Larry Gude
Strung Out
...is the issue, here.
What is it?
To some, it is the belief that whites are genetically superior and that blacks simply can not be our equals.
To others, it is the belief that white culture is superior. That blacks can certainly be as smart, or smarter, or of as good, or better, character, as good, or better people and that white history has simply lead to a more desirable culture, lifestyle, governing system, economy and so forth than what blacks, or anyone else, was going to do. Part of that is accepting, comfortably, that a black person can readily be the best man, or woman, you've ever known. Or your President, sergeant, General, CEO, cop, doctor, lawyer, judge, you name it.
I've lived enough life and read enough, been taught and learned enough and met enough people over the years to know that the first is simply incorrect. It's important to think of us a ONE race with numerous breeds and that while some generalizations can be made, some characteristics can be said to be better, or worse, all over this planet, all our differing breeds, there are FAR too many better men than me, better brains, better bodies, better natures, that have black skin for me to believe, at all, that I am superior because I am white.
We can have much conversation about the latter, the cultural argument and that's a good one to have. Critical, even. I think that some people who have a problem with the former in relations to the battle flag coming down certainly exist. I think a lot more are of the latter and simply fear that there is good being thrown out with it. That said, if you can put yourselves in the shoes of a black man, it should not be hard to see that, yeah, valor, fighting for your state, your people, your kin against what you saw as oppression, there's honor there but there still is, at it's core, white racial supremacy.
So, that's what this thread is about, resolving white supremacy, because white people have reached a point where even in the cradle of secession, South Carolina, we seem to get it and are coming to terms with it. However, that said, as genetic white supremacy fades into history, fully, there are many parts of white cultural supremacy that best not be lost in this, not least of which are the founding documents and ideas that, however long it has taken, have lead to us all standing under the banner that says 'We are all created equally';
...The Stars and Stripes.
What is it?
To some, it is the belief that whites are genetically superior and that blacks simply can not be our equals.
To others, it is the belief that white culture is superior. That blacks can certainly be as smart, or smarter, or of as good, or better, character, as good, or better people and that white history has simply lead to a more desirable culture, lifestyle, governing system, economy and so forth than what blacks, or anyone else, was going to do. Part of that is accepting, comfortably, that a black person can readily be the best man, or woman, you've ever known. Or your President, sergeant, General, CEO, cop, doctor, lawyer, judge, you name it.
I've lived enough life and read enough, been taught and learned enough and met enough people over the years to know that the first is simply incorrect. It's important to think of us a ONE race with numerous breeds and that while some generalizations can be made, some characteristics can be said to be better, or worse, all over this planet, all our differing breeds, there are FAR too many better men than me, better brains, better bodies, better natures, that have black skin for me to believe, at all, that I am superior because I am white.
We can have much conversation about the latter, the cultural argument and that's a good one to have. Critical, even. I think that some people who have a problem with the former in relations to the battle flag coming down certainly exist. I think a lot more are of the latter and simply fear that there is good being thrown out with it. That said, if you can put yourselves in the shoes of a black man, it should not be hard to see that, yeah, valor, fighting for your state, your people, your kin against what you saw as oppression, there's honor there but there still is, at it's core, white racial supremacy.
So, that's what this thread is about, resolving white supremacy, because white people have reached a point where even in the cradle of secession, South Carolina, we seem to get it and are coming to terms with it. However, that said, as genetic white supremacy fades into history, fully, there are many parts of white cultural supremacy that best not be lost in this, not least of which are the founding documents and ideas that, however long it has taken, have lead to us all standing under the banner that says 'We are all created equally';
...The Stars and Stripes.
