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Originally Posted by Seaver
You still didn't answer my question, what do you want to do about it? Talking has done nothing, we've been talking for 40+ years. You claim we've been ignoring it, when the reality is it's shoved in our face 24/7.
I'm not going to ignore people who point out that minorities are more likely to go to poorer schools. I'm not going to ignore that minorities are more likely to be poor.
I'm going to ignore those who believe HIV was invented by the government to kill blacks, when they ignore the fact that 1/4 of black women have an STD because (showing less use of protection). I'm going to ignore people who claim crack was invented to hold down the black community when they ignore whites have their own epidemic of meth (obviously invented by Farrakan?).
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Seaver, reading your posts, when I am aware of the following facts, gives me the same feeling I got when I attended an all white southern baptist church for a couple of years and listened, numerous times to concerns from the pulpit and from others in the congregation about the "persecution" of other white crhistians.
I hear the same concerns voiced often by the talk show hosts and on the "news", on the Salem Comm. radio broadcasts I listen to in the car commuting to work.
I think your opinions about race, Seaver, fly in the face of the facts:
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http://www.diversityinc.com/public/2696.cfm
After Parsons resigns, only four black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies will remain:
Aylwin Lewis, Sears Holdings
Kenneth Chenault, American Express
Ronald Williams, Aetna
Clarence Otis, Darden Restaurants
Today, 13 Fortune 500 companies are run by women. Indra Nooyi is the only woman CEO of a Fortune 100 company and the first woman of color ever in that capacity. Nooyi is one of two Fortune 500 women CEOs of color; Andrea Jung of Avon Products is the other. Ranked by their companies' position in the Fortune 500, they are:
Angela Braly, WellPoint
Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo
Brenda Barnes, Sara Lee
Mary Sammons, Rite Aid
Carol Meyrowitz, TJX
Anne Mulcahy, Xerox
Patricia Russo, Lucent Technologies
Susan Ivey, Reynolds American
Andrea Jung, Avon Products
Marion O. Sandler, Golden West Financial
Paula Rosput Reynolds, Safeco
Margaret Whitman, eBay
Here is a list of Latino CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies. To date, four Fortune 500 CEOs are Latino:
Antonio Perez, Eastman Kodak Co.
Hector Ruiz, Advanced Micro Devices
Paul J. Diaz, Kindred Health Care
Jose Maria Alapont, Federal-Mogul
Eastman Kodak Co. is No. 35 on the Top 50 list.
Five Fortune 500 CEOs are Asian, including two women:
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo
Ramani Ayer, Hartford Financial Services
Andrea Jung, Avon Products
Rajiv L. Gupta, Rohm and Haas
Surya N. Mohapatra, Quest Diagnostics
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Demographic Data, US Congress:
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http://www.nps.gov/malu/faq_dr_marti...er_king_jr.htm
Frequently Asked Questions about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
16. Is Dr. King’s brother still living?
No. A. D. Williams King drowned in his swimming pool in July of 1969.
17. Is there any suspicion about A. D.’s drowning?
A. D.’s drowning was officially concluded to be an accident. Many private individuals question that conclusion but not the King family.
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Living in the shadow of a King
New Crisis, The, Jan/Feb 2003 by Fears, Darryl
Growing up Knig:
An Intimate Memoir
By Dexter Scott King with Ralph Wiley
....In one of many touching scenes, Dr. King is watching his two boys, Dexter and Marty, play cowboy with their cousin Isaac. As they gunned each other down, they didn't notice the shepherd of the nonviolence movement walking toward them with sad eyes. During his explanation to his protesting sons about why they shouldn't play even with pretend guns, father turns to Dexter and says, "Suppose somebody shot somebody you loved." Dexter replied: "No, that could never be."
Dexter and Marty were watching TV in early April 1968 when a news flash appeared: "Dr. King has been shot in Mempis, 6:01 p.m." The boys stood silent, then ran to their mother's room. She was on the phone, quietly saying, "I understand." Over and over and over again.
This book shows the pain of being a King. At the end, I felt I had an idea as to why the four grown King children have no spouses. It is possible that that level of intimacy frightens them. Many of the people they love died suddenly, horribly.
A year after Dr. King's death, his brother and Dexter's uncle, Alfred Daniel King Sr., drowned mysteriously in his backyard pool. Five years after that, Dexter's grandmother, Alberta Williams King, affectionately known as "Big Mama," was murdered in the church pews by a deranged gunman. Two years later, in 1976, their cousin Darlene fell over and died while jogging. It was then when the children started asking, "Who's next?"
A passage Dexter wrote early on in the book tells all: "You felt death had been hovering over you all along, death seen from a child's view, and it would always be there."
Growing Up King shows how one bullet can mortally wound not only a father, but a family, how it can leave them rudderless. It helps us answer a question on the lips of so many Americans, especially those who are Black: "What in the world happened to that family?"
Darryl Fears covers race and ethnicity for The Washington Post.
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