Michael Pollak wrote:
> They don't agree with him. They
> aren't radicals. They're just black. And they slowly made it really
> clear how that puts you in another world. And this guy is not only a
> normal fixture in that world, he's an esteemed one, and they think it's
> obvious he should be, and that it should be obvious to anyone else. And
> they think that if white people really honestly think Wright is a racist
> like Bull Conner was a racist then there's just no chance that the two
> sides will ever understand each other.
>
I think the extent to which white people don't get it is an indication
of the extent to which this country is still so segregated that it is
not possible to see what black people are upset about....because you
don't really get an idea of what their lives are like. Also, I don't
think people care.
I was married to a black man for a few years in the mid 70's and it was certainly crystal clear to me.
But even now I see that 85% of the white students in Oakland are in private or parochial schools. I have a close friend who is very, very dark black -- married, as it turns out, to a white self-made millionaire. Last year she was shopping at a local chain supermarket and she was pulled over by a security guard because a white customer had reported her as looking "suspicious." Does anyone really think that the prisons are filled with black men because they are more criminal?
....it just kind of keeps going on....
Joanna