The month of black history is feeling different this year. And we cannot allow the victim to be disturbed
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The author and commentator Shelby Steele once wrote that “he is a black Conservative Black who is separated from the Victimisation explanation of a black fate when offered as totalism – when this is the main topic of group identity and Raison d’Antre group of politics.” I first read those words in 1999, just before I moved to The south side of Chicago And that’s where I started my work.
I often thought about these words because they hit the nerves deep inside me. Growing up in Tennessee I have never seen any of this Victimization among my people in the countryside. My mother and uncles were proud, God -fearing people who worked daily on providing. What they earned was theirs, and this simple reality filled their life with meaning.
Only when I grew up, went to college and became a young adult, did I begin to listen to this way of thinking about Victimization. We can’t do it, we can’t be because of a man. Then I resisted this mentality and resisted him even more today.
Another month of black history is now on us and, regardless of your thoughts about this symbolism, something is feeling different these days. The retention that has had so long has seems to be weak, and I pray that it is true. That is why I wanted to share the story with you I heard as a child showing the truth of the spirit of our people and what our victim’s mentality had robbed us.
Only a few years after the end of the Civil War in 1870, three men on her way from the church decided to board a wheelchair in Louisville, Kentucky. They paid their ticket and took their places. If they were white, the cart would continue at the next stop without an incident. But Robert Fox, an older master, and his brother and business partner, Samuel, along with his employee Horace Pearce, were black.
The white passenger, John Russell, ordered them from the cart and was supported by a white driver.
However, Robert replied that they had paid the same price and had the right to drive.
Robert and his two men were not alone. Near the church they just left, there were over 300 blacks, waiting for them to see what would happen. They were all part of the effort of the Black Community on testing the law of segregation of companies.
The driver of the stroller sent an invitation to other drivers for help. Soon the white drivers gang surrounded three blacks and the violence began. The blacks were beaten and cast rocks on them. They were dragged from the stroller to the street.
Some blacks from the crowd broke in front of the church and started throwing a solidly mud on white drivers. This distraction enabled Robert and his two men to board the stroller where they stood unwavering.
The black crowd shouted their support and told them not to move from the cart.
The central passenger companies supervisor arrived at the scene and told the three blacks that he would return their map if they were heading to the cart. Robert said, no.
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None of the other carts in the city moved. Everything was in the back. The simple protest of these three men, along with their supporters who refused to accept smaller status, upset the social order of the time.
But when the police arrived, Robert and his two men were not in the match. They were arrested, charged with messy behavior and sent to prison.
Robert and his partners did not allow, as blacks to testify in the state court. Were fined with $ 5.
However, Robert refