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Originally posted by shakran
I posted the list of black insert-award-here winners because someone said that no black person had ever won. That was inaccurate. If you're gonna bitch about something, make sure you know what it is you're bitching about.
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You made that assumption up, no one said nothing about a black person winning, I was pointing out that there were until a certain point in time, The Oscars and other ceremonies WERE WHITE ONLY.
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Now, there are still cases where blacks are stereotyped/discriminated against/etc. So here's my question. Do you want that to stop, or do you just want to bitch about it until the end of time? Because running around making every effort possible to show that black people are different/seperate from white people is NOT the way to end discrimination. Up to you. [/B]
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The early Americans started this issue but not treating Black Americans fairly from the start. Now when laws are being made to enforce the issue of fairness, the white guy wants to call "Time out" and want to work out a deal. They always want to work out a deal WHEN they get FORCED. Why not do it on their on accord? They always are trying to "get over" and not come to the table straight up.
I am now going to tell you the other "half" of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream". (Oh, you didn't know the version you think you know was "sanitized" to make it look good?) This is also what he pointed out and still, White American back then still fumbled the ball....
"In the debate over affirmative action, critics of programs meant to remedy the nagging effects of past and current racial discrimination have often used the following passage from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech to buttress their position:
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even in the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.”
That was Dr. King’s dream.
But a year later, in his 1964 book, “Why We Can’t Wait,” Dr. King talked about what he believed to be the reality of the disadvantages that racial bias forced upon blacks – and what he thought it would take to repair the damage:
“Among the many vital jobs to be done, the nation must not only radically readjust its attitude toward the Negro in the compelling present, but must incorporate in its planning some compensatory consideration for the handicaps he has inherited from the past. It is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years. How then can he be absorbed into the mainstream of American life if we do not do something special for him now, in order to balance the equation and equip him to compete on a just and
equal basis?
“Whenever this issue of compensatory or preferential treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man is entered at the starting line in a race three hundred years after another man, the first would have to perform some impossible feat in order to catch up with his fellow runner.”
How true....
The way I see "White America" is trying to keep on what they have been doing and not even trying to give a little, and Minority Americans fighting to get some of what they should have been getting from the beginning..
Equality.
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Don't take the reference "White America" out of hand, it isn't to generalize.....