> Imagine if the Tea Party was Black’ > > By Tim Wise > > Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” > The way it’s played is simple: We’ll envision recent happenings in the > news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white > people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure — the ones who > are driving the action — we’ll envision Black folks or other people of > color instead. The object of the game is to imagine the public > reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, > rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of > race in America, at the end of the game, wins. > > So let’s begin. > > Imagine that hundreds of Black protesters were to descend upon > Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the > Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and > ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the Black > protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly > even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were > enforced by the government? ....
when the Black Panthers (armed to the teeth) went to Sacramento a few years ago, what happened was California's immediate passage of new gun control laws. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
