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What to do This Weekend: MLB's Civil Rights Game
The fifth annual Delta Civil Rights Game will take place on Sunday, May 15 in Atlanta, pairing the Phillies and the Braves, two teams with superstar African American players, to face each other in a city with a rich heritage of highlighting and celebrating black folks -- in joy and struggle.
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By: X-abian Montsho Jahi on 5/14/2011 10:17AM
Advertising the "Fifth Annual Delta Civil Rights" MLB game by Black Voices is a joke, and a slap in the face to the forces who truly opposed the evil forces we encountered, and encounter, today.
Reason being, Black History Month has the President's Day as a celebratory day, right in the middle of the same month. If I'm not mistaken, didn't President Thomas Jefferson enact the Fugitive Slave Law; possibly at the same time he was raping Sally Hemings (slave girl)?
The European Doctrine/Willie Lynch plan is truly coming to fruition when our females are in so many prominent positions, but are afraid to say, or too undereducated to recognize the sinister moves by our UnReparating slavemakers: Jews and Europeans. Don't worry BlackVoices. I'll make this more public than just to you. Keep your eyes and ears open.
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By: Tom on 5/14/2011 11:46AM
Imagine an article reading "The fifth annual Delta Civil Rights Game will take place on Sunday, May 15 in Atlanta, pairing the Phillies and the Braves, two teams with superstar White players, to face each other in a city with a rich heritage of highlighting and celebrating white folks -- in joy and struggle. "
It would be called "racist" and "hate" filled. That shows the hypocrisy of blacks.
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By: Greg D. on 5/14/2011 5:08PM
@Tom,
As usual, your comments lack the nondetachable historical perspective and context. Again, if all things had been equal, you might have a point. You always fail to acknowledge "why" it's NOT considered hypocritical. You act as though the conditions that led blacks "getting a pass" on things like this never happened.
If a reasonable person was born this month and knew nothing about the treatment people of color have received at the hands of white society in the name of white supremacy, they too would think blacks are wrong.
But, history is what it is. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery remain, even today. Your denials and consistent displays of hatred for people of color merely proves the point. But, YOU are too stupid to realize you and people like you are the reason the need for the struggle remains.
I bet you didn't even know there was a time blacks were not allowed into major league baseball.
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By: karla mcclain on 5/15/2011 7:13PM
Greg, I read the statements between you and Colleen -- WELL SAID BROTHER !!!
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By: Coreen Fields on 5/14/2011 5:41PM
Why do African Americans continue to segregate themselves!!!Martin Luther King King died so that Americans of color could be integrated into the major society. Yet, African-Americans continue to have "Black Games", Miss Black America etc. Don't be upset if one of these days we find that de jure segregation is reinstated. Obviously, that is what a large portion of the African-American community wants
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By: Greg D. on 5/14/2011 9:43PM
@Coreen Fields,
How about you learn the difference between "segregation" and "separation". The difference IS with distinction.
"Segregation" is forced separation by entities not of the group being separated for the purposes of "special" treatment.
"Separation" is a choice. Dr. MLK Jr. and others fought for people of color to CHOOSE where and how they wanted to live. To be INTEGRATED into a greater society that enjoys the choice of self determination rather than have their lives determined by entities outside of the segregated group.
The goal has never been to live among white people. The goal is the universal acceptance of individual choices. I should have the right to do my thing with or without you and you should accept that choice.
Many of the choices African Americans make due to Jim Crow, chattel slavery, etc have become a part of "black culture". Simply part of a means of identification with who we are and have been.
It becomes part of traditional cultural practice.
Jewish people don't forget all of what they have gone through. No one asks them or expects them to either. Native Americans are no longer expected to give up their past and recognition of their ancestors. It's encouraged to remember by both groups for the purposes of cultural identification.
Do you get it?
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By: Manger Borne on 5/15/2011 7:53PM
You said it wrong. MLKJ didn't "die." He was killed BECAUSE whites don't want us integrated with them. Our integration with them means their ultimate and sped-up elimination; and they know it.
Their greatest outcry and fear has always been "race-mixing" is killing us (off)! Whites have the inferior gene for a reason.
Send me a fax number and I guarantee I will change your perspective of how pro-integration the Hon. Min. MLKJ was. Be brave, send me any fax number where you can have accessibility?
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By: Coreen Fields on 5/14/2011 11:16PM
Greg:
The USA is becomming more and more diverse. The census bureau predicts that by 2050 te USA will be a predominately non-white nation. That is what the Tea Party is fighting. When I say non-white, I am talking about mostly blck, brown and yellow. I am not talking about mostly black. We African Americans will still constitute only 12 to 14% of the total population.
I suggest that if you choose to live in a mostly black society, any country iN West,East, or southern Africa should be your choice. The time is coming when you will not be able to make such a choice in the USA.
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By: Greg D. on 5/15/2011 10:02AM
@Coreen,
I am well aware of the increased diversity in America. My response to you references your comments regarding segregation. You totally leap frog over what you said about segregation. I spoke to "cultural" and "tradition". When many Chinese or other ethnic groups exercise their "choice" to preserve and maintain their cultural identities through gathering as one, no one has anything negative to say about it. African Americans should not have to, as you suggest, move to Africa to do this.
If you want to totally assimilate and abdicate the unique aspects of the "black experience" in America and identification with that experience, that is your "choice".
But, you need to understand this salient point:
The greater American experience with African Americans is very different than other ethnic groups who live here or will come here. But like other ethnic groups we have the right to identify "as a group" to maintain what has become African American culture and identity.
It isn't one OR the other, as you suggest. Like other groups, it can and should be both.
My mother once marched with Dr. King. I can assure you his vision for people of color was NOT the dissolution of their cultural identities and choices. But, rather to have the "choice" to do what you want. His vision was the ACCEPTANCE of their identities as no less or greater than anyone else. We can celebrate and commemorate our history through gathering as members of a shared collective history and maintain existence within the greater society too.
My question to you is: What are you running away from?
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By: Kitchen Bitch on 5/15/2011 8:45AM
it's true this game brings people together though.....
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