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Originally posted by LiberatedQueen


This is interesting because Blacks have been terrorized by Whites in this country for 400 years. But if one of us walked on a plane w/ a bunch of White people, and said to the stewardess "Um, excuse me, but these people look very much like the White people who enslaved my family, raped my female relatives, systematically discriminated against me for 400 years, arrested me just because I'm Black, and constantly get off for shooting my people just because they have a badge...I have been terrorized my whole life, and I'm not comfortable flying w/ them so please escort them off the plane."
Not only would the authorities be called, but they would probably drag us off in straight jackets. Saying all of that to say this: right now there is a very powerful propaganda machine that has a lot of us feeling like we're "Americans united", and for the purposes of finding survivors, and claiming the bodies of our loved ones, that is a good thing.
But let us not forget that in the previous nine wars that this country has fought, Blacks have done the same thing in hopes that after the war, we too would FINALLY be considered "American" and benefit from all that comes w/ that title, you know, like not being lynched, getting fair treatment in the legal system, not facing a one in three chance of going to jail or prison, getting an equal education in terms of access to the basics like books and teachers.
Blacks have been terrorized in this country for so long that we think it's normal and don't even recognize it as terrorism. And while we rally around the flag, our children are dying from terrorism in the ghettos, our brothers are shuttled out to jail in terrorist paddy wagons, and while a few of us manage to make it out and get a good job, we can still be pulled over for driving while Black, or shot by the boys in blue for looking suspicsious (sp?). But if we were to respond to our terrorism the way this country wants to respond to bin Laden (please recognize the fact that they have convicted this man w/o showing us any evidence...oh, but that is exactly what they do to us also...) then we would be shot down on site (which can happen anyway).
So we can rally around this flag if we want to...it almost serves as some kind of comfort to know that for once, we are not at the bottom...but wait until this blows over...we'll still go shopping at the 8 out of 10 stores owned by Arabs in our community, we'll go back to being hunted by cops, go back to dying faster than any other race from any other diseases because we can't afford anyother medicine except prayer (which I KNOW changes things).
I'm sorry this is soo long, but I grew up as a Black woman in Germany. What is happening in this country right now w/ the propaganda and empty rhetoric is exactly the way Hitler began his campaigns. It's scary to see Black people who know what it's like to be on the bottom, take part in it.

Yes some of what you said was true, but also realize just b/c of my position on the subject don't think for a minute that I rally around any flag or any white person, b/c I don't. I never have or never will think this is MY country. But when it comes to protecting me and mine there is no such thing as going to far. Whether you realize it or not we will always be on the bottom no matter what is going on. And trust me they knew when it happened who it was. We both know good and well that they are not going to show anyone any proof. The actions of our government have always and will always be a secret. And you are preaching to the wrong people if you are worried about our legal system and our people going to jail you need to be telling it to the mislead youth that are committing these crimes and breaking the law. And I think we all will agree with you on the fact that our legal system is unfair to blacks, but talking about it is not going to change it you need to be about it.