Black get back red go head yellow stay mellow

Inauguration feedback. "Lord...we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen."

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[jsoul714]

If you are black you can do right to!!!

[diepiriye]

@jsoul714 You know you black and wrong - and you can't afford to be both at the same time (and expect to live).

[cassidy99ful]

I am white and I just thought the rev's speech was funny.people are way to sensitive today.

[diepiriye]

@cassidy99ful

Agreed. Political correctness too often silences folks instead of providing any means for the difficult discussions that need to happen to counteract the madness around.

[OBparamour]

Good point about prejudices and the ability to oppress. People can't seem to differentiate prejudice and oppression. Most of us are not in positions to oppress regardless of our biases. Of course, power positions are most often held by wealthy, white males. That being said, most whites have no historical, familial connection to slavery simply because one had to be extremely wealthy to own slaves.

[diepiriye]

It's not just slave-owners. Poorer whites participated in the oppression and humiliation of Black people, and, again, these were individual decisions and biases. Lynch mobs, for example, created an entire climate of terror specifically because of mass white complacency &/or compliance. THis is one of the sad parts- that individual decisions were made to, at best, turn a blind eye. Even those that came afterwards have chosen to exploit the system, & adopt a racist attitude, instead of resisting.

[KingRadbadical1988]

@OBparamour

If the Union Soldiers DIDN'T sign up in part because of Lincoln's talk of "abolishing slavery", then why would Lincoln have even USED the "anti-slavery" propaganda to begin with, unless he KNEW that there were hundreds of thousands of white men who were willing to die for the freedom of slaves?

Forget Lincoln and put yourself in the shoes of a white Union Army soldier who THINKS he's dying for the freedom of the slaves.

[KingRadbadical1988]

@OBparamour That is true, Abraham Lincoln himself did not care about the slaves or the rights of black people. But there WERE hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of white union soliders who DID sign up willing to die to help abolish slavery. Many whites died to abolish slavery, even if that's not what the war was REALLY about, to the privates on the battlefield, that was ALL the war was about.

(cont.)

[KingRadbadical1988]

@diepiriye That's moreso a statement on human nature than on race. You hear about gang rapes happening in minority neighborhoods where everyone who walks by stops to laugh at the victim as she's getting raped, and later most of the community will band together to make ignorant statements on national news about how the victim "deserved it" and how we should "forgive" the rapist because we "don't know what he's been through".

The victim is ALSO an inner-city black youth. But its G's up ho's down.

[CoonStomper88]

I love that nigger all to pieces. He is ruining our good nature and name.

[cassidy99ful]

@diepiriye whites were lynched too in america.my family was in the 50's.also whites may have not been slaves but we were indentured servants.

[Kmeishart101]

I agree with everything your saying.