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To: LindyBill who wrote (144563)	10/26/2005 8:49:28 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793799

Here [post-Katrina]--40 years after the great civil rights victories and 50 years after Rosa Parks's great refusal--was a poverty that oppression could no longer entirely explain. Because no one will ever touch the racism of light skinned blacks towards their darker brothers in a mostly black city with a 50 ft. pole. Ever hear of the paper bag rule? Likely not. It's so much more PC to blame whites. Not that white racism doesn't exist, but the other which I see daily and which is much more pervasive, unacknowledged, and destructive, at least here, is routinely ignored. And the reverse racism of blacks against whites? Please don't tell me that doesn't exist, either. I also see it every single day of the week. The black shame of inferiority (the result of oppression, not genetics) cannot be overcome with anything less than a heroic assumption of responsibility on the part of black Americans. In fact, true equality--an actual parity of wealth and ability between the races--is now largely a black responsibility. This may not be fair, but historical fairness--of the sort that resolves history's injustices--is an idealism that now plagues black America by making black responsibility seem an injustice. Time to switch paradigms. Blacks should take a long hard look at their Hispanic bretheren. The kind of helping hand they look for is at the end of their arm. The truly dirty work of reconstructing NO is being accomplished in large part by Hispanics who are happy to put in huge amounts of labor at $15-20 an hour at a time when, incredibly, labor shortages exist. There is a golden opportunity present here for simple laborers to create capital to fund self-sustaining enterprises which in large measure is not being seized by those who rely on racism as a crutch. Sad but true, and this opportunity will not last forever.