Thread: 'Tis A Good Week To Be Black

Originally Posted by icedog

I wish you could be "a fly on the wall" in my living room last night from 11:30 til about 0100 this morning. To listen to my giflfriend cry on the telephone with her 87 year old great aunt who moved from Georgia to New Jersey. There were several very emotional calls but Aunt Carrie was the best. She was on "speakerphone" so I could hear. This woman was born in 1921 and lived in Georgia through the Jim Crow days. She said last night as she was sobbing that in her entire life she always hoped the black man would rise up but while she never stopped hoping, she never actually believed it would come true. I cried too.

There are of course those who will deny that there is any hate groups that target blacks. There are those who will accept segregation and say the concept of "separate but equal" was fair. It wasn't. This is a great victory for the people of the United States in general but if you understand the great contributions to our country by people like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King you cannot deny that this is a remarkably joyous day for the blacks of this country.

This afternoon I had an interesting conversation with the black woman who sent me something that could be considered decidedly racist. She joyously proclaimed that Black is on top! Black is first! . She assured me that it could not have been just any black man to attain this landmark. She told me that if the election was between Joe Biden and Jesse Jackson, she would have voted for Biden.

no-one denies the feelings that these people have.

But on the other hand such feelings came forth out of fear. Not out of rationality. And although I know that people do vote from emotions perspective.....they really shouldn't.

Voting for someone because he "speaks well" is the wrong reason just as voting for someone because he's black is the wrong reason. People should've voted because they like the mans ideas. If they did...great. If they voted for another reason it was not the most clever one.

So i'm not saying that the reason THAT people voted for him was race. I'm just saying that if he DID win because of this he shouldn't have won.


Politics are a thing of logic...or should be at least. Not of fear and emotional hype.