the hype and thinking we have arrived at a better place and time since there are a few laws on the books that have allowed us to maneuver in the white communities? Now that the conservatives have launched a successful attack on affirmative action, soon, that too will come to an end. The white man is the greatest mind pimp on the planet but we don't have to live his lies. Why can't we stand strong in our own convictions and rebuke that bs? Look at our families. Look at how we treat one another? How can we be so kind and tolerant of others and not to ourselves? When you see another Black face at your workplace, on the street, in a movie or commercial on television...what thoughts run through your minds? Why are we so quick to give our hard earned money away instead of keeping it longer in our own communities? We give our inventions away, we give our athleticism away, we break our backs and sweat for others, hoping to be noticed and treated kindly. We take our meager paychecks home and what do we do with them, where do we spend the money? When we don't get what we think we fairly deserve, most of us walk away quietly and deny, deny, deny that anything is wrong and heaven forbid if anything is wrong, that it could possibly be due to racism, right? We take that anger and frustration that has built up throughout a work week home with us on Friday night and spread it in our communities and our households. We spit the venom at each other. Husbands and wives argue, children often go neglected in terms of receiving emotional support. For the regular churchgoers, we try to get some relief on Sundays during a sermon, then we wake up Monday morning, jump back in the rat race and do it all over again...and again....and again. Black people have purchasing power but where do we usually spend our money? Certainly not in our communities like the Jews and Asians. Every Black person, rich or poor, light-skinned or dark, at some point in life will be looked at the same. The outcome doesn't have to be as bad as the current condition. There is salvation and it's within each of us. Read, learn, talk to each other, support, grow, develop a vision and purpose and act!