<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443541" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Month Of Re-Enforcing Stereotypes Has Arrived</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The month of re-enforcing stereotypes has arrived.<br>With a naming of a few who broke away from them, <br>To remind others they too have the same potential...<br>If they embraced discipline, devotion and a work ethic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's the month of re-enforcing stereotypes.<br>And folks who have waited to use the words 'niggers'<br>'coons', 'jungle bunnies' and other degrading references...<br>Depicting people of color, <br>Can do so to say they are celebrating bondage.<br>Since...<br>Isn't that the purpose? <br>To keep people reminded of their slave mentalities.<br>OR like some folks like to address their 'connections' as...<br>Keeping themselves down to Earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>With much assistance, <br>What a good job people have done...<br>To prove a legacy of ignorance can have its visual benefits, <br>For all who are determined to keep stereotypes alive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Note: <br>Are these images subtle? Not anymore. In fact depictions of<br>ignorance 'are celebrated where I live in Hartford, Connecticut.<br>And thought to be 'cute' by those totally absent of identity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a picture from Kemble's Coons (Authored by Edward Windsor Kemble) <br>shows a coon with a naked black child sitting high in a tree, <br>eating on an ear of corn, and I know this reflects the mindset of the people...<br>this picture released and shown to begin celebrating Black History Month, <br>can be upsetting. ESPECIALLY when there is no acknowledgement, whatsoever, <br>of Jimmy Brown who was the first Black President of The Hartford Board of Education.<br>AND those who are 'celebrating' those deeds of black folks in this 'town'...<br>Have no idea who he is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is 'this' poetry? Is 'this' a slice of life? Yes, it is. A poetic flowing of an intention! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443541" data-title="The Month Of Re-Enforcing Stereotypes Has Arrived de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="The month of re-enforcing stereotypes has arrived. With a naming of a few who broke away from them, To remind others they too have the same potential... If they embraced discipline, devotion and a work ethic. It's the month of re-enforcing stere..."></div> </div> </div>

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