Comments on: Whatever happened To Black Power? http://polizeros.com/2008/10/04/whatever-happened-to-black-power/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: R. Lee Gordon http://polizeros.com/2008/10/04/whatever-happened-to-black-power/comment-page-1/#comment-156511 R. Lee Gordon Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:28:22 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=13070#comment-156511 As we've lost our sense of unity, so, too, has our power been diminished . . . I speak to this on the press page of www.uniteedesign.com . . . If we can come together, as a people, we can uplift our children, alter our future, and regain our legacy on this planet . . . If not, we are doomed . . . R. Lee Gordon uniteedesign.com / betterdetroityouth.org As we’ve lost our sense of unity, so, too, has our power been diminished . . .

I speak to this on the press page of http://www.uniteedesign.com . . .

If we can come together, as a people, we can uplift our children, alter our future, and regain our legacy on this planet . . .

If not, we are doomed . . .

R. Lee Gordon
uniteedesign.com / betterdetroityouth.org

]]> By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2008/10/04/whatever-happened-to-black-power/comment-page-1/#comment-156508 DJ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:05:04 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=13070#comment-156508 "the social conditions of Blacks in America remains virtually the same today as a generation ago..." Whoa, there! I'd agree that there's still much improvement to be made. It makes me sick that my black friends' teenaged boys, even the A students among them, are made to lie face down in their own driveway at the whim of the LAPD just because of their color. (Black cops are at least as likely to demand this as white cops, BTW.) But you seem to suggest that there's been no improvement at all. I strongly disagree. These days, when an African American gets abused by the cops, it often makes headline news-- and because of that, it happens less often than it used to. And if there's a lynching in the South (as there has been from time to time over the years) it creates an uproar. Contrast this with conditions in the 1960s and 1970s, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act, and I think you'll find that social conditions have changed A LOT. “the social conditions of Blacks in America remains virtually the same today as a generation ago…”

Whoa, there! I’d agree that there’s still much improvement to be made. It makes me sick that my black friends’ teenaged boys, even the A students among them, are made to lie face down in their own driveway at the whim of the LAPD just because of their color. (Black cops are at least as likely to demand this as white cops, BTW.)

But you seem to suggest that there’s been no improvement at all. I strongly disagree. These days, when an African American gets abused by the cops, it often makes headline news– and because of that, it happens less often than it used to. And if there’s a lynching in the South (as there has been from time to time over the years) it creates an uproar. Contrast this with conditions in the 1960s and 1970s, even after passage of the Civil Rights Act, and I think you’ll find that social conditions have changed A LOT.

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