I Fear For Black America [View All]

[Solomon]

What happened in New Orleans makes me fear for the urban populations of every major city in America, at least where critical resources exist.

I don't think the powers that be trust us so close to our resources. We are probably seen as a security threat if we are attacked.

Quite a coincidence that the Supreme Court made that ruling about government can take your property for business purposes.

The way the media played the violence in NO, raised the bloodlust to the point where people were advocating shoot to kill. ...

Man that's some real scary shit.

All the media has to do is cry "Black men raping, looting, and murdering, rioting", and the white people of america will authorize anything. ANYTHING.

I hear people complaining that some of the "refugees" don't want to get on the cruise ships. I hear them spouting vitriol at the black people who managed to survive and chose to stay there.

Given the current circumstances, having been called a "refugee", I don't know if I'd want to go on a boat either. I mean damn, now I can't even have land under my feet? Last time we were all segregated on boats that big, ...

I mean hell, it's one thing to be saved by a cruise ship, but quite another being put there after you're saved. What's that about?

The worst part of racial episodes is always the aftermath. First comes the moment of illumination, the clarity of sight, when it's sparkling clear for the whole world to see, when there is absolutely no doubt about it, it's usually so bad that it shocks the conscience. Racism. Pure and unadulterated.

After getting over the shock of it, a lot of white americans then begin the process of convincing themselves that race had nothing to do with it. Like always, it was the victims own fault, their own stupidity. This is a healing process that some of them go through, because the shock of the racism is so violent, that some healing is necessary. But while you're healing yourself, repairing your precious psyches, you say the most despicable things about the victims.

A lot of white people get on the radiowaves and call in talk shows, and the tv and they convince themselves that race had nothing to do with it.

I hate this part so much. The aftermath. When we have to hear how great you are. How fucked up we are. Happens everytime. Even when we managed to get a videotape of raw unadulterated racism, you convinced yourselves that Rodney King was attacking the police and deserved the beating he got.

This country is awash in white supremacy, so much so that it doesn't see it, much as a fish doesn't see the water it swims in.

I mean just think about it. The utter gall of saying you are defending your "way of life" by obliterating Iraq. You are fighting them there so you won't have to fight them here.

At least I have the tiny solace of knowing that it's only americans who delude themselves. The rest of the world knows all too well our hypocrisy.

I apologize to all the nonracist white people. I know full well there are many not like that. But I can't let the existence of nonracist whites fool me into deluding myself about white supremacy. The same way I don't let people like Clarence Thomas fool me about white supremacy.