This is for Cenk!!

Email Print posted by GGooDie 10/10/2008 10:34:19 AM EST

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Picked up a Chicago-Suntimes this morning and read the front page of the paper.

Besides the CTA prices going up. Mary Mitchell was called a whimp and wuss by Rush Limbaugh.

I rarely read the paper except for the classifieds and sports, but this right here...caught my eye.

This article hits some very hard points and is a update to the show that Cenk did about white privilege a few weeks ago.

Read and wheep!

http://www.suntimes.com/new s/mitchell/1213415,CST-NWS- mitch10.article
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I had to post my two cent! (none / 0)
The reason why I posted this article is because RACISM is not dead. It is only masked and done mentally in today's world. You have a few idiots like the guy in Florida who ran over the black woman on the bike or the fools in Texas that pulled a man down a dirt road, but it still exist.  

I am a black woman and I deal with racist and racism everyday.

From stereotypes to disrespect I see and feel it all. I adore Cenk for doing the segment about white privilege a few weeks back. Because if you are not apart of racism how can you talk about it or know that it exist, let alone say "Get over it. It was in the past".

I do not walk around everyday asking for reparations or living in the past. I would love to move forward. But when you see your people in a rut everyday or see the stereotypes on news networks. If you had to live through a decade of black crack babies and drugs being implemented into your community…how would you feel?

I have no choice, but to hold on to the past and remember the struggles that my people went through and are still going through.

Learn to open your eyes and put yourself in another person's shoes.

Just my say.



"Everything That Is Green...Is KeeN"

by GGooDie on 10/10/2008 11:28:26 AM EST

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When I say "get over it," generally I'm talking to the racists themselves. They have no valid arguments to sustain their hate for black people, and they can't defend their beliefs with anything substantial.

Maybe they heard of all those "bad black folk" in the city that do drugs and join gangs and they let it form their opinion about the entire race. Little do they realize, if we did that about everything, we'd have to judge all white people based on the large handful that did atrocious things as well.

Now, despite the fact that I may get some argument from it, I think that remembering the past shouldn't consume your future. Many people make that mistake. Remember that 2008 is far different from 1928. The struggles of the past are NOT the struggles of the present, and the struggles of the future get smaller and smaller every day.

Though it's inexcusable that people are still racist in this day in age, if I were a black person, I'd be empowered knowing that the past has been largely overcome and really is the past, and that with every new generation, more and more racists and people who would pass on racism die out. We're not living in a country anymore where half the people own slaves, nor are we a country anymore where half the people wish they still could.

Racists, true racists, are a minority. Their stories surface because of how outlandish it now is to be racist in this day in age, not because racism is still going full-throttle.

You DO have a choice though. Those who surround you don't define you. You can define yourself, and set your own goals, regardless of the color of your skin. Some closed-minded people may call you derogatory things, but never forget that we're now mere weeks away from electing a black man as the president of the United States, the highest office in this country, and some would argue, the world.

-Jason B. (CaptainDingo)

by Jason Brown on 10/10/2008 11:54:42 AM EST

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