(An article for white folks) By Andrew Manis
For much of the last 40 years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem with the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often, we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?" Now I want to ask, "When are we white Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?"
Recent reports that "Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Bombingham,"
Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than "talk the talk." Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame, we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.
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Good article. But somehow, I can't help but think that black folks see color more than white folks sometimes. I mean, we even question our own color when insisting that a black person isn't "black enough" or just because a black person listens to this type of music or that type of music that he or she is not a part of the "black experience." I'm glad that white folks like this exist but we could really take a dose of this same insight in the black community.
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