Reflections on Tuesday for Thursday

I believe I might fall into the majority when is say, I like the ideas of the black panthers just not the way they want to seek it out. I think all people need to work together and address the problems that black Americans face and their role in the system. there are a lot of things economically and socially that get blown over a little in the civil rights movement because of the big goals like desegregation and voting, and the black panthers really address that. They also seem the most authentic of all of the civil right groups they are purely black and sick and tired of being sick and tired. By trying to reconnect with the black identity as we discussed in class it makes the Panthers a group that really embraces there blackness to an extent that I don't think that other group really did other than Malcolm X to a point. Then in that discussion of the black identity I cannot help but connect it to today, while we still have whiteness being shoved down our throats, but I also think that more black people are realizing this as a folly and fighting back. I am witnessing today honest conversations about colorism,  black hair, and what it means to be black more around me. I also think that black people are having these conversations for themselves more than for the need to teach white people about blackness. there is a trauma in being black that I think we in the black community are still trying to work through, and the ideas of the black panthers and black identity we talked about last class really touch on that. Not only do black people need to start healing from history but all of America needs to start healing. 

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