For Desh - Black Nationalism

Those who want to see themselves, or others, as "victims" should truly meditate on the following idea.


But in point of fact, every living person has power, has influence, makes moral choices. A perpetual victim, wrapped up in his or her passivity and illusion of powerlessness, may actually be serving as a model for younger people, changing their outlook on life, without realizing it.

We must all accept the reality that we are moral agents — each and every one of us. The idea that there is a pure victim, subject to the world's effects but not influencing the world in turn, is a fiction. We can't decide whether to have an effect on the world around us and the people in it, we can only choose which effect to have.

Some of my readers may think this talk about moral agents could be a segue into a religious discussion, but no, not from me. In any case, being a moral agent has no essential connection with religion, because religion doesn't have a patent on moral behavior.

Also, as many thoughtful people have said about religion, acting in a moral way out of fear of punishment isn't a particularly noble pursuit. The truth is we choose our own moral standards, then act on them, and the idea that all moral standards are shared and universal is an illusion supported by mass culture (it's only approximately true).

In the final analysis, professional victims like to think of themselves as pure and blameless, but when they teach victimization to others, the students really are being victimized — by their teacher. That is an optional victimization, and the most creative thing the students can do is refuse to accept the description.

Think how easy it would have been for Mahatma Gandhi, or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (who studied Gandhi's credo of non-violence and put it into practice), to think of themselves as victims while they were being beaten up by their ignorant opponents. Think how easy it would have been for them, or any of their followers, to strike back in a fit of self-righteous victim rage. But they didn't, and consequently they won the good fight. They won because they refused to accept that they were victims.

Each of us owes Gandhi, and Doctor King, and many other like-minded thinkers, a debt of gratitude for the behavior they modeled, and the results they achieved. For the purposes of this article, I ask that you meditate on the lives of these people, and think, "They were not victims."

And you are not a victim.
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tell us all WHY the vast majority of black voters don't agree with you about why they vote the way they do?
 
evince said:
cawacko how does the black voters in this country view the republican party?
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You can't have an actual discussion on issues involving the black community even though you claim you can speak for them. There is more to life than how one votes and politicians aren't Gods.
 
the fact that you idiot republicans cant see that is just more proof why your the racist party
 
evince said:
the fact that you idiot republicans cant see that is just more proof why your the racist party
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Once again you aren't able to address even one point my friend brought up because it has nothing to do with voting. You 'stand' with black people who vote Democratic. That's all you care about.
 
why do you pretend the court documentation that reaches all the way to the SCOTUS which PROVES your party has to cheat black voters to win is not real?
 
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