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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
It does ... but when one has been in the position of power ... with literally the power of life and death ... it's easy not to empathize ...
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Like its easy to say you would die for your country, even when you've never been in the position to do so?
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These wounds run deep ... we're talking over 250 years of slavery and another century of segregation ... things are yet in the scheme of things ... fresh to a people who literally were stripped from what we today enjoy as God-given liberties.
Do we need to move on ... yes ... and we are ... but let's keep perspective and realize that the atrocity was real and that it's still happening in various forms.
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The atrocity, as it were, is not still happening in any form, except secretly or illegally. No one in the states possesses black slaves, no one is allowed to abuse or injure someone due to their race (or for any other reason), schools have been successfully integrated (although some idiotic black leaders are trying to undo that important achievement), and equality has been established, although enforcing it takes time and effort on the part of the government.
So, the ATROCITY that WAS is no more. What IS, is minor, by comparison, and the wounds that "run deep" belong to older, more respected and respectable black men and women, who would NOT use the tactics taken on by some of today's advocates, who are more interested in personal notoriety and political power than they are in seeing to the overall wellbeing and equality of the black people.
To bring the thread back down to earth, Daniel--What was Ms. Rene trying to accomplish (in your opinion), and do you feel she succeeded?
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