Hello Luke,
In response to your statement --- "As residents of our nation's capital, we have a special burden to report suspicious activities against our leaders, institutions and neighbors. Keep eyes and ears open, raise our voices in the pursuit of justice and continue to fight the good fight".
Do we report when we find a White Man pretending to be a Black Man on the internet/list servs?? Is this considered a hate crime and is it a double hate crime -- one against Blacks and then the other against Whites. How do we report that, who do we report that to and can we get our local Tabloid to cover this story? I think that it is definitely suspicious!! Or do we as neighbors remain silent and hope that it just goes away?
So this morning I am waiting on an elevator and a 50 something White man walks up with a box full of plates, cups, balloons etc. So I said, someone's having a party. He says, yes, someone who works with us is leaving for another job. I said - wow, must be nice with a smile and a nod of my head! His response was something I deal with often -- "yes it is (as he stares at me) - at least we have those options in this country"!! I smiled and remembered Robby's statement that soon the tables will flip and so will the tune of that song!!
So you see, while lots of Whites voted for President Obama, let's be real -- lots of Whites folks voted for the other person -- even though a vote for Romney was likely a Vote against their own best interest. The overall vote was numerically close enough to understand that (in my opinion) there are a tremendous amount of Whites in America who rather vote against their own best interest than have a Black President considering the large percentage of Black (inclusive of hispanic and other minorities) votes that went for Obama. Guranteed that if the Republican had just backed off of that Male Control over a Woman's Body, President Obama wouldn't have stood a chance.
It is about Black and White to many -- See Brookland's list Serve as of yesterday about 3 Blacks with Ski Masks -- How many WHITE people stood up with those racist comments??? And when I found a White Man pretending to be a Black Man on the List serv, -- How many Whites were silent who love to comment about so much else? Including you Luke!!
So this "hero" soundbite -- "Keep eyes and ears open, raise our voices in the pursuit of justice and continue to fight the good fight" -- sounds good but I don't think it is for everyone and everything!!! Where were your "eyes and ears". So you know, I don't have anything against you - just noticing your absence then.
Rob Ramson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:18 PM, dcluke@ymail.com <dcluke@ymail.com> wrote:
There is no such thing as "we white people" just as there is no such thing as any monolithic, single thinking racial entity. Millions of whites supported Obama's campaign, voted for him, and celebrated his re-election. And of course not everyone who voted against Obama did so for racial reasons.
Millions of whites are disgusted with the radical right and the frightened bigots who cannot accept the social and demographic changes taking place in this country. Part of the reason why the bigots are seething with hysteria is that their world is DYING. America is changing---and I think for the better---whether the bigots like it or not.
Sadly, the danger that an extremist will attempt to attack the president is very real. Since Obama's election in 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked a significant increase in radical anti-government organizations, most of them motivated by white supremacism and the election of our first black president. As we witnessed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and numerous plots thwarted since then, anti-government and white supremacist entities are capable of horrific violence.
I am proud of my country and my president. As residents of our nation's capital, we have a special burden to report suspicious activities against our leaders, institutions and neighbors. Keep eyes and ears open, raise our voices in the pursuit of justice and continue to fight the good fight.
--- In ward5@yahoogroups.com, MARIE L <mariclee@...> wrote:
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> For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?
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> Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Bombingham," Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
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> We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.
> Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.
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> Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "Howlong?"
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