I'm white so I'm probably not allowed to say this but does anyone else see the racism of the "black leaders" (Sharpton, Jackson, et.al.) in this country?
Now I'm not talking about reverse racism or how they view whites, I'm talking about how they view blacks! For centuries people of various skin colors have been fighting stereotypes and insisting that skin color does not determine how one thinks or acts. This was at the heart of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's message personified in his "I have a dream" speech. His dream was that his "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."
The central tenet of racism is that skin color determines character, that skin color determines intelligence, that skin color determines how a person will act. The Ku Klux Klan was famous for pronouncements lumping all blacks into a single category based solely on skin color. That is racism.
And that is exactly what today's so called "leaders of the black community" are doing. They are famous for speaking about blacks as if their skin color made them all fall in lock step with whatever political agenda they're selling! That's racism... on a par, and equal to, the racism of the KKK... and it's just not true. Black people do not all think alike just as white people don't all think alike, just as brown people, yellow people and red people don't all think alike. Every person on this planet is an individual and makes their own choices. Nobody makes choices because their skin color forces them to do so!!!
To insist otherwise is nothing more than racism.
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