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I am deeply sorry for this.
You will get little help from the Corporate Media (A.K.A. MSM). You will certainly get NO help from FOX or Talk Radio.
We can debate just how and why there became a near-total Corporate control of the MSM and how and why FOX and Talk Radio became the menace they are.
But they ARE.
The writer has taken on too much burden.
One can only control what he/she can control.
Look for the good. Live big.
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The author didnât assume a burden; it was imposed on her at birth.
One can only control what he/she can control.
I don think people whoâs lives face persistent existential threats really can afford believe this. Every triumph toward equality is premised on asserting more control over oneâs self (identity and initiative), and wrestling that control from existing systems of oppression (cultural and institutional). We have to change it; not all of it, just enough so that our children will bear a lighter burden. It is then up to them to repeat the process.
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Look for the good. Live big.
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I feel an incredible psychic toll of reading the news and I am white, female and retired. In many conversations there is an underlying theme of hurry up and die because you and your kind are dragging the economy down and holding back the paradise the GOPTP is promising when they no longer have to deal with Medicare, Social Security and the elderly. They see nothing but the lost profits they could gain if those programs could be moved into private hands.
The psychic toll for blacks has to be incredible also. But I think there is a psychic toll being extracted from those who are different in this country right now. Not to belittle or diminish the weight of the black burdens, but with the continued control of our political sphere with the Corporate Conservative Religious complex I can only see the trauma and toll as getting greater and greater. If there is any reporter or media source out there that had the courage enough to do some point by point comparisons of our evangelical corporate religion and the rigidity of the religions trying to take over the Middle East and in the rest of the world they could show that, while we may not be there yet, it wouldnât take much to push us over the edge into some of those horrors. One only has to listen to the Fox Crew to see the depth of the propaganda machine being broadcast.
History is our one good source of seeing that personal freedoms are greatly threatened by religious fervor with corporate greed conspiring. Myself I am not well read in the area of Nazism but I believe that the beginnings of that horror started with singling out those who were not blue eyed blondes. We have a much more diverse culture in this country but it doesnât take but a few minutes to see the direction being taken by singling out black youth, migrant workers, elderly, brown skinned people in general and anyone who doesnât believe exactly like the persecutors. Thankfully there are so many in the GOPTP and they are fully organized yet, but the trend is certainly being established.
We should all start to feel this toll and double our efforts to fight the trends while we still have the right to vote freely.
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The writer sure needs some psychological help, as someone else noted she has taken on too much burden. Way too impressionable.
Intergenerational trauma was not considered an actual occurrence until after the Holocaust. Miri Schraf and Ofra Mayseless of Haira University studied the effects of the genocide on the descendants of Holocaust survivors. Second-generation children were found to be cold and distant.
My father barely made it home from a concentration camp and I have no idea what the author is talking about, Iâm neither cold nor distant. As suggested, she should really get off the internet, she is way too impressionable.
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My father barely made it home from a concentration camp and I have no idea what the author is talking about,
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The author was refering to:
Miri Schraf and Ofra Mayseless of Haira University studied the effects of the genocide on the descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Also, anecdote =/= evidence.
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This! My husband and friends try to tell me âstop reading the newsâ well like that solves anything. I am not an ostrich and I wonât stick my head in the sand. I am grateful that the internet has begun to level the playing field in terms of access to information and the ability for people to write / read things like this and know âIâm not the only oneâ.
As an older African American who grew up during the final vestiges of the âoldâ Jim Crow, I understand the authorâs angst. I have mentioned this to a number of my contemporariesâŚour generation did not prepare or teach our children well enough about our history. Especially given that the educational system in this country would never tell the truth about Black history. Too many of us were excited about having âarrivedâ due to integration. Big Whoop. Too much of a false sense of security.
The mere fact that she feels the depression of experiencing the ânewâ Jim Crow, shows how unprepared her generation is/was to handle the imagery and the impact.
It was incumbent upon us to teach our youth about our history so that they would have the proper perspective when they were hit in the face with the resurgence of Jim Crow.
So many are quick to say, forget the past, it has nothing to do with us in the here and now. Wrong. Past is prologue. If you donât understand what went before you, it will most certainly repeat itself. Happens everyday.
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Someone else noting something you agree with does not a case make against the author. Way too insensitive on your part IMO. The author feels what she feels, easy for you to dismiss as youâve never walked in her shoes. I donâ understand people like you & the other you mention. Why would you even want to dismiss somebody elseâs experience and suffering by arrogantly & judgmentally saying the personâs impressionable and that other nonsense? I might not say anything if I disagree with the person but why the attempt to minimize somebody elseâs experience? To what end? That has to be some strange pathology IMO.
Weird. smh. Many heartless people apparently.
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I do not have the capability to place 1,000 âlikesâ on your post, but here is the Next Best Thing. There is no point in spoiling your magnificent post by âaddingâ to it.
I will say that I sincerely hope and pray that other writers like yourself will express their feelings, especially to younger individuals. We need this. There is no guarantee that, just because someone is young and energetic, that he or she actually would not benefit from the perspective of those who went before.
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The author feels what she feels and so do I, freedom of expression itâs not only hers. I feel that she is taking way too much of a burden on her for things she never had to experience and quite possibly not even her parents had to face. Quite honestly Iâm getting fed up with this âyou white peopleâ this and that.
Quite honestly, you may be more comfortable at a site in which whiteness is lauded more enthusiastically.
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Quite honestly I'm getting fed up with this "you white people" this and that.
Yeah, got that from your initial post. But kudos for finally being honest about what you were really saying. Because it really is all about you and me and all the rest our fellow white people are made to feel about all this stuff, isnât it? Thatâs whatâs really important here.
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Thank you for writing this for others to understand.
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Only a self-absorbed racist could come away from that piece with that reply. I feel youâre taking way too much of a burden on yourself for the racist acts of others and not just the low level racism you and quite possibly your parents participate in.
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Nobody said anything about âwhite people this and that,â Puppies. Thatâs your insecurity (Or is it you being too impressionable, LOL) talking and playing the âwhite victimâ card because we all know the real victims of racism are the so-called âwhiteâ majority.
Well, itâs good for you, you can feel sick of people asking for equal rights & equal justice. Try to think how it feels for the people who actually donât have equal rights & justice & have to constantly beg for it then be dismissed & attacked for it like dogs the way you just did the author & in this post. I feel sorry for people like you even if you hold the supremacy in your mind, youâve forfeited your souls for it. It has nothing to do with âwhiteâ or âblackâ people, the real problem is heartless & selfish people. Theyâre the problem.
Nice playing of the âwhite race victimâ card though. Sad really.
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Exactly.
Easy for you to say isnât it, puppies considering you donât have a dog in this fight on the discriminatory end, huh? You & your ancestors have never been discriminated against under the pretext of skin color in perpetuity. Yet, you deem yourself fit to judge somebody elseâs pain, suffering & discriminatory experiences. Like I said, you can say what you want but no words can mask the heartlessness & blatant disregard fr the plight of your fellow man shown in your posts. I feel sorry for people like you.
Game. Set. Match.