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My people please keep in mind that 75% of the world is dark and that color is just that a color and their is racism in every community of people even among themselfs.We all need to look in the mirror even white america and realize we are one in gods eyes and need to graduate from this kind of thinking We are not common people as white america may think Look at Obama,Dr.Martin Luther King their not common .

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Rhonda made the statement 29 not 30

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This wasn't something to help black people and I have to agree with some of Displaced Wht Man's comments. Why must we have our business all over t.v.? Why must we always be on display? These same black leaders on t.v. are the same ones who will not answer their phones when you call to organize a low-profile community event in the hood. The same actors on t.v. runnig their mouths (except Spike Lee-he is accesable) are the same ones who will not speak to a group of young black men in Compton or Brooklyn unless there is a camera involved and a chance to "show out" for whites on television. I know about this being that I have worked with many of these people and know that their motives are to try and be the White America's and media appointed leader for the next generation of blacks. They do not care about the community.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN......
DARK COLOR THIS,LIGHT COLOR THAT........BLAH,BLAH,BLAH

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See how dumb black women are?? They are on here talking about "lite skin vs dark skin" that went out with Spike Lee's school days in the 1980's. This is the trivial mess that underminds the black community and unity.

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I am 68 years old and I remember it all. The telephone company did not hire Dark skin Black people just light skin Blacks to work as operators; now how can you see who you are talking too. In school plays and dance recitals UGLY light skin blacks got the parts. If you were dark skin and had long hair you might stand a chance. But the worse of all was DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL, IN WASHINGTON DC was 95% LIGHT SKIN BLACKS. The ONLY DARKIES admitted were the sons and daughters of DOCTORS, LAWYERS. DURING THE 40'S 50'S, 60'S & 70's. The darkies got their chance when it was discovered that they had the most talent.

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After slavery, many light complexioned blacks were able to pass for white and receive amenities that darker complexioned black could not obtain. I’m a 60s baby and a 70s child, who was born light skin (with green eyes), although our black complexions were never discussed in my home, ever; blacks and whites are obsessed with this simple reality. A girlfriend of mine is tan-brown and I’ve heard her speak about “Darkies,” her father was extremely dark, her mother brainwashed her - that way. I’ve heard dark skinned blacks talk about this ignorant treatment, and grandmothers who separated children by complexion, all the darker skinned children had to play in the shade, etc. I don’t get it, I was born during the “Black is Beautiful” movement, and “Black Power” militants. I was raised to love black people just because they are black, but I don’t receive the same love. Black people (some) have treated me like a doormat my entire life. I finally got tired of looking the other way, and forced myself to see “us” for who we really are, we hate to think that someone else got there first, or received benefits of some sort. We can’t stand the idea of black joy without personal suffering. I suppose my light skin and green eyes are proof that I’ve experienced no pain nor hardship. I’ve never dislike dark skinned black people, I understand how we became so hateful, but I am very cautious with my people, I will not allow anyone to mistreat me because I’m black. Apparently, it’s every man/woman/child for themselves. We can do a lot better. Slavery gave birth to many types of mental illnesses, we are the result of “insanity trying to survive.” We avoid truth and go shopping, or distance ourselves from black society and pretend that we are far better than the lower level blacks (lawyers are guilty of this, big pretenders). Will we do better, or continue the BLAME GAME.

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To #30 "displaced wht man",what we really need ALL of
you to do is to CEASE & DESIST from calling your self
"white people".You're an "albino human being" just some 6,000 yrs.removed from the hills & caves of The
Caucasus Mountains. Moreover,you're STILL giving occa-
sional birth to babies w/TAILS that have to be surgu-
rically removed!(HISTORY CHANNEL)Who's the "primate"?
As for those who would profess to speak for The En-
tire AFRICAN DIASPORA here in AmeriKKKa,they as well
as yourself fail to understand THE DIVINITY of INDIVI-DUALITY!Some of US do NOT

