If the whole idea of civil rights was to end segration, why do we have the unitednegro college fund, or BET?

Question

black people try to be different than the rest of socity....."strong black man" "african queen" why not be a grown man. if i call myself a strong white man someone feels threatened....and i seriously doubt 99% of black peopel can name 5 countries in africa......i saw on tv that BET made some kind of comment about Obama.....Obama is a grown man, not a "black man" and it makes me sick to hear people bring up color again like this is 1991 in living color where the white guy acts stupid to make up for 1940 tv...................i dont support the KKK cause i think all peopel need to stop being individule groups.....but you make me chose between some 40 year old kid who wears gold chains and complains cause he cant get a job as a CEO when he cant even show up to work dressed like a grown up, and im afraid peopel might not like my choice.

Answer 1

Because the Civil Rights Movement was betrayed by it's own leaders, and transformed into a tool for siezing and maintaining political power - specifically, the political power enjoyed by the Democratic Party.  That required abandoning integration, and promoting racial divisions.  Though, it's typically phrased as 'maintaining cultural identity' and 'uniting the community.'

Answer 2

Civil rights was not about ending segragation. It was about ending oppression of black freedoms and liberties, which included segragation.

Answer 3

It seems to me that "Black Racist leaders",like Farrakan,Jackson,Sharpton,the Black Panthers,NAACP etc.don't want to end segregation because they want to rule this country. Get on the internet and see how many all black collages there are. If there's one all white one, I would like to know about it

Answer 4

Good ?

Answer 5

Because things still aren't equal.

Answer 6

FOOL Don't you know political correctness only goes one way.

Answer 7

You forget that "segregation" was not created by private entities, but by state governments. And those governments were violating the U.S. Constitution. Here is the way that Robert Bork described the legal principle:

"The legal campaign to have Plessy overruled did not begin with a flat-out assault on the principle of 'separate but equal.' Rather, litigation was directed at particular segregated facilities to show that they were not equal, that whites always had better facilities, usually much better. Litigation of this sort succeeded again and again, and, by demonstrating the invariable inequality of facilities, the litigation began to undermine the legal as well as the moral foundations of the separate-but-equal doctrine. ...

"By 1954, when Brown came up for decision, it had been apparent for some time that segregation rarely if ever produced equality. ... [T]he physical facilities provided for blacks were not as good as those provided for whites. That had been demonstrated in a long series of cases. The Supreme Court was faced with a situation in which the courts would have to go on forever entertaining litigation about primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, washrooms, golf courses, swimming pools, drinking fountains, and the endless variety of facilities that were segregated, or else the separate-but-equal doctrine would have to be abandoned. Endless litigation, quite aside from the burden on the courts, also would never produce the equality the Constitution promised. The Court's realistic choice, therefore, was either to abandon the quest for equality by allowing segregation or to forbid segregation in order to achieve equality. There was no third choice. ... Since equality and segregation were mutually inconsistent, ... both could not be honored. When that is seen, it is obvious the Court must choose equality and prohibit state-imposed segregation." (The Tempting of America, Bork, 1989)

The UNCF and BET are not relevant to the point of the  unconstitutionality of the state segregation laws.

Answer 8

I equate it to sports - if we leave it alone (except for going after aggregous (sp?) offenses) it will find a natural balance and racism would disappear.  Did we have QUOTAS for the NBA?  No, we left it alone and now have the best athletes around.  Quotas now - 4 whites, 3 blacks and 3 hispanics to meet the racial diversity of the population would result in a lowering of the overall skill level.

I also equate racism with evolution - if we evolved, there is no god, no right, no wrong, everything that is RIGHT is best for ME - MIGHT makes RIGHT.  However, I believe there is a creator God that made everyone of us, regardless of age, people group (not race - we are all the human race), s*x, born, unborn, etc. completely 100% equal.  Creator God also made right and wrong and ingrained it in us all.

Answer 9

you could use the same arguement about Telemundo,or Si' TV,or for that matter,the nashville network CMT etc.

The part that makes me laugh the most,was growing up I watched All in the Family and The Jeffersons,along with Sanford and Son,and Chico and the Man,Flip Wilson,and Good Times.All these shows came on TV right after,or shortly after(within 10 years) of the Civil Rights movements,and we were able to laugh at ourselves and the sterotypes of everybody....My only questions are what happened?When did we get so over-sensitive?

