Black people in America have suffered tremendously. We have came from Jim Crow days where Blacks had to enter restaurants through the back, drink out of separate water fountains, sit at the back of the bus, and attend unequal schools to having a Black man for president. That itself speaks volumes. Blacks or people who are a part of the African Diaspora have been discriminated against worldwide. Some places it has been worse than others. For instance, look at Apartheid in South Africa or the caste system in India and some Caribbean countries. Those instances, I’ve only read about but, I’ve witnessed racism firsthand here in America. So the pain runs deep inside me. It goes beyond the stories that I was told about Medgar Evans, Emmitt Till, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and more.
Those are the stories that we must not forget in addition to our own account of struggles because of the color of our skin.
This Obama victory does not mean that America is no longer racist. Oh No! Far from it. And that Michael Jackson opened the door for the Blacks like Obama, Tiger Woods and Oprah.
I keep reading blogs of black people saying that “now the barriers are shattered” and they are living on Fantasy Island because NO the class barriers are not shattered and a black boy from the projects has the same probability of being gunned down by the age of 18 as he did BEFORE Barack Obama was elected.
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I mentioned Joe Louis in the other blog, without knowing you already had a picture of him here. Cool.
ReplyDeleteI'm not that grey-headed, so Louis is an ancient historical figure for me. Most of what I know of him comes from the description of his importance found in Colin Powell's autobiography.
GHB - You are right that people do not want to remember what Blacks had to put up with. There are many that want to bury the injustices.
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