Posted by: liz
Comment: #1
Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:11 PM
Good article, I so agree with you. The unforunate truth is, the talk you propose requires an open, educated, maybe evolved, mind. As you point out, the writings of Booker T. Washington have been around and available since 1901. How many people have even read his biography? Here's truth put forth by America's media: many blacks in America today believe just making it through to their 20's without being shot, locked up, drugged up, or bound down with unwanted preganancy's (read unwanted kids) is a triumph of some sort. Yet, I look at the lives of people in other land's living under true tyranny of civil wars, genocide, ethnic cleansing, starvation and poverty so acute words can't describe the horror of it. Do you believe that anyone of them wouldn't trade places and problems with any American (you name the race) anywhere? My statement is, I believe Barak is just acknowledging the fact that this pervasive attitude of "can't do, and "the white man keeping us down" is clung to as a liferaft by many blacks still in denial that the only thing keeping them from moving forward is they are holding on. To move forward you've got to let go.
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