Susan Glisson, CNN, January 14, 2009
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{snip} [The] election of Barack Obama did not end the America’s problems with race.
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The U.S. Census notes that the United States will no longer have a white majority by 2050. Social Security payments for an aging white population will have to be paid by an increasingly brown and black work force, which may resent such support.
Clashes over immigration and tensions between blacks and Latinos suggest that we have much work to do to fulfill the vision of “a more perfect union.”
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This brings us to another stumbling block on the road to creating a more perfect union. We are quick to laud leaders such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy for their contributions, which were very significant. But much of what we have been taught about those contributions is a myth perpetuated by the most egregious shortcoming in teaching history: the savior narrative.
We have all been told that a charismatic leader transformed the South and brought everyone to freedom. For example, everyone knows the story of Rosa Parks. Most students are taught that Rosa Parks was simply just too tired to get up from her seat on the bus that day in Montgomery, Alabama. She was a simple, brave woman who answered the call to stand—in this case, sit—for the Greater Good.
It’s a great story.
The reality, however, goes something like this:
In the spring of 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance of Montgomery, Alabama. A group of local activists debated using her case to challenge segregation on buses there but decided to wait for a more appropriate case.
That opportunity came in December of that year, when a secretary of the local NAACP, who had been attending leadership and organizing training sessions at Highlander Folk School, chose to remain in her bus seat with the goal of being arrested, allowing the Montgomery group to launch their challenge to the segregation code. That woman was Rosa Parks.
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The savior myth suggests that social change occurs only from a charismatic leader; and that in the absence of such a leader, we cannot accomplish social change on our own. The opposite and more accurate characterization is a more useful model for change.
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The reality of social change during the civil rights period is more complicated and more accessible than any savior myth. Social change begins from the bottom up, with everyday people joining together to make a change. They learn the necessary tools for investigation as well as for resolving conflicts in a nonviolent fashion and for engaging the community.
These first steps are followed by careful analysis of the problems and negotiation with stakeholders who can make a difference. Massive protests are actually a final step when all previous work has failed, not a first-strike response. In the absence of such work on the ground, massive protests fail.
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[Editor’s Note: Susan Glisson is director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, based at the University of Mississippi.]
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(Posted on January 14, 2009)
Comments
My guess is they did not have the benefit of this article when the massive protest was organized at Jena, Louisiana.
We were told that he’d be a great role model and generations of black kids would now strive to be their best.
Nothing in or about the black community is going to change other than louder racial demands. And when Obama fails to deliver, they have their ready-made excuse: he’s not black enough.
Miss Glisson admits that most libs and neocons will not:
(1) A brown America in 2050 will resent paying FICA taxes to maintain old gringos. The logical deduction is that the brown-run American government will repeal Social Security and Medicare. This is why neocons who call for open borders to “solve social security” don’t know beans from shinola.
(2) Rosa Parks was not an innocent seamstress that decided to take action, but a long time well-trained NAACP operative.
“Racial myths and charismatic leaders not the solution to race problems”
Because there is no ESTABLISHMENT SOLUTION to race problems, and there never will be short of behavorist B.F. Skinners solutions in books like Walden Two and Beyond Freedom and Dignity which call for changing brains with operant conditioning for the “good” of society. He wanted to create a kind of utopia, without strife and social problems. To be fair to Skinner, however, he wanted this in a decentralized society, because he knew his methods couldn’t be trusted to big centralized governments.
If the situation was reversed, if a colored people had been almost 90% of the population in 1950, do you think they would allow White immigration to turn them into a minority? Not a chance.
Of course Obama’s election doesn’t mean a “post-racial” America.
Even if all prejudice disappeared tomorrow morning the Racism Industry (NAACP, SPLC, ADL, La Raza, etc.) would never admit it as they’re raking in million$ from gullible fools.
To paraphrase an old episode of “Lou Grant:” “Of course she sees racial problems everywhere. If there are no racial problems, she’s out of a job.”
What a hoot.
“The U.S. Census notes that the United States will no longer have a white majority by 2050. Social Security payments for an aging white population will have to be paid by an increasingly brown and black work force, which may resent such support.”
Support? Ha ha, only Whites seem to be able to “support” more than their own race. The real problem is that PEOPLE ARE THE ECONOMY and “black and brown” people cannot (thanks to evolution) build/run/maintain a White society.
Sorry diversitoids, but your slogan of “place not race” is the wrong way round.
[The] election of Barack Obama did not end the America’s problems with race.
It’s like with blackmail . No matter how much ransom you pay to the thugs, it’s never enough and they come back to extort more.
CNN sees racism everywhere they go, and they are always on the wrong side.
America’s black politicians are giddy at the prospect that Obama will help them abolish our Second Amendment and disarm the evil whites. Here is an example of recently proposed legislation by a radical black politician who is a member of the Obama cabal:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86039
I wouldn’t worry about it since it will never pass. Washington knows that gun control was the catalyst that sparked our first revolution and we stand at the brink of seeing history repeat itself. This is the last thing the politicians want. So, don’t worry be happy, but also be ready in the event it is our destiny to take our place in history beside the Colonial Minutemen.
