Posted by Richard
on 10/18/2009, 6:39 am
12.41.191.34
I am a Professor of African American history who studies the media. I find it interesting that many whites who post comments about Mammy Two shoes not being racist view African American opposition to these images as liberal or PC. It's like saying I can punch you in the face, but I won't believe you if you say it hurts (stop complaining). Fact is racism didn't limit whites economic opps, force them to be mostly slaves and later servants to whites, or limit their educational opps. Sure whites were discriminated against based on their language, nationality, socio-economic class, and religion, and I oppose these forms of discrimination also. But to say well ...it's ebonics not racist, or we should be able to laugh at this ...is simply blaming blacks for the limitations whites forced on them at the time. LOVE YOUR SITE. It's about documenting, facing, understanding and learning from the past not dismissing it. THX
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