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| re: Ragtime... for our time | |
| Posted by: portenopete 11:53 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Ragtime... for our time - manchurch03104 07:56 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
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| I've been seeing a LOT of black Republicans at the RNCC this week. I suspect if I asked them they'd say America has made HUGE strides forward. Just because our politics don't align, are their voices unworthy of being unheard? Without for aa second forgetting that there is still so much work to do, it's idiotic to say that Emancipation and the Civil Rights Act did nothing to further the cause of black people in American society. The fact that amongst much of the BIPOC academic mafia and cognoscenti, one of the main topics of discussion is micro aggression. Something tells me that if the brave young people who did the sit-ins at lunch counters and faced off against the goons on the other side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge had the choice, they'd've been just fine with micro aggressions. As a middle-aged gay, I know that my "lifestyle" was criminal until quite recently. I grew up at the tail end of the era where you worried that if you were drinking in a bar you might get raided and arrested. Even more likely if you were at a bath house. If you "read queer" you were open season for bullying and assault. You learned to chuckle at the homophobia you'd encounter on TV and at the movies. To say things haven't improved is just stupid and illogical. America was on the cusp of electing a married, gay president this year. We're collectively learning that the struggle for understanding and accepting one another is an ongoing, probably never-ending one. . |
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| re: Ragtime... for our time | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 09:02 pm EDT 08/27/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Ragtime... for our time - portenopete 11:53 am EDT 08/27/20 | |
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| "Something tells me that if the brave young people who did the sit-ins at lunch counters and faced off against the goons on the other side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge had the choice, they'd've been just fine with micro aggressions." But that thought is exactly the problem. White people and politicians hiding behind the illusion that these big strokes of progress are enough, that black people know it's better than it used to be when they couldn't vote or could be hung for looking at a white woman or beaten to death for sitting in the wrong seat or tormented for going to school with white people, etc. This movement isn't only about micro aggressions... but pointing out that freedom fighters of the civil rights movement and prior would prefer micro aggressions IS a micro aggression and just perpetuates the notion that things are fine, and that there are no macro aggressions going on now/still/since, when there are countless. |
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