Reply #13: America is a strange country...

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We are the land of the free and the home of the brave with a constitution unparalled to any other's. On the other hand, we are human and we have erred. The white America was created out of genocide both in the nothern and southern hemisphere, and it soon gave way to cultivation and slavery. Apparently, when white men felt oppressed, they rebelled. One rebellion gave us the United States and the other abolished slavery. However, after the revolution, there were still men and women who felt loyalty to the King, and after the civil war, there were still many men and women who believed that black people were not equal. Later, women had to fight for their rights to equalize and vote. So, its a strange country to have the constitution that we have.

Throughout it all, it has been about survival. Why would the rich, white man want to give way to allow for other's to take his riches? The money people will use whatever tricks they can, and this includes media to insight fear, politicians to opress the constitution, and general in-fighting among countrymen to keep them from coming together and realizing there is a true common enemy--the 1% who hide behind their iron gates and enjoy their many luxuries.

Its a mess. I don't know how you get a nation to care and to wake-up. I have spoken to so many people, and the young, perhaps because of their youth, are so blind. They are so connected to information, yet they are more apathetic than most youths in many countries. Sure, there are a few out there who somehow got it or had really progressive parents, but how many young people do you really see protesting anything? My own mother tells me to watch my ass, and I monitor which events I participate in... I would like to run for office, and I don't need a r.w. attack add.

I guess this isn't an answer, as much as an observation. If you really want to address the issues in any community, then you have to be able to recognize your strengths and weaknesses. I'm white. I've dated all types of people. I was very serious with this one black man in college. I still talk to himm, though my husband objects. Perhaps pillow talk is needed more. It was there I was able to say to him, I hate it when those black men grab my ass and 2 or 3 of them come up to me in the club and molest me (I looked good)... Why the fuck do they disrespect women so much? And he'd say something like, because most of them didn't and don't have a daddy around to smack them over the head when they are growing up. And who cares? Might as well get your jollies now because if your a black man, you'll be living with a lot of dudes most of your life. He told me about the time a cop pulled him out of the car, had the dog searching his car all the while holding a gun to his head... he was 19 at the time and a college student heading from M.B. to Charleston for the night. He said he turned out ok because his dad was black and his mom was white, so growing up predominantly on military bases and in the south, he had more acceptance from white people... and his parents were still together. So, he got a world view of some cool places and he was discriminated by black children who wouldn't accept his mom and by white older people who didn't accept his color..... Anyway, at least with the pillow talk, we were ourselves, not politically correct, but honest. It is with honesty that we will be able to address human, social problems.