Sunday Meditation: Race in America

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Toyin Falola

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Jun 20, 2020, 9:35:25 AM6/20/20
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Michael Afolayan

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Jun 20, 2020, 11:30:26 AM6/20/20
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Powerful . . . just too powerful. My wife couldn't stop crying, almost wailing, through this 17-minute narration. She was a district administrator for a big school district and could not but lament over the fate of many of those African American children who have to grow up under this dispensation. The questions are what and what have changed? Aren't the average African American family as vulnerable today as it was in Jim Crow's days? Could any of those successful African Americans - Oprah, Perry, Loius-Gates, millionaire athletes, etc., get to the top of the ladders of success without a story to tell? 

The answer as to where to go from here as supplied by the great narrator is CARE. My two follow-up questions would be, "how?' and "then, what?"

Thanks for sharing!

Michael O. Afoláyan







On Saturday, June 20, 2020, 9:35:25 AM EDT, Toyin Falola <toyin...@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:


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Bayo Omolola

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Jun 24, 2020, 2:48:07 PM6/24/20
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A sense of insecurity is now constant in the thinking and feeling of many people like me and you and your wife, Prof. Afolayan. Who would not experience that after viewing the terrible, horrible, inhuman brutal and sadistic treatment of  helpless Blacks in the hands of callous people? Honestly, nothing will change in this country except the victimized race is persistently, smartly forceful in its demand for respect for human dignity and equal treatment and those with the blood of White supremacy takes away the idea of "In God we trust" from the perpetrators of evil that has beclouded in their veins  apply a common sense and do right things. One would expect the US to have gone beyond the current situation. American leaders have to be very careful in their utterances and the policies they create if peace has to reign and if America will maintain its leadership in the world. The world looks badly at America now because of the terrible treatment that people of colors get. 

Bayo Omolola
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