By John Felder
Columnist
National tragedies bring Americans together. In order for something to come together the nation has to be, self-admittedly, separated by general practice. In the national donor program, organs are donated by all the races who hold driver's licenses. People in need of organs are glad to receive whatever parts are available to sustain life. Television is constructed to glamorize white supremacy and domination. Yet America is forever offering extraordinary incentives to get urban community residents to join the military forces. Recently there have been many publicized cases where American troops have been on trial for murdering the said enemy. And some troops are sent to prison after volunteering for a job no protestant would apply for. With the reality of Hurricane Katrina, the Arab American community stepped up to the plate to contribute monetarily to the plight of fellow Americans. Arabs are among the richest people on the planet who are being vilified by the media which is "not" controlled by the general population.
Reparations are being paid to the various indigenous Indian nations across the continent. Jewish descendants are being paid reparations from the German Holocaust for their pain and suffering.
But rather than pay reparations to African Americans for their pain and suffering through slavery in the African holocaust from 1619 Jamestown, Va., to the present time, the government would prefer to build enormous prisons to house minorities rather than educate them and create equal rights for all citizens. Instead, the government gives increments toward equal freedom by recently making it illegal in some cities to racially profile people of color by police authorities. There is such a distinct difference in the way people of color are treated, there is a system in place to criminalize the poor. Yet it took the courage of former President Bill Clinton to pin the Purple Heart medals on the surviving veterans of World War II some 50 years too late for them to enjoy the benefits that those medals would have provided if they had been awarded in a timely manner. (This action was encouraged by Gen. Colin Powell.)
Today, Clarence Thomas is sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court. Dr. Leonard Jeffries of City College of New York was never awarded the $360,000 that the court granted him after his freedom of speech trial, which was aired on public television, appealed and denied by Justice Thomas.
To support my statement of racial pathology on television, Fox TV aired "Shaka Zulu," a documentary that showed the bare breasts of black women for an entire week, as if African American women were some sort of cattle or spectacle. Fox News repeated the insult to minorities by airing pictures of the troops in the Middle East with the Stevie Wonder song, "Front Line." The lyrics to the song - for those who don't know - are: They got me standing on the front line/ You got me standing on the front line/ But I stand at the back of the line/ When it comes to getting ahead. |
