I agree it needs to be addressed...but from BOTH sides. Honestly. Even if what is said angers the other.
If Wright wants to say that Natalee Holloway shouldnt get any extra press for how she died when we got sisters dying out here all the time in worst fashions and their deaths get little or no media time....THAT is the injustice! That is saying a white girl dying is more important or significant than a black girls.
BC is a sellout because he aired dirty laundry in front of company, so to speak. He feels no need to empathize with the Black community because of Ennis. I understand his anger. He should be angry. His son died a senseless death...but you know what???
I know women who have buried more than one child that died senseless deaths. Read my blog:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...ogID=365346675
But this didn't have any national media play, or very little of it.
Why?
Cuz these girls were asking for it because of what it appeared they were doing?
I will never forget those pictures as long as I live. THIS is the reality for many black folks.
We can give all the self help speeches we want. Write all the books about how blacks need to move on. Rant and rave about it.
But there is still gross racial inequality in this country. And that oppresses MANY blacks in this country.
Nothing brought this reality home for me and made it more real for me than Katrina....
So, while it is easy for you and those who support your views to tell us to get up and do this and whatever....those of us having to live this know what's really going on....
The only thing that has kept me and my kids from being in those pictures is the GRACE OF GOD!!!!
Am I smart, educated? Yes. But when it came time for promotion, pay raise, it still boiled down to whether the black girl who sounds white got it or if the white girl who is in recovery mode after Katrina get it???
Yes, I still have to deal with this ************ in 2008. And it wears and tears on my faith. It does. I have faith, I believe God and try to live right, yet I still struggle.
My dad fought for this country in Vietnam and still suffers in his mind and body for it. But after Katrina, he has NOTHING to show for it. Why?
Because folks in N.O., BLACK folks in particular, mean nothing. Are expendable. We are animals. I mean it was proven when the press came in with their cameras and filmed the animals raping and killing themselves in the Dome after Katrina.
While they were going hungry and babies dying in mamas arms. People had to sleep next to dead bodies....
Now, the jobs that pays well enough to support the rising cost of living here in N.O. post Katrina go to white folks.
Racial anger?
Blacks DO have a right to be angry still. Because, unlike Jews, the oppression still exists. The racism still rages. Subtle but screaming.
We hear about how God will bless those who bless Israel. So we go out of our way to bless them. Think highly of them. Help them even...I saw a show that is dedicated to raising funds to help Jews who aren't in Israel migrate back home and getting them Bibles.
But let someone get on that same channel and say, 'Hey, can you send $100 to help LaQuita. She is a single mother of four whose baby daddy is incarcerated. They live in squalor in the Dorchester section of Boston and her babies go to bed hungry. And we want to send LaQuita to school...' know what the response would be?
'Well, that LaQuita needs to go to Social Svcs. and get some food stamps and some housing help. I pay my taxes, darn it! I am not sending a dime to this girl who couldn't keep her legs closed! I work too hard for my money!'
Why?
Because racism - and classism - is still alive and well.
The majority of folks look at the former need as a more legit one than the later. I don't know why...they are both poor, trying to make it, trying to find their way.
This country will send help all over this world when they see a need that they deem legit. But we have needs right here in the good ol US of A.
People in N.O. still need a decent place to stay, over two years after Katrina. Social programs are being cut here at a time when they should be on the rise. I know folks who sell drugs and their bodies to pay the $1100 month rent for that place that was $650 before Katrina....
But we don't barely see that on CNN. Only when we act a fool at HANO for tearing down the projects, THAT was on CNN. Where was CNN when 1/3 of this city is still pretty much a ghost town? Why isnt CNN filming the hundreds of people who are sleeping under I-10 every night because they have nowhere to go?
I hate passing by that section of N.O. because it makes my blood boil. We get CNN down here when folks are acting up, but where is CNN to catch the story behind the story, why the folks are acting up? And you all eat it up. You feed into all the hype they feed you. How sorry and angry blacks are....
Do you see how racist that is????????
Poor schools in the inner city. Crime because there are no great schools for our children to learn that there IS a better way. Job discrimination. Prisons. The Media's exploitation of Black crime, drug abuse, illegitimate pregnancy, etc everything that is WRONG with Blacks. How this gov't rushes to the aid of everybody who suffers at the hands of a natural disaster, except black folks.
When Obama came down here to speak, HE spoke to US. He addressed the issue. I believed he may have even drove by that section of I-10 on the corner of Tulane and Canal where hundreds of black folks who are homeless LIVE in tents and have sofas and furniture set up like they are in their house.
I know Hillary didn't....even though she came here a week after Obama...