General Music Chat

I saw a banner ad here on Bandmix for the Essencefestival. Perhaps it's finally time for Americans to truly integrate. BET network. Jet magazine. NAACP. Etc. I understand that at one time there was a real need for these institutions. And there may be many people who still feel that need. But don't you feel that these organizations are no longer really needed, that we need to move beyond, that racism in America isn't anywhere near what it was fifty years ago? While it still exists and needs to be confronted when it shows its ugly head, do we need exclusively black institutions today? Is it still necessary? I'm NOT trying to stir up any heated racial debate. Obviously since I'm not black myself (I'm an Eskimo who had plastic surgery after an accident), perhaps I'm not even qualified to even ask these questions.
In the cul-de-sac we live in, it has shifted from all white 26 years ago to the "United Nations." We have white, hispanic, Laotian, African (NOT African American but recent African immigrants), etc. and I don't even think twice about it. It's what America is becoming. And perhaps racially exclusive organizations perhaps will soon belong in the dustbin of history.

I feel race and race related issues will always be with us. And it's not all bad. We ( mankind ) are not homogeneous for a purpose. Diversity is good.
I recall an old episode of STAR TREK where a pair of aliens onboard the Enterprise were so filled with rage and continued to fight one another.

They were half black and half white, distinctly separate skin on each side of their bodies.
Unless one was truly observant you would think thy exactly the same.
And not till late in the episode was the difference reveled.
One one the white half was his right side / the other his left.

The episode ended with these two, the last of their respective races batting it out on their home planet as it burned.

And only they "knew" the difference.

Racism is alive and well here and around the world and always will be, and those organizations exist because of it. There is nothing wrong with celebrating your own culture and heritage, as long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else rights.

Racism is alive and well here and around the world and always will be, and those organizations exist because of it. There is nothing wrong with celebrating your own culture and heritage, as long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else rights.

I'm betting the converse is just as true.

I feel race and race related issues will always be with us. And it's not all bad. We ( mankind ) are not homogeneous for a purpose. Diversity is good.
I recall an old episode of STAR TREK where a pair of aliens onboard the Enterprise were so filled with rage and continued to fight one another.

They were half black and half white, distinctly separate skin on each side of their bodies.
Unless one was truly observant you would think thy exactly the same.
And not till late in the episode was the difference reveled.
One one the white half was his right side / the other his left.

The episode ended with these two, the last of their respective races batting it out on their home planet as it burned.

And only they "knew" the difference.

. Kind of like Dr. Seuss' book The Sneetches.