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Originally Posted by MrAtlanta
"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."
- Jesse Jackson
Believe it or not, Jesse is not the only black person who feels this way, deep down. Forget about white folks, we're afraid of ourselves. And as far as I'm concerned, the amount of fear and distrust we harbor in the black community towards one another is justified to an extent (i.e., black-on-black crime).
And you don't know how much I hate saying what I just said, but it's true.
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Like I said earlier white folk turned the world upside down. It was just 40-50 years ago that it was white folk we where supposed to be scared of because they would do all types of horrible things to us including lynch, whip, beat, mutilate, burn, and kill us and that is not even the end of it. But somehow it is no longer white people we are supposed to be scared of it is each other. Never even wondering what the caused the sudden change and letting this whole system that is constantly attacking us in more ways than just violence off the hook.