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I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.
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Originally posted by blathe
What is so wrong with this statement? How is it racist? Racism is not acknowlidging that somebody is black. Sexism is not acknowledging that men and women are fundamentally different. Hatred or discrimination based on those realization IS and that is absolutely wrong... but one of the biggest sources or racism in our society today and the thing that is holding us back from stamping it out is things like "miss black USA" and the other racially segrigated "groups" as named here.
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Well blathe.........since you asked..........
Whoever authored the statement (above your quote) and passed it off as the words of famous commentators and journalists, so as to disguise their own racist feelings, failed to note that the organizations listed above were started in the first place to protest segregation and discrimination! The aforementioned organizations were founded on the basis that already intact organizations were discriminating against American minorities on the basis of their skin color. These particular organizations were started by blacks, for blacks.....but other ethnic groups hold their own claim to personal organizations too!
1890 - National Afro-American League was founded to protest segregation
1905 - Niagra Movement was founded to enforce the protest of segregation
1909 - N.A.A.C.P was founded as an even bigger enforcement of the protest of segregation
1910 - National Urban League was founded to help blacks make the transition to urban, industrial life
1944 - United Negro College Fund was founded to give monetarily disadvantaged blacks the advantage of higher education only afforded to middle and upper class Americans
1968 - Miss Black America was founded because the only blacks that ever appeared in Miss America contests were in a chorus line and portrayed as slaves
1979 - Black Entertainment Television aired for two hours on late night TV on Friday and Saturday nights only...to give black Americans some shows to relate to. Blacks, up to this point, had been portrayed only as maids, butlers, robbers, villains etc... It has since become a billion dollar enterprise
Some organizations have been around since the beginning of the civil rights movement. Other organizations were formed well before and after the movement began. Some say the movement has ended...some say it never will. Necessity IS indeed the mother of invention......and it was deemed necessary to start these organizations BECAUSE of segregation.......NOT in order to segregate.....which was/is inferred in the statement by this unknown author and by all the people I know who have stated it in some context or another.
That is the reason I said.......
"Every racist I know (and, unfortunately, I know a lot) has used that statement in some context or another (maybe to a lesser degree because they were too ignorant to think it through, as this author did, and come up with names for their fictitious "superior" white groups)......to justify why they feel they aren't "the ones" who are racist"
......because if those racists I know would take the time to research (and not remain ignorant) the reasons for why something is the way it is.....there may be an interesting story which doesn't necessarily match the [seemingly] face value of something being one thing and actually being another!
In other words..........if it weren't for segregation in the first place, it might not have been necessary for certain groups to feel a need to enhance only their own ethnicity, when all other ways of trying to share in the American dream were thwarted by the racists of this union we call The United States of America!!!!!
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