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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
And I'm going to dive in.
Wrong is wrong. Always.
Discrimination is wrong. Always.
Period.
Why decades and generations? My life experiences are not defined by what happened to my parents or my grandparents or my great grandparents.
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D4T. I think you might want to rethink the position that what happens to your parents does not greatly affect your formative years. To a great extent, I am who I am because of my parents and I thank God for it.
Also, one consistent point I've made is that in dealing with particularly the older generation in the black community, you're not dealing with what happened to parents and grandparents, you're dealing with what happened to that individual.
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Why should we have to battle through generations of pent up anger while we have a black man in the White House.
At what point can we realize that we are moving on?
How long must we continue to pay for and make provision for the sins of a decade ago... a generation ago.. a century ago?
If there is discrimination in anyones life today then they should speak out and we should all do what it takes to bring that discrimination to an end.
But neither my feelings nor anyone elses should be based upon a decade ago, a generation ago or a century ago.
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If your position is that what happens in one decade has no bearing on the next, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Are we moving on? Absolutely. I am very encouraged by the changes I see in every generation.
And people do speak out against discrimination. It does still occur, but thankfully it is getting better.
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