"F-i-n-a-l-l-y" (???) !!
If "Black Lives Matter", then why, as we enter 2015, are we STILL searching for ourselves inside the white fantasy images that Hollywood, Television, and U.S. MEDIA, in general; foist upon us daily??
E. Franklin Frazier, in the 1950s, wrote about the self-perception problem that Black citizens of this country exhibit, from the impact of slavery and the brutalities of Segregation. One hundred years after Birth of a Nation, Black Americans (throughout the Americas) have not halted their acquiescence in this syndrome. How can we seriously champion Black Lives, when we so readily ignore their presence, and absence, in visual media? Portrayals, today are problemmatic at best, or downright evil, as in the dark past.
Republican politicians obviously don't believe that Black Lives Matter. Their treatment (over six years) of the first Black President in the U.S., can be largely described as one of deep and personal disrespect, and denigration. Whites accept that as "politics", , and non-whites have mostly ignored it. "Politics As Usual" is reflected, today, in "Racism as Usual"!
Frazier, writing in the 1950s and 1960s found the same syndrome as described by De Tocqueville in 1830: black slaves were unable to "see" themselves at all; preferring to fantasize about living in "Massa's" house, his clothes, his skin, HIS LIFE! To find this syndrome alive in 2015 MUST NOT to be ignored by people who are building a Movement, in which they claim they want to be treated as human beings; and fully respeccted accordingly!
Stay Vigilant! "Freedom" from slavery and its evils requires honesty as well as resolve! The Civil Rights Movement of the last century was long on Moral preaching to whites, and short on understanding of Economic issues for non-whites.
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