ironweed
11-21-2005, 11:43 PM
Throwing The Race Stone
November 21, 2005
On behalf of African Americans everywhere, I'd just like to say: We're tired of being No.1.
For most of the last 386 years, we've been No.1, and it seems no one in America can topple us from our perch for long.
We're No.1 over the Jews and the Muslims, No.1 over the whites and the Hispanics, No.1 over the Asians and the American Indians, No.1 over the Protestants and the Catholics, the gays and the straights, the believers and the nonbelievers. Hey, we'd be No.1 over an extraterrestrial with a death ray.
We have been, and continue to be, and perhaps will forever be No.1 in America - black folks. The descendants of Africans in America. The ones for whom one stone fits all.
It's no brag, for it's nothing to brag about. It's just a stone-cold fact borne by the latest FBI statistics on hate crimes. Of the 7,649 hate crimes reported in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 2004, more than half of the hate crimes involved race, and more than half of those involving race were crimes against African Americans.
We blacks are the No.1 hated group in America
Continued (http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-harris1121.artnov21,0,1316759.column)
November 21, 2005
On behalf of African Americans everywhere, I'd just like to say: We're tired of being No.1.
For most of the last 386 years, we've been No.1, and it seems no one in America can topple us from our perch for long.
We're No.1 over the Jews and the Muslims, No.1 over the whites and the Hispanics, No.1 over the Asians and the American Indians, No.1 over the Protestants and the Catholics, the gays and the straights, the believers and the nonbelievers. Hey, we'd be No.1 over an extraterrestrial with a death ray.
We have been, and continue to be, and perhaps will forever be No.1 in America - black folks. The descendants of Africans in America. The ones for whom one stone fits all.
It's no brag, for it's nothing to brag about. It's just a stone-cold fact borne by the latest FBI statistics on hate crimes. Of the 7,649 hate crimes reported in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 2004, more than half of the hate crimes involved race, and more than half of those involving race were crimes against African Americans.
We blacks are the No.1 hated group in America
Continued (http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-harris1121.artnov21,0,1316759.column)