much respect...
mandingonupe i have a question. why does the black community always need someone to "speak" for them? i am the president of the black student union at my university...my school being 85% white...and everytime they want someone to "speak" for the black folk they call me. although i am fairly well-versed on national politics and very involved in campus politics...particularly those that involve students of color...i often wonder why do they have to seek out that one voice? don't black people have a mind of their own? people like jesse jackson and al sharpton are self-appointed leaders. not that they haven't done a good job but i notice that no one asks..."hey white folx who are your spokesmen?"
just curious as to what you think about that.
next, doggystyle82 as we have bumped heads before i hope you will not see these questions as attacking you. but i am asking these questions with humble respect. jesse and clinton's infidelities were "personal foibles"? my brotha as strong as you are in your christian principles i would think that you would have a much harsher judgement of these two gentlemen. for not only did they violate the sanctity of marriage. they both lied about it (clinton in public and jesse through trying to keep it secret) and in jesse's case he is a minister...thus violating the bond that he has directly with God. I am curious as to why are they to be forgiven so gently...and yet in another thread you rained fire and brimstone down on another group. In this case...are you not being a little "soft" on your christian stance?
also...in your last line you stated...
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Martin, Malcolm, and others were focused on fighting systemic, institutional, racism and its kin. Now, our most pressing needs deal with behavior modification and moral decay.
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are you honestly saying that systematic and institutional racism and its kin are not a problem? my brotha i must disagree...i think it was much easier to fight these things then because they were more obvious...people did not give pause to call someone a nigger or deny someone a job on the base of race. now it is much more insidious...and it exists...for instance recently our president select just eliminated Native American status of two Native American tribes. These two tribes have been two of his biggest opponents in Texas. And he did it without a big controversy. Now if that isn't systematic and institutionalized racism acted out at the highest level of our government then I don't know what is.
Although i am not sure what you mean by behavior modification. i do think that moral decay is a very interesting thing to say. Our society...the Amerikkkan society that we live in is schizophrenic...we claim that our foundation is Judeo-Christian in essence...and yet we are some of the most violent, hateful, prejudiced, ignorant, non-loving, aggressive, destructive, vindictive, manipulative, etc. individuals on this planet. where is morality in all this and even greater still...has there ever been a high standard of "morality" in this country?
From its inception there has been nothing but "immorality"...from the murder of Native Americans just so people could populate the land...to slavery...to jim crow...to internment of japanese during WWII...to the McCarthy Era...to having to fight for civil rights...to the vietnam war...to the 80's and the Reagan era...and on up to today...when has there ever been morality in this country?
these are just some questions and thoughts.
peace,
lastpoet
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