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Danny, hopefully we can use

Oxy Mora — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:54:11 +0000

In reply to My concerns are for my nieces

Danny, hopefully we can use this as a forum to keep track of exactly what these kids are experiencing. I'm more familiar with the suburban schools here, but I plan to find out more what is happening out in the rural county.

Trump has a narcissistic

NCD — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:02:10 +0000

In reply to Some TV guy asked the new

Trump has a narcissistic personality disorder that is manifesting itself to levels never reached before combined with delusions of greatness, 'I know more than the Generals'. The people around him are ideological fanatics living in bubbles impermeable to objective reality.

As much as we might criticize his voters intelligence or bias, I would guess a large percentage of them are more sane and more grounded in reality than Trump and his team. That may become clear to them before long.

My concerns are for my nieces

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:26:36 +0000

In reply to Danny, the best thing I have

My concerns are for my nieces and nephews. I don't want them to experience the sort of normalized racism my siblings left the Blue Ridge Mountains to avoid. In some respects the south followed them.

I don't know how to rally the

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:21:35 +0000

In reply to I am not surprised that some

I don't know how to rally the kind of support necessary without pushing some of our silent allies against the wall, but maybe we have gotten here because too many people have gotten too comfortable? I am and have been thoroughly disgusted with hypocrisy of the religious right, but the silence of moderate Christians is deafening.

Great post

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:07:49 +0000

In reply to I am what MLK described. I

Great post

I am what MLK described. I

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:52:38 +0000

In reply to The consequences are a huge

I am what MLK described. I didn't vote for Trump, but I am going to benefit and will be "liberal" along the way, and will justify it as watching out for my kid and... yeah... anything I can get for him, I will. I didn't ask for this and voted against it, but I will give my boy whatever advantage I can.

Michael, I have never met you, but I can assure you that you would most definitely be identified as the cultural other in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I don't believe you are controlled by the in-group out-group distinctions that fuels some of the paranoia on both sides. I will render you my version of I have a black friend or I voted for Obama. My wife and I will never be able to have children; we knew this in our teens- years before we ever thought about it. We were high school and college sweethearts; I broke up with her shortly after her graduation. We spent the next 14 years trying to find a way to get back together. We have two blond haired blue eyed God daughters: Jensen and Jenifer. On October 16th my God son (Landry) was born. I am a black man with three white God children. Race and race issues are complicated. I've been accused of being a racist by people who don't have any meaningful relationships with any people of color. I am the descendant of slaves. My parents and in-laws went to segregated Rosenwald schools. I can either own this legacy and do everything in my power to fight for the sovereignty of Black skin, or I can hide. There are times when hiding would have been the better choice if all I had to worry myself with was career advancement. Just from reading your writing I can tell that you aren't the kind of person who would obstruct the train of human history. Can you do more? I don't know; that's something you have to decide. I go to church with people who literally risked it all. My pastor has two arrests on his police record, both came as a student protesting segregation. We have a church member who was integral to ending the defacto segregation that was occurring at Eastern Kentucky University while she was there. I go to church with another gentleman who attended Southern Illinois University when Roland Burris and Dick Gregory were students. When I listen to these people say they can't believe how far back we've gone I take them at there word. I'm not going to placate anyone's feelings at Dagblog, but I can assure you for whatever differences we may have, I'm certain no one is advocating for a soft fascism. If you get a tax break: save it, invest it, or take a nice trip. We have to move past guilt and get back to forcing people to engage ideas they aren't comfortable with. In some respects the disagreements at Dagblog are more beneficial to all of us than the agreements. I don't want to be in a place where everyone agrees with me all of the time. I've fought the natural trap of being the Black guy who writes about Black issues, but the reality is: Black issues are more important to me than trillion dollar speculations on Wall Street or pop culture. If King's words have made you think about your role in this struggle: GOOD. That's what he excelled at in his preaching and the little bit of writing he did.

Have a great day!

I think Trump's election

rmrd0000 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:37:30 +0000

In reply to I agree 100%. I've watched

I think Trump's election dealt a serious blow to race relations. While I have white friends who are more outraged than I when some racist incident happens, I also have Conservative acquaintances as well. I now realize that I no longer trust those Trump supporters.

Some TV guy asked the new

CVille Dem — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:32:26 +0000

In reply to Segregated Faith: America's First Sunday

Some TV guy asked the new Chief of Staff if the Trump Administration would make any effort to recognize the desires of the plurality of voters. Raince at first looked perplexed. Then he declared that Trump had "an electoral landslide,". He then stated that since the Democrats are completely powerless now, the the trump administration will not cater to any of their wishes.

These are the people who claim to be believers in someone who, I'm told was a nice guy to all people and especially those in need. But because the larger number of voters supported the other candidate, nothing they say will even be considered. These people stole a Supreme Court nomination from the duly elected President, and their hateful efforts to delegitimize this President probably haven't stopped. Yes, the d has some black acquaintances, but they all seem to be willing to use their skin color as a reverse-racism card to allow trump to say he is equal opportunity in his thinking. It's true, see? Because he didn't let whites who didn't look a "certain way" live in his apartments either.

I just started a book called The Thinking Life, by PM Forni. In Chapter I he mentions a hot mic moment when candidate Obama was in Europe in 2007. He was talking to David Cameron and the gist of his comments were that it is essential to have blocks of time each day to simply think; to reflect on the day and on the Big Picture, and he expected that if he was elected it would take more discipline to accomplish that than even the pace of the campaign demanded.

So we go from a man who schedules thinking time to someone who doesn't even read; had no clue what the job of President entailed; who surrounds himself by people whose agendas are even darker than his own.

It's going to get worse and worse.

Dr King taught how the

moat — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:23:11 +0000

In reply to Segregated Faith: America's First Sunday

Dr King taught how the bondage of hatred holds both the victim and the perpetrator captive. However many Trump supporters are not racists does not break the chain that binds them together with racists.
In this situation, it is not a matter of different groups seeing their interests best served in a political agenda without agreeing with each other on why. Trump developed his power on explicit appeals to hatred, fear, and intimidation. Whatever advantages Trump's non-racist supporters gained were bought with that coin.
Unlike Pilate, they cannot wash their hands clean of the stain.

I agree 100%. I've watched

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:06:28 +0000

In reply to Almost 90% of the black vote

I agree 100%. I've watched "family value" conservatives bend over backwards to support Trump. I have attended services where pastor friends have chastised people for engaging in the kinds of behaviors they find themselves supporting. I'm drained.