Gawker: Fifty Years After the March, White People Are Still a Disgrace

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20. It's intended to provoke, but it's far from hateful...

However the comments/articles he highlights are.

Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker, of the Washington Post, offered the standard white take on history last week, in her column about how black people are prone to rioting and how President Obama was irresponsible to rile them up about the Trayvon Martin case:

"How sad, as we approach the 50th anniversary of the march Martin Luther King Jr. led on Washington, that even the president resorts to judging not by the content of one's character but by the color of his skin—the antithesis of the great dream King articulated."

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Yet white people are still afraid: of young men in hoodies; of being blamed for their fear of young men in hoodies. Of reverse racism. Of armies of fake voters, bent on electing white-hating militants. Of sharia law. Of mild ethnic putdowns. Of the New Black Panther Party. Of one tiny and absurd thing after the next.

This may not be the most PC of articles, but it adequately expresses the anger I feel. I'm tired of having the "conversations" co-opted, and reversed to put down black Americans. I don't need to be told to pull my pants up, or not to riot, I'm a grown man with grandchildren. And most of all, I'm tired most of all of watching my television and having a bunch of people that have no experience in the topic trying to dictate what I should and should not feel. These are the people that should be listening to what WE say for a change.

I posted it here, because this is where it belongs. While my opinions on this article may not fit for other members of this group, there is some understanding of why I posted it. Had I posted it in GD, I'm sure it would have been heart-breakingly epic, but I'm not trying to incite yet another DU war.

Try reading again, and skip past the rhetoric. If you don't/can't... well that's just fine too.

Now... Hateful is what I see in any comments section of any article with a remote connection to a person of color; I read them anyway. There's no value in hiding from the reality you live in.

Thin skin... If I had it, I'd have died 35 years ago.