Comments on: Black Rage: The Dumb Concept That Won’t Die

By: mandy7

mandy7 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:09:11 +0000

I agree, black rage is a cop out, a pitiful excuse for a horrific act & whoever brought it up in court should have been fired on the spot for being an idiot! That being said, I also think that those who spend their lives whining about oppression and racism are just to lazy to take control of their lives and need someone to blame. Everyone faces discrimination!!! It’s a FACT! I have been discriminated against for my skin, my sex, my size and kids. This very story has discriminative overtones; “You could have told white America that every black person had a bigger penis and could dunk a basketball and they would have believed it.” Kinda makes caucasions sound like a bunch of morons, huh??I have heard that since I was 8 & never once believed it! Do I spend my life whining & cring about “they won’t make my life fair!” No, I get off my a$$ & take it into my own hands, LEGALLY!!!!!! Are there white people who do everything in their power to undermine black folks? Yes. Are there black folks who do everything in their power to undermine white folks? Yes. Are there just plain miserable people who try to make life unbearable for us ALL?? YES!!!!!
My point, your life is in your hands, YOU have to do something with it, noone is going to just hand you what you want, you have to force them to give it legally. If your to lazy to do that, fine, but don’t go around whining that it’s someone elses fault!!

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By: libtree09

libtree09 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:31:35 +0000

As someone who has endured five years of anger management the best advise came when the instructor laid out all sorts of rage at just about everything, he then produced a shoe box and said he had put all his rage and prejudice and frustration in the box.

He then asked who wants the box. Who wants to own the box? Taking the box is what we do with other people who insult or push their views or ignorance, we take it on, we grab the box add to it and explode. There is usually enough problems in our own box. Never, Never take the box from someone else.

By: btodish

btodish — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:01:53 +0000

An alternative to all rage is to emerge into a kind of absolute humanity where you regard all social and cultural constructs (race, gender, ethnicity, religion, in fact all sterotypes as relative. As a result of being relative such relative humans are therefore viewed as only PRACTICING to have AGENCY, so that anything they “do” or “say” is TRANSLATED as being “done” or “said” by their IMAGE. In other words I CHOOSE to see insults to me as being PROJECTIONS of someones’ limited humanity. I think to myself, or sometimes I will actually say out loud “You are only PRACTICING to insult me, but you are an EXPERT in insulting yourself.” In other words, I view the “person” as a pre-person that has yet to emerge into agency, has yet to have absolute HUMAN agency, and only is a RELATIVE HUMAN. In this way I can be free from being provoked.