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Fox News television host has decided to… host his own march on Washington. Coincidentally, it is on the 47th anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King lead, “I Have A Dream” march. You know… just watch the video. Jon Stewart does a better job of commenting on this than I ever will or have the energy to devote to it.
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Writer and social commentator/activist Tim Wise has written a piece titled “Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black” that has probably gone viral by now, (If not, it should, I’ve included it in this post) and yet after one begins to read it, paragraph after paragraph streams by as if it is like witnessing an editorial train wreck in progress. No it’s not because the kilobytes it takes up on the internet are not worth a dang, it’s because ya just can’t stop reading it until the sinking feeling it gives makes you feel as if you’re on a caboose watching train cars ahead of you roll off the track one by one and it’s only a moment before it’s your time. Your time to come to grips with the fact that there is something terribly wrong in America when it comes to race and privilege. Of course, if you’re a person of color and you point this out you’re a whiner and if you point it out and you happen to be white, as Tim Wise is, you’re the worst kind of liberal that walks the earth, you are engulfed by white guilt.
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Oh how America loves a great fall. I’ve held back on the recent Tiger Woods watch, not because there was nothing to talk about but more so there was so much to talk about and astoundingly not about Woods himself.
What was there to talk about? How about, booty calls, ambien, the institution of marriage, how women feel about infidelity versus how men feel about it. There’s the difference between getting a little something something on the side when you’re rich vs. when you’re poor and have to pick your date up in a Ford Focus instead of a yacht called ‘Privacy’. Be honest, if Tiger’s name was Lamont, drove a Corolla and was the manager at Jack In The Box, there would be no scandal. There’s the guys who say how stupid Tiger was that with all that money he should have never gotten caught and women say how Elin should get half of that money after only five years of marriage.
There’s the tabloid, and digital media like US and OK and People Magazine (Yeah, I said their names and People Magazine, yes you are a tabloid.) whom have clearly taken sides with their female base. Online publications one would think would be above the fray like the Huffington Post, CNN, and others, eventually strayed from reporting and gave in to the sensationalism of it all and started their own girlfriend count and embraced anything that TMZ had to say, confirmed or not.
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I am a 71 year old African American woman living in Hemet, Ca. In all of these years I have lived through many ugly racially charged events in this country that I call home. I have survived the humiliations that have been heaped upon me, even in my home state of Minnesota.
Lynching’s, assassinations, and the bloody marches in this country have all left me with emotional scars, that I have attempted to heal by believing that surely, surely time would allow humanity to realize that we are here together and that working as one cohesive unit is the only means of our survival. However, today my heart began to bleed again. Here in the year of 2009, my ten year old grandson arrived home from school with a permission slip to be signed by his parents as to whether he would be allowed to listen to the speech next Tuesday being given by the president of the United States, one Barack Obama. I was unable to speak, I felt as though I was being strangled by some unseen hand. The insult was so obvious and painful that I found it difficult to breath. Nothing had changed.
The fact that the Hemet Unified School District or any other, in this country that espouses freedom of speech would exhibit such a blatant disrespect of their president and then by implication channel these same feelings into their students who are 90% Hispanic and a10% blend of Caucasian and African American a feeling of being questionable and/or inferior is reprehensible. I have no recollection of the necessity for students to be given permission as to whether or not to listen to the first President Bush, or any other duly elected head of this country.
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