tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19264906.post2200601282660061472..comments2024-03-22T06:55:32.298-04:00Comments on Alone On A Limb: Bad WordsTerrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349990421673327619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19264906.post-42873538763558488212013-07-29T10:22:14.965-04:002013-07-29T10:22:14.965-04:00The overreaction is now serving to divide us furth...<i>The overreaction is now serving to divide us further.</i><br /><br />Makes me wonder if we can really be "undivided". In many ways we are more segregated today than in 1950. How long does one have to pretend, and swim upstream, in an effort to please others who don't appreciate the effort or results? And by others, I don't mean Black people; I mean the other White people anti-racists are trying to please and impress with this status game.<br /><br /><i>If I had let fly that horrid word, would it have negated any good I have done in my life? Should I have lost my job?</i><br /><br />Of course not, but in today's climate we've cultivated a kind of death penalty for White people if they use the word. One of the dysfunctional courses upon which our society has embarked.<br /><br /><i>I...strive for perfection, but few of us make it all the way, likely.</i><br /><br />I'd say unlikely. Nice of Christian doctrine to urge personal striving towards perfection, but it is problematic when public policy becomes one of demanding perfection from certain people and not others. And doubly troublesome when those with no history or current action of wrong doing are punished towards this end.<br />rightsaidfredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14074128270057493787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19264906.post-73027041202103178352013-07-28T21:43:48.881-04:002013-07-28T21:43:48.881-04:00Nice sentiments, as usual.
I don't see where ...Nice sentiments, as usual.<br /><br />I don't see where White self flagellation over racial matters is a useful strategy when it means handing political power over to others who will not reciprocate.rightsaidfredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14074128270057493787noreply@blogger.com