I know that's right. Like my mother says go where you are celebrated--not tolerated. We tend to go where we are not even tolerated and like you said we think this is some kind of badge.
Willie Lynch did his job thoroughly. He has us at the point where no matter what we do we don't feel legit unless we are doing it in the white world among whites. We must seek validation in what we do not who we do it with.
I think about those children in the sixties who were the first to integrate white schools under the protection of the National Guard. We look at those children with pride as brave souls. In truth, they were sacrificed for a mistaken cause. What happened was the schools were integrated on the outside but not on the inside. I know of a woman who was bussed to a white school as a child. Before she went to that school she used to love to read but a white teacher told her that children who read a lot talk too much. At thirty years of age she was still trying to regain her love for reading.
Like you said there is no honor or courage in subjecting our children to this.
Willie Lynch did his job thoroughly. He has us at the point where no matter what we do we don't feel legit unless we are doing it in the white world among whites. We must seek validation in what we do not who we do it with.
I think about those children in the sixties who were the first to integrate white schools under the protection of the National Guard. We look at those children with pride as brave souls. In truth, they were sacrificed for a mistaken cause. What happened was the schools were integrated on the outside but not on the inside. I know of a woman who was bussed to a white school as a child. Before she went to that school she used to love to read but a white teacher told her that children who read a lot talk too much. At thirty years of age she was still trying to regain her love for reading.
Like you said there is no honor or courage in subjecting our children to this.