So....if we don't walk lock step with one another, we should be tarred and feathered? While I'm not familar with this person, I am familar with the First Amendment, and I find it appalling that so many blacks think that only applies to speech they agree with and/or the party line they been told to tow. I'm not just talking about this forum, but ministers (including my own), talk show hosts (like Tom Joyner) and community "leaders" (like Jesse Jackson) who brook no opposition to their beliefs. As much as many of SAY we are not a monolith, we ACT as if we are, and get all offended if someone dares to say something different. How sad and uncreative, from a people that descends from ancestors who spoke several hundred languages/practiced many religions just within the same country.
And speaking of house negroes, don't you find it the least bit odd that someone like Jesse Jackson can with one mouth chastise corporations for their racist policies and with another mouth think nothing of soliciting (and collecting) hundreds of thousands of dollars from these same entities, to fund his Wall Street and La Salle Street projects? The NAACP does it as well. I don't think that one can hold a company or government's feet to the fire while accepting its money at the same time. It's hypocritical and it reduces the ability for one to be an agent of change, if real change, and not personal agrandizement and wealth, are the goals.
[This message has been edited by Discogoddess (edited December 22, 2000).]
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