How does it feel to be a problem?

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(I know the woman who wrote this, I thought it was very brilliant and wanted to share it.)

http://www.peoplesworld.org/how-does-it-feel-to-be-a-problem/

"How does it feel to be a problem?" noted famed historian, writer and activist W.E.B Du Bois, as the underlying question that society posed to blacks in the United States of America. In his famous book, "The Souls of Black Folk," written more than 100 years ago during a time of severe racial unrest, he argued that the question of race was one of the most important questions of the 20th century.

This still holds true today. We do not live in a post racial society.

The question, "How does it feel to be a problem?" is asked of black Americans in different forms and actions by our society every day. But it has warped into a variety of other sentiments. Such as:

* How does it feel to know that one out of four black men in the United States will find themselves in prison, before they ever find themselves in college?

* How does it feel that there's a rising population of black women being incarcerated for misdemeanors, at an alarming rate, becoming one of the fastest growing populations of prison inmates?

* How does it feel that every thirty-six hours a black man (or woman) is killed or brutalized by law enforcement?

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[merrily]

1. I wish people who say we do not live in a post-racial society would also

say the names of the fools who claim that we do live in a post-racial society. I would like to communicate some thoughts to those people.

[jaysunb]

2. +1 n/t

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3. Yes indeed! nt.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. The Souls of Black Folk," ...

BabyGirl 1SBM got that book for me for my 50th Birthday ... One of my most cherished gifts that I have received, ever!