permaculture

["Ben Martin Horst" <ben.martinhorst@gmail.com>]

It's been 140 years since the end of slavery and 40 years since the
the end of OFFICIAL, LEGAL segregation. Nobody wants you to wallow in
guilt and shame, but it certainly isn't "wallowing"  to decide to
recognize and address racism. It's awful convenient for white people
to say, "Whew, I'm glad all that racism stuff is over," and get back
to their business, at the same time that African American, Latino, and
Native people are paid lower wages for the same jobs, African
Americans are incarcerated at a higher rate and for longer sentances
than whites who commit the same or similar crimes, and murders and
rapes of Native people are consistently ignored and/or covered up by
(white) law enforcement officials in places like Alaska and South
Dakota.

White people -- in whatever country or whatever continent -- tend to
be lousy at recognizing racism, because historically and currently
they are the beneficiaries. If you want to know whether racism still
exists, don't ask your white buddies. Pay attention to what "minority"
groups are saying.

Please don't continue to assert that racism no longer exists,
Lawrence.  You're just digging your hole that much deeper, you're
denying the reality many people face every day, and you're certainly
not helping the cause of permacuture.

Ben

On 5/28/07, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:
> its like a nationwide case of post traumatic stress syndrome over ignoble
> incidents in our nation's history
> the gift that keeps on giving
> can't move an inch lest the guilt ballast shifts and we topple over
>
> ultra extremist radical leftist fanatic politically correct "progressive"
> liberalism
>
> the people who indulge in this mindset can often be seen patronizing or
> talking down or "thinking for" the blacks
> they claim to support [...]
>
> it's been 141 years since the end of slavery and 40 years since the end of
> segregation
> and we're to continue wallowing in a burden of guilt and shame?