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Friday, March 23, 2007 08:20 AM

OUR House? Can't I at least have a mortgage note to call my own?

Actually I like to think of it as OUR house.

A nice idea ("Imagine there's no heaven"), BUT black women and all women of color - for the most part the only thing we have in common with white women (as acollective - not individual relationships) is that we all have vaginas. It will be "about our" when I don't experience employment, financial, and social discrimination at the hands of now-empowered white women (funny how you mimic the very thing you rail against and use to scare me - white men).

Notice how this "black genocide" thing UPSETS the hell out of white women, and white woman-run "Broadsheet". Don't hear the girls over at Essence, NiaOnline, Savoy, Latina, and many other publications geared to us colored girls giving a damn about it and taking up arms.

So I stick to my original argument. White women need to tend to their homes, families, fucked-up family and community politics (self-seerving for you, destructive for me and mine) AND PLEASE stay the hell out of my community. You've helped the black community to the point of destruction with your paternalistic/maternalistic welfare programs, draconian drug laws (the Clintons and Janet Reno kept in full force), and the "I can't have my property values go up for public education but let's vote yes to every prison bond that comes down the pike". Your collective concerns for communities of color has been politically self-serving and destructive. And once again you sincerely believe that you have more than just a right to an opinion on matters of black community, but actually a right to upend and control and make determination on what our concerns should be. The pro-life brigade has just as much right to spew their propoganda in the black 'hoods as the "pro-choicers".

I'm just not interested in your opinion as you sincerely believe that I should be. The white pro-choice community - it's all about politics and numbers and scare tactics.

When one of you can tell me the difference in "abortion is black genocide" and "anti-abortion laws will re-enslave the black community", then you'll give me something new to think about. But as it has always stood, the Pro-Abortion movement, in-hand with the Democratic party has nothing to offer thye black community but the old bloody shirt of racism and the fear of re-enslavement to offe the black community. We owe the Pro-Abortionists absolutely nothing.

Friday, March 23, 2007 10:19 AM

I maintain my stance

Look to your own problems, falacies and failures and stay out of (emotionally and politically) my community.

If having ZERO interest in white folks' opinion of black politcs makes me a racist - then fine. I can only hope to live up to the racist ideal created and nutured by white Americans since 1607.

So, when someone of color tells you that they're not interested in your opinion of what happens in their communities, and actually finds it offensive that you would be so assumptive to have the right to tell us we have only the freedom of thought that YOU choose to GIVE US on issues such as abortion, et al, then that makes for an anti-white racist? Why are you so alarmed by my opinion and not Phyllis Schafly's or the women who sit at your dinner table or in your PTA's anti-choice opinions? Do you believe that you actually have dominion over me that I have to feel what you think?

Sure, I'll take it. Because I could give a damn if you simply do not have the stomach to have a negro disagree with you. Poor you. After all the sacrifices you've made to conveince yourselves that blacks are just the same as you are! Ahhh, the same, but not EQUAL.

Oh, lecastor, you have a right to consider me stupid</>, and I have a right not to agree with your world view or your view of what I should be (to and for white folk).

It comes down to this: as the prolifers roll all up in the ass of white Americans (and admit it, they have - HELLO SOUTH DAKOTA), it's been a issue for those that feel immediately threatened by their presence to aquiece or correct. Same as my 'hood.

It's for me and mine to "fix" or accept. Not outsiders.

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