"...By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, THEY DON'T READ!!!..." - Anonymous


An email I received from a friend:

-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXX
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:15 AM
Subject: Fw: A STATEMENT READ ON NY RADIO/Our Spending

>>> STATEMENT ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE>>>

Not to make you all angry so early in the morning but any thoughts about thecomment below? This was apparently read on a New York radiostation.........I tried to look it up to see if there was any validity to itand to see if it was just something to get us riled up but I couldn't findanything......

Signed,
XXXXX

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:40 AM
>>> Subject: Re: FW: A STATEMENT READ ON NY RADIO

http://thebwp.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=431

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


My response:

From: Ricardo W
Date: Apr 5, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: A STATEMENT READ ON NY RADIO/Our Spending]]


I don't think there's really anything to prove here in terms of validity - it's more of an editorial, and yes it's meant to rile folks up, no matter if it was written by a white or black person. Whether or not the statistics are accurate is irrelevant - it's just meant to make you mad.

It's kinda funny, cuz i feel like these are the kind of unconfirmed and haphazard writings that make up the "critical thinking" literature of the part of our community that never reads books. this is the closest they come to reading anything with a little bit of knowledge in it. where would we be without email forwards???

i think back to folks i've seen whose first attempt at activism came when they received the email that Blacks were losing their voting rights in 2007. Or folks who tried to unify the community in order to save the US Postal Black Heritage stamps.

now what is we gon' do?

-Ricardo