Letters to the Editor
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Race is dying and here's why:
-I have white friends
-I have black friends, but not so many. Perhaps because I'm a dork.
-We are all Americans. Those of us in American anyway. And everybody else wants to be American.
-I believe blacks are still owed for slavery, big time. Billions at least. And I'm no far left lefty. I'm a far far far left center left, libertarian. Who eats meat and believes in the death penalty.
-We have the best TV shows. Most of which have at least one good black role model character. Take "The Shield" as an example.
-I no longer use racial slurs except in jokes. Good ones.
-I love the mix of races in New York and hope to make it with mixed race folks.
-Mixed race babies are the cutest
-Ultimately, im 100,000 years or so, America will be mostly light cafe colored. So maybe then race will be dead (in America). But even then probably not.
-This article was not as dumb as my letter.
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Who's leading whom?
Blacks are beginning to reject the failed leadership of Al Sharpton and Molefe Kete Asante--and Kamiya says, Whoopee! But one question: Who appointed Juan Williams, a man who supported Clarence Thomas's nomination for the Supreme Court and who never manages to say anything of substance even though his mouth and fingers never stop moving, my leader instead? This is such ridiculous trash. How can Kamiya say race is dying when he then turns right around and plays into whole sorry enterprise of finding loudmouths to serve as spokesmen for "the race." Gary Kamiya, interrogate your own categories! And find someone to talk to who doesn't belong to the pundit's club. You might learn something.
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120 Years of Marcus Garvey and The Black Man in America Languishes Blind
The essential racial identify of the so-called African-American is inextricably bound to the shores of America with the heritage of the American Indian. The intermixture of Africans with Native Americans gave us the essential Negro racial stock. The proud offspring of masters who bore the yellow-red hue have always been worshiped as superior amongst the blacks because of their essential ultimate parentage in a white supremacist society circa 17th to 20th centuries.The mongrelized African was not respected by the pure African stock, and the masters offspring were sold under slavery yet bore a disdain for the pure African just like their white ancestors.One-drop was white psychosis and racial exclusion of whites agianst their own Illegitimate grandchildren: just call them n-words regardless of if they are more white than black. The cherished position reserved for "being free white and 21" in America demanded a lesser beneficiary of social acceptance and citizenship as a comparison. How would white America know they were really free and accepted unless they witnessed those unfortunate second-class citizens of the 1940's thru 1960's?
What has died is not race or racism.
What has died is the spirit amongst blacks that Africa matters. The spirit which says that salvation for the Motherland and the children of the Diaspora: regardless of white folks and their black-phobias which lead them to visually support black candidates in a national exorcism of white ghosts of the past. Africa's babies are dying at a rate of 1000 per day from malaria in 2007, yet there is no hue or cry from black leaders in America. Blacks in America are not even the largest minority beneficiary of the goodies of the welfare state: now the social scientists are concerned about assimilating millions of undocumented Mexicans, while the leaders of the blacks in Congress vaccillate about more rights for illegal immigrants to take jobs which black youth do not want.
What has died is the vision that the black race deserved it's own day in the sun: liberation of Africa from colonial exploitation and expansion of African global marketplace to raise the standard of living for all people of African descent those at home and those abroad! 120 years ago, Marcus Moziah Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay Jamaica (August 17, 1887.) Garvey died in England in 1940 at the age of 52, months before his 53rd birthday.He is most remembered as the creator of the Red, Black, and Green flag and leader of the "back to Africa" movement of the 1920's. Today, in the vaccuum of the Africa-less ghettos where drug-culture and the narco-economy are glamorized: young black men walk about with their pants hugging theirs thighs with buttocks covered by white-T shirts, they exhibit cool-pose gansta personas aka "I don't have to run from nobody so I ca wear my pants around my ankles if I want to, so meanwhile, I look just like a recent inductee to County jail who has had his belt taken away to prevent a justifiable suicide. Instead, I commit racial suicide as I try my best to eliminate my own kind while blaming, the white man, bitches, and the Police." So here come the democrat warden of the new caring police state where government provides complete health care for everyone at no cost, except: you cannot smoke, drink, or eat fast food anymore! Their all illegal. There is no connection with anything black or African in this breach. Race has not been abandoned. The racial deliberations of America are now Hispanic and no longer African-American. Blacks are now the second-class citizens waiting in line for Hillary and Barrack to bestow more welfare state benefits as fullfillment of the American dream of no more poor people "because if we can spend billions fight Saddam when he wasn't bothering nobody etc ad nauseum")
Race needs to be a factor for blacks again. Blacks need to look beyond the gansta culture of the drug War and the hip-hop narco-economy and latch on to something of value. Something which police nor white folks can diminish or incarcerate: a vision of Africa's Redemption and a positive role for all people of African descent to prosper in a global economy where blacks trade with Africans in a free market system which raises the standard of living for blacks in South Central Los Angeles, Newark New Jersey, Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil, Lagos, and Nairobi.
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Well ChrisWren
If you ever end up in a California prison, you'd better know what race you are even if you don't believe in race.
Because the first thing they ask you when you enter the prison is what race are you.
And your answer will determine the rest of your life in prison.
It will determine where you're allowed to sleep, with whom you're allowed to sit, with whom you're allowed to socialize, what time you're allowed to shower and which gang leader you're expected to obey without question.
You can call that tribalism if it pleases you.
But the bottom line is you're still going to get your teeth knocked out if you don't stick to your own "kind."
Whatever you want to call it -- why is this acceptable?
Why has this reality become so easily acceptable to people of the so-called "progressive" persuasion?