JimBowie1958
Old Fogey
- Sep 25, 2011
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To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
I dont believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didnt buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?
Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them left them out.
The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.
Why do you think I get in so much controversy? People have a model of what they think a black person should think.
I dont believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didnt buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?
Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them left them out.
The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.
Why do you think I get in so much controversy? People have a model of what they think a black person should think.