http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7499442?MSNHPHCP>1=10637
After reading this article, I am completely pumped up and ready to heal the world. Even after realizing that I can't just be my bookworm-ish, introverted, humor-lacking self and appeal to 6th graders, I still have hope that perhaps one day I won't have to portray the role of someone I'm not- I'm not the stereotypical loud, ignorant, ghetto Black woman that many of them respond to. I don't like to yell at them, I don't like to cut them down and be so restrictive that I promote further power struggles that entrench us (individually and as a people) in the self-hatred that inhibits us from speaking out and acting and living every day life in a manner such as to eliminate the negative statistics and stereotypes that Whitlock dubs as the Black KKK.
Here's the quote that really twanged my nerves:
Watch the documentary [on the Little Rock 9] and ask yourself why nine poor kids in the '50s risked their lives to get a good education and a thousand poor black kids today ignore the opportunity that is served to them on a platter.I'm going to read that article again!
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