A frank discussion of being Black/African American in the USA in the year 2016.

[a kennedy]

from a white 65 year old woman. got nothing. I'm white, so can't say a thing about it. You???

[bravenak]

1. How could a white person be able to discuss being black anyway?

One would presumably need to experience being black to discuss being black unless one had educated themselves through various means on the black experience.

[a kennedy]

2. Ok, now what else??? eom

[bravenak]

3. That's what I wanna know

If you want to know something about living black, just ask.

[a kennedy]

4. Well, they had so much power in the sixties, the Blank Panther Party

what happened to their voice??

[bravenak]

5. They were targeted and driven underground

With the rise of Nixon, the split with the EJW, the attacks by the state, the surveilance, and the changes in the seventies, by the eighties the ones I saw growing up we trying to protect the neighborhood from crack dealers and street gangs. It is my opinion this was the goal of the republican party and parts of the democratic party.
But really, there is so much more to it than can be summed up in one post, but there are many books written by members to read and discover what happened.

[a kennedy]

6. Thanks.....eom

[cali]

7. Huh? I'm unclear as to what you're actually trying to say here.

[a kennedy]

8. Just asking the African Americans here how their lives REALLY are......

I've been watching the O J Simpson story again and now all these years later this country, to me doesn't seem to have changed a bit in it's relations with minorities. May-be not so overt, but still terribly racist. Guess it doesn't make sense for me a 65 year old white woman to even ask.