I would like to ask one question (for further exploration):
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It is repetition of something we all know is true, and an expense of energy on something we cannot change.
Why do you believe RACISM is something "we cannot change"?
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RACISM is imbedded in the way the system is designed. It's only hope is that it is ALSO interactive. It is responsive the movement of African Americans in order to maintain its repressive position. Comparable to a wrestler in the "ride" position. Control is maintain by immediate readjustment of position. Control is broken ONLY when the "down" wrestler STANDS UP. It is then that the (former) "ride" wrestler must confront the (former) "down" wrestler eye-to-eye, and from parity. The system is WRESTLING. To succeed, you MUST become proficient in the SYSTEM.
RACISM is not the problem. RACISM is the SYSTEM. WE are the problem in that we have not become proficient in the SYSTEM.
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I say that because
[1] I don't base my Racism Eradication Theory on whether or not there will no longer be a racist. My emphasis is on alleviating or removing the systematic exposure to the harmful effects that RACIST INSTITUTIONS have our people and that's all firmly based on what conservatives would call "their" core emphasis - self-help. (I think I take it further than they do... THAT SELF-HELP must be SYSTEMATIC and INSTITUTIONAL.)
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I agree that you can't focus on whether or not there is a racist. I heartily agree on the effect of institutions. I say only ˜institutions", because most of our institutions are (inherently) racist. It is more that simply intent on their part. The institution MUST by definition be racist in order to serve the community in which they exist. They cannot avoid it. IT'S THE SYSTEM. This is why I am so adamant, not about Multiculturalism per se, but its protocols. Society needs such a system. The methods must change. The methods are the same THE SYSTEM has used forever.
Again, I agree that "self-help" MUST be systematic AND institutional. The only way to explain my point is to reference my focus. As you know, that is ancestral nationality. The SYSTEM keeps ancestral nationality for the dominant, and denies it, prevents it, ignores it for the subdominant. I use "dominant" and "sub-dominant" because the structure applies to all people not European. But, in fact, the SYSTEM is based on "European" and "unknown African ancestry."
THE DAY WE, AS A PEOPLE CLAIM THE REESTABLISHMENT OF AN ANCESTRAL NATIONALITY, THERE WILL BE A "HUSH" IN THE LAND. It will be a new day. It will be the first day of parity for all Americans. For WE are used to "ride"/dominate/control all other non-Europeans. The institutions MUST therefore "adjust" simply to stay eye-to-eye.
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[2] Isn't our history of struggle a testament to "changing the unchangeable"... doing the impossible?
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It is a testament, but not to changing the unchangeable. It is a testament to survival. It is a testament to ourselves. We are our own best example of success in a hostile land. But we have great difficulty in recognizing/accepting ourselves as role models. We don't yet seem to see ourselves as "worthy." We will not give to ourselves what we give to all others, without even a question "” the authority of self-identity in the same manner as all other people.
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So to me speaking about racism, as many of our great ancestors did, is verbalizing it's death with every word because I'm filled with the same FAITH and DETERMINATION they had because they are in me!
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Speaking out about, and against RACISM is always good/best to do. I keeps us and them alert. But, in the end, it doesn't really change much. My anger about the protocols of Multiculturalism got me nothing in their offices. The day I told them to stop referring to my grandchildren as if their descriptors were their identity, the world changed. Faith and Determination are pieces of the armor we need to survive. They are indeed a major part of who we are, NOT WHAT we are. They have served us well centuries. Because of them, we will ultimately stand eye-to-eye.
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So I don't drink from that cup of fatalism. That's exactly, IMO, the false premise that leads to what you have shown in striking detail the role that those who would seemingly ignore racism - by not specifically fighting against it [Black COnservatives, at least from a "liberal's" POV] while "admitting" that it exist are aiding and abetting RACISM by their non-action against it.
(Thanks again!)
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We must slap RACISM in it face every time it raises its ugly head. No rational person of normal intellect can conclude that RACISM doesn't exist. Ignoring RACISM nurtures it.
I am embarrassed that you would "thank" me. However we solve this thing, and it will happen, mutual effort is the ONLY way it can happen.
PEACE
Jim Chester
You are who you say you are. Your children are who you say you are.
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yeah sho' you right , whites didn't create the racist environment of the U.S., why it just happened by osmosis I suppose one such as you would see it....
It DAMN SURE WON'T IF YOU SCARED-AZZezz cower like some @&**($% es!