| May. 15th, 2008 @ 07:39 pm Little Woodies |
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"I think that I am perfectly safe in stating, that the American people, as a whole, sincerely desire and wish to support, in every way they can, the advancement of the Negro race in America."
I defy America to demonstrate to me that our attitude on race has moved one inch from this sentiment some 94 years hence.
Yes, the American people (as a whole mind you), sincerely desire to see the advancement of those other American people (not part of that whole).
"In my view, the best way to help the Negro in America is to help him with his independence- to relieve him of his dependence upon the white element of our population, as he is relieving himself in splendid fashion."
Can anyone show me any substantial difference between this sentiment and the sentiment of conservative America today?
Of course this paternalism is so widespread that is is ingrained into all of us. Even the likes of Bill Cosby, whose solution is to scold, reprimand and discipline the black man so that he may behave. Trust me, the black man has been disciplined quite enough.
If anyone here would care to ignore the inherent violence behind the concept of discipline on societal scales, please find your way back to 1914, or perhaps even earlier. If one cannot recognize the inherent violence of one black man, wearing the robes of the justice system which has disciplined the black man into oblivion, scolding another black man; or if one cannot see within that moment the very echoes of noose and branch, one is a blind blind man in a dark dark world.
So yes, let us continue to wish, as whole Americans, for the eventual advancement of the Negro race by a program of singular discipline upon those other Americans. |
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