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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I came across an interesting story in the news the other day.
The story starts about 20 or so years ago when Alice Brown, a white southern woman dropped her daughter off at Princeton....only to learn that her daughter had (gasp!) a black roommate: "I was horrified," recalled Brown, who had driven her daughter up from New Orleans. Brown stormed down to the campus housing office and demanded Donnelly be moved to another room.
The reason: One of her roommates was black.
"I told them we weren't used to living with black people — Catherine is from the South," Brown said...
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Donnelly (the daughter), now 44, captained the basketball and volleyball teams. She was the homecoming queen. And she racked up science and math awards, often with the help of her mother.
But the "Three R's" weren't the only thing Donnelly learned from an early age. There was a fourth one. Her mother and grandmother filled her head with racist stereotypes, portraying African-Americans as prone to crime, uneducated and, at times, people to be feared.
Brown, 71, explains that she was raised to think that way. She recalls hearing her grandfather, a sheriff in the North Carolina mountains, brag about running black visitors out of the county before nightfall. And Brown's parents held on to the n-word like a family heirloom...
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When Brown heard about Barack Obama's former pastor — his angry rants against white America — she didn't like it. But she understood. "If I had been treated the same way blacks have been treated," she says, "I'd be resentful, too."
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The black roommate......Michelle Robinson Obama
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news...mate_0413.html
Its ironic that this 71 year old white woman, raised in intolerance...now gets it (althogh she draws the line at interracial marriage).....and the 20-40 something yr old white guys here still dont get it. |
For someone who claims to be enlightened in social and political issues, I'm very surprised that you would tote this line of apology for any form of bigotry. Unless someone makes an intellectual attempt to rise above, especially someone with Rev. Wright's aptitude and abilities, they are playing on their congregation's emotions to maintain a power position and will of course gladly accept the assistance of all useful idiots.
Have the apologists for the likes of racial bigots such as Rev. Wright developed a fresh ambiguous rationalization for the good Reverend's new $1.6M dollar mansion in a gated 98% white neighborhood with millions to maintain a grand lifestyle.
Wow ...black liberation theology sure pays!! Could it work for me? ... at least for Rev. Wright as he plays golf at his exclusive golf course (which backs up to his new estate) with all his new rich white buddies.
Of the two, who would you consider the best example of someone rising up from hardships and racial injustice to become a leader, a healer, spreading peace, love, and understanding ... Desmond Tutu or Rev. Wright?
Check out Rev. Wrights new ghetto home. This Chicken has indeed come home to roost!
enjoy!
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Originally Posted by willravel
I wish we lived in a world where this would be responded to.
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I believe it would only be fair if dc answered UsTwo's question first. dc's response was a redirect or duck to UsTwo's questions.