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THOUGHTS ON RACISM
Recently, Barack Obama made an
eloquent speech(even if you disagree, speech was eloquent) on racism in response to his, pastor, Jeremiah Wright's critical remarks.
"History has already judged the slavery issue as absolutely terrible.
To own human beings has to be about the most terrible thing we can imagine. And, the argument that it was the times in which we lived won't hack it either.
In some ways we don't know what we would have done had we lived back there. I sometimes equate it to the most atrocious act of the Vietnam war, My Lai. There is no silver lining to put on it.
However, any combat Vietnam vet can tell you that after days of being harassed with booby traps, knowing that everybody is in somebody's army, soldiers going crazy might happen. Acceptable no, understandable, maybe.
If you were a white southerner and knew that owning slaves which everybody else was doing would help your family to have a better life, would you do it? Meaty questions." White southerners would do well to come to grips with the whole idea of the awfulness of slavery. If we don't do it then we are forever stuck, I think. Is it going to happen? I doubt it.
- a reader of the webzine
Blood Done Signed My Name - a short story of racism in the old South
(short story author comments: The Klu Klux Klan's reign on the south influences a vietnam veteran's reaction to racism from childhood. In the Army and in Nam, his best friend, a young African American, causes greater reflection. He comes home from Nam, eager to start his life over, but the Klan and its influence still reign.)
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One Singular Character: The Big T
an addition to the Chapter, One Singular Character, of the memoir, Yesteryear's Tales
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"Every person is a new door to a different world."
- from movie "Six Degrees of Separation"
If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
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The South's Gonna Rise Again
Enjoy the above installment of YesteYear tales about Displaying Southern Pride, A Dad's encounter with racism and love for FDR.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.-FDR
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Chaplains Pray over 4000 Fallen
The US soldier death toll in Iraq has reached four thousand. Chaplains pray with the fallen, their families, and preside over the funerals.
Army Chaplains have been particularly busy because army soldiers make up three-fourths of the fallen
Chaplains Salute Each of the Fallen
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