Controversial Poem Puts 7-Year-Old On Hot Seat

[UrbanizdSkillz]

I'm confused. We, as African Americans, are supposed to put the atrocities of the past to the wind and reconcile so that we may bask in the glow of harmonious racial relations. We are insulted when we offer our opinions and voice our disgust with the past and our outright disappointment with the present. We're supposed to view the past as something that just happened and gloss over it so that we can "move on" and come "up to par" with the other races while failing to mention that we're so far disadvantaged by our socio-economic status to the point this is almost an impossible feat. We're told we complain too much about the past and that we've been given ample oppurtunity to overcome. However this is where my confusion begins. Please bear in mind that I mean no offense when I pose this question but why don't we require the same things of Jewish people? I don't know about anyone else but I can speak from personal experience when I say these people hold on to the atrocities of the holocaust like an infant holds fast to a security blanket. Why are they not forced to just "reconcile" with the past barbarity done to their people? When they complain, no one utters words and phrases such as "get over it" or "reconcile with the past". In fact, there is more time spent commiserating with them than anything else. Certainly I'm not singuling out people of the Jewish faith however, they have to be the closest group of people whose struggle can even begin to compare to the aboriginal past of African Americans.