Being a Black man, I know we are capable of displaying self control. I’m not some special model off God’s assembly line of Black people. La Shawn Barber has an interesting post up today. And it’s one of few I disagree with her on. Read that and then you can continue reading here.
Talk of Blacks not being able to maintain calm is a continually trumped farce. When I was a student at Morgan State and the choir, which is “one of the nation?s most prestigious university choral ensembles” would sing, we were instructed to remain quite till the end. No matter how good they were doing. And everyone was able to do so when requested. Everybody, of every race has moments when they want to blurt out things in public, but the key is self control.
I feel that Tavis Smelly Smiley basically said “Blacks have no self control and I’ve always thought less of them, so I never asked them to show some common decency”. Of course if Tavis were White and said:
Because black people are an emotional people. I know it wouldn’t have worked.
When asked why he did not enact a ?no applause? rule at a Presidential debate, that would be racist. And every honest reader of these words knows it would have been treated as such. All powers within the Civil Rights Industry, including Tavis would have risen up to denounce it, if Don Imus dared to utter such words in any of his recent interviews.
At least the Blacks who claim to be Christians should start working towards the following goals:
Galatians 5:22-23 (New King James Version)
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Maybe more Blacks need to show a little more self control? And maybe a better display of self control will help avoid temptation?
2 Peter 1:5-9 (New King James Version)
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The fact many Christians allow self control to go out of the window, especially in church assemblies is why many are so easily duped. The fact anyone can look at Blacks having tirades of emotion and claim it’s like “church” (a church assembly of mostly Blacks), shows that maybe Blacks are not focusing on the right things in an assembly in the first place? The catering to flesh and emotion is what the pulpit pimp thrives on.
update 7/2/2007 1:05PM: La Shawn has added the following to her post:
Addendum: You have to clarify everything around here. I?m not saying that blacks can?t or shouldn?t be expected to control themselves. I was agreeing with Smiley?s ?blacks are emotional? statement with a twist: that blacks tend to be less restrained in showing emotions. Nothing more, nothing less.
We honestly are not going to agree on this one. My response to her is this:
I know what you are saying. I also know actions like that from Tavis cater to low expectations. I don’t think we should embrace it.
It’s sad when there is a Presidential debate on a (historically) Black college campus, people are asked to remain quite and fail to do so. It’s even worse when we simply cater to the lowest emotional denominator and allow the outbursts without any effort to curb them.
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July 4th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Now IC……….we all know you’re a pointy-hatted, robe-wearin’, torch-carryin’ racist. LOL
Seriously, it’s nice to hear SOMEBODY holding folks to a higher standard and higher expectations rather than the ubiquitous “You have to meet folks where they are” claptrap. I thought the comments by LaShawn were as racist and stereotypical as anything you’d hear at a redneck banjo-fest. Pathetic.
July 4th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Correct me if I’m right or wrong, but I believe that our emotionalism can work for us or it can work against us. We need to learn how to weigh issues, whether it is political or spiritual before we respond because how do you know if what is being said is to help you or entrap you. To add, I would like to say that I know that religion and politics don’t mix, so we have to separate them.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Emotionalism will and always has worked against those who embrace it.
A Christian is a Christian regardless of whether they are speaking about religion or politics. So we should exercise self control regardless of the topic of discussion.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:56 am
The key point to focus on are the words that made the Black folks stand to give Hillary Clinton an ovation. Ms. Clinton stated that if AIDS were the number one killer of White women between a certain age rage there would be outrage across the nation.
The crowd stood because CLINTON SOUNDED JUST LIKE THEM.
But wait a minute. What does this mean?
With HIV infection being a consequence of personal behavior….what might the country do if these were White women? Some of the same people who tell us “keep your morals off of our bodies” are the same people standing up and clapping at these empty words.
Now LOGISTICALLY how has this been borne out? Has AIDS funding been CUT since it shifted from a “Gay White man’s disease”? The hockey stick graph of federal spending says clearly that the answer is NO.
I must now ask Ms. Clinton to logistically identify what could have been done more now that Black females are becoming increasingly impacted by HIV? I have a blog post titled “Devices & Pills” http://withintheblackcommunity.blogspot.com/2006/11/bqpf-with-mic-in-their-hands.html
It talks about how certain people believe that devices and pills (and pamphlets) handed out from the government will mask the importance of CHOICES that must be made by the individual. I withhold using the word “moral” because I believe that moralism is subjective. Instead I choose the word FUNCTIONALISM where certain decisions must be judged based on their OUTCOMES and the greater goals of the society that we choose to bind ourselves to. In the end the pills and devices and pamphlets approach has FAILED.
July 7th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
When the God of Israel sent forth his prophets to preach and warn Israel about their corruption and to repent, they preached it and let the chips fall where they may. I am saying this to say that you can warn society of the dangers of AIDS, because of loose behavior but whether or not, they choose to listen, it is out of your hands. It doesn’t mean that you careless but the choice is theirs to make. I also believe that the reason that the pills and devices and pamphlets approach has failed many is because cloaking in your sins doesn’t work. You will have to face it and change your lifestyle. You will have to treat your temple the way God has originally intended. No government can override that.