19040, RE: Eloquent and insightful!!!!! Posted by guest, Sun Jan-28-01 05:15 PM
>your ancestors came >to the U.S. to escape >oppression, so doesn't that point >to your privilege, your haven >is our jail. your >refuge is our torture. >there's something tragically poetic about >that. tell me, where >in the world can i >go where blacks are not >subjugate, marginalized, hated, impoverished, colonized, >etc? tell me, where >can i go in the >whole FUCKING world where my >people aren't looked down upon >and exploited? i'm glad >you found yours, but where's >my haven? i dont even know what to say that paragraph was sooo truthful, if u wanna call it that, it was so much more, u know it hit me, the depth of it, thats the answer to the entire black struggle-or rather the question- everything, from the day the first shipload of africans arrived in the new world n through till today... it hurts... what can we do i feel helpless if black people themselves dont even understand the struggle what can we do...
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