WOW Anyone see Bill Moyers this week?

[proud2BlibKansan]

"I am black and happy to be so, but my identity is not my master. I'm my master. And I resent this civil rights leadership telling me what I should think and what issues I should support this way or that way. And that's where, in black America, identity has become almost totalitarian... You subscribe to the idea that the essence of blackness is grounded in grievance, and if you vary from that you are letting whites off the hook. And we're gonna call you a sell out. We're gonna call you an 'Uncle Tom'... I was gonna have a life or I was just going to be a kind of surrogate for blackness... but you enter an exile where the group identifies you as someone who is a threat, and part of being black is despising or having contempt for people like me."

Shelby Steele, author of A BOUND MAN: WHY WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT OBAMA AND WHY HE CAN'T WIN

You can watch it at this link:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01112008/profile2.html

[KaryninMiami]

1. I did and agree- it was excellent. Thanks for the post.

[jasmine621]

2. Ive watched this strategy at work for years. Divide and conquer.

Start a discussion of how younger blacks resent the positions and opinions of the old guard civil rights leaders (who were on the front lines throughout the civil rights fight), make sure that messages are twisted, re-framed, distorted and baseless but repeated over and over until the majority believe and accept it as truth. Why resent a voice of experience? If you don't like the ideas, just don't ascribe to them but why "resent" the opinions of some actual "heroes?"

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. It is a very interesting topic - I think

But after watching that show, I am thinking I am a white woman. Why do I even pretend to understand? :shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I did watch that,

and I found it fascinating and very informative. Obama walks a tightrope.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. It makes me admire him more for what he is doing

He has so much at stake.

[ClayZ]

6. Thanks, K and R