"... what does racism have to do with anything. There is only one race which every single person in the world belongs to it's called the human race. The color of our skin is our ethnicity not our race. The right to bear arms refer to hunting rifles, shotguns(full length not sawed off) and pistols. NOT AK-47 and MAC-10's. UZI's and all that other bullshit on the streets 2 day. I do agree the first 200 years in the U.S. where fucked up. But we have come along way in the 21 st century and instead of bitching about the past we should get behind our President and hope the children in Congress grow up. So please stop complaining about the past!!!! This is just one man's opinion!!!!" - Carl van Assendelft
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"If race didn't matter, and guns weren't a means of defense why were Black men not allowed to protect their families? If race did not matter why did the gun control laws come into affect as a reaction to the intelligence of the Black Panthers use of the law, and their armed defense of their communities when Ronald Reagan was governor of the state of California?" ~ Gregory E. Woods
RACE: we are all one family, the human family
The assertions that we are all of the human race, and that
race doesn't matter are true in an abstract way. It is also disarming to most
humans victimized by the ideology of white supremacy that has raised so many
sores, and hurt so deeply into the esteem and estimations of people of
different races.
I know that race and class are ideas, but that is abstract,
and out of focus from the world people live in governed by the factors whites,
in particular, have defined themselves and their place in history by. The
sudden, and I am referring to the latter part of the 20th century, departure
from the verbalization of white being supreme fell apart with such men as
Malcom X, and my father, and others, known and not known, who reacted strongly
and with righteous indignation against those assertions.
Whites backtracked in fear. For a brief time there was a
willingness to participate in the process of reconciliation between the races.
By 2001, it was clear such an endeavor was not going to happen when many
countries around the world asked the United States to participate in this work
at the international level. President Bush, at the time, spoke for the nation,
and snubbed the offer and the other races, who were soul weary from the
centuries long onslaught of racial oppression, white supremacy and the tears
within their culture, and families caused by the ideology.
Verbally, and I understand it, new words came out to make
whites feel better about themselves, and in one swoop absolve them of the work,
the spiritual work of reconciliation, and their place in the process.
"We are all one family; one human family. There is only
one race the human family."
Invariably, because of the soul of the matter, and the story
I just told, those words ring hollow, and people are not drawn together, and
social change around the world is slow to change or alter because the full
circle needed to do the work is lacking a participant.
© Gregory E. Woods 11.16.12
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