On Monday I noticed an unusual sharp spike in traffic to the blog. When I reviewed the “Site Stats” it revealed that the post with the most views on that day was “Nigger Day”, a post I had done in November 2007. The “Stats” also showed that the search term most used that day that lead to the post was “nigger day”. Another search term I saw that captured my attention was “national nigger day”.
In the USA on Monday 21 January, it was the federal holiday, Martin Luther King Day, as well as the celebration of President Obama’s 2nd Inauguration. It is no coincidence that the above search terms dominated the “Site Stats” for that day. I hadn’t noticed such an obvious increase in traffic to the above post before, although it is steadily one of the most read posts on the blog.
It is sobering and quite revealing that in the so-called “post-racial” America that some like to espouse, a certain segment of the American population consider a day as significant to African-Americans as “nigger day”. For those who want to minimize this as just the rantings of a small bunch of ignorant rednecks, I would answer that history has shown that the storm troopers of the elite are always the gullible but committed few from the less noble masses.
Amen to that! I an Euro american in the South, so i hear the working class whites un-moderated real world views; if i had a dollar for every time some yahoo used the word “nigger” around here, i could retire.
I have never understood the alliance between working class whites and the white elite until i watched Prof. Darius Spearman’s lectures on Race in America http://www.africanelements.org/index.htm in which he expounds on the Bacon Rebellion of 1676 and how race was used to separate the working class by race.
I do not have an answer to this problem, as a life-long worker for civil rights and labor justice( hopefully to be followed by peace) i have run up against this brick wall time and time again. Most folks (regardless of race) seem to be afraid of sticking their necks out for fear of upsetting the status quo. I have been fortunate to find a handful of black friends and even fewer white friends who are willing to discuss the problems we face.
We have a lot more Overcoming yet to do.
” For those who want to minimize this as just the rantings of a small bunch of ignorant rednecks, I would answer that history has shown that the storm troopers of the elite are always the gullible but committed few from the less noble masses”
Bro. Asa…no truer words written or spoken. They also commit the most dastardly acts to preserve the elite although they know the latter wouldn’t want them living next door to them or would accept them in their social circles. It’s dirty work but I would imagine they feel someone has to do it. *Shame*!!!