Reflections on Race

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This is a interesting film on a book call White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son by Tim Wise.

I found it on www.freespeech.org

I would like to hear what you think of it.

Here it is http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentvie...content_id=1161 (http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=1161)

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So no one got any thing to say ?

[GoaRedStar]

Heres a article that talks about some of the same issue that the speaker in the films talks about. the link to the film is on the first post


Bowling Alley
by Michael D. Yates

Michael D. Yates, "Revelation" (29 October 2005); and "Mobilization" (13 November 2005)
It was a mid-Sunday afternoon in late Winter. We had just finished our match, and I was disappointed with my poor performance. For some reason I could not prevent my left wrist from turning over when I released my bowling bowl, and this caused the ball to hook disastrously to the right. My teammates groaned as my scores plummeted about 40 pins below my average and our chances of winning the league championship melted away. Luckily it wasn't a cutthroat league, so they commiserated as I packed away my equipment and put on my coat to leave. As I passed by the manager's desk, I glanced up at the television set on the wall. A professional basketball game was in progress, and I, a basketball junky, stopped to watch. The Chicago Bulls were playing the Boston Celtics. I hated the Celtics and their rabid fans and arrogant general manager and former coach, Red Auerbach. I was gratified to see that the Bulls' star, Michael Jordan, was playing a spectacular game, on his way to scoring more than 60 points in what turned out to be a double overtime Celtics victory.

Another man was watching the game, along with his young son. I recognized him as an average bowler and delivery truck driver, something of a loudmouth with a higher opinion of his bowling skills than his ability warranted. Normally, I would have ignored him, but Jordan's great game was so exciting that I just had to say something about it. So I remarked, "Boy, isn't he an amazing player." This innocent remark sent the man into a tirade. "That nigger's not the best player. The best player is that white guy, Larry Bird." Now, Johnstown is a racist town. It is impossible to go into a bar in a white neighborhood and not hear the word "nigger" within 30 minutes. While warming up before a basketball pickup game, one of my students commented that he liked the Boston Celtics because they were the "white team." In 1922, the mayor of Johnstown actually ordered all black residents who had not lived in the town for at least five years to leave. Black men had been recruited to work in the city by the steel companies in the wake of the bitter 1919 strike, and the mayor issued his order after an incident involving a black person and the police. It is not known exactly how many African Americans left town, but the growth of the black population stopped. Today, blacks comprise less than 3% of the city's residents.

heres the full article
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/yates261205.html