Tits, Stagger, Danger (and the other smart posters in this thread), let's carry on and just ignore Gaylan and the others with a preconceived agenda. We all know we aren't Stormfronters or White Supremists or involved in any of those 'Wow, Just Wow' shamed groups, so let's just let his comments go from here on out, and threads won't be derailed. That said:
I saw this on facebook this morning:
My friends, between the DOJ report on Ferguson and the shameful video from the SAE chapter at OU, these are sobering, sobering days. I cannot help but think that repentance is the only way forward.
What will it take for the majority to finally say: "This is happening." What more do we need to see? What other tragedies will validate what is plainly going on? How many voices of lament must we hear before we hit our knees in solidarity, repent for the shameful systems that built and reinforced racial inequality, and join hands with our minority brothers and sisters and say NO MORE? Hell, a strong first step is simply to say WE BELIEVE YOU.
Well, to my friends in the struggle, I BELIEVE YOU. I hear you. I see.
Friends, if you want somewhere to start, I cannot recommend "The New Jim Crow" highly enough. To say it ripped my heart open would be an understatement. It is a well-researched, incredibly documented, highly academic account of where we are today and how we got here.
May the tides turn in our time. May the Fergusons and SAE's in our culture be exposed and reformed. May our own hearts be moved by the grief of our fellow man and grieved by our own inherent biases.
"Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" ~Amos 5:24
This is the type of thing we are dealing with. This comes from a WHITE woman, who is a part of the New Age movement, and she supports pro-gay legislation. So just because she quotes a Bible verse, remember that there are plenty of false prophets, so let's not act like this is a Christian agenda. Even though things are 10x better for minorities and women than they were 50 years ago, the same agenda is being pushed for monetary gain by a few. The tired line of, "We have so much more work left to do" is being lapped up daily in places like Selma, AL and others.
Again I say, what should the 'theme' be? I get that you can change things through politics, but shouldn't a true movement have a set plan, which outlines a solution? What should that be? There are simply too many indoctrinated holier than thou people out there in the white race that have no idea what true suffering really is. The people truly suffering are middle and lower class whites, who have never cared about racism or any of that sh*t. We are the people who actually live among other races daily. We are also the people that have the backbone to stand up to the elites, and they know this. The elites were the ones who were racist, and now they are claiming that it's others who were the real evil. Pretty sickening in my mind, and nobody questions them.
What does it take to convince people that their line of thinking is flawed? There is no where to run, no 'new country' and no amount of white flight can help. Seems to me that it's going to take some sacrifices being made from all of us, and even from the good people in the various minority groups, who are being played by the same fiddle that the 'Wow, Just Wow' crowd is being played by. It's either unity or chaos, can't be both.