Re: White lawmaker tries to join black caucus-gets denied-NAACP asks for HIS resignat
75th said:
You posted one instance as if society today reflects society of the 1950s, which any sane person will tell you is innacurate.
Do you honestly think we havent progressed over the last 55 years?
Read your reply bro. You said Slavery was 200yrs ago (it was not that long ago) and i said issues still exist today. Have we progressed over the last 55yrs.....this I can not tell you. The world as a whole is a different place....so IMO we are comparing apples to oranges. I can only speak for my time in the flesh on this earth.
The women are thinner today than say back in the 50's and 60's. Marilyn Monroe was a full figured woman and many thought she was the most beautiful. So you see times have changed. Boy do i wish i were alive back then. As I have said b4...i prefer the thicker women. You see they are my destiny and reason for living..hehehe
What does this have to do with racism......Absolutely nothing...hehehe
oh and read this:
Howard Beach Is Not Alone
by Andy Humm
July, 2005
When Nicholas “Fat Nick” Minucci, 19, a white man, fractured the skull of Glen Moore, 22, an African American, with a baseball bat while yelling racial epithets in Queens on June 29, it became an international news story and sparked scores of articles about how far we have or have not come in dealing with racism in our society. Anthony Ench, 21, has also been arrested in the attack.
The racial attack on Moore was only one of several bias crimes in New York over the past month, including an assault on an unidentified 22-year old Asian woman in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn on July 1 and an attack on Dwan Prince, a gay man in Brownsville, Brooklyn on June 8. But these other incidents did not occur in Howard Beach.
Howard Beach has been notorious since December, 1986, when a black man, Michael Griffith, whose car had broken down in the neighborhood, was set upon by a mob of white people from the neighborhood, and, fleeing, was hit and killed by a car on the highway. Howard Beach is a brand name when it comes to bias violence.
Three young white men were convicted of second degree manslaughter and first degree assault in the 1986 incident. But residents of the predominately white Howard Beach neighborhood were quick to say that racism had nothing to do with the attacks. Howard Beach residents said "they were unhappy with the convictions and many viewed the beatings as a simple scuffle--one in which race was not involved, and the severity of which did not warrant the punishment,” according to the Queens Tribune.
The 2005 Howard Beach incident has elicited a similar defensive tone among residents of the enclave. Since it was widely reported that Moore and the other black men he was with the night he was beaten were out to steal a car, according to police, white residents of the area do not want to see this crime attributed to their incurable hatred for black people.