Why do they say that blacks need a “leader”? It sounds quite condescending.
The U.S. Census notes that the United States will no longer have a white majority by 2050. Social Security payments for an aging white population will have to be paid by an increasingly brown and black work force, which may resent such support.
I keep saying this to anyone who will listen and this shows the stupidity of leaders here and in Europe. They think importing third world non-whites will help support their aging white populations in retirement. What an absolute fantasy, when whites are no longer a majority non-white thugs will probably show up at your door and kick you out in the streets claiming you “stole” the house you live in and they are now “reclaiming” it for it’s “rightful” owner. They will probably take the clothes off your backs too, claiming those were made by third world “slave labor” so you have no right to them either. This country is going to be a mess by 2050.
It’ll be a mess long before 2050.
To Annonymous’ post I would add this: No, gun control will never work. Because it would end up requiring the INCARCERATION of probably a third of all Americans. I mean seriously, give up our right to defend ourselves against the millions of Black and brown criminals in our country. People only too ready to attack those ‘affluent’ White Americans to rob them of what they worked for.
Years ago, I laughed at that bumper sticker: “Give up my gun? Only when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.” Today, decades later, that phrase makes perfect sense to me… and millions of other THINKING (as opposed to liberal) Americans.
“are no longer a majority non-white thugs will probably show up at your door and kick you out in the streets claiming you “stole” the house you live in and they are now “reclaiming” it for it’s “rightful” owner. They will probably take the clothes off your backs too, claiming those were made by third world “slave labor” so you have no right to them either. “
That is exactly the position of all those affirmative action Judges and attorneys. Whites have no right to earn a living. All jobs must go to blacks and hispanics. Stealing a job through affirmative action is just as much theft as armed robbery.
In the case of affirmative action however, the government Judges and DOD lawyers stole the jobs from whites and distributed the jobs to blacks and hispanics.
RHG wrote:“I keep saying this to anyone who will listen and this shows the stupidity of leaders here and in Europe. They think importing third world non-whites will help support their aging white populations in retirement.”
I’m sure ‘some’ of the second and third tier government leaders believe they are doing the right thing, but not the ones at the very top. There is no way they cannot be aware that they are destroying western civilization and the White race.
The more you research, the more it becomes apparent.
Bill Clinton had a ‘race initiative, that forced banks to give home loans to unqualified minorities. If Bill Clinton did not solve anything in 8 years, then what is the problem?
The problem is that these race-based organisations HAVE to earn their keep, so they have to attack all the ‘statistical’ inequities, (but NOT IQ statistics)
As long as the race based organizations are funded. they will keep finding inequities. They have no practical solution, so it will go on forever.
Also, if blacks and hispanics are going to resent funding SSI for ‘okd white folk’ maybe we will need some anti-discrimination laws on the books.
Race will always be an issue everywhere on earth, because to deny racial differences is to deny ones own identity. Racial differences are more than skin deep, contrary to the lies saying otherwise that the state feeds our children…
“That opportunity came in December of that year, when a secretary of the local NAACP, who had been attending leadership and organizing training sessions at Highlander Folk School, chose to remain in her bus seat with the goal of being arrested, allowing the Montgomery group to launch their challenge to the segregation code. That woman was Rosa Parks.”
One thing that I have learned about the civil rights movement, Ms. Glisson, is that just about everything I learned about it in school was a damned lie. And these lies were told for particular reasons, not just because they we’re “a great story” but because they worked. They worked in getting whites to voluntarily surrender their innate advantage as the nations majority.
Any movement that needs to justify itself with lies is unworthy of respect or support.
“That opportunity came in December of that year, when a secretary of the local NAACP, who had been attending leadership and organizing training sessions at Highlander Folk School, chose to remain in her bus seat with the goal of being arrested, allowing the Montgomery group to launch their challenge to the segregation code. That woman was Rosa Parks.”
The very best thing that they (the authorities) could have done was to ignore her. Simply ignore her! Just let her sit there and pay no attention to her. Little did they know who she was (a secretary of the NAACP, who had been undergoing training for this) or that it was all a careful set-up. They played into her hands and gave her the incident that she wanted. She was ready for it (with photographer on hand). She was a provocateur, who deliberately created this incident, which got her world fame and sympathy and transformed the United States forever. Considering her background and training, it must have been all carefully planned.
(Note for those who may not know: The innocent-sounding Highlander Folk School was a Communist-run training camp for organizers which had also been attended by MLK.)
Obama’s not even in office yet and the retailers are pimping Obama merchandise everywhere. Makes me sick
“Social Security payments for an aging white population will have to be paid by an increasingly brown and black work force, which may resent such support.”
One of the reasons given for allowing all these non-whites into our country is that all races are EXACTLY THE SAME except for appearance. Since that is what all nice people are supposed to believe, why would America’s enlightened brown/black/yellow population of 2050 resent supporting elderly whites with Social Security taxes? After all, we are EXACTLY like them.
White Americans have been brainwashed into giving away our country to aliens. Our replacements realize the differences between the races and they, being tribal, would much rather provide for their own extended families and numerous children than the elderly whites who let them into the U.S.A.
