You asked for answers your questions. I have firsthand experience with two of them. First, let me say that we humans are a very discriminating lot. We clearly develop attitudes that determine what we like and dislike. What we like gets higher status and what we dislike gets lower status. Discrimination based on our personal likes or dislikes bears nothing on the "color of their character" (Martin Luther King) of the person being discriminated against, but on the ignorance of the person doing the discriminating. When we say, "I hate (someone)," we are clearly discriminating, whether justly or unjustly.
While there is no evidence that those with darker skin are any less intelligent than those with lighter skin, lighter skin has always been given preference. Those of darkened skin were considered savages (or slaves) in this country up until freed from slavery by executive order (not the Congress) by Lincoln in 1865. And have been considered second-class citizens, in spite of the civil rights movement, up until this very day.
Why are there black colleges? I worked in two of them for 33 years. The Presbyterians (from the north) established Atlanta University in 1865 from a boxcar just after the war. Their intention was to educate former slaves. They succeeded and Atlanta University was one of the few places that blacks could get graduate degrees in the country up until the civil rights movement when they were given an opportunity to attend private and public colleges nationwide.
The Texas State University for Negroes was established in 1947 because some veterans wanted to get law degrees at the University of Texas, Austin. The Texas State Legislators in their wisdom, trying to avoid any mixing of races, established the school in Houston to provide a "separate but [un]equal" university. Texas Southern University, as it's now called, went on to graduate notable people like Thurgood Marshall, Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland, Yolanda Adams, Michael Strahan and some CEOs of major corporations like an NRG.
While working in these black institutions I received, reverse discrimination as a result of my color and my disability. I had to bear ridicule and being passed over for opportunities as a result. There is nothing more distasteful than being diminished by ignorance.
Remember, when you call someone, "handicapped," what you really mean is, “cap in hand,” a beggar. I have been paralyzed 53 years, and fully able to, but never filed for, disability, wrongly labeled as, "the inability to work,” and am still paying taxes long after most people retire. I really resent it when people judge my ability by my appearance. It's happened over and over again.
While Native Americans have been greatly discriminated against and abused as, "noble savages," they have received notable concessions like a free college education, that blacks have not. The root of most problems in the black community today is the continuing covert discrimination and lack of financial opportunity afforded, not some inherent behavioral problem that should be rewarded by reversing the evil that slavery was.
I remember my father-in-law saying that "the wheel that squeaks the most will get all the attention". He in my opinion, knew what he was talking about. And what you wrote about votes is so very true too.
Yankee Doodle Daddy is a historical Appalachian Family Saga. The story follows a mother's reckoning as she struggles to survive and keep her four daughters alive.
Yankee Doodle Daddy is a historical Appalachian Family Saga. The story follows a mother's reckoning as she struggles to survive and keep her four daughters alive.
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While there is no evidence that those with darker skin are any less intelligent than those with lighter skin, lighter skin has always been given preference. Those of darkened skin were considered savages (or slaves) in this country up until freed from slavery by executive order (not the Congress) by Lincoln in 1865. And have been considered second-class citizens, in spite of the civil rights movement, up until this very day.
Why are there black colleges? I worked in two of them for 33 years. The Presbyterians (from the north) established Atlanta University in 1865 from a boxcar just after the war. Their intention was to educate former slaves. They succeeded and Atlanta University was one of the few places that blacks could get graduate degrees in the country up until the civil rights movement when they were given an opportunity to attend private and public colleges nationwide.
The Texas State University for Negroes was established in 1947 because some veterans wanted to get law degrees at the University of Texas, Austin. The Texas State Legislators in their wisdom, trying to avoid any mixing of races, established the school in Houston to provide a "separate but [un]equal" university. Texas Southern University, as it's now called, went on to graduate notable people like Thurgood Marshall, Barbara Jordan, Mickey Leland, Yolanda Adams, Michael Strahan and some CEOs of major corporations like an NRG.
While working in these black institutions I received, reverse discrimination as a result of my color and my disability. I had to bear ridicule and being passed over for opportunities as a result. There is nothing more distasteful than being diminished by ignorance.
Remember, when you call someone, "handicapped," what you really mean is, “cap in hand,” a beggar. I have been paralyzed 53 years, and fully able to, but never filed for, disability, wrongly labeled as, "the inability to work,” and am still paying taxes long after most people retire. I really resent it when people judge my ability by my appearance. It's happened over and over again.
While Native Americans have been greatly discriminated against and abused as, "noble savages," they have received notable concessions like a free college education, that blacks have not. The root of most problems in the black community today is the continuing covert discrimination and lack of financial opportunity afforded, not some inherent behavioral problem that should be rewarded by reversing the evil that slavery was.
Ron
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Jane
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Kathy