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The point, which you seem to have missed, is that just because "we won that war" doesn't mean we just ignore all the issues that led to it as if they were ancient history.
Kinda stupid, but I for one would have enjoyed that meal.
The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.
Or Motown and Philly soul, when I was younger I was more of a "rock only" guy but as I branch out I find myself going further back in time and enjoying the classics, everything from classical music, to rock, soul, and country but the Motown/Philly/Chitown soul is something unique and powerful, I dare people not to smile when listening.
We also don't expect every modern day German to wear sack cloth and ashes and hang their heads in shame at all times and look for the slightest anti-semitic nuance in dress, language, or cuisine. Most Germans living today had nothing whatsoever to do with WWII or anything that led up to it just as no Americans living today had anything whatsoever to do with slavery and very few had anything to do with segregation or discrimination against blacks. The history should be taught yes. We should never forget yes. But neither should the innocent living be held accountable for the sins of their ancesters. And Germans should not keep anti-semitism alive and never allow a Jewish person to be assimilated into normal German society. And Americans should not keep racism alive and use silly political correctness to remind black people that they aren't ready to be fully assimilated into American culture.
When I read your posts, I feel like I'm deciphering ancient hieroglyphics.
I love all the things on the menu but I think it is not the right meal for black appreciation month IMHO. There must be other meals more suitable for that. Food that black people are famous for. Gumbo, soul food, crayfish, shrimp etc. might have been more appropriate than fried chicken and watermelon.
The point, which you seem to have missed, is that just because "we won that war" doesn't mean we just ignore all the issues that led to it as if they were ancient history.
The more I read about this issue the more I think it's just some people looking for an issue to complain about.
I figured that out at post #1.
Some on the left seem to disagree with you and will blame others who had no connections to the past and will blame them for what others did before them be they their ancestors or not.
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Aren't community organizers nothing more than agitators ?
Probably everybody on the left disagree with me, but this is a topic I feel strongly about. Morgan Freeman is right that the way to correct omission of black people from the history books we all use is to include black people appropriately in those history books. It is not by having a 'Black History Month' that emphasizes that black people are separate from everybody else. And the best way to combat racism is to stop talking about it.
Using the same logic, the way we keep really good foods like fried chicken, cornbread, and watermelon from becoming racial slurs is to stop treating them like they are.
I'm willing to bet that it was a white liberal agitator who took offense that fried chicken and watermelon was served for lunch and eaten by white school children.
And what do white liberals do ? They agitate and went looking for self appointed leaders of the black communities yelling whites are racist, look what they're doing, they are eating fried chicken and to prove they are racist, they had some watermelon.
I'm willing to bet that it was a white liberal agitator who took offense that fried chicken and watermelon was served for lunch and eaten by white school children.
And what do white liberals do ? They agitate and went looking for self appointed leaders of the black communities yelling whites are racist, look what they're doing, they are eating fried chicken and to prove they are racist, they had some watermelon.
Saw an old movie I had long forgotten... "THE WATERMELON MAN" starring black comedian Godfrey Cambridge ... in "whiteface"... I was chuckling all through it. That movie could not be made today probably.. Someone would bitch. Remember when we could laugh at ourselves and our sometimes screwy-funny attitudes?
Good day to ya' A R
Thom Paine
The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.
Oh hellz to the yeah, sounds yummy.
Those issues no longer exist; no one is alive that remembers when they existed. It's time to stop acting as if it's reality.
The recipe is simple. Create an opportunity for black people themselves to prepare meals and serve their holidays. That they will cook, that they eat it.
We also don't expect every modern day German to wear sack cloth and ashes and hang their heads in shame at all times and look for the slightest anti-semitic nuance in dress, language, or cuisine. Most Germans living today had nothing whatsoever to do with WWII or anything that led up to it just as no Americans living today had anything whatsoever to do with slavery and very few had anything to do with segregation or discrimination against blacks. The history should be taught yes. We should never forget yes. But neither should the innocent living be held accountable for the sins of their ancesters. And Germans should not keep anti-semitism alive and never allow a Jewish person to be assimilated into normal German society. And Americans should not keep racism alive and use silly political correctness to remind black people that they aren't ready to be fully assimilated into American culture.
Wow, black people have never cooked for themselves before? Wow, you learn something new everyday.
What? Nothing he wrote indicated what you claimed above.
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