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Edited on Sun Apr-27-08 09:34 AM by mntleo2
Please, please, please ...
...as a white woman who has worked for social justice all my adult life I have seen it time and again about the intentional white ignorance about what is going on out there right under their noses while they sit and ignore it. I thought I knew a lot but I am now raising my grand niece, a child of color, who has opened my eyes even wider and I want to say a few things about "losing" Florida or any other place and Reverend Wright.
That white people are "shocked" at what Reverend Wright had to say, Reverend Wright a freaking ex-marine and vet who stood by and guarded President Johnson when he was lying in the hospital ~ and then they have the NERVE to ask, "Does Reverent Wright love this country?" With their lily white hands who have seen nothing worse than a bad hair day holding their questionnaires! Reverend Wright, who took a small church and created one with 8000 members in one of the highest crime areas in the nation. Reverend Wright who had the BALLS to stand up and tell it like it is about the CIA addicting and corrupting thousands of young people of color and pushing gang wars in Los Angeles for "freedom" while raking in millions from Columbian Cartel cocaine sales. In our name and into our coffers on those kid's backs. Rev Wright who knows of the horrible proxy wars, strong-armed governments and slobbering white rich men's desire to steal about every resource they can hoard from smaller countries in the name of "freedom".
Well I have to say to those whites, you are living in Lala Land and most whites have been living there for at least 3/4 of a century when African Americans have finally had enough of a voice to TRY to tell you what the HELL is going on with them that we are also doing around the world: Causing war, mayhem and poverty so a few goddamn rich Americans can rake even more into their coffers at the expense of raped women, forced labor, horribly polluted countries (and ghettoized areas here in our own cities where people are forced to live), proxy wars that suck in little boys to become mass murderers, little girls forced into prostitution, and babies dying of dysentery simply because the water where they live is rampant with feces and waste that American companies dammed up. I have this to say to my white brothers and sisters: "If you cannot stand to hear about it, then why did you support this crap in the first place with your silence and deaf ears????????"
Oooooo! Reverend Wright told the truth! OMG, get the antiseptic and spray it all over my teevee so we can continue to sit in our Hawaiian World and pretend everything is hunky-dunky!"
As my (white) minister said, who has also worked on the streets with people of many cultural backgrounds when I asked him how he felt about Rev Wright's comments after 911, "Not only would I stand with him, I would say he was 100% right about what he said!"
What is WRONG with saying the truth People? I am SICK to death of the maligning of this man who only said what anyone with half a brain who has listened knows. And as the commenter right below you has said about Farakan, at least HE cleans up the streets. While our white churches twitter about gays, and abortion, or going half way around the world "to teach the little African/Asiain/East Indian/South american babies about Jeeeeezus", when right under their upturned elitist white noses is some of the worse poverty, misery and death there is. Know why Mr Farakan and Reverend Wright are so successful? Because they tell it like it IS for once! Know why Mr Farakan appeals to so many disenfranchised African American people ~ especially men in prisons who convert? Because he knows what they know: nobody in power gives a rat's ASS about them, except to punish and jail them, which screws up their entire families for decades, expect them to bow down and kiss the ground their bosses walk on because they get paid half as much for the same work ~IF as ex-cons they can even GET legitimate work. Mr Farakan tells them they are worthwhile human beings and does not expect them to shuck and jive to a society that spits on them at every turn.
As I am raising a child of color, my grand niece and you can BET I will teach her when she looks in my white face that I will not have a CLUE about what she is going to go through being a woman of color in this country. But I can tell you one damn thing for sure, I will make SURE she has a guide like Rev Wright to show her she is not alone and that SOME whites give a rat's ass about her brothers and sisters of color's soul-sucking covert life of having to whisper the Truth among themselves because the Talking Heads, the People in Power, the blind leading the blind in Suburbia are "Shocked! Shocked I tell you ..." at the Truth simply because they insist on sticking their heads in the sand.
AAARRRGGGHHH!
Cat In Seattle <---who could understand it with Repigs who do not have a clue and live in Whitey Land, but is so disgusted that this is even an issue with Democrats who should be standing with Reverend Wright, not maligning him
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