Nekyia's Threshold

subject:
Progress
post date:
2007-09-30 20:39:18
views: 23 comments: 0 ratings: 0

There is some progress in the world, in acceptance of differences, in rights and privileges. Clarence Thomas is an excellent example of this.A Supreme Court Justice, a fighter for equality, a speaker of sometimes questionable jokes, "Is that a pubic hair on your coke can" - and dear god didn't THAT create a hub bub.When he was a teenager his father looked him in the eye and said, "Boy, you're getting up in age now, don't ever look a white woman in the eye." When Justice Thomas revealed that it reminded me of when I was a teenager, and went to visit my boyfriend at his home for the first time. He happened to be black, and his father looked at me and looked at his son and said, "Boy, they're gonna string you up."I never forgot that, because it helps me to remember that my view of the world isn't the only view. That there are many people around me that will look at a circumstance or situation and we will have two completely different reactions because of the individual reality we bring to the eyes that see it.Soon the world will be one color. Either the minds that are open, intelligent, and accepting will prevail and the issue of skin tone will be as meaningless as the amount of land you own, or we'll continue to live and love together and assimilation will take place.Remember when the land owners were the rulers of the world? Time moved on, and so it is moving on in the issue of looks. Oh not as fast as it could or should, but it is moving on.I'm starting with my family. The only requirement in potential mates is a matter of heart and soul, not race or religion. And there's another exquisite truth there. Religion is the realm of manmade dogma - soul is the food thats going to feed the world.a>"...Thomas lovingly describes the iron-willed grandfather who raised him after his own father abandoned him as a toddler, praises the Roman Catholic Church for providing him with an education but criticizes it for not being as "adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now," and gives a detailed description of the confirmation hearings that electrified the nation in 1991 and the sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill that he said destroyed his reputation. They are the most extensive comments Thomas has made about Hill since his confirmation. Though he has given numerous speeches since he has been on the court, he has rarely mentioned Hill or spoken in detail about the nomination fight. In the book, Thomas writes that Hill was the tool of liberal activist groups "obsessed" with abortion and outraged because he did not fit their idea of what an African American should believe. "The mob I now faced carried no ropes or guns," Thomas writes of his hearings. "Its weapons were smooth-tongued lies spoken into microphones and printed on the front pages of America's newspapers. . . . But it was a mob all the same, and its purpose -- to keep the black man in his place -- was unchanged..."
Report as NSFW (Not Safe For Work) [?]
author: Edit Delete
Comment on this post..