CNN to offer a glimpse of black life in America

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SPB wrote:

Strangely enough as a white person my parents did have that conversation with me about police.

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Pat wrote:

Maybe they can start with Obama and the governor of New York and quickly put the "we're victims of racism" to rest in 10 minutes.
You want something? EARN IT!!!

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Pat wrote:

Maybe they can start with Obama and the governor of New York and quickly put the "we're victims of racism" to rest in 10 minutes.
You want something? EARN IT!!!

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Robert Mays wrote:

As an African-American I have never felt that CNN has shown itself to be any less racially biased than the rest of main-stream media- last time I checked we have not yet received reparations for almost 300 years of free labor under slavery, nor have we been compensated for the post-slavery crimes against humanity committed against us as a people. Neither CNN or any other media outlet advocates that brand of capitalistic justice. There have always been race-traitors among African-Americans, uncle Toms we used to call them, that minimized the suffering of a people based on race that has been our lot in America since 1619. Justice Thomas, Armstrong Williams, Roy Innis and countless clerics and politicians and others come to mind. Many have figured out that there's money to be had by attacking one's own own people in this society- the concept is hardly new. Interestingly though, I don't read or see the same sort of criticisms directed at Jewish-Americans who actually received reparations for just a decade of slave labor in Nazi Germany almost 70 years ago. These folks were ably assisted by a high-level delegation sent by President Bill Clinton. You may have heard of him, or his wife... There's nothing "post-racial" about the discrimination African-Americans face daily in educational opportunities, in hiring, in housing acquisition, in health-care delivery, and from police terror, and on and on. It's not "playing victim" to say so; it's called telling the hard truth. Incidentally, the candidacy of Barack Obama of the good fortune of a Governor Paterson change this reality not at all.
Robert W. Mays
Robert W. Mays

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Justice for ALL wrote:

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Blanket statements geared toward either race is utterly wrong, and an injustice to efforts of uniting the country, however I truly believe that there are alot more "Black" people than you realize who are trying to "EARN IT" as you so eloquently put it. Unfortunately you seem to overlook what Obama has EARNED as the better candidate by again playing into the racial divide. McCain is out of his league (please spare me the experience talk, because experience at failure is worse than no experience, and history has taught us that revolutionaries have a better impact on this world, than those who simply regurgitate their "experiences"). If Barack was white there may not be as many obstacles, but to think that any "liberal" candidate has it easy is a farce. Truly the "appointed" governor of New York was placed in his situation (although I am not claiming any knowledge of) I tend to think he has earned his way to that seat by some means.
Truthfully, however there is a different experience in some sector's of society based on race.
I cannot speak of injustice from the police, becuase I don't have any experiences which have led me to believe I was treated some way particularly because of race, however I can speak to the fact that I have been overlooked for employment, pigeonholed by would be business associates, and treated differently during employment based on my race.(I know this becuase I was even told on many occasions including one where the CEO of the company I worked for previously said it is harder for him to trust/hire a black man and let him run a portion of the business even though he may be more qualified, and even though he may have proved himself more within the organization)
I have seen qualified, HARD WORKING, smarter individuals dismissed from positions based on race only, and yes there were some that remained "for fear of discrimination suits" but I truly believe that talent, drive, intelligence, true SUCCESS & RESULTS should be the only factors in consideration for any positin,promotion, etc.
One last note: I loathe the term African-American. It propagates a sense that as a "black" person we are not wholly American. Every single person in the United States is the result of immigration (one way or the other) unless you are a full-blooded native american. So unless we call our "white/caucasian" brethren Euro-American or European-American, then let's do away with all the other hypenated American terms including Hispanic-American, Asian-American, etc.