You are truly worrisome. It is with great effort that I post your comments. You may call me a liar if you want but the facts remain. School busing, welfare, affirmative action, all these programs fail because the people who are in charge of their administration have a vested interest in their failure. You can keep your internal development strategy. More than likely it would be designed to teach black people the keys to living a life of white corporate assimilation.

Peace

This is nothing short of a LIE.

In the days of “Separate But Equal” there was ACTIVE AND PUNITIVE SEGREGATION. Black kids WERE NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND WHITE SCHOOLS. Schools in the same district would send the bulk of their funding to the White school while the Black school, often in disrepair got their USED BOOKS AND FURNITURE. Please show me a single school district in America in 2007 that practices this?

This recent Supreme Court ruling says that RACE could not be used for school assignment. If any school denied admission to a Black person who legitimately resided in that schools boundaries…..they would be subjected to a large lawsuit and I would be ON BOARD WITH THE LITIGATION.

At the end of the day it must be admitted – people tend to live among their own race and class. There will always be a significant portion of Black students attending majority Black schools. It is time to work WITHIN and make sure that these schools are centers of academic excellence.

The real world process of school busing had Black kids departing their local schools and going to White schools. When White parents got a notice during the summer that their kids were going to be assigned to a majority Black school many of them pulled their kids out of the public schools to attend private academies. The results were that SOME Black kids got educated at White schools while the Black schools were allowed to wilt on the vine. It is time to have an INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT strategy.

I don’t know what article you’re referring to. I don’t think I ever said black kids should sit in the same room as white kids. However, I did write an article about how the conservative court is beginning to make rulings against diversity. I don’t think white communities should be responsible for teaching black children. But the fact that the court is returning to a doctrine of separate and not equal is troubling. If you would read with an open mind and heart you probably would have understood. What I don’t understand is your unwavering loyalty to people and institutions who neglect and reject the black community.

Again, if you feel there are other problems more pressing in the black community, feel free to tackle them as you see fit. However, I seriously doubt that arresting blacks is the cure all answer to the problems in the black community. People, such as yourself, without much compassion for the core issues at the heart of the black community’s struggles are part of the problem. Until you come to grips with this fact chances are good that you will spend the rest of your life helping white people fill their jails and prisons with blacks.

It is true that I reject your notions that I’m some kind of supremacist. That’s probably the only thing we’ll ever agree on. As far as infections go, you’re neck deep in assimilation.

Peace

brotherpeacemaker:

A few weeks ago you were advocating for Black kids to sit in the same classrooms as White kids. Thus you slammed the evil conservative supreme court.

Now you ask that we not allow our Black kids to be indoctrinated into a “White mindset”.

Let me ask you, using HISTORY as a great reference (you suggested that we not forget history). With school integration – which way did the flow occur? Was it WHITE KIDS coming into majority Black schools (and thus these schools had a BLACK CULTURAL MINDSET) or was it Black students flowing into WHITE SCHOOLS?

You attack Condi Rice and Colin Powell. What about the Black policy makers who have eroded our communities with their policies that attempted to ABSTRACT the Standard of Living in our community from the Value of the Work that is done by people in our community? At the same time you are averse at discussing the impact of the Black Thug who is killing our people at a record pace. Why are you so selective? You reject my notions of “Non-White White Supremacy” but you prove yourself to be infected so frequently.

The funny thing is; I guarantee you that his life will be far more frustrating than yours.

These clowns will never get it: WE don’t bitch and moan because we want to play the victim role,(I am living quite well thank you very much) WE bitch and moan because we want to make Amerikkka better.

More typical white mindset arguments. Because some black people choose to live a lifestyle that is somewhat distant from their African heritage every black person should be so willing to buck and cheese for the corporate camera. Besides, I really don’t think there’s a long line of job vacancies for more black people to be Will Smith or Michael Jordan. I think the very argument is racist in itself. Why can’t black people ever be the dominant racial profile of a Fortune 500 company? How often do black people out number their white co-workers in an office environment that’s not the mail room, janitorial services, or shipping and receiving? How many small and medium size companies are there without a single black employee period? How many companies exist without a single white employee? It may be a capitalist society but the cards are stacked so heavily in white people’s favor.

Because your racial preference is so thick all you hear and see is the “jibberish” (I think you meant gibberish). For someone who has heard the same things for the past 37 years why do you respond so vehemently now? The question is rhetorical. Obviously it is a chord that was struck early and has been vibrating throughout your life. You can keep your wish for me to have a good frustrated life. Too many people such as yourself are doing a wonderful job making it a reality for me and a lot of other people.

Peace

And furthermore, Im not even going to get into 9/11. Let’s just say I am not an advocate for those memorials and such as you said. You are doing the same things that 9/11 advocates are doing since “they should get over it.” Right? Maybe you should get over it. You don’t have any ideas that are going to work. Let alone ideas period. Universal Healthcare… You sound like a fool. Corporate what? What the hell are you talking about man? This is a capitalist society. And besides, didn’t Malcom X, Al Sharpton, Luis Farrakhan(million man march) , Jesse Jackson, the Black Panther party, and most other leaders say the very exact same thing that you did about a “better America?” What happened to their plans? So, all of that jibberish you’re talking, like the song says, “Ive heard it all before.”

You wrote “You can’t erase history what’s done is done.”

By this do you mean that slavery, discrimination, or subjugation is done? Slavery may be over, but you can’t convince me that discrimination or the subjugation is done. But, you will undoubtedly say otherwise.

Typical argument from an angry white mindset. But what’s done is done never comes up when members of white dominated, American society are the victims. We’re still erecting memorials to World War II, the Jewish holocaust, Jesus Christ, and victims of 911. Nobody ever says, “hey 911 is in the past so get over it.” Four years later and after nearly four thousands men and women have been sacrificed exacting some kind of revenge America is still trying to come to terms with Iraq (although the country had nothing to do with the bombing).

I have lots of ideas for solutions. We can institute universal healthcare, we can develop a legal and justice system that operates independently of the color of a person’s skin or the size of their wallet. We can keep corporations from influencing so much of American society. We can develop a system of laws that actually protect people who can’t protect themselves instead of allowing members of the white privilege from continuing to grow their privilege while others suffer.

As far as respecting those who dealt with severe cruelty, I respect my ancestors everyday by refusing to ignore their sacrifice and acquiescing to the injustice of this so called system of skewed justice and equality for all.

I guess you are showing respect to your past by continuing the idea that all is well and there’s nothing left for black people to do but sit back and enjoy the subjugation. You are an absolute credit to your history. If every white person were to bow down to my shadow I seriously doubt if it would change things for everyone. Besides, both of us know it would be insincere and empty. Why make such a suggestion other than to show your contempt for the issue, demonstrate your white mindset, and prove my point?

Peace

I don’t think you have any answers. Even if you did, you would find another reason to be angry with society. All you want is some sympathy. Looking at society, I don’t think anyone feels sorry for a whiner that has no answers to his own imaginary problems. Show some respect to those who REALLY dealt with severe cruelty during a time where they couldn’t vent in an article.