Thursday, April 02, 2009

Southern Shame

Following these song lyrics is the text of an email I received yesterday from one of my Flickr contacts whom lives in the State of Arkansas. My open reply is this: You so called "white power" southerners lived off the backs of the black man for hundreds of years and you expect no repercussions for this great misdeed and indignity? You treated him worse than the animals they were forced to care for; forced by bullwhip! Maybe you should take the words of Neil Young and give them some thought. Yes, Young is Canadian, but he is also human; can you lay claim to that same title?

Southern Man

Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks.
Southern man when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking
How long? how long?

Southern man better keep your head
Dont forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

Lily belle, your hair is golden brown
Ive seen your black man comin' round
Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down!
I heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking
How long? how long?

~Neil Young
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"Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Democracy."......Thomas Jefferson

read all the way to the end......................................

This e-mail does contain wording that is meant to express an open opinion
to a major problem in the USA . It is estimated that only 11% of those
receiving this e-mail will read it all the way to the end. In addition,
it is estimated that only 1% of non-white color will read this past this
point and 99% will blow it away because of the title

It is a shame this sentiment exists when we tell the world that the USA is
the best place to Live, Worship, Work, and Play…

“WHITE" Pride”

This is great. I have been wonderi ng about why Whites are racists, and
no other race is.....

Proud to be White

Michael Richards makes his point..............

Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good
point.

This was his defense speech in court afte r making racial comments in his
comedy act. He makes some very interesting points...

Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to this?
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab
Americans
, etc.

And then there are just Americans. You pass me on the street and sneer
in my direction. You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,'
'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'... and that's OK.

But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey,
Beaner, Gook, or Chink . You call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you... so why are the
ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have the NAACP. You have BET... If we had WET (W h ite Entertainment
Television), we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would
call us racists.

If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives,
we'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce , and
then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for
that??

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any
color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You
know we'd be racists.

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if
there were 'White colleges' , that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your
race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call
us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid
to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us
racists.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer
shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from
the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud... But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this e-mail. Let's see which of you are
proud enough to send it on. I sadly don't think many will.
That's why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country. We won't stand
up for ourselves!

BE PROUD TO BE WHITE!

It's not a crime YET... but getting very close!

It is estimated that ONLY 5% of those reaching this point in this
e-mail, will pass it on.


4 comments:

Mark said...

Wow, typical ingonrant white racist American.

My reply to that email.

Most white Americans have NEVER been the victim of racism so we have no idea how it truly feels.

We do not need a day, month or year.

We do not need a Miss White America.

You did not have 6 million members of your race killed while the world stood by and did nothing about this during the war. It was not a secret. Study your history.

We do not need all white colleges.

We do not need WET.

Crime is related to education and poverty. Not on the color of your skin.

We do not need a White College Fund.

You need to read about Cesar Chavez and maybe you will understand why he gets his day.

For 200 plus years after the white man came to America and systematically killed and corraled the native indians, kept blacks as slaves, used Mexicans to work in the fields of California to pick the fruit and vegtables that white America ate you wonder why they are pissed at us.

Every day, month and year has been for the white man. We have set forth the agenda that ran this country with no thought as to how other races thought things should be. They have always been pushed to the margins and used by whites so whites could get more power, more money and set his own rules.

The reason you do not care if you are called a "Cracker" or some other name is because you have NEVER been a true victim of racism.

As white Americans we owe more to the Native Indians than anybody else. Do you think what we did to them was right. What have they possibly gained by us being here.

While slavery ended many years ago do you think Blacks were treated right. We have no idea what this does to a race. If things were so good after slavery why did it take until the 1960's for them to have equal voting rights.

Until we actually start treating everybody equally as HUMANS all those things you dislike will still be here.

Do not worry though. The white race is on a slow decline in the United States and in years to come when we are the minority we can get a day, month and year.

Until then please shut the fuck up and go crawl back into the ignorant little world you live in.
You have no idea what you are talking about and look like a complete fool.

Anonymous said...

Amen!

Until I received this email, I considered the person who sent it as a friend. My reply to her was that she is sick and not to bother me again with such garbage.

Mark said...

Strange that a woman sent this. Not something I would have expected. Gotta wonder why she sent this to you.

Anonymous said...

I'll forward it to you, Mark. It is one of those emails that you get and are supposed to send it to all your contacts.

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