Something to add to my rant to Mr Rock.
July 4, 1776 is merely the day we declared that we would henceforth be free, not the day we actually earned it.
It was not until September 3, 1783, more than seven years later, that we'd won it.
Do you know, Mr Rock, how many of those people who signed the "white people's" Declaration of Independence didn't see that day or were ruined by their signing?
What have you done to earn this freedom, Mr Rock?
Same thing I've done to earn mine, lucky enough to be born here. EDIT: Actually that's not true, I gave three years and the full use of my right leg for it. I stood in your name too, Mr Rock; I am generous in guarding OUR freedom. I did not say, "except for black people" at the end of my oath. END EDIT
The revolution for you was The Civil War.
Your freedom was bought and paid for, in blood, mostly by white people who felt it was wrong that the black man should be held in bondage. More people died to earn you that freedom than fought in the Revolutionary War. Ponder that, Mr Rock.
I am sure that these are just dates to you and have no meaning.
You have to stop hating, Mr Rock.
If you don't you will surely see hatred returned. Hatred you will have surely earned.
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What people like Chris Rock don't get is that the generation that remembers the Civil Rights Movement era as something they went through is dying off...and the upcoming generations are getting sick and tired of being hectored about stuff that happened before they were born, or when they were little. Also, with the Internet, the mainstream media can no longer sit on stories that go against their preferred narrative, such as the Jesse Dirkhising murder or "flash mob" riots by blacks.
ReplyDeleteI know quite a few people who're sick of the implicit threat of riots if blacks don't get what they want, whether that be the conviction of Zimmerman or Obama's re-election. More and more, they're saying "Bring it on, assholes!"
An outcome I find particularly worrisome is once we have the "bring it" riots it is decided that minorities cannot be anything but second class citizens and there will be a legitimate justifications for never letting the boot off their necks again.
ReplyDeleteIt will literally destroy all the progress that was hard won by those people in the civil rights era.
The implicit threats of riots. When a child or a wife does that, we recognize the childish nature of the threat (at least until the wife hires a lawyer and changes her name to petitioner). It is time that everyone be an adult in order to enjoy the fruits of adulthood and citizenship in this nation.
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