Seriously, Blacks should be afforded the same human foibles as everyone else. If they locked any people(s) in a shed for 200 years, I wouldn't expect them to come out into an inimical world well-honed for political battle, against the embedded powers.
I'm sensing Stockholm Syndrome, TheOne -- say it ain't so bro... .
GM rolled you on that one. Admit it. We all get bested at times.
Ha, ha, GM, got TheOne on that one. I mean, who killed John F. Kennedy? a white guy. Who killed Abraham Lincoln? a white guy. Who's fighting between the Russians and Ukraine?
Come on, TheOne, I know you're playing the devil's advocate, but look at the big picture. Institutional racism is driving the problems in our community -- even spirituality speaking, they have turned the Hebrews and Jesus white.
The color framing is really what divides people, and the Eurocentricity framing is driving it.
The masses are being educated by mass media, and mass media can change the framing in one fell swoop.
Why are you surprised by this?
The pygmies never told you?
The master researcher of Black folks didn't know that bit of history?
Did you know he wanted to kill lots of Black church leaders?
You didn't know he wanted to kill off Jesse Jackson but changed his mind?
Don't you know some of Dr King's biggest critics were folks from his church and in his neighborhood who challenged him on integration etc?
Don't you know that most middle class Black entrepreneurs at the time resented the call for integration because they correctly predicted the demise of black businesses?
Sir, that's how these things historically work..
For example, who killed Gandhi? It was an indian of his same caste, Hindu!
You & kris should know that the guy who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin - Israel's prime minister - was a Jew!
Who helped kill Maurice Bishop? It was a brilliant member of the Grenada revolution!
During slavery days the biggest snitches and assassins of rebellion leaders were other blacks!
During the holocaust you had Jews/"Kapos" shoving fellow Jews into the Nazi ovens etc.
In other words, history is a bitch!
Why don't you know that Mr TheOne, EH?