Know something? I echo basically everything you said but I have been
a victim, but never "played" the victim! I'm okay and it's people
like you that give me hope!:-)
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "evosap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for setting me straight re your old article I will send my email.
>
>
> There is a new book out "slavery by another name", haven;t read it but
> listened to author. He documents the continued efforts to enslave
> black americans with phony charges and work camp prisons up to the30s
> or 40s. heartbreaking. slavery still very much exists, most
> disturbingly in the sex trade of children.
>
> while i hear that americans have fought against it, i still don't
> think the average american appreciates the horror that existed in this
> country for african people. it is often hard for humans to admit our
> participation in something so egregious. we are a human family, and
> my american family did commit crimes against african people. no idea
> what the best thing to do about it but deny its impact is not it. i
> have listened to a number of people claim no responsibility, no
> appreciation.
>
> then...what to do about the victim mentality that drives individuals
> to see discrimination where it does not exist?
>
> ultimately it seems to me that racism/sexism/homophobia/Speciesism and
> any other stance we take that sees another as "other" than us, me etc
> is a spiritual ignorance (and pretty scientific seeing as we are all
> in the same ecosystem).
>
> I am pretty guilty of making fun of behaviors that i find
> offensive...gross materialism, fear of the poor, classism, the
> assumption we should all be living the married procreating life,
> hummer drivers, chicks with plastic surgery blah blah blah..so i am
> failing to recognize the light of the universe in all as well.
>
> i tell myself that my discrimination is better than that based on what
> is unchangeable, like skin color, orientation, gender...but am i
> kidding myself?
>
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