If you think European, Asian, Hispanic ice is colder than Black-ice, you are probably not going to like this article. We tend to romanticize the civil rights struggle or movement. The leaders of this period run the gambit of skill and ability. Angela Davis, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Medger Evers, Kwame Toure, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Fred Hampton, Eldridge Cleaver, Betty Shabazz, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Thurgood Marshall etc... Dr. Dubois mentioned within the text of his book, "The primary concerns in Black Folk "Is the way the "veil" stands in the way of Blacks need to gain skills, employment, and property." Bigots tend to reward individuals of African descent, who present the path of least resistance, towards empowerment and opportunity. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book entitled "Uncle Tom's Cabin", I am quite certain there are readers squirming in their seats as we speak.
Man I might even provide a list of persons so removed from their culture; it can only be described as a sickness. With the feminizing of specifically Black males and our daughters' bodies being exploited for economic gain, it all adds up. The last statement was in reference to an accepted behavior. E. Franklin Frazier gave a poignant look into the world of a bourgeoisie black. This group is rewarded for basically not making any waves, and dancing a jig for racism. Getting along with other cultures is not the definition of a culturally challenged individual.
The Pan Hellenic association is one of the most intriguing entities I have ever witnessed. They seem to think they corner the market in regard to leadership. They only involve their own members jobs and opportunities, moreover, benefiting a select group of elitist and separatist's. When I attended college, I use to watch the buffoonery and spectacle of most of these cats. Some graduate, other's find it difficult to rely on the sisterhood or brotherhood, when things get tough! Dr. King was a alpha, if I am not mistaken, but the pronounced way they separate the well-educated, from the rest of their culture, is as suspect as twitter being located in San Francisco. Whatever happened to 'Burk" on Grey's anatomy? If you internalize self-hate to the degree of applying the social law of diminishing returns, that's you! It's amazing how society embraces comfortable stereotypes and forces them upon our Psyche. It is my opinion, racism and oppression, drives a number of African Americans insane. Maybe one day we will diagnose oppression and its effects within a category of illness. I dedicate this piece to the culturally challenged hata's.
Interesting piece and by George you nailed it on several levels. Too bad the largest of our modern leadership images Dr. M.L.K Jr. was killed before he learned that integration of the money supply and amalgamation more important to us than simply physical integration...
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