flacaltenn
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Black woman making sense. You go girl!
She is making sense to herself and those who agree with her. The first thing that came to my mind after watching this is the Willie Lynch letter to slave holders. His preferred methods of making slaves was to divide and conquer - pit them one against the other, create jealousy and animosity, even hatred for one another - and he promised it would make them controllable forever.
And this "take responsibility" argument is not new. I've recently reread some of what Bill Cosby preached when he berated the black community (like he no longer belonged to it). But I've also read that people making themselves more respectable does not change a fundamentally flawed system. Very respectable blacks, i.e. U.S. Congressmen and judges, have been stopped, harassed and arrested by police officers who still saw them as "less than," no matter how far they had climbed up the respectability ladder.
Not even close to a "slavery analogy".. 860 ARRESTS since 2000... MOST of these were never settled or deals were made with the NFL. THAT --- is a house in disorder. THESE are NOT the guys to carry the torch.
They need to clean their nest first...
The letter popped into my mind and I saw it as a partial explanation for why black people seem to have trouble coming together and are so quick to criticize each other. I think that the divide and conquer tactic is still at work.
As for these guys not being the ones - I've got so many thoughts - I think I may have to start a thread.
As an outside observer, I think the opposite may be the problem. As in this instance, where staying on the clean side of the law is SOOOO damn difficult for these guys who have persevered and risen to the height of a profession. That there is a huge resistance on your part and the part of the black community to recognize the hypocrisy of their criticism of the "system"..
It seems when the indefensible is occurring, there's a group mentality to retreat into the safety of the ghetto. Because all those years of segregation and abuse CONDITIONED black folks to be comfortable amongst the familiarity of the hood. Decades of intimidation and accusations existed OUTSIDE of the hood. So as soon you went "home" -- you didn't have to deal with it. Rather than BEING freed to truly assimilate with the rest of society, it's STILL a bunker under attack mentality.
When in reality -- the offered criticism is meant to AID -- not to abuse..
This is not meant to do anything but level judgment upon a race. There are people who are not famous professional athletes in every field of work who get in trouble with the law and in higher numbers. When you look at arrest rates, this so called "criticism to AID" fails miserably.
Don't know what you mean by "pro athletes in every field of work". Certainly victims of law enforcement have every right to complain regardless of their "records". That's judicial review. But when your NFL "gangster club" starts pissing on the REST OF US and our country --- when they can't control the violence and crime within their own little club --- that's hypocrisy....
This club resents law enforcement. It's a bias that prevents them from being anything special as spokesmodels.