Emancipation Proclamation turns 150
Emancipation Proclamation turns 150
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Emancipation Proclamation turns 150
We'll see how many posts this thread gets.
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Why should this thread get any special attention compared to any other thread?We'll see how many posts this thread gets.
If people don't comment in threads about the AIDS epidemic in the black community, the abortion epidemic, the high infant mortality rate, the health disparities when it comes to cancers and diabetes, the unemployment crisis among young black men, or the threads about the self-murdering in the black community, then why would they take special note of an 150 year old Proclamation.
The current source of death and destruction in black community doesn't even get discussed on a black board so who cares about 150 years.
whew....
Ever think that the reason those issues exist or are at the levels you claim is because this topic doesn't get any special attention?
No.Ever think that the reason those issues exist or are at the levels you claim is because this topic doesn't get any special attention?
There is no lack of "Lincoln freed the slaves" in the psyche of black Americans. That and MLK had a dream are basically the only things black kids learn about themselves.
Rick Ronson
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We'll see how many posts this thread gets.
I know how you feel....
but you minus well let those feelings go
To the extent that this rant chastises us all, the ranter included, for not paying more attention to issues facing US, I stand chastised. To the extent, however, that the ranter over-looks the importance that history, especially history put into proper perspective, plays/should play with us paying attention to and understanding issues facing us, I think the ranter too, should stand chastised.
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...is because this topic and topics like this don't get any special attention?
I would say the OP and the support post by thoughtone are completely lacking of proper perspective and totally without context in regards to relating history to the current problems of the black community or do you disagree?
So, under both of your scenarios, I reject chastisement.
The OP wasn't trying to be more than what it was, but thoughtone made a comment like this is a thread that should receive some special attention. For what? So he could slightly nuance the topic?
Rick Ronson
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Let us celebrate and praise white Jesus 
Stand rejected, Bro. Stand rejected. You have better insight into this than I -- you know whats in the mind of those two posters, I don't have that clairvoyant ability.
Wait...
Lincoln freed the slaves? MLK had a dream? Must be some dream he had if a lot of folks talk about it...
Wait...
Lincoln freed the slaves? MLK had a dream? Must be some dream he had if a lot of folks talk about it...
It was a forward-looking dream wasn't it? So why are the actions to find solutions, by blacks today, always looking backwards?
What would you say was the "solutions" that were tried over the course of what will be approaching 50 years?
In addition to that, what of Dr. MLK Jr's speech do you consider as being forward/progressive?
Just interested to see what your feedback is on those questions.
I took my response as serious as you took your post.
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To get to the overarching theme of the solutions tried, I think I need to characterize it as shortcutting blacks into equal social and economic positions as whites. Bussing to white schools, placing someone black into a higher job position just because they're black, and other things along that line. The priority of the last 50 years focuses on "where whites are" and not "how are blacks doing."
Regarding King's speech, I remember it focusing on his vision of how the world should look in the future with the details implied by the then-pending Civil Rights legislation.
Overall that speech focused on the present and future. I don't remember it going on at length about slavery or the past.
