“About two decades ago, while venting to a very wise man from India about racism (the euphemism for White Supremacy), he offered, ‘Yes, Djata, but everyone likes to inherit property – not guilt.’ “
Dear friends,
About two decades ago, while venting to a very wise man from India about racism (the euphemism for White Supremacy), he offered, “Yes, Djata, but everyone likes to inherit property – not guilt.”
Back then I immediately countered, “That’s for sure…However, racism is an active agent that is enmeshed in the total social fabric of American culture…It is not a thing of the past.”
And while, as I had predicted both on Facebook and in public, for the past week, that President Obama would win re-election by a landslide, he has yet to address the fundamental issue of racism in this culture.
More importantly, that also means that he has not helped to create social conditions in America that will provide a chance for another qualified person of African, Latino, or Asian descent to have a chance of repeating such an astounding victory.
That is not only inappropriate for him to be behaving in that manner, but, as well, at least to me, it gives off the stench of opportunism. For African Americans, from Daddy Grace to Reverend Ike to Al Sharpton, we’ve already experienced too much of that, as a people.
Moreover, racism didn’t only get an undeserving liar like Mitt Romney millions of votes. Even worse, every single day, it (racism) affects our ability to acquire fair and reasonable housing, jobs, and health care, to name a few things. And every adult African American, Latino, and Asian knows exactly about what I am talking.
Finally, the biggest victory in President Obama securing his re-election over the unashamed racist Republican Party is: Education won’t be slashed, and access to health care will continue to grow in its availability. But President Obama should consider developing programs for the youth that focus on having them accept value judgments that reject people using each others as means to ends. After all, 25 years from now, most middle-aged Americans will be dead. Yet, those aforementioned young people will be here to keep the society going. Otherwise, except for benefiting a few – that is, the organized minority of each country, what’s the point of defending human civilization anymore? Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
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