This pointiant
observation is one I’ve heard highly acclaimed comedian DL
hughley employe a few times, and I’ve come to the rock-solid
conclusion it’s accurate, precise and prophetic in it’s
burning-bush truth. For within their minds there’s not a
gutter-low expectation we can’t be held-to: murderer, rapist,
con-man, theft or arson, no-matter who or what we as black folks fit
the job description to a “T.”
Yes, it is “with-in”
a white person’s mind that the determination is made that
the black person they’re dealing with . . . at that moment . .
. in’t quite as “human” as they are, a tad-bit
inferior and sub-par. We’re not capable of loving our spouses
as white folks love theirs,
We can’t possibly
love our children as much, in such a deep and complex manner as white
folks do theirs. We don’t grasp the complexities of family,
friendship, hard work and honesty.
“Sub-human”
is the term I’m searching for I believe.
In the the minds
of most white folks, most Black folks are guilty, guilty . . . GUILTY
I say of any character flaw, shortcoming or crime . . . until proven
otherwise! In addition, we’re uneducated, ignorant and
incompetent . . . until proven otherwise. We have little if any
character . . . until we demonstrate otherwise. While on the other
hand, the white hand, white folks are deemed, painted with a broad
brush as innocent, competent, good and decent . . . until proven
otherwise. Just the opposite. Two sets of rules for society.
Tragically far too-many
black and white folks inherently, innately,
intrinsically, if not naturally accept, abide-by and blindly
adhere-to these perceptions and beliefs which live in white folks
minds, the only place that really matters in America.
How can a
racially/culturally divided society like this the no longer logically
referred to as “United” States of America mandate
morality and humanhood? How do we force White people to live, work
and party with ‘other people?” Play nicely with the
other kids on the global playground.
How do we get white men
to confess that they don't believe “all people are created
equal?” For that’s the #1 social disease facing America.
That’s the problem with Trump’s foreign policy; instead
of seeing it as Thomas Paine and myself do, that “all
the world is my country, all mankind are my brothers and to do good
is my religion. “ Trump’s America, in their minds,
see the world as theirs to pimp, exploit, loot and pillage.
I’m sorry but
WASP culture has raped Mother Nature, assaulted King Neptune,
sodomized Lady Liberty and ran Yogi the Bear off his own land. Trump
would strip-mine Jellystone to make a buck.
How do we “make”
white folks “like and respect” people of other faiths,
colors and beliefs?
As the surveys have
show for decades - most white folks will hire, and thus feel more
comfortable with the uneducated white convict than with the Black PhD
who was an Eagle Scout.. . . I ask you “What do you do with
that?” That’s the identical mentality which facilitated,
lynchings, segregated cemeteries and campgrounds.
Please, allow me to be
both sharp
n’ blunt:
It’s a “given” that in the minds for most white
Americans is a struggle with the simple notion that Black people, and
other people of color, are “as human” as white folks.
They struggle with acknowledging our obvious humanity. But wait, if
they can accept we’re human, then the acquisition
rolls on to “Black
people, and most brown people, are “uncivilized.”
I have come to believe
WEB DuBois, Josephine Baker and Paul Robeson were spot on to get the
hell out of Dodge.
Here’s “why
”- White America, as a whole, not all, but more than say 75% .
. . don’t have a conscience. The caged babies on the Rio
Grande, the Puerto Ricans abandoned and left to die . . the black
folks left to die in Katrina . . . I’m not surprised at all
they lett Puerto Ricans to perish also. . . . because in the minds
of most white folks Brown folks don’t have the same human
worth and value.
White Americans, when
they see the raw video footage of the LAPD beating Rodney King damn
near to death . . . they see, in their minds a giant unarmed
black man meanencing, threatening well-armed police, and that
mentatility, that mental picture in their minds serves to
rationalize, minimize and ultimately, pathetically justify virtually
every police beating this nation’s witnesses on a weekly basis.
Because in white
folks minds black people are more animalistic, less refined, less
civilized, and therefore more prone to “eat them” at the
drop of a dime.
With black folks being
so vile and dangerous . . . in the minds of white folks it
explains why white folks handcuff black 3rd graders and shoot elderly
ladies.
Let’s end this on
a real-tip: in the minds of most white Americans, “the
only good nigger is a dead nigger,” and let’s keep in
mind the folks who feel that way, well they just happen to hale from
all walks of life; doctors, teachers, cops and bankers . . .
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