| You are very correct KOS. That is what is happening and will always happen in the case case of Blacks in America. The key, I think, is to recognize that very fact. The way my father has always taught us is can be best be summarized in his one-liner that: "Life is a ladder. The rungs lead up and down; but you have to choose to raise your foot or lower it to make that step".
I do not proclaim my father to be the personification to this issue for all of us- I will say that he has definitely influenced much of my thought process here. The very reasons I think the way I do is because of how I was raised to not embrace racism in any form was from my father and my mother plus that I know that, as Ali stated, there were also many Whites over the years that were persecuted, humiliated, physically beaten, and such to work towards trying to end the racism against Blacks. I would be less than human to not recognize this. I believe that I have a social debt to honor such people, Black or White, that have sacrificed themselves to become the best possible person I can. |