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The Struggle for Black Love
September 25th, 2007Are Black folks finding it hard to love? One Black lawmaker thinks so. Read and respond.
Posted Sept. 25, 2007 – It’s not every day that members of Congress set aside time to talk about Black folks’ emotions and their relationships, but that’s just what Democratic Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush is planning to during do. It’s time for us “to love the skin we’re in” and get to the “core issue” as to why some folks don’t, he told me.
“In the African-American community, the question of love has been a question that we’ve had to struggle with since slavery,” he said.
That’s why he’s dedicating a workshop on the topic Friday, Sept. 28, to examine what he called “the political realm and governmental realm” of the problem and to find solutions.
Rush contends the social issues plaguing Black communities are rooted in “self-hate,” with skin color often being the catalyst. “The pre-condition for enslavement of a people was to deny those people any obvious mechanism that would promote love of oneself,” Rush said.
The Black community can’t come together, Rush warns, “with relationship issues, male -female, young and old, light skin-dark skin, working class-upper class, you know; we’ve got to resolve and dissolve some of these issues and come together as a people.”
He describes the break down of family and violence as “psychological divisions” that must be eliminated.
A workshop on “Black love” may be a first for the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend, but Rush says it won’t be the last. “It is the biggest issue we have as a people – this question of loving each other.”
The conference will start tomorrow. Here’s a link to the planned events through Sunday.
http://www.alc2007.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=55
Is Congressman Bobby Rush right, are we just haten who we are?
[…] William Coit wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt“The pre-condition for enslavement of a people was to deny those people any obvious mechanism that would promote love of oneself,” Rush said. The Black community can’t come together, Rush warns, “with relationship issues, male -female, … […]
[…] Original post by Pamela Gentry […]
thanks for talking about love black need to hear it sometimes
I agree with this man 100%. How can we expect other races to respect, except and even tolerate us when we don’t. They are only following what we put out there the way we treat ourselves.
The media plays a significant role in the way we and others feel about blacks. Has any one told the little children of America that Susan (their white mother) killed her children and not the hooded black guy, as published by main stream print media.
One has only to look around, and walk around to know that we as a people do not love one another. when the practice of harrassing a person is so pervasive in the black community. what I mean by this is that if someone wants to push you out. they get on what is known as the horn today which is the cell phone and have you followed. they stage themselves outside of your home they follow you to the grocery store and for that matter everywhere, while all the while texting and sending their friends info on the persons where abouts. Now if we loved one another we would not subject our brothers and sisters to such outlandish and pathetic behavior which proves to the man that some have not evolved to a level of intelligence. that their is still a segment of the population that festers in self hate, loathing for one self and others and downright ignorance, ignorance of the value that each of us possess and if we can only climb above being blinded by a self hate that was deeply ingrained in our minds from slavery we as a people could finally stand up and say no more will we aid in the destruction of one of our own, no more will we be accessories to murder by slander, and false perceptions. It is long past no more because we as a people should begin to say and practice, I love my people and because of that I will only work to encourage and support them not hinder them. PEACE.
Sometimes ignorance is no excuse…but when you don’t know, you just don’t know. How can the element of hatred teach love for self? How can a man forced into a hostle invironment where the practices of his master denies him any obvious mechanism to promote love for himself? Who is responsible? Is it God for creating the black man?
Or is it the white man who refuses to accept, respect, and systematically treat the black man as a equal? HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! White america, you could not survive under the conditions african americans have suffered under for all these years…..if you did you would not love youselves either…….
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