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Re: Black National Anthem?? What in the world...
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Originally Posted by tstew
Cn one thing that really bothered me as a child (as I lay on the couch) is that I would see pictures of lynchings and I would see the perpetrators posing and smiling with the bodies. Even at that young age, I realized that most of those perpetrators had to still be living...many were documented as law enforcement, etc. It sent a message to me that noone was tracked down and charged with murder even though we were now enlightened and had photographic evidence. I'm sure that that thought never did cross the minds of most of my White classmates, and I would not really expect it to.
My point is that you always have to leave room for the human element and the fact that all have different experiences, and ultimately we are the sum total of those experiences.
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Yikes. That is a disgusting and sobering thought.
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