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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Seven and Two Thirds
I'm back on page one!!! Did you have something to do with that? If so, THANK YOU!!! If not, FPPT!!! Check it out. It would make a great movie. Go to YouTube and look at Seven and Two Thirds.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
No Tears Shed For This Death
Mississippi Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale killed two black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore in 1964, but did not go to prison despite his 1964 arrest with his accomplice, Charles Marcus Edwards, until 2007. The 1964 charges were dropped because local law enforcement officers were in collusion with the Klan, but the case was reopened in 2005. Charles Marcus Edwards, being just as much of a coward as his murdering, racist partner gave up Seale and was granted immunity for the kidnapping and murder of these two teenagers.
While Edwards did not deserve immunity, in a perfect world, the racism that brought about the murder of these two young men would not exist. Obviously, it is not a perfect world.
Seale was 76 when he died yesterday. His victims died when they were both 19. I am never happy to hear about anyone's death, even someone so full of hate, but I am happy that Seale died in prison, serving his late, but well-earned three life sentence term after being convicted in 2007. I am not sorry he is dead, but I am sorry he ever lived.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Bigotry in the Bedroom
I saw a commercial today featuring an interracial couple engaging in pillow talk regarding their daughter considering a military career. I was suddenly a little girl racing to the kitchen to tell my mother that I had just seen something I had never seen before -- a black woman in a commercial. I confess that I am old enough to remember a much whiter world than the one in which we live today and how the common sight of people of color was not as prevalent as it finally is. It was not my doing anymore than it was my choice, but I am somehow embarrassed by it having been so accepted by so many for so long. I don't remember what was being advertised in that ad so many years ago and I may not remember today's couple was discussing anything as important as their child's future in years to come, but they were a black man in bed with a white woman and that smacks of bravery on the part of the people who casted that commercial. My daughter was in the room when it aired and unlike the little girl her mother was, she thought nothing of it. In the bigoted society in which we live, that fact alone makes me proud of the way I've raised my children, teaching them from birth that different is neither better nor worse -- only different. The commercial itself made me laugh to think of the racists who saw it and began screaming their racial epithets to fewer people than used to listen to them. Perhaps their screams were out of anger and hatred alone, but I like to think that it was also out of fear as they realized their way of thinking is finally on the way out.
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