Great quotation from Frederick Douglass

That is a powerful message. Of course we won't hear it anywhere else but here. People do not appreciate a things given to them, especially if everything is given to them. Just found this tape of Community Organizers Praying to Obama. Perhaps if they would heed Frederick Douglass, we wouldn't need community organizers.

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Yes, I have always been a fan of Douglass. On my other blog ( here ), the intro paragraph was a little better, though Douglass' words really need no introduction:

Came across this great quotation from Frederick Douglass. He seems to be anticipating the idea of affirmative action and soundly rejecting such a thing. While he is talking specifically about the plight of blacks and the impending end of slavery, his words can apply to us all and are especially apt today when we have a president and Congress trying to help us all with cradle-to-grave government services.

That is a great quote and little is ever heard about justice anymore. Thanks for the great quote catch.

Thomas, you must realize that this also serves as a warning.
If you look into the more obscure portions of history, you'll realize
that there were legitimate attempts by black people to become
more self-sufficient.

You ever heard of Black Wall Street? This was a thriving area
in Tulsa OK, where black people had businesses and did very
well, along with some Native Americans.

Then, some angry jealous whites literally bombed them from
above using planes. The gov't did nothing, and the black businesses
never recovered.

Southern towns like Rosewood,FL, where black people also thrived,
was attacked and burned to the ground by angry white mobs.

This was the subject of a movie by John Singleton, starring Ving
Rhames, Don Cheadle and Jon Voight.

The Reconstruction Period was abandoned, and the forty acres
and a mule reparations proposal was defeated and repealed.

The Ku Klux Klan came to prominence then- this was true terrorism.
Sharecropping became the active new way to oppress.

At the turn of the century Marcus Garvey started the Back to Africa movement, reasoning that the best way to freedom was independence. Sound familiar?

Yet the gov't came in and arrested him for mail fraud and destroyed his movement.

Therefore, the Negro was never left alone to achieve true
self determination, and every movement towards has been checked,
including the Civil rights 1960s, when the feds started COINTELPRO
(Counter Intelligence Program) to check and squash black organizations
like NAACP, CORE, SNCC and SCLC.

This was a warning that was never heeded, and therefore affirmative
action became necessary due to the actions and oversights.

A people can recover from many things if left alone to their own devices.
That has never happened, and this is why things are as they are.

Affirmative action is an ugly thing. Yet this has been made necessary
due to the abuses that have happened over time. Justice has to happen, and will
happen eventually.

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."~ Thomas Jefferson

The most popular film now is the movie 'Avatar', which brings to mind the sins of men towards each other. In America's case, it is the Native Americans' and black peoples' plights that weigh so heavily upon its collective soul.