Ferguson Missouri And Race

The black preacher said:  "This is not about race . . . ."

What!  Shut up and get out of our face!  We've been watching what people who look like you have been doing in our schools, on our streets, and in your neighborhoods.  We now see them looting these stores, burning; we see and hear them attacking the police.  They call themselves Afrikan Americans.

Why do they call themselves that?  They can conceive of passing their life as giggling, inferior imitations of Anglos or Spaniards or French or Portuguese, but can't even imagine having an Afrikan identity (having an Afrikan name and speaking an Afrikan language).

Whites, descendents of Europeans, take European names and speak European languages, establishing their European identity.  Does that make us enemies?  Of course not!  But it highlights an unmentionable "untouchable."  Whites are noted for being grounded in features from European cultures; Afrikan Americans -- and "blacks" in general in the Americas -- are noted for the following phone call:

"Did you see me on TV?  We is being talked about everywhere -- in pool halls, barber shops, hair-straightening parlors, at supper tables, on street corners, buses and everywhere.  Ain't that sump'um.  Soon we is gon' have a policeman scared to touch us and we can do whatever we wants -- want that be sump'um? Lawdy, I can't wait . . . ."

Would these protesters, with their hair dyed blond or red, and others waving and grinning for the TV cameras be as vocal and physical protesting their hypocrisy with identity of our Afrikan ancestors?  But what would slave mentalities brainwashed that "we're all equal" and think that an illiterate thug is the equal of an Albert Einstein know about that.  Being a male and being a man are two different critters.