Monday, November 19, 2007

Shining Shoes

from Facebook Group:On December 18th, I will be voting for the United Bermuda Party!

"Most times when I hear someone on the radio talk shows talk negatively about Dr. Brown their reasons for their anger doesn’t add up. Reading between the lines I can’t help but think that this anger is not just about alleged corruption. When someone suggests that it maybe racists in nature, people get very upset - racism is not as simple as whites hating blacks. In the deep south, racist plantation owners would have their black female slaves raise their children for centuries, in many parts of the US today wealthy whites have no problem with Latino women raising their children - yet many of these families may harbour racist attitudes. Racism was and is never about simple hate.

Plantation owners didn't hate the mammies raising their babies but they did hate the uppity slaves who didn't behave in a way that made them comfortable. White men in the south in the 1960s didn't hate the shoe shine boy but they did hate civili rights workers, both Black and white who asked for equal rights.

So when people call into the radio shows exhibit anger toward Dr. Brown - they're right when they say it's not because Dr. Brown is a Black man, but it is because Dr. Brown is a Black man who is asking for equal rights as opposed to asking to shine shoes."