| Show r R Readers Readers' eo d e rs I Voice oice 0 Ice 0 t W minorities Women Y Y Amen men faced similar obstacles Dear Editor Numero Uno I do not judge black women or men on the basis of their skin color only by bythe the masks they wear in society and how they treat me meI I Iam I Iam am a white female whose ancestry has Welsh English Native American French I could go on and on and I wouldn't be surprised if I were to find African somewhere in there I think that the average American African-American such as yourself yourself- is in the same place women of the feminist movement were some still are sadly not too long ago i. i Black Black Americans recently have been given back their history by multi-cultural multi male and female historians so that they and everyone else can see their history in its raw v brutal inhumane naked truth Now look lookout lookout lookout out Are the oppressed ever ANG ANGRY RY And just the same they are caught up in the blame just as the whole society is nowadays Blame the porno industry not the individual individual individual in in- who murdered 17 women or was it his mothers mother's was it because his his' great grandmother was an alcoholic which caused his father to hate women and who in iri turn Urn taught it to his son or some such nonsense that was probably true back when he was a child But now that person is grown to an adult it is his his- responsibility 1 and his alone to ri rise above his pa past no matter atter how difficult Just like the Americans African who are bellowing about a past that happened to their have the great grandparents same responsibility l 1 White male-dominated male society cannot see skinned dark-skinned people for the human beings that they are because as you said in inso inso inso so many words black people dont don't t tre treat t teach each other with with respect resPect Wiling killing each other other- hooking each other on drugs gett getting ng- ng each other up mixed-up in illegal lIega d deals ls th that t s send q them to prison not college So 59 how do you expect anyone else to treat them with any respect I feel very sincerely rely that black people have a lot of hard work ahead head o of them them- them to to program de-program what white male- male dominated society fed into their brains from day one just like like- white women do and men too But b before fore you go thinking that white women had it so e easy y take a lesson in feminism It has its roots in the very first movement to free Black-Americans Black from long life-long slavery slavery- over years ago Feminism was born bom the night a a. a jew few women felt that Blacks were w re just as much American A ah ahas as the people the Constitution was written written I for and afong along with a few white men tried to get them included in their puritanical humanity But for some reason the majority kept insisting that those savages were something less than human In the process the women suddenly realized that they were just as much a slave as any woman or man that had to call their boss massa maska And it started female wheels turning and pens writing Later when Lincoln started the whole Civil Wart War and all those Caucasian women whom you say were on a pedestal tal had it down on them that they Horizon welcomes letters to Readers Voice Handwritten lett letters rs will be accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac but preference will be given to typewritten spaced double-spaced letters of less than two pages Please hand-deliver hand letters letters letters let let- to the Horizon office located in the Redwood campus College Center GG CG 36 All submissions must include full name signature major or job title itle a and d a aday day daytime ime telephone number for verification verification tion purposes only Unsigned letters will not be considered for publication Horizon reserves t the right to edit letters and the right not to publish all submissions weren't included in the Constitution either ei All AlI men are created equal ti Women had no right to vote and d they were subject to social laws that t told ld them that they were evil if they ha had i one flushing blushing thought about se sex let alone if G God d forbid they filer t took k it ft upon upon th themselves ves to have sex with anyone they choose Women NE NEVER NEE E got the children in a divorce e nor could they apply for a divorce no no matter if her husband beather beat beather her 59 S 'S times a d day y kept her J r and I working on the farm from dawn til til du dusk duck J. J then made her cook and clean Until she was exhausted and near death V. V And And rid when h hn n those pampered to see their society for what iwas it was they got angry and began to fight fight- just like you ou and yo your r fellow fello blacks Come on everybody is discriminated discriminated discriminated dis dis- criminated against in this here hierarchal hierarchal chal man made world Even the can and most likely do go home and J take k abad bad a day out on his wife and then then h wife will take it out on the kids iJ kids will take it out on lh l or the wimp or the girls at school and then they in turn will take it out on In a society that can allow one person to make another less than hims himself lf there always will be discrimination discrimination dis dis- dis- dis crimination because people fear the loss of personal control We together yes you you and I and soul-mate soul this even your can change or leave it be as it is I say let us stop it now Have you ever stopp stopped d to consider that Africans were the people who sold other Africans to the white slave- slave traders Yes slavery was alive and thriving thriving thriving ing in Africa too In literal fact Africans got themselves into this mess Now h lets let's see if and nd how they get themselves out Will wn they show white-male white society that they can rise above and become closer to human soci society and then bring that society along unselfishly with love and in friendship Only the Americans African-Americans themselves can decide if they will be the teachers and leaders The ball is in their court and aDd time and lives are wasting Melody J. J Dickson Biology Ed Note This letter is in reference to the Reggie Brown Brown c column o of f Oct 28 1992 |
