2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Kos: A Black Man's take on NN/BLM dustup: "Black Folks No on Bernie? Really?" [View all]Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)that you are both considering buying a new Range Rover discuss driving your benz and bmw and spend your time asserting that other people are privileged.'
This is why I've been saying that it's wrong to refer to the unambiguous 'full-bore' persecution of blacks (remember the days of black is beautiful?) with the delicate circumlocution, 'white privilege'. I suspect that this delicacy about such a depraved truth, on the part of the AAs, is because they feel that even acknowledgement of it, somehow gives it force, is somehow fed by acknowledgment of the full scope of their own personal-nightmare perspective on it.
So, no. I don't think there would be too many people who daily carry the burden of such gratuitous, wanton hatred and its scandalously recent history of lynching and slavery - not to even mention today's growing free for all. No, not one people, actually. No other people has seen its members made the subject of a picnic to take the kids too, grinning insanely and laughing as the victims were almost literally sliced, diced and cooked over the flames of a bonfire, before being hanged by the neck until dead. I don't like to say it, as there are, of course, many good Southerners, but I can't think of any people who have sunk so low in all mankind's long, sordid history as the denizens of the American South - not even the Nazis, for whom unsurprisingly white, wannabe Southern supremacists have a certain publicly-expressed tenderness. 'Shame? What's shame?'
And while it may be an object, Christian lesson in 'not putting your trust in men', for a rich black man, after all his striving, to be still subject to the petty persecutions of his economically poor fellow AAs, the feeling of a knife in his heart must be all the keener.
MLK was right. It won't go on forever. The Promised Land does seem to be in sight, and there will surely be a reckoning in this life, just as David predicted in his Psalms.