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Post #23. Thank you Dr LCB. I am 31 and to be honest it is my mother and father's generation that dropped the ball. Yep. The Dr. King generation-keep in mind that the march on Selma only had a couple of thousands black people(if that). It was mostly white people who helped civil rights. The Black Congress people, in the 1980's, allowed police brutality, they let whites suspend black kids for an entire year, racism laws, racist sentencing for blacks in the prisons. It was black congress people that petitioned the Congress to pass laws that put blacks in jails for 80% longer than whites. Like Bill Cosby says-find an ignorant black child and they have an ignorant black mama at home. I respect you but you can not blame everything on young black folks. Now my generation of 30-45 are trying to profit off of the pain of blacks. All of these blacks people like Chris Rock, Hill Harper, DL Hugley are the ones who made saying the "N" word mainstream along with rappers and a news break: Female rappers degrade themselves.

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NOTE TO EBONY

You see Ebony, coming from a place of dire consequences for things like where you took a cool drink of water, whether or not you could enter the front door of an establishment even if people like you were staffing the joint. Whether or not you could be hung or murdered for looking at an attractive female who was of another race than yourself. The most important question of the day became where one could sit on a public conveyance, when the same exact fare had been paid by all.

All these things added up to enormous trauma to the African American psyche. And even though most of the things I have mentioned here are gone the way of the Edsel, they linger on in a place deep within the race that demands resolution. So much so 'til we would do almost anything to change the paradigms of our daily existence. We long to be in a place where everything is meant for everybody, and the common denominators are ability and desire, not color and race.

Most of us unknowingly will do just about anything to get there. Without ever realizing that a gain without self respect, is a gain which will soon be an encumbrance. This is a fact that the gentry knows all too well, and they have played on it and will continue to play on our eagerness to be set apart as individuals.

The complaint here and other places about the lack of marriages or available marriage material in the black community, is an example of the complete and utter bewilderment over the circumstances of our lives. Why would people marry if the benefits of marriage are available to all who are willing to engage in sex, without the paperwork. The report of these trysts are negotiable in a court of law the same as if the vows of respect had been taken. All without ever filing joint taxes, or taking a blood test or naming someone other than a parent as an insurance beneficiary. Why would they marry???

Now on the other hand if the laws of our country would return to some sense of purpose instead of this inane direction of punishment. And the only people who could claim the benefits of an honest legal union such as child support, then far less children would be born OOW. Far more women would hold out on premarital sex, and eventually a better class of male would emerge willing to give his all for one woman, and his family with her only.

Senator obama is a good man in a lot of ways, but his insistence that we are more to blame for our own demise is seated in his rudimentary upbringing. He was shown how we always caused the problems of our own existence, but was never educated in what led to the situations where Blacks were forced to act out. He was raised by an old white woman who hated Blacks but cared for her half Black grandson. Now there’s some serious shit for Dr. Freud.

She used words like nigger to describe his descendants in Africa. From this he learned that he was better than they due to his blood association with her. Rather than ward off this backwards education, he accepted it as his personal ticket out of the trauma which he came to see as indigenous to his “lower half.”

The trauma he had to learn about third hand as a child, but saw first hand as a young man in America. He soon learned to escape the daily burden of being a Black man by using the weapon of disassociation he was taught as a child. To me this makes him the worst possible choice to claim the title “First African American President of the United States.”

There is an implication of suffrage and depth in that title that he has not rightly paid for, and so he cannot properly represent. Senator obama’s very existence belittles the experiences of mine and my ancestors, which were so traumatic even to my generation I could never consider someone like him equal to myself.

However, I was able to accept him as a possible leader of this country which has been so misled. Then he showed his true self in his open put down of the disenfranchised, exposing this indelible tool of disassociation taught to him by that old white woman. Making him the very thing I abhor most about America, something to be reviled and kept at arms length.

Senator obama can bring nothing to my efforts to pull myself and those I love up out of the muck and the mire of lasting generational trauma. Better than any white man he can only cover our disparity, and by his furtive actions he has labeled us the disgruntled few.

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