What's Your Priority?

[Ideal08]

Originally posted by Conskeeted7
So, this may be why I find it difficult to see how a person can disagree with so much of something, yet remain. I'm not saying that you don't have a right to. I just couldn't do it. It's like saying that you can't stand Ms. so and so, but when she gets here, you still talk to her. Why? If the dislike is that strong, why even front?

So, because I don't want to leave the US and am proud to live here, I'm likened to a slave that doesn't want to be free? I am free.

No, fronting would be when President Bush asked me what I thought of America, I would lie and say I loved it here. That would be fronting. Fronting would have been posting in this thread that I would root for the Americans over the black girl. That would have been fronting.

My question still remains, why is embarrassment being equated with dislike/hatred?

Remaining in America for now is biding my time. Why? For one, it's a lot harder to move out of the country than it is to move from city to city and state to state. Maybe (just maybe) my love for my family and friends outweighs my lack of pride. Two, there is a such thing as solidarity. The reason I choose to stay in America for now is the same reason Harriet Tubman continued to return to the south instead of simply leaving it for good. I choose to stay here because I have a desire to affect change. The moment that I think change is impossible is the moment that I will plan my move.

Soror, please do not be offended by the slave reference, because that was most definitely not my intention (towards you or anyone else). However, I think that we are ALL still slaves, myself included. The plantations look different; the master is the same, but not as easily identifiable; and the shackles are invisible, but still just as strong. I don't think that any of us are TRULY free. However, I feel that freedom is worth fighting for. That is why I am staying for now, because to me, to leave, would be the same as surrender/defeat (not to mention a waste of lives and deaths). And I really don't want to go out like that.

ETA: my last sentence reminds me of Savvy's quote.