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 Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 10:43am |
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I'm sorry I don't mean to sound rude but, I don't care about what other communities are doing. |
i don't think you sound rude. i was using them as a comparison to make the point that if we wanted a lasting, positive change, we could make it happen. and i think that our ancestors would want us to use all the tools and options we have available to us that they did not have.
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 10:45am |
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Twenth century ones would hate us. Any time before that, they'd be happy as for us because let's be real, this is paradise compared to those times.
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 10:48am |
jonesable wrote:
I care about my seeds and future Jones children so I would like to think they cared about me |
There we go.
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:02am |
our own mindset of intergration (not the act itself) is what caused and continues to plague our communities imo, among a few other factors. it is one thing to want equal rights and be able to freely go where you want. it is quite another to have the mindset that it is better or one has "arrived" when surrounded by yt folks. we did not take the time to heal from the atrosities/and savage tactics that had been used against our people for so long.
it should be no secret that many leaders from the era also offered this insight which, of course, fell on deaf ears for the most part...
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:15am |
ThoughtCouture wrote:
. we did not take the time to heal from the autrosities/and savage tactics that had been used against our people for so long.
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This ! We needed time to heal. We have so many blacks that still enslaved so to speak. Black people have been told what to do, who we are, what we can and can't do that I think it is hard for some to think for themselves. sh*t we can't even sit with one another or even be cordial to one another in the workplace because of what yt people will think.
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:20am |
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It depends on if they go by who we truly are or who the media and society depicts us all as. 400 years later and they still define us.
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:21am |
TokyoRose wrote:
They gave our lives so we could act like fools on reality TV and WSHH.
They are turning over in their graves. I feel as a community we have let them down. |
My thoughts exactly…
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:43am |
ScorpioLuv wrote:
They'd be disappointed and angry. Disappointed in the overall viewpoints of the AA youth in majority, the way some of us black people are still forced to live and mad that other black people that come here just take advantage of the rights that AA ancestors died for us to have in this country or give them credit for. |
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:45am |
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I missed that one, AA are not the only ones that fought for civil rights in America. There was some other blacks mixed in there as well.
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Posted: Feb 12 2013 at 11:46am |
Bunnyahh wrote:
and funny how the point of segregation & integration was brought up, yet some dont see the parallels of inclusion vs exclusion with gays in the church
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There will not parallels when one thing is race and the other thing is considered a chosen disorder. Some ppl don't understand that saying there are parallels does not necessarily mean its the same...if folks can get past those two things then maybe they'd be more open minded to the plight of others...it's always a competition.
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