Good Point Perp...... On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 8:26 PM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > You wonder why this message doesn't seem to be told by today's so-called > "black leaders". > > Obama - nothing. BLM - nothing. Al Sharpton - nothing. NAACP - nothing. > > I guess I shouldn't say "nothing"; each of the above have taken the time > to blame the poverty and violence in the black communities on white people > and on cops. That's their "something" that they each seem to think matters > more than addressing the pathologies above. > > > On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 10:47:42 AM UTC-4, MJ wrote: >> >> >> >> *'Back When We Were Negroes' by Charles E. Richardson *Journal/Website: >> The Macon Telegraph >> Published Date: Sunday, July 31, 2011 >> >> There was a time until the early 1960s when the terms to describe those >> of African decent, like me African-American or Black or Afro-American >> were almost unheard of. >> >> I remember a distinct conversation with a friend discussing descriptive >> terms for ourselves in 1963 or ’64. The term “black” was just coming into >> vogue and he didn’t like it one bit. “Call me a Negro,” he said, “but don’t >> call me black.” >> >> Now, the word “Negro” (publications used a lower case “n”) has almost >> become a pejorative, so I was a little surprised when my pastor, the Rev. >> Willie Reid, used it during Thursday’s revival. “Back when we were >> Negroes,” he said, and listed several things that were different about >> black life in America back then. >> >> That got me to thinking. Back when we were Negroes in the 1950s, “only 9 >> percent of black families with children were headed by a single parent,” >> according to “The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies” by Kay Hymowitz. “Black >> children had a 52 percent chance of living with both their biological >> parents until age 17. In 1959, “only 2 percent of black children were >> reared in households in which the mother never married.” But now that we’re >> African-Americans, according to Hymowitz, those odds of living with both >> parents had “dwindled to a mere 6 percent” by the mid-1980s. And check >> this, in Bibb County, more than 70 percent of the births in the >> African-American community are to single mothers. >> >> Back when we were Negroes and still fighting in many parts of the country >> for the right to vote, we couldn’t wait for the polls to open. We knew our >> friends, family and acquaintances had died getting us the ballot. Dogs and >> fire hoses were used to keep us away and still we came. But now that we’re >> African-Americans, in a city of 47,000 registered predominately black >> voters more than 30,000 didn’t show up at the polls July 19. >> >> Back when we were Negroes, we had names like Joshua, Aaron, Paul, Esther, >> Melba, Cynthia and Ida. Now that we are African Americans, our names are >> bastardized versions of alcohol from Chivas to Tequila to C(S)hardonney. >> And chances the names have an unusual spelling. >> >> Back when we were Negroes, according to the Trust For America’s Health’s >> “F as in Fat,” report, “only four states had diabetes rates above 6 >> percent. ... The hypertension rates in 37 states about 20 years ago were >> more than 20 percent.” >> >> Now that we’re African-Americans, that report shows, “every state has a >> hypertension rate of more than 20 percent, with nine more than 30 percent. >> Forty-three states have diabetes rates of more than 7 percent, and 32 have >> rates above 8 percent. Adult obesity rates for blacks topped 40 percent in >> 15 states, 35 percent in 35 states and 30 percent in 42 states and >> Washington, D.C. >> >> Back when we were Negroes, the one-room church was the community center >> that everyone used. Now that we’re African-Americans, our churches have >> lavish compared to back-in-the-day churches community centers that >> usually sit empty because the last thing the new church wants to do is >> invite the community in. >> >> Back when we were Negroes, we didn’t have to be convinced that education >> was the key that opened the lock of success, but now that we’re >> African-Americans, more than 50 percent of our children fail to graduate >> high school. In Bibb County last year, the system had a dropout rate of >> 53,4 percent. >> >> Back when we were Negroes, the last thing a young woman wanted to look >> like was a harlot and a young man a thug, but now that we’re >> African-Americans, many of our young girls dress like hootchie mamas and >> our young boys imitate penitentiary custom and wear their pants below the >> butt line. >> >> If I could reverse all of the above by trading the term >> “African-American” for “Negro,” what do you think I’d do? >> >> >> *Charles E. Richardson is *The Telegraph’s >> * editorial page editor. He can be reached at (478) 744-4342 >> <%28478%29%20744-4342> or via e-mail at [email protected]. *This >> article may be cited as: Richardson CE. Back when we were Negroes. Macon >> Telegraph. July 31, 2011. Available from: http://www.haciendapub.com/art >> icles/back-when-we-were-negroes-charles-e-... >> <http://www.haciendapub.com/articles/back-when-we-were-negroes-charles-e-richardson> >> > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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