In The News.....
People are crazy.
In Kansas a woman died after being stabbed in a convenient store. Sadly, thats not news. What's news, is that fact she had been ignored and stepped over by other shoppers after being stabbed. One person reportedly took time to take pictures of the dying woman with her cell phone, but didn't help. Crazy.
Having said that, lets look at the situation from a class/race standpoint. The whole deal took place in what looks like a lower to lower middle class area of town. Most of the people in the store, from the clip I saw, were black. The victim was black. Would the same thing have happened if the store had been in a nice white area?? I doubt it. I'm not screaming racism here, just reflecting on the culture of, 'mind your own business' that less than affluent black America has. I'm not excusing the behavior, it was outrageous. But when I heard that a woman had been ignored to death, I knew the victim was a black woman or a poor white woman. The mind blowing part is that she had been stabbed, wasn't she bleeding??? Honestly. Ignoring blood reaches a new level of apathy. I see the situation kind of like an environmental contaminant. It effects the most vulnerable first. Apathy is poison.
ABC Primetime did a segment on something similar. They put 2 couples in a park, and had the guy abuse his girlfriend in public and watched who stopped to intervene. One couple was black, one couple was white. Oddly enough, more people stopped to intervene on the black woman's behalf. BUT... the kicker is, it wasn't for her wellbeing, it was more because the scene they were making was unsightly. Lots of other black people just walked by, said nothing. The people who stopped for the white woman, all tried to protect her, and asked her if she was o.k. This made me sad. What?! It's fine if my guy beats my ass, just do it at home?? One woman stopped to actually help the black woman, and she was white. Yey!!! She asked about the black woman's wellbeing. Yey!!
Black and white women haven't always been the closest of allies. Rarely a 'sisterhood' is mentioned when speaking of the 2 groups. Personally I've never had any issues. I love white women. **Whoa** For a moment there, I think I was channeling my father. ;)
Anywho... maybe the spreading apathy can be slowed, if not stopped, by people you'd never think to ask for help. Wanna read more: ABC Primetime
-mel
In Kansas a woman died after being stabbed in a convenient store. Sadly, thats not news. What's news, is that fact she had been ignored and stepped over by other shoppers after being stabbed. One person reportedly took time to take pictures of the dying woman with her cell phone, but didn't help. Crazy.
Having said that, lets look at the situation from a class/race standpoint. The whole deal took place in what looks like a lower to lower middle class area of town. Most of the people in the store, from the clip I saw, were black. The victim was black. Would the same thing have happened if the store had been in a nice white area?? I doubt it. I'm not screaming racism here, just reflecting on the culture of, 'mind your own business' that less than affluent black America has. I'm not excusing the behavior, it was outrageous. But when I heard that a woman had been ignored to death, I knew the victim was a black woman or a poor white woman. The mind blowing part is that she had been stabbed, wasn't she bleeding??? Honestly. Ignoring blood reaches a new level of apathy. I see the situation kind of like an environmental contaminant. It effects the most vulnerable first. Apathy is poison.
ABC Primetime did a segment on something similar. They put 2 couples in a park, and had the guy abuse his girlfriend in public and watched who stopped to intervene. One couple was black, one couple was white. Oddly enough, more people stopped to intervene on the black woman's behalf. BUT... the kicker is, it wasn't for her wellbeing, it was more because the scene they were making was unsightly. Lots of other black people just walked by, said nothing. The people who stopped for the white woman, all tried to protect her, and asked her if she was o.k. This made me sad. What?! It's fine if my guy beats my ass, just do it at home?? One woman stopped to actually help the black woman, and she was white. Yey!!! She asked about the black woman's wellbeing. Yey!!
Black and white women haven't always been the closest of allies. Rarely a 'sisterhood' is mentioned when speaking of the 2 groups. Personally I've never had any issues. I love white women. **Whoa** For a moment there, I think I was channeling my father. ;)
Anywho... maybe the spreading apathy can be slowed, if not stopped, by people you'd never think to ask for help. Wanna read more: ABC Primetime
-mel
posted by state of our nation at 7:48 PM
1 Comments:
hahaha! you were so channeling your father. damn, i'm surprised you're not mixed. wow, i guess that answers the environment/inherited issue.
the black community is prone to silence in public. This is not in terms of decibels, rather public decree of injustices happening before them. Nobody knows nothing or nobody when somebody comes up shot, or in the passenger seat while the driver gets arrested, or a fight breaks out in the middle of a basketball game.
remember, black folks didn't rise up to help defend the Japanese during their internment in 1942...............
Yes we have had many representatives of the black community who've been very instrumental in us gaining basic human rights and leaving them damn cotton fields. But once those people get assassinated or shot or imprisoned, how many years do we wait, mostly mum, for the next leader to follow? HOWEVER, since the 50s ended segregation, and the 60s gave us the right to vote and affirmative action, what else is there to gain our equal human rights?
If it keeps me getting to get mine, I don't know her neither**.
**FOR THE COLOR PURPLE CHALLENGED, THE LAST LINE IS NOT IN REFERENCE TO THE POOR WOMAN WHO LAY DYING IN THE CONVENIENCE STORE PARKING LOT; RATHER THE GREATER SCHEME OF THIS ISSUE
-von
(playing a whole helluva lot of devil's advocate)
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