tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18073044.post7502114279943539117..comments2023-10-22T04:57:31.068-07:00Comments on D-Place: SharecropperD-Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910123960971438134noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18073044.post-19927004401418710622007-12-04T22:14:00.000-08:002007-12-04T22:14:00.000-08:00OhMyGosh! Shut up! I was just thinking about this ...OhMyGosh! Shut up! I was just thinking about this today!<BR/><BR/>I wore a suit today because I had to do an oral presentation in an Advertising class I am taking. I was in my garage, about to get into my car and I envisioned myself leaving for a day to work. For a brief second, I felt like a slave. It is hard to explain, but I felt like I was a well-dressed slave, working for someone else.<BR/><BR/>Luckily, I plan on working in order to one day own my business. Don't worry, I am doing it solely for the freedom to teach and move others of us ahead in this whitewashed society!<BR/><BR/>Love your words, D!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>kennyking78<BR/>http://just4today.typepad.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18073044.post-46245253276643353312007-11-17T22:11:00.000-08:002007-11-17T22:11:00.000-08:00Thanks Whozhe. I too think that we had more during...Thanks Whozhe. I too think that we had more during and before the civil rights movement. But I also believe that we lost it because we were working for all people. I believe that if we had followed more aggressive thought like Malcholm X moreso than Martin Luther King we might be in a better situation today.<BR/><BR/>Bronze you and I see eye to eye.D-Placehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910123960971438134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18073044.post-23133898225651957442007-11-17T21:37:00.000-08:002007-11-17T21:37:00.000-08:00I must disagree with Whozhe's comment that most of...I must disagree with Whozhe's comment that most of "us" are concerned about "getting over on the white man" and are "less concerned about fairness to everyone." Actually, I am sort of offended by these over generalizations which fall into line with a black conservative mode of fault finding in black folk. Moreover, the fights fought in the past and those in the present have always been obliquely for the rights of everyone, not black folks alone. Why anything otherwise would be suggested is vulgar, unfair, and without merit.<BR/><BR/>I do apologize if my words are not clear. I have been flustered.<BR/><BR/>I agree with what "you" are saying, D. In many respects the past has overlapped to repeat itself in the present. Black sharecroppers are now white collar employees giving of their time and talent to work for corporations who seldom reinvest back into communities of color but are quick to take and exploit and sell back for their own profit and benefit.<BR/><BR/>Integration reinvented the image of the sharecropper we see today. I am not saying integration was and is a bad thing. What I am saying is integration should not have been viewed as a panacea for the the larger black community. <BR/><BR/>We should have built upon integration and its freedoms of mobility, both economic and social. Instead, we "did" sacrifice much of the pride we had as a people for it. Once once vibrant self-sufficient communities with a secure infrastructure disintegrated. Skills used to run businesses, business owners, the best and brightest creative people abandoned their community where they were often the example to aspire toward. Any currency, even that made outside the community, did return to the community to circulate and benefit the entire "village."BronzeBuckaroohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12536210616142873792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18073044.post-84385421345762860252007-11-17T16:16:00.000-08:002007-11-17T16:16:00.000-08:00Interesting post. I for one think we as a people ...Interesting post. I for one think we as a people had more going for us before and during the Civil Rights movement. I think the pride we had was greater and we fought for justice for all people. Now we seem to have lower self-esteem and pride (as evidenced by our debasing of women and glorifying of killing each other in rap music) and tend to be more concern about getting over on the white man and less concern about fairness to everyone.WhozHehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15651969021075559014noreply@blogger.com