I'm I missing something here ...
Today's Entertainment headline, is boasting of Jamie Foxx's receiving the award for Best Male Muscial Artist, in the 37th Annual NAACP Image Awards. I think he is a very talent actor and well deserving of an award. Hell everyone is getting awards these days. But, what would happen if I started a group that gave awards to just white people? Heck the fact I am evening mentioning this makes some people shake. It's not politically corret. Why is it okay to have awards and groups promoting strickly Black acomplishments, and not strickly white people's acomplishments?
Why do we have a Black Miss America, and yet we can't have a White Miss America? Now I am not advocating the starting fo White Only Award programs. Rather I just think we are missing the point of what Black and White unity should be about. I think if progams that have for many years been "Whites Only" are now including Blacks and other minorities into their ranks that the same should be true on the other side of the fence. Honestly there shouldn't be a fence in the first place.
A couple of years ago I was a part of a Computer Professional's group that had a sub-group of Black Computer Programming Professionals. They had programs to discuss the issues of Black people in the Computer job force etc. I think whether you are Black, White, or Green the issues are the same. We need a job! We want to get paid! We want to advance and grow. There is nothing Black or White about it. But, because humankind has been so unkind, Black humans have traditionally been treated unfairly and these issues still remain. It is the sin of all humans that has caused this.
It is my hope that someday, there will be no need for a "Black Only" or "White Only" awards show. That all people will finally see each other as equal. I think that is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant when he said "I have a dream..."
Why do we have a Black Miss America, and yet we can't have a White Miss America? Now I am not advocating the starting fo White Only Award programs. Rather I just think we are missing the point of what Black and White unity should be about. I think if progams that have for many years been "Whites Only" are now including Blacks and other minorities into their ranks that the same should be true on the other side of the fence. Honestly there shouldn't be a fence in the first place.
A couple of years ago I was a part of a Computer Professional's group that had a sub-group of Black Computer Programming Professionals. They had programs to discuss the issues of Black people in the Computer job force etc. I think whether you are Black, White, or Green the issues are the same. We need a job! We want to get paid! We want to advance and grow. There is nothing Black or White about it. But, because humankind has been so unkind, Black humans have traditionally been treated unfairly and these issues still remain. It is the sin of all humans that has caused this.
It is my hope that someday, there will be no need for a "Black Only" or "White Only" awards show. That all people will finally see each other as equal. I think that is what Martin Luther King Jr. meant when he said "I have a dream..."
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