Rebellious Sacrifice

White FAILURE “Don’t feel sorry for poor white Americans. They had/have every opportunity to be out of poverty. Their skin, their family heritage, their ancestors investment in slavery, their superiority that’s attached to Christian domination all over the world, their ability to institute institutional racism without it being detected, their ability to hoodwink the world with a white Jesus and Santa Claus, their denial of wanting to be of dark skin, their women’s concealed desire to want a black man to sexually devour them…their entire life is one of privilege - and if a white person is down and out, homeless, and/addicted to a substance there is only one explanation: They are shiftless and/or they have been disowned by momma and daddy because they (white women) were caught sexing a brother while off to college or they (white men) brought home a black woman home for the celebrated Indian Massacre. -Grandma Frankie I was standing in line at the Starbucks in Kroger waiting on my reju...

http://boycewatkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/dr-boyce-why-i-wont-be-seeing-the-help/#more-1888   I read the blog written by Dr. Boyce Watkins (link above) and I have read several of the responses. Once again, black-hyper sensitivity at it is best. Instead of whining about a stereotype we should think about what African American ancestors who were maids would more than likely prefer us to embrace. They played an integral part in the formation of Black America History. A history that’s honorable – and not embarrassing. Not of shame – but of pride and integrity. The job of a maid back before the civil rights act and immediately afterwards was ‘a job’. One of America’s greatest icons, MLK, said this: “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who...