See the details in her post at her blog via this link.

I’ve mentioned the group Choose Black America in this past post, where I was focusing my attention on some nonsense said by former President Jimmy Carter. What I did not note and I’m glad La Shawn raised the issue, is that the group should not be using a racially exclusive name.

It is hypocritical to create an organization that is trying to fight the racial exclusion of Blacks, while having a name that is racially exclusive. Similar applies to the group formed to stop racial exclusion of Blacks in the Black hair care industry. That group is mentioned in a documentary I noted in this other prior post.

On another note, I saw a T-shirt yesterday that I’ve seen before years ago, but I never thought of how racist it is until more recently. The T-Shirt said:

The Blacker the college the sweeter the knowledge

Having attended a college that was once for “Blacks only”, I was fully desensitized to the racism embodied in such a statement when I was younger. Now that I’m older and saw that shirt again for the first time in many years, I realized if it said “The Whiter the college the sweeter the knowledge”, we would see mobs of Blacks having a White T-Shirt burning! It’s time to stop such racist statements and it’s time to stop using bigoted titles. I’m not saying that there is no such thing as Black culture. There are some things that are culturally Black and deserve the title. There are styles of music, food and other things that are distinctively Black by culture. But that does not mean the title “Black” should be used to promote “Black” as being a superior education or “Black” as a superior worker. That goes beyond the simpler facets of culture into preference of certain of humans over others on the basis of skin tone. Lets try to be Americans and embrace being part of a nation of laws that should be respected.

update 7/28/2006 12:10PM: LBC herself has chimed in to say:

Thanks for the trackback, D. but I didn’t say race-based titles are wrong per se. I just don’t like them, and I think they’re unnecessarily and unintentionally exclusive and divisive.

OK, then I feel they are wrong when used in the manner I mentioned . I don’t make much room in my own little world for gray areas .