statueman's Blog

Richard Pryor did alot through his humor to promote understanding between us... I laughed so hard at some of his humor that it hurts me to remember the pain his humor hid sometimes.  What a wonderful gift he shared with us all... Especially, and correct me if I'm wrong, when the old man at the picnic in the park in "Which Way is Up" was looking around from his lawn chair complaining that someone had stolen his piece of chicken.

These racial issues are going to stop when we start to honestly look at why things are the way they are. Enough with the color blind song and dance routine... enough with the Bill Cosby, Al Sharpton, Rev Wright nonsense.  When did we all get to be such experts on the issue?  Did you notice there's no shortage of us who think we know why things are the way the are?  Some of us are all that and a bucket of chicken.

When we look at the area's in our own sphere of influence what do we see that we are or aren't doing that keeps this problem alive?  I think that one reason may be the patronizing know it all statementst like I'm reading alot in these blogs can be an indicator of why Philly is the way it is. A closet racist is still a racist even though they don't see it in themselves. If you're one of those prone to accusing black folks of reverse racism then own up to being a double reverse racist because it's insanely circular to keep looking for the racist.  If you're one of those black folks who's consistent in looking for the closet racist then you probably are the reverse. 

Do you want to know one reason why affirmative action didn't and will never work?  The closet racist is told they must higher the minority so they found the most unqualified candidates they could and then made the case that these unqualified candidates only got the position because they were a minority.  Want to know why minorities from other nations do so much better than American slave descendants?  Because they actually brought suitcases and bank accounts with them and lend heavily to those of their own that didn't.

But here we sit... us US Americans complaining like an old man in the park that "somebody stole my piece of chicken!"  But the fact is we have no idea who stole our  piece of chicken we just know that the only ones in the park is us.  And it's time we all came together and stopped complaining and accusing and started taking up a collection and frying up some more chicken.  Then we come together an organize some games for the kids and  letting them know... as if they didn't already... what fools we've all been acting like and promising to give them all equal treatment and no more Romeo and Juliet scenarios or genetic excuses for hating one another.

So here we go... cops may go to jail and I hope that the judge and the jury are given wisdom to find out not just who but why.   I pray that the city of Brotherly Love would have a revelation, an awakening that will spread through out the country.  Mostly though I plead with all extremist thinkers to rethink their positions on these issues and look more closely at what they are calling facts.  The earth is not flat... so let's go get some more chicken and see if we can get our grand fathers to sit down and talk.