Black People : NAACP Award Show With No Black Nominees

[Kamau47]

http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/01/news/naacp-awards-nominated-shows-black-cast-members/

Has it come down to this, of a "so-called" black organization not having any blacks chosen to receive the award? Is this how far we've come?

 

[Keita Kenyatta]

http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/01/news/naacp-awards-nominated-shows-black-cast-members/

Has it come down to this, of a "so-called" black organization not having any blacks chosen to receive the award? Is this how far we've come?

Well Brother, it's like this: The initial law of manumission from the 1800's stated that "they would make us white in everything but our skin color" as researched and surfaced by Dr. Claude Anderson. I would have to say that they've done an excellent job for the most part as it concerns the masses of our people. Imagine this: We grow up catching hell from white people, being jailed by them, killed by them and everything else. Then many of us get on our knees to pray to another white man to save us from the other white people. That is insanity at its highest level....so I am not surprised in the least.

 

[Blackbird]

Well Brother, it's like this: The initial law of manumission fro the 1800's stated that "they would make us white in everything but our skin color" as researched and surfaced by Dr. Claude Anderson. I would have to say that they've done an excellent job for the most part as it concerns the masses of our people. Imagine this: We grow up catching hell from white people, being jailed by them, killed by them and everything else. Then many of us get on our knees to pray to another white man to save us from the other white people. That is insanity at its highest level....so I am not surprised in the least.

This is a very profound statement.

 

[Kamau47]

Well Brother, it's like this: The initial law of manumission fro the 1800's stated that "they would make us white in everything but our skin color" as researched and surfaced by Dr. Claude Anderson. I would have to say that they've done an excellent job for the most part as it concerns the masses of our people. Imagine this: We grow up catching hell from white people, being jailed by them, killed by them and everything else. Then many of us get on our knees to pray to another white man to save us from the other white people. That is insanity at its highest level....so I am not surprised in the least.

It's just that sometimes, it bothers my soul to read this like this. I'll be 57 next month, and I can remember the promise that was in the air in the 70's when it came to us. It seemed like we were making progress, albeit slowly, but we were finally heading forward. We had something to believe in. Now though, I can see the backwards motion we are going. We are no longer striving for our own, but assimilating into white culture. We have lost or way.
And brother, it hurts.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

It's just that sometimes, it bothers my soul to read this like this. I'll be 57 next month, and I can remember the promise that was in the air in the 70's when it came to us. It seemed like we were making progress, albeit slowly, but we were finally heading forward. We had something to believe in. Now though, I can see the backwards motion we are going. We are no longer striving for our own, but assimilating into white culture. We have lost or way.
And brother, it hurts.

i feel exactly the same way. it's sad.