The problem with whites talking about it is that you assume you have license to talk. Thats not the case as whites and other races have their own problems. When the ills in your community are fixed then you can ask permission to discuss Black problems. You cant talk to anyone about their home and hope to be effective if your own house is dirty.
The Boortz approach is preferable to me. More clinical--the basic assumption that we all understand that as human beings we have similarities, etc.
I am not gonna do this today. just decided.
Mistakes were made--efforts to rectify the mistakes have been made--after that--each and every one of us has to suck it up and move on. Physical and mental handicaps--look at what many who would seemingly have no chance manage to do.
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just finished listening to a report on the 3 that beat the teen in FL--9 months probation because they are minors. after a few moments of outrage--I decided---ok--chances are good that they will have further involvement with the justice system. They had a 'chance'.
I'm not familiar with the Boortz approach. I wouldnt exactly call slavery then jim crow and other racist policies up until just recently "mistakes". However I do get your point that people have to suck it up eventually. Just curious. What efforts would you say were instituted to correct the "mistakes" of the past?
i am tired. Neal Boortz--google him--hard to explain.
Google --'The History of Atlanta'--I have posted several links. After the Civil War--efforts were made to change. Atlanta seems to have had a leadership role?
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clearly politics is not my raison d' etre--lol
comment on anything you find interesting--
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Two books about the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition | Atlanta Arts and Culture
This Cotton States Exposition/world's fair--took place in 1895--and efforts were being made in some fashion in the area of civil rights--that is something I didn't know--so much of that. They are talking about Piedmont Park--in the center of Atlanta--the Piedmont Driving Club is there---old money-- the most historic area I suppose--much of the city was burned, etc.
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<Opening on Sept. 18, 1895, the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition attracted throngs of visitors to the city and generated national and international press attention. Just 31 years after Atlanta burned, the exposition catapulted the city into the limelight as never before.
“The Cotton States Exposition did what [organizers] had hoped in terms of shaping the city’s image as a progressive leader of the New South,” says Theda Perdue, author of the just released book “Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895” (University of Georgia Press).>
<Perdue points to the Negro Building as the most historically significant aspect of the Cotton States Exposition. “On its face the Negro Building acquiesced to segregation. Its exhibits, after all, were segregated from those of whites. But the displays challenged white assumptions of African-American inferiority on which segregation rested, and instead, presented a narrative of accomplishment and triumph.”
Perhaps the most famous speech given on opening day came from Tuskeegee Institute President Booker T. Washington. He spoke directly to President Grover Cleveland and Cotton States organizers.
“One-third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. No enterprise seeking the material, civil or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success. I but convey to you, Mr. President and Directors, the sentiment of the masses of my race when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American Negro been more fittingly and generously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent Exposition at every stage of its progress. It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom.”>
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I may well be out of my mind--will not be offended at anything you might have to say--lol.
Some sort of collaborative effort has existed. Perhaps once behind the scenes? Now we just confront each other--with some civility usually.
Whatever may be going on in the political arena--those of us living our lives seem to be focused on more peaceful issues.
Helping others was always a priority here--I can verify that.
lol--bruno mars--'Today I don't feel like doing anything'
later gator
