Raise It Up! (It’s going to take a different kind of love)
Posted by The Author on Sunday, December 7, 2008
Blacks, and Latinos, and American Indians, and Asians, and Whites know what it is like to live in…
Poverty Do we really understand it, care about it, want to end it?
Social Oppression It’s pretty simple… IT’S WRONG!
Bigotry Think it’s only a Racial Issue? Try this on…
“…(Mayor Antonio) Villaraigosa then talked about Proposition 8’s passage, saying it was an affront to basic civil rights. “If you think for a moment that this kind of bigotry is not connected to anti-Semitism, then you don’t really understand it,” the mayor said.” (emphasis in bold by post author)… from article on ADL’s site here
Racist Hate You have to be carefully taught.
Classism What is it? Does it work?
Racial Anger Is this what it looks like? Or does it look like this?
Is Race-Neutrality Hopeless? Rev. Wright exposed the flimsy tissues of so-called “race neutrality” in a nation founded on racial oppression… and, many of us were “really offended” and hated him for it.
…No. It doesn’t just take a black person to tell us what all these cultural and social issues are like. Nor does it take a wealthy, highly educated politician, government official, government agency, or a white person to explain it. You know exactly what these issues are about… when you live with their effects.
We should have, could have stopped racism – and a lot of other things – a long, long time ago.
Maybe we need to RAISE IT UP! a few notches, America.
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