In These Times

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• • 12 Mar 06
  • 12:39 am

  I would agree that healing is impossible when one ignores the wound; but I would also suggest that in an age when a black man can call for genocide against whites on national television and meet applause for it (I'm referring to Kamau Kambon's statement on CNN which, where a white to make a similar statement, would be villified, fired from his job, sued and probably physically assaulted) the social pendulum has swung FAR the other way. Racism in this country is still very much alive and well; but the roles of the haters and the hated have reversed. If we …

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• • 12 Mar 06
  • 2:28 am

  Here's the thing I see Epistrophy missing -- slavery no longer exists. No man is any man's slave except his own. Extremism like that espoused by Dr. Kambon, however, as well as the anti-white racism that deems it unimportant, are real TODAY. No matter how much guilt whites take on, we can never undo the past -- but we can, and should, prevent racial-extremist atrocities in the future, rather than justifying the indications that they are coming.

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• • 12 Mar 06
  • 7:29 pm

  The simple fact is that if there is still a *systematic* oppression going on -- which is to say, oppression within institutions specifically and society in general -- that oppression is no longer directed by white people against minorities, but directed by white people against white people. History is something to learn from, certainly, but to continue to react to history instead of reacting to present realities is not only non-constructive but destructive.

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