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Mississippi Senator Blasted For Speaking To Racist Group
Jackson Free Press
/July 8, 2009
Alonzo Lewis, a black minister from Coila, Miss., joined his voice to a chorus of constituents of State Sen. Lydia Chassaniol who are condemning her decision to address a conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
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on July 16th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
It does not surprise me about the likes of folks as Lydia Chassanoil. The sadness to this story is that it is written in 2009. Being a member of the Black Liberation Movement back in the day taught me one lesson. Beauty is only skin deep. I honestly believe when my generation dies out, the younger sane people on this earth will become COLOR BLIND. We all take the blame for hating this and hating that. In the past years I learned how to love unconditional, regardless who you were. I am a disabled Vietnam Veteran with 3/Purple Hearts and is Blessed to be alive. People of all color, you are all we have on this dreadful earth. Love each other before it’s too late and yet it’s not too late for the mentioned State Senator. Love and Peace…
on July 16th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Shame on you Chassanoil. Shame on you Chassanoil.
on July 17th, 2009 at 7:49 am
A lot of folks really don’t know that the CCC is a racist organization and think it is just another Conservative group.
on July 18th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Wow. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
on July 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 am
Paul Baldwin, though I understand you have the right intentions, I respectfully disagree that people should be “color blind.” Color blindness means that people don’t see the beauty of the diversity of the human race.
As a parable, let me explain by comparing the human race to a garden planted by God. The Wise Gardener wouldn’t plant just one size, shape and color flower. Such a garden would be monotonous to the eye. Instead the Wise Gardener plants a garden of wondrous diversity, wherein the beauty of each individual flower accentuates the individual beauty of every flower around it.
That is a beauty that the color blind cannot see.
on July 22nd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I think people should be both. I know a young man of mixed race — 16 — from deep in the South — gay and being raised in a fundamentalist denomination (which he now knows that he does not believe in and moved away from in his beliefs and actions very successfully) who has tremendous problems with his looks. One eighth African American he actually asked me if we would love him more if he was all white (we are in the process of adopting him), I, who had never really thought about his race, only what a good and wonderful boy he was and his needs – said no. In another conversation he claimed he thought he wasn’t good enough for us. We disagreed – at first he said he was low class — and we said he was smart and wonderful — and when we kept being firm – he said he was ugly, and when we pursued that, with tears and sobs he started pointing to his lips and his nose and the kink in his hair. I ended up more hysterical than he was, telling him how beautiful those things were — and how beautiful he was and how many boys would love him and how much we loved him — and I think actually moved him (at least with us) past those fears.
The point is, in a color blind society no one would have made him feel like that — but to help it, I had to be able to articulate appreciation for how beautiful he was just as he was.
On balance, I would rather he didn’t have the pain.
on July 27th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
It would be a wonderful world if people didn’t take colour into the equation of a person’s value. If the “there goes the neighbourhood” mentality stopped and people just accepted people for themselves, without consideration of their colour.
I think inter-racial marriages are fine, however cultural preservation is very important as well. Both cultures then need to be taught in the home. My opinion has to do with the cultures that many countries have that get lost when people intertwine to the point of wiping out a culture. Look at the Native American languages that are almost completely lost. I think it’s a terrible shame to lose a culture entirely.