tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880575224552835226.post7692644452063953932..comments2023-11-02T02:07:05.009-07:00Comments on the playground: 40 years laterJamilahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16291434727158884556noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880575224552835226.post-74193591289984060022008-07-19T18:04:00.000-07:002008-07-19T18:04:00.000-07:00*sigh* Uppity Negroes. 40 years later and we are...*sigh* Uppity Negroes. <BR>40 years later and we are still a people divided by our diversity instead of empowered by it. I assure you that the majority of the people living in Baldwin Hills are more obsessed with making their mortgage payments and living their version of Dr. King's dream than snubbing those who don't drive, vacation and speak like them. As a people, our 'have's' are demeaned about achievements or being more educated and are railed about having higher expectations for our 'have not's'. Applaud me for pronouncing the t's at the end of my words; don't break me down for it. Who's discriminating whom?Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03057556729865019641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880575224552835226.post-43393025552043454352008-07-19T18:03:00.000-07:002008-07-19T18:03:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Evanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03057556729865019641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7880575224552835226.post-83682284313025435862008-04-04T12:22:00.000-07:002008-04-04T12:22:00.000-07:00I appreciate this post. I could literally write a ...I appreciate this post. I could literally write a book about why I adore Martin Luther King and want to weep daily for what Amerika did to him and continues to do to everyone who isnt a W.A.S.P. male, but I think instead I'll respond to your thoughtful words. <BR/><BR/>While our lenses differ due to our race/gender backgrounds/identities, I find that I share this anger at my own Japanese/Asian Amerikan community in terms of the complacency that I view when my people reach a certain socioeconomic status. <BR/><BR/>My grandparents & most JA people in many ways, choose to never speak about the "relocation" and internement of Japanese-Amerikans during WWII. It is as if the reperations and apology from Ronald Reagan (only to SURVIVING people who were incarcerated), made all the internalized and externalized racism go away.<BR/><BR/>It my full belief that Reagan and his cohorts paid ONLY those who were still alive at the time, because to pay the family members of the dead who suffered from the JA concentration camps, would fuel the fire of Amerikans of African heritage who were seeking reperations and an official apology for slavery. Divide and conquer...aint that sh-- a b----? <BR/><BR/>It makes me feel sick to my stomach and deeply hopeless when I see my yellow brothers and sisters sit by passively as the poor and/or other people of color are destroyed. The "Model Minority," myth is responsible for a myriad of Asian Pacific Amerikans ignorance and sanguine behavior in a country that emasculates our men, exotifies our women and doesn't accept us as "true" Amerikans. Thank you for this post.<BR/><BR/>R.I.P. to the KING of love.<BR/>Colin<BR/><BR/>p.s. Aaron McGruder GOES. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com