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Itsdb |
03/06/07 |
Often when issues of race are mentioned here I've wondered when we can just move past all of the nonsense. Sure there is still racism but will it ever be eradicated? I don't think so, but I do believe if people will quit reminding us of their color and telling us how bigoted and racist we are then things will get better. I don't need anyone to tell me they're black, I can see it - and I don't care.
Bruce S. Gordon just resigned as president of the NAACP, "after clashing with the board over the group's mission."
Apparently Gordon wanted to "pull (them) into the post-civil rights period" according to Julian Bond. Bond of course "firmly rejected the idea."
"We're not post civil rights," he said. "The struggle continues."
Gordon had another vision, "We are going to be very outcome-oriented, very results-oriented," he said in July, "as opposed to activity and effort-oriented."
Who needs results? Bond insisted the NAACP is "resisting philosophical change. We're staying the course."
Doesn't Bond realize how much trouble that phrase got Bush into? I guess black leaders are still more interested in victimhood than solving problems. So apparently are the Democratic presidential frontrunners as they showed in their gratuitous church visit on Sunday.
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Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 03/07/07 12:27 pm:
Kathleen Parker of the Orlando Sentinel expands on my point. ... Obama has made clear that he is a new generation of American black. He doesn't have to genuflect to the civil rights period, nor is he tethered to a heritage that seems at times to hold others hostage. If nothing else he brings the ability to expand the debate within the black community and that is a refreshing change.
As I said ,there are plenty of reasons to question his ability to be a good President and I cannot think of the current Republican who I wouldn't vote for over him at this time .But it is refreshing to hear a black Democat politician say things like :
even as I fight on behalf of more education funding, more equity, I have to also say that , if parents don't turn off the television set when the child comes home from school and make sure they sit down and do their homework and go talk to the teachers and find out how they're doing, and if we don't start instilling a sense in our young children that there is nothing to be ashamed about in educational achievement, I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was something white.
We've got to get over that mentality. That is part of what the Moses generation teaches us, not saying to ourselves we can't do something, but telling ourselves that we can achieve.
Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 03/07/07 3:25 pm:
Absolutely that is refreshing, makes me wonder if he'll end up going the way of Bruce Gordon.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 03/07/07 3:41 pm:
yeah Gordon was a good leader of the NAACP . Can't have that !
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