Tagged: 21st century

“I’m the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could’ve been born in 1820, if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. There was no reason at that point in time to believe that emancipation was 40 or 50 years off. And yet folks resisted and folks fought on. So fatalism isn’t really an option. Even if you think you’re not going to necessarily win the fight today in your lifetime, in your child’s lifetime, you still have to fight. It’s kind of selfish to say that you’re only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see. As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children’s lifetime or even in their grandchildren’s lifetime. So fatalism isn’t really an option.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is exactly the reason why I have fought this case in the unrelentless way that I have. This case is soooo much bigger than me! I was so disgusted after finding out that my inability to be hired and/or promoted to Agent was not an “isolated” incident and that William Morris has been engaging in a pattern and practice of excluding qualified African Americans from positions like Agent for more than a CENTURY with “malice and/or reckless indifference” to our federally protected rights. I’m not only fighting for my human & civil rights, but I’m fighting for the human rights of all people of African descent (and ultimately everyone) — so that we may no longer have to live in a society governed under an unjust, white/”Jewish” supremacist system that explicitly and/or implicitly reminds black people every day, in every aspect of our lives (e.g.  in the classroom, in the workplace, in the media, in our judicial system, etc.), that our lives don’t mean shit, that we are inferior, less than, second class citizens, three-fifths a person, that we don’t have rights that the white man is bound to respect, etc. They need to deal with their issues and they — not us — need to get rid of their backwards and racist thinking. Their entire existence is based on a lie (the myth of white racial superiority) and this oppressive culture has the AUDACITY to say that WE are the problem! Smdh. Lauryn Hill said it perfectly:  “Unlearn, and let your mind be retaught.” It’s the only way transformative change throughout our country and the world can occur!

“The world of publishing has been getting shaken like a pecan tree and called to the floor because of its lack of diversity in the workplace.” — Jacqueline Woodson, author of children’s and young adult books.

Source: Jacqueline Woodson. “The Pain of the Watermelon Joke.” New York Times. November 28, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/opinion/the-pain-of-the-watermelon-joke.html.

should one’s belief in white/”Jewish” supremacy be constitutionally protected in our 21st century, “post-racial” America?