From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Good Quote
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:14:02 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAXcluster

In article <1992Jul20.205611.21646@seq.uncwil.edu>, frankli@seq.uncwil.edu (william carter franklin) writes:
> mmoore@orion.ssdc.honeywell.com ("Mastah of Dizziness") writes:
> 
> 
>>Why must you always refer to Sister Souljah as "Silly Bigot Sistah?"
>>It certainly doesn't make her look bad, it's annoying and it makes _you_
>>look stupid.
> 
> 
> SILLY BIGOT SISTAH is a SILLY BIGOT SISTAH. She is NO WISE MAN's 
> (or WOMAN'S) leader. I am prepared to defend my position on Lisa
> Williamson as soon as an intellegent person asks me to. So far
> that has not happened, but in case you meet someone with an intellegence
> quotient above fifty, here is why:
> 
> She perpetuates racism with her hatred towards white people, many
> of whom are working their asses off to help solve the problem.

Tell me William, why is it that blacks are never allowed to hate people who hav
e done them wrong?  I personally find it counterproductive, but it is a natural
human emotion to hate a group who has done you wrong.  Many white people are
indeed trying to help, but many more are actively involved in racism.  Speak to
the blacks who were firebombed in Canarsie and parts of Long Ialand for moving
into lilywhite neigbourhoods.  Speak to the victims of chokeholds and
"pro-active policing" in LA.  Jews are allowed to hate Nazis, Kuwaitis Hate
Iraqis, but never must a black man express his hatred and anger against racism
by whites.  Who do you think carried out all those lynchings and beatings? Do
blacks have a right to anger over those things?  When news programs (run by
whites) regularly show dicumented cases of institutionalised racism, do we have
a right to anger?  When political research shows that a majority of white
voters who have abandoned the Democratic party have done so because it is
percieved among other things as a party of the blacks we should not feel the
hurt?

> rich. Most aren't. And most white people are not racist either.
> White people are fighting for civil rights vehemently and daily.

How do you know that most white people are not racist, especially as the prima
facie evidence, when available suggests otherwise?  If I were you I would stick
to "not all white people are racists", and "some white people fight for civil
rights vehemently and daily".  A lot of others don't.  A lot of them go out of
their way to make life hell for blacks, and I'm not talking about Klan members
either.  A lot of them move out of their neighbourhoods once the black
prescence exceeds the threshold of tolerance.  If you put yourself in Sistah
Souljah's skin for a minute, and try to relive her experiences, then you might
begin to understand her rage and frustration.  Hate does not produce love.  If
you show me hate then the natural reaction is to hate back.  It takes really
strong character to rise above that and you would do well to remember that
before you go passing remarks about the "SILLY SISTAH BIGOT".  Whether you
agree with her views or not is not in question here.  What is is your lack of
understanding as to the circumstances which would make her pronounce statements
like these.  If I kept on slapping you in the face would you keep on liking me
 irrespective?


McBean.
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