Here's an excerpt from a blog essay that was posted on AfroSpear:

Black People Can Go To Hell
April 22, 2009 by brotherpeacemaker

I just suffered a dialog with someone of limited intellect about the impact of racial discrimination on the black community. There was a comment in my inbox about an article I wrote two years ago describing my theory of how America's institutionalized slavery back in its infancy laid the foundation for the relationship between the black community and the racially generic dominant community that is predominantly white. I should have known the exchange wouldn't be a good when I read the first sentence.

"You all need to suck it up and deal with the present, black people have not been enslaved in this country for a very long time…"

For the record we all agree that America's institutionalized slavery is a thing of the past. The culture that considered black people little more than white people's property is done. However, its sister culture, the culture that protects white privilege and superiority at the expense of the black community is alive and well.

When the institutionalized enslavement of black people came to its long overdue end, the dominant community didn't turn to the black community and welcomed black people with open arms as equals. The dominant community continued to subject the black people to a perpetual condition of disenfranchisement. It started with denying black people humanity and it has continued with denying black people educational and employment opportunities.

The alienation of black people's inalienable constitutional rights led to a condition of disparity that has persisted ever since black people were introduced to America as a lower life form to be bought and sold by the highest bidder. The enslavement of black people wasn't the issue when people were putting signs in windows saying only white people were entitled to goods or services. The enslavement of black people wasn't the issue when people were saying that separate facilities for black people were fair. The enslavement of black people wasn't the issue when black people were fighting for civil rights. And yet, some people insist on trying to undermine any conversation about racial disparity that persist today with arguments that slavery ended years ago so black people need to just suck it up and deal with it.

I saw a report the other day that said that unemployment has reached a thirty year high of more than 8.5 percent. But while the white community has to suffer with a rate of about 7.9 percent, the black community has to deal with an unemployment rate of 13.4 percent. There was another report that said on a per capita basis, for each dollar of wealth owned by the white community, the black community has ten cents. The black community controls less than two percent of the wealth of the white community. And some people find this disparity tolerable because slavery ended so many years ago...


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The complete essay is posted here:
http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/black-people-can-go-to-hell/

Here's a reader's comment about that essay:

-Bob Ray
"Someone foreign to my African American nationality once asked me, how it felt to be black. I didn't see that coming and felt it necessary to exact that answer. Well at first I had to realize that I was of darken skin and African ancestor, however I couldn't denied my American Cherokee Grandmother nor some Germanic blood that unexplainably got in there. First off, man inhumanity to mankind is evident in history and I'm proud to fight and strive to erect some symbolism of freedom from an oppressive people in and oppressive land. As a human being I want! And as a Black man I feel always prepared to fight. Because there are those who disallow me and what they sarcasticly identified as Blacks, the no, not equal attitude and treatment. Yeah this is dreadful feeling and blasphemy if you are one with Christ, but it's the predicament we are in. This struggle isn't over and basically pits evil against nature and what's right. Education is the key to getting a fair opportunity to fight, and with the bible as a guide, fortitude is necessary to weather that impending storm that inexplicitly will come your way called racism."

[same hyperlink as above]