>I am not trying to engage
>in self divide and conquer,
>mererly asking a question.

never said you were player....

>If you disagee cool. I am
>just trying to understand my
>people, their concerns, motivations etc.
>better that's all.

not to clown, but to what end? are you asking if folks think tht "light skinned" Blacks over-compensate for their "lightness" by being militant?

maybe i don't get it

>I am certainly not trying to
>segement, its too late for
>that, I am only trying
>to understand one side-effect
>of that historic segmentation.

again, not to be arguementative, but perpetuation (through analysis) of a faulty phenomenon seems a bit counteractive in terms of generating positive change.

to in some way imply that davis or malcom x did the things they did because they were "lighter" (forgive me if this was not the implication, it's just what i got from the post) seems a bit like one of "the man's" schemes to somehow denigrate contributions.

at some point we gotta (opinionally speaking of course) get PAST this kinda stuff and get to the issues at hand -- namely OPRESSSION.

why bother questioning motives if the result gets us closer to our agreed goal?

>Nonetheless thanks for your input.

no doubt. this is all just dialog, and i was just sharing amy limited viewpoint