Answer 10

The civil rights movement wasn't just about ending segregation but a request for equal rights. Which means: the white only business that blacks weren't allowed patronage too, be open to black patron; the entrances/exits of a building weren't designated for whites only, forcing blacks to have a back or "service" entrance; the vehicles of public transportation, which prevented blacks from taking certain seats for the sake of white riders, be open to all riders; and, government facilities such as state run hospitals be as receptive to black patients as they were to whites, rather than forcing blacks to wait until after the white patients were seen by doctors.

I was born in '76 so I- as a black person- have never dealt with an issue of segregation. However, from personal observation, I've seen where a civil rights movement would have to have been in place for blacks to get a fair deal in this country during that time. I'm unsure where you live but it would be hard for me to believe that you too haven't seen how black people, during the time of the civil rights movement, may have needed the movement to achieve self pride. Now, it seems like channels like BET or TVone is for continuing the spirit of self pride rather than instilling it.

Without sounding crass, I don't remember a period in this country's history where white people should have needed a movement of self pride. When have you not seen where people who looked like you (of the same skin color) excelled in some area or another? While it's true that all black people in this country weren't enslaved, you can't deny that even those that weren't enslaved weren't given a hard time via the attempt of forcing them into slavery. Generally speaking, black people didn't have heroes that looked like them (of the same skin color) hence the need for self pride. Black people didn't put themselves in that position. I've never read where black people actually chose to be oppressed.

Lastly, I don't see what's wrong in celebrating our differences. We aren't all the same regardless of how many people try to paint the picture that we are. There's nothing wrong with you celebrating yourself, your history, and your culture and vice versa for me. People can't be lumped into one catagory, there are differences that should be recognized and those differences don't have to result in inequality for anybody.

My husband loves sushi. I can't stand it. I don't like raw meat of any kind. But you know what, I would never fry it to appease my tastes because that's not how sushi is supposed to be served. I don't have to like it but I respect it and its cultural link enough to not try and change it. I view people the same way. I don't try and get any white friend I have to braid her hair or dress in "hip-hop associated" clothes. I appreciate them for what they can bring to my pot of fun and I assume vice versa, otherwise we wouldn't be friends with me.

Answer 11

Despite the end of legal segregation, there is still a high degree of de facto segregation in America, and African Americans are still underrepresented in, among other things, American universities and American films. The UNCF and Black Entertainment Television exist to help bridge this gap.

Answer 12

we will never end segregation if you vote for me..i will give you 8 more years of war and tax cuts..the h**l with the debt

Answer 13

Listen very carefully to what you are thinking and saying.

What you need is an update on the history of slaves, Negroes, and African Americans.  

When you finish reading Before the Mayflower, Mirror to America, Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Articles of Confederation of the Confederate States of America, The United States Constitution, The Emancipation Proclamation, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Crime and Poverty, The Affluent Society, Stride Toward Freedom, and Why We Can't Wait, you will begin to understand your need to know more about yourself.

Answer 14

It's a matter of many factors. Getting what they never had, getting what only the white man had, searching for identity, flexing a new social streangth.

  Let me point out that originaly we never said, "White Boy," There was no such thing as a "White Boy," when I grew up in the South. There was only "White Man." There was as form of custom a wel know term, "Blackie," Black Boy," the two words together Black man had not been formed yet,not publicly that is. Black men were boys and that was that. And that is why today, blacks have run "White Boy" down the white man's throat.That in and of itself is a show of strength. In otherwords, our Anglo society is or was full of shows of strength and oh phallic symbols. Now blacks want to have theirs.

   Phallic Symbols where simply always symbols of  white penises not of black penises. For centuries, it has always been the way of one great white 'race' or another. One Gernmanic tribe from the caucus Mountains fighting another tribe of whites and so on until now, all of a sudden, in the twentieth century, African Americans become classified as humans when they were previusly clasfied as livestock.

   So now it is their turn to do and to be and you can't take that away from them, not now. It's their turn to be better than we were when we were on top. Or so to say.

   As for the United Negroe College Fund, they (negroes) were disunited and hopelessly opressed. Now they have shown the world that education can change a nation of illiterate blacks into a nation of educated people. or so, to say, it is like a rally call to further the cause of an entire people by focusing on the personal betterment of one single person.

    Where blacks are concerned, it has clearly been education or the lack of it that has made all the difference in the world and being proud of that they prmote that and it is a civic service to promote education anyway.

Answer 15

Because black Americans segregate themselves.