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 موضوع لصغيرتي نضال هباني ب(Dallas Morning News)!
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Nedal Ahmed: Slaves to history
It's time to stop pointing fingers on race issues and become truly colorblind
08:31 AM CST on Thursday, February 15, 2007
When I heard that a Virginia lawmaker said that blacks should "get over slavery," I was shocked. Yet, after reading more about this incident online, I'm not afraid to say that I see his point.
Frank D. Hargrove made the comment in opposition to a proposal that the state of Virginia apologize to African-Americans for slavery, an idea that should very well be opposed. Mr. Hargrove added: "Are we going to force the Jews to apologize for killing Christ?" Sure, Mr. Hargrove was crass, but I wouldn't want to be judged by my parents' actions or words (not that they did anything wrong), let alone by the words and actions of people who lived centuries ago.
What if Hitler had descendants living among us? Would we trail them shouting obscenities and ridiculing them? Would it fix the wrong of millions of deaths if those descendants wrote a letter apologizing for Hitler's actions?
That's what affirmative action is supposed to be: a fix. I can understand and appreciate affirmative action as a temporary measure, but when does it end?
America has made great progress since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, and although we're not quite there yet (and may never be), preferential treatment to "historically disadvantaged" groups isn't the solution.
Laws have been established to protect citizens from discrimination, and instead of supporting this dated system, more effort, time and money should be spent on bettering schools and communities. As for discrimination, by now, major institutions are so afraid of the boogeyman that is the media that they huddle under the security blanket of political correctness. That in itself is sad; we are more afraid to discriminate because of the public consequences than the principles involved.
At least political correctness is not as insulting as an official policy, supported and even mandated at times by the government, that assumes minorities cannot achieve on their own.
This same racial insult has given cover to those who play the race card (e.g. "Is it because I'm {lt}insert religion/race/ethnicity/taxonomy here{gt}?")
It's also become an excuse for intelligent people to sit around and gripe about perceived slights. Imagine hearing your 17-year-old classmate wasting his tremendous eloquence by always talking about how others "don't know what it's like to a black man."
Look, I'm not going to lie; the truth is I don't know what it's like be a black man.
But I do know what it's like to be a minority. And I do know what it's like to have enough pride in my skills to know they will get me where I need to go. And I do know that blaming every failure and misfortune on the color of my skin isn't healthy and isn't a solution.
In this case, apathy is the solution. Let's not care what shade of white, yellow, brown or black our skin is.
No one cares where you're from when you serve them a burger or clean up after them, but at the slightest whiff of power or money, the fight is on.
Let's not care anymore. Let's "just get over it."
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/c...dition1.20d04ab.html
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| موضوع لصغيرتي نضال هباني ب(Dallas Morning News)! | هشام هباني | 02-16-07, 08:56 AM |
| Re: موضوع لصغيرتي نضال هباني ب(Dallas Morning News)! | Muna Khugali | 02-16-07, 09:18 AM |
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