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Originally posted by Rudey
Good for you. In my community we enjoy having leaders and are proud of our achievements outside of the family. Again, I don't live in your community or have personal attachments to it but it seems as if there is no community for you - just families.
-Rudey
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I guess I am a bit confused at to what you mean by "community" and us Black folks not having one???
I can leave my response short and to the point or I can give you a dissertation...
Let me put it to you like this... It is the old ideas of civil rights, which many key organizations are using to dismantle bigotry and racism. Those are the ones you see on TV...
The newer ideas may have RPG's attached to it with terrorist actions... But, those are a bit novel and can get one put into Guantanamo Bay...
Fortunately, a person of color who NEVER speaks out against improper imprisonment and injustice MIGHT not be harangued by those who officially represent the government. But is that any more of a democracy with the home of the free and the brave?
The fact is what does the US Constitution and Bill of Rights say??? How are the laws enacted and implemented??? Are there common ethical understandings rules and relationships that we follow??? I am not in this field, so I do not know. But the law has a way of affecting folks that were once disenfranchised, discriminately, regardless of education, rank and level of intelligence...
Just be falsely accused of anything... I have before... I would not wish that on anyone... And you do not talk your way out of Hell...
So, the "old fashioned" way of dealing with injustice was confrontational with marching onto Zion... A newer way is using violence... Yet a better way is to respond in Love... And you win hearts over, but you might lose your life for it...
I dunno what the answer is... But, I know that an injustice somewhere is an injustice everywhere if we say we stand for true democracy...
And President Bush was NOT democratically elected no matter how one slices the Wonder Bread...