Letters to the Editor

• Ignore the race truce by Hillary & Obama: Our country needs to continue a candid, angry, confrontational, tears flowing discourse on race

  I have no intentions of surrendering, retreating, or handcuffing myself with regard to such an important daily issue.

  Hillary & Obama's agenda's do not define the nature of race in this country. Kamiya simply does not understand the depth of contempt for people who look like me in this country. From my vantage point a white liberal woman or any gender woman regardless of race or ethnicity with regard to Black males our paths have no parity never did and never will.

  I can argue that black females can appreciate this reality about racism on this soil but privledged white woman like Hillary obviously cannot given her discounting of MLK. Being on the end of shared grievances does not mean shared results.

  The notion that gender is congruent with race is a fiction marketed by white feminists to non-white woman and it has never been a best seller..

  I found the banter quite revealing and educational especially when it got nasty and gritty. I am so tired of shallow commentaries like Kamiya's they only prolonged the wedge and smother the truth..

  I also find it amazing how so many people have the "good soilder mentality" they take marching orders from some so-called higher authority.

  I represent a linage of thought and reality that has elevated and developed in the midst of white oppression on this soil. I represent a collective of black males that have survived the diease of white racism,. I have been out of recovery for decades. Now is not the time to lay down my cultural dna in truth there is never a moment to stop living as a black man

  I am ignoring all white flags ,honesty and candor brings fresh air and growth...

  -- Thrasher
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  Permalink Tuesday, January 15, 2008 08:47 AM