npr | It's rare that a man makes it through life without being told, at
least once, "Be a man." To Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL defensive lineman
and now a pastor, those are the three scariest words that a boy can
hear.
Ehrmann — who played with the Baltimore Colts for much of
the 1970s and was a lineman at Syracuse University before that —
confronted many models of masculinity in his life. But, as with many
boys, his first instructor on manhood was his father, who was an amateur
boxer.
Ehrmann says of his father: "I think his definition, which was very
old in this country, was: Men don't need. Men don't want. Men don't
touch. Men don't feel. If you're going to be a man in this world, you
better learn how to dominate and control people and circumstances."
On
the football field, those lessons served Ehrmann well. But, as he tells
NPR's Audie Cornish, it was not the same case in the pediatric oncology
ward. In 1978, Ehrmann's teenage brother was diagnosed with cancer.
However tough Joe was on the field, he did not feel equipped to help his
brother or himself.
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When it comes to accentuating the INTRINSIC greatness of these cultures and societies WITH THE THOUGHT OF replicating them in our modern times - IT IS THEN that I begin to understand that A HISTORIAN OF FACT is not
necessarily qualified to ADMINISTRATE A MOVEMENT in which Black people of today
You're only scratching the surface of what divides the contemporary mentality from the khemitic - http://subrealism.blogspot.com/search?q=conscious+language (the cognitive and cultural gulf separating us from these ancients is unbridgeable by all but the most powerful, disciplined, and profoundly altered minds)
SOME PEOPLE AIN'T GONNA WANT TO LEAVE The Greatest "Massa" In History Called "COMFORT".
lol, and that's the reason I disparage your "human rights violations in the developing world" swipes at the Hon.Bro.Preznit, Precisely because our polity is our way of life. You ain't giving up nary a single aspect of your comfortable suburban ATL lifestyle pursuant to any complaints you might have to levy against the current administration. You're perfectly content to have whatever level of mayhem and slaughter is taking place continue unabated so long as it delivers up the unobtainium you crave to power your non-negotiable "way of life".
Apparently, it's perfectly acceptable to suggest that behaviors tend to be genetically driven -- until it comes to dysfunctional behaviors such as crime, promiscuity, irresponsibility, impulsiveness, dependency, non-concern for offspring, poor FTO.......
Tameness (behavior) of Doggz is genetic...(PRR just published this week)
http://www.delhidailynews.com/news/Dogs-endearing-features-result-of-genetic-changes-caused-by-domestication-1405438776/
and as we all know, dogs are big talkers, powerful users of natural language -why the pyramids they built plainly attest to the power of culture as a driver within the cannid family.
Speaking of culture, however, there appears to be an expiration date and inevitable collapse written into the memetic code of every future time oriented "high" civilization.
Hope your kids took notes on my brief but valuable aside to Tom this morning on slow-roasting two-legged pig....,
"I am noting that it is the case that even in ANCIENT AFRICA/ Kemet" these BLACK AMERICAN HISTORIANS of today speak of AFRICAN HISTORY in terms of THE FIGHT AGAINST THE WHITE EUROPEAN or in terms of "We Wuz Here First".
Who are the "Black American historians" teaching the classes you are attending? Name them.
"IT IS THEN that I begin to understand that A HISTORIAN OF FACT is not necessarily qualified to ADMINISTRATE A MOVEMENT in which Black people of today." Please provide an example of a "historian of fact."
"I already presented my ideas to a mass of people and generated a national conversation." If you have that's great. Please provide the documentation.
I challenged here and at his website Cobb's position that "Reparations are for Negroes" based on the principle of reparations. No one has offered a rebuttal to my specific points. The people who did respond here went off on tangents about Jewish scientific achievements, and rationalizing why Jewish victims of the Nazi's were deserving of reparations and why Afrikan Americans aren't. I challenged your position that reparations are a "coward channel" and not a form of justice. Obviously you specialize in tangential arguments as evidenced by your most recent response--"How does one try to compare..." How about responding to the specific rebuttal. Reparations are a form of justice--period.
"There was documentation and actual living survivors for the Jews to claim reparations and items taken away and most important, there were lawsuits and legal channels." All of those factors were applicable to the victims of the Tulsa Massacre but their lawsuit was dismissed. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/twlj/vol24/iss1/4/
"What legal channels have you or your ilk pursued other than crying and wailing and moaning and bitching for slavery reparations?" When I served as the co-chair of the local chapter of NCOBRA our focus was simply on raising awareness of the issue and pushing our congressman and others to support HR 40. Mel Watt eventually became a co-sponsor of that bill.
I will not dignify your asinine comments about my ancestors graves. The 1860 Republican Convention Platform was the first political body in the United States to recognize the slave trade as a crime against humanity. In 1963 Queen Mother Audley Moore presented a petition with over 1 million signatures to President Kennedy demanding reparations for Afrikan Americans. Let us know when you get a million people to agree with anything you are doing. The UN Congress in Durban (2000) declared that "the enslavement of Africans and African Descendants was a crime against humanity..." For the legal record there is no statue of limitations on crimes against humanity. This issue is not going away.
While I have agreed with the demand for reparations as a form of justice, I never taken a position on specific external remedies. I do agree with Chinweizu who says: "The most important part of reparation is our self-repair. The change it will bring about in our understanding of our history, or ourselves, and of our destiny. The change it will bring about in our place in the world."
Can I be real? If I knew 10% about you what you post on here, I definitely would not hire you. As someone who has hired many many salespeople, I can say for sure I would not hire you. Too mad and looking for a fight. Is it racism? I am almost sure I subconsciously or for productivity reasons (results; small biz owners can be hella racist) be less likely to hire a black applicant. Not on purpose, but I bet that's true if I really think about it. Not that it is OK, but I believe it if I'm being ruthlessly objective.
But you? I'd never hire you. And, somewhat to the point, I get the feeling you would never ever hire me. Or so it seems. Which makes my theoretical rationalization easier. Does that make sense to you?
Can we acknowledge racism is real, it affects people, and move on? Or do we deal with it? What does that look like? What does a clean slate ( or the closest thing possible) look like on a one to one interaction? How do I cop to built in prejudices without having to be shit on by you? Because look-I think Big Don is a shithead, but I'll be damned if I kiss your ass for having my own inherent killer-ape biases, even if I admit some of them are wrong and possibly harmful.
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