[lovelyivy84]

Awesome article Honeykiss.

That book is actually worth picking up I should add.

Michael Moore nailed it.

Anyone who has read any post-Reconstruction literature has seen the way this country reacted to the freedom of the slave, and the ways that were invented to circumvent it- lynching, grandfather clauses, Jim Crow, and SHOULD be able to understand at least INTELLECTUALLY that racism is institutionalized, and that's not accidental. Forget slavery, white people invented various ways to reinstitute it legally by another name the minute it was abolished- that's what police forces were FOR in most states.

*Sigh*

I just wish that more WHITE people recognized and acknowledged the problem, and more BLACK people recognized that a. there's hope, b. we have some stuff to deal with on our OWN, and c. there has been progress, not all white folks are evil, even if many are wilfully ignorant.

and TomEarp, I have to tell ya that it doesn't matter whether or not you met a black person growing up, I KNOW that you were exposed to them because that is what the mass media is for.

Birth of A Nation?

Minstrel shows?

Blaxploitation?

All about various ways to publicly degrade blacks, and reinforce public opinions on our "childish" natures.