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Nigger:"Let me tell you something about niggers, the oppressed minority within our minority.They are not responsible for their nearly 5 percent incarceration rate and their 9.Now, I'm no fan of Condi.That said, I think Ridley's piece makes excellent points about how we need to redefine ourselves in the African American community, and the importance of breaking away from the now archaic modes of the civil rights past.Read it for yourself, and if you get a chance, tell me what you think.The graduation rates are appalling, but what is more appalling is that you can get to the 7th grade without the skills you should have gotten in the 3rd.But the larger thing is that we listen to him, just as Baldwin was listened to as he cut down Wright, but we miss out on the nuanced critique offered by Ralph Ellison on the Wright aesthetic.It is rooted, are partly rooted (let me not make the lame generalizations that gotta accompany a manifesto, cause its a manifesto) in the abhorrence of the elements of culture that sustained the black community prior to the civil rights movement.Where are the grandparents of the movement today?Oh, they out shopping on black friday, getting the toys for Christmas.They still fat from celebrating the death of the indians and they haven't told a youngster bout the civil rights movement since eyes on the prize was on tv.So the problem is that we refuse to talk to each other.Older generations leave us no legacy, but bestow a series of complaints.Thanks for your passionate response.Ridley puts the complete responisibility for the state of the lower end of black society onto black people, and thus ignores a host of historic social realities.That said, we can't change history, but we can change ourselves.And it's getting us nowhere.James Baldwin's essay on Richard's Wright's Native Son, entitled "Everybody's Protest Novel."This was not merely a hack's "cutting down" of an established writer, rather it was a brilliant, groundbreaking essay on the importance of moving past a 19th century race mentality and presenting instead fully realized and truly human black people in fiction.This was not simply about aggrandizement: Baldwin risked his entire career by speaking truth to power.Also, Ralph Ellison's greatest critique of Native Son was Invisible Man, which was hardly ignored.Nor were his later essays in Shadow and Act.Without criticism, there can be no evaluation of failure, no revelation of hypocrisy, and no improvement.Baldwin went after Wright in the same way that Wright went after Hughes, in the same way that Hughes went after DuBois and Locke.First off, Mat, many thanks for the heads regarding your entry and your take on the Ridley piece.Manifesto several times and I think it is a masterful supposition.Whether this diversity entails culture, politics, philosophy, art....Jack Kirby's fictional composite from the Eternals saga) mentality that people of color are forced to be comprised of is not only archaic but may prove to be our downfall.Mat(of course giving you your propers)...Now I try to change the world with words instead.This essay is indicative of something that is very wrong within black America.Not the "niggers" whom Ridley chooses to denigrate, but the various spokespersons (Cosby, Juan Williams, et al) who choose to stand up in public and bash them.This discussion is dominated far more by stereotype than actual reality.Similarly black violent crime has been declining for the past 12 years and black teen pregnancy is the lowest it has been since 1968.Yet writers of Ridley's ilk are able to generate huge amounts of attention for daring to "tell it like it is."It is sad that barely a year past Katrina we are not offended by a black man publicly arguing that we should bid the black poor farewell and tell them to fend for themselves.That is almost good news.America anymore, positive or negative.The Civil Rights era is over: there is nothing they have that a PR campaign can give us anymore.We wouldn't get to read the eloquint rebutals such as the one you just wrote.The world has changed, and the only way we can too is to engage in open and honest debate.That said, I wish that debate didn't have to be in Esquire.If we had a major magazine that dealt directly with political issues, we could have done it there, but we don't: Code, Savoy, American Visions all folded from lack of support.Ridley's points but I do think internal debate is a good thing.The "true" Black experience is not only a poor urban one.We are a pretty diverse group of folks, contrary to the media and most of our "leaders".In fact, we all know that in Capitalist society , somebody's got to be down and out.Right now, America is violent and cunsumer driven.Excuses for failure abound among majority race along with wholesale denial of privilege.White boys are major crap rap consumers.Blackness changes the way we were, are, and will be regarded.If there's a societal problem with a racial underclass, it's because of a flaw in the society, not the inherent fault of class or race.When the British Empire was ascendant, the lower classes acted out and the upper classes explained it away as inherent class degeneration.Now we regard underclass blacks in the same fashion.People are the way they are because of a combination of circumstances, situations along with choices.Good point on the minimum wage.This speaks to the immigration issue as well.The problem is not that Americans won't do the worse jobs anymore, the problem is that the pay scale for the worst jobs has failed to keep up with inflation.Jack and Jill hasn't been a "brown bag" club in a long long time.Many of us are still recovering from all the ways we were cheated in the past.Cultures have world views, mythic structures, and expectations that affect how they deal with the world.In our community, there is a persistent victim mentality.That's not because we are crazy, it's because European America systematically victimized our community for centuries, a victimization that really just ended in our lifetimes.Part of the victim mentality is the belief that we are absolved from all social responsibility because everything we do is really the fault of our oppressors.It's that we ourselves are our only hope for moving beyond that.In fact I offered some some work for payment around my house and they didn't show up.They aren't thinking at all.They can't hold a job anymore than any depressed person on SSDI can.And they hate themselves some more.There are so many black men like this, living off women, barely living at all.They're not niggers, they're broken.They don't blame the white men, rather, they hate themselves too.In wrestling with the Cincinatti (not Cleveland) case, Ridley ignores the fact that the Cincinatti police are some of the most corrupt and racist police officers this side of the Mississippi.And if excellence in leadership is what we should be striving for, I'm not sure why Rice and Powell would be chosen given their actions in moving the US towards invasion.If you have some time, read the article from the standpoint of a prose critic.Not only is it analytically bankrupt, it reads poorly.Another part is belief that we are powerless to help ourselves, and that only our oppressors can help us by choosing not to victimize us anymore.What I will say is two things:1) there is no empirical proof for the above assertion.Everytime Al Sharpton opens his mouth, I hear it.Everytime another rapper feels comfortable pretending to be a homicidal sociopath because he thinks it reflects more on the society that created him than himself, I see it in action.Depression, though, which is also a huge problem in our impoverished areas, just as it is in every area plagued by poverty.And Powell's tenure was defined by the fact that he was completely ignored except during those moments when he was exploited.From the standpoint of pure rhetoric and logic, it is relatively easy to prove the inherent flaws in using a victim versus an empowerment argument.Much has been done on this topic in feminist theory over the last 20 years, particularly in relation to rape (do a Muse search for a years worth of reading on the subject).Regardless of whether one agrees with this brand of social theory, it's hardly "barbershop philosophy."The piece is very flawed, but I don't think that it is worthless.It's so easy, and it's so intellectually lazy.If we talk about whether blacks have or do not have a "culture of victimization" we should be able to generate some form of test that proves or disproves that assertion.Cultural mythology even more so.For it to work, we have to do both.At times he has been known as The Mullah of Mulattos.He is seven feet tall, conks his facial hair with lye, and wears a belt buckle made from the skull of Iceberg Slim.The Difference Between Commercial and L...Creating the TDD Library File in VS NET 2003.Running TDD Tests in VS NET 2003.Running TDD Tests of MATLAB Functions in VS NET 2003.Running TDD 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