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“The worst disease under which the society of our nation suffers, is, in my opinion, the treatment of the Negro. Everyone who is not used from childhood to this injustice suffers from the mere observation. Everyone who freshly learns of this state of affairs at a maturer age, feels not only the injustice, but the scorn of the principle of the Fathers ho founded the United States that ‘all men are created equal.’ He feels that this state of affairs is unsound in a country which in many other things is justly proud of a high degree of development. He cannot understand how men can feel superior to fellow-men who differ in only one point from the rest: They descend from ancestors who, as a protection against the destructive action of the radiation of the tropical sun, gained a more strongly pigmented skin than those whose ancestors lived in countries farther from the equator. One can hardly believe that a reasonable man can cling so tenaciously to such a prejudice, and there is sure to come a time in which school-children in their history lessons will laugh about the fact that something like this did once exist.”
Source: Message to the National Urban League Convention, September 16, 1946.
“Younger workers absorbed the brunt of job losses during the Great Recession, so black college graduates, also subject to persistent racial discrimination despite advances in civil rights, suffered from a double disadvantage, the report concluded.”
Source: Patricia Cohen. “For Recent Black College Graduates, A Tougher Road to Employment.” New York Times. December 24, 2014. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/business/for-recent-black-college-graduates-a-tougher-road-to-employment.html?_r=0.
should one’s belief in white/”Jewish” supremacy be constitutionally protected in our 21st century, “post-racial” America?
NO BUENO! it was just announced that Attorney General Eric Holder is officially RESIGNING!! smdh.
This is sad on a number of levels. Although I feel Holder could have done more in the area of civil and human rights, I understand that there was only so much he could do within a historically white-controlled government. One cannot say that race is not relevant in the United States of America if Holder became the first African American Attorney General in the history of our nation (out of a total of 82) and was appointed to that position by our country’s “first black” President Barack H. Obama.
I would agree with the New York Times’ statement that Holder was one of the “most prominent liberal” voices in Obama’s administration, so if he leaves and Obama continues to remain silent about institutionalized, structural, systemic and social forms of white racism that are still taking place present day and destroying the black community [which has been acknowledged recently by the United Nations while President Obama still continues to avoid the issue], then it is highly unlikely that the next Attorney General will do any more than Holder in the area of civil and human rights, especially if they are white. I hope somebody proves me wrong, but if Congress [which is dominated by racist, ideologically conservative and highly ignorant white males] has anything to do with making that decision, there’s no possible way that they will appoint someone as “liberal” as Holder. And thus…the cycle continues…which means that until the cycle is eradicated entirely, things are only going to get worse, especially for African Americans.
It also seems like he wants and/or somebody wants him to get the fuck out of there, so I also wonder if Holder will have enough time to follow through on the promise he made to Mike Brown’s parents before he exits…
Source: Matt Appuzo. “Eric Holder Resigning As Attorney General.” September 25, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/us/politics/eric-holder-resigning-as-attorney-general.html.
Me Against Iniquity: Understanding the Complexities of Global White Supremacy (Racism) Through The Eyes of an Unapologetically BLACK Intellectual 