Yes WE Can!

How was BUS wrong?

I don’t see it.

They have read books by people involved in the Reagan administration claiming that they started the crack epidemic in Black communities to fund Iran/Contra but the claims was never taken serious by White controlled media and nothing was done about it while worthless Black lives vanished. Blacks can’t turn on the radio without tuning into RaceCard Hennity,Limbaugh,Bortzs and all of their mini meeees telling Blacks how much of the scum of the earth they are.

They have to go to work and bite their tong to keep from being fired while white co-workers make racist comments. They have to stand by helpless while their women are raped but their claims are attacked by all the above and sooner or later this madness pushes you toward an irrational exuberant edge. You begin to withdraw and become an introvert seeking a more complete answer within. They start to keep out those that look like their oppressors.

You begin to think if integration was profitable in the long run and what you must do to end this increased momentum of degradation. They say,”Jews, Arabs and Asians did it by depending on their own and slowly building their power and controlling their image and destiny in America, why can’t we”. But when Blacks try to withdraw to heal the wounds within, they are called militant or worst Black seperatist. I was called militant and wore it as a badge of honor back in 1974 at the University of Southern Mississippi for peacefully protesting William Shirley (look him up) by walking out of his lecture and praying outside, then going to our dorms. Riot police with guns pointed at us was ready to use them on cue.

Beth Rankin, stay strong and don’t get discouraged. Keep trying to build that bridge. Gather other Whites that want to build that Bridge as well. Yes you must by every means necessary prove yourself to be friendly and sincere also willing to work along with BUS for all the GOOD of all mankind. But you must understand Black history and not just MLK. White women played a part in historical Civil Rights.

The NAACP got involved in the Civil Rights Movement during 1909. After riots in Springfield, the capitol of Illinois, during the summer of 1908, a reporter named William English Walling wrote an article about the trouble. Mary White Ovington, known as the creator and first member of the NAACP, invited him to meet with her in New York. Ovington was a white woman who became involved in the Civil Rights Movement in 1890 after hearing Frederick Douglass speak in a church. She wrote for multiple radical journals and newspapers before becoming executive secretary of the NAACP.

The president of Georgetown University’s chapter of the NAACP, Ellie Gunderson, is thoughtful and determined. Also, she is white.
The national organization has had several white presidents.

These women were not trusted at first but they did not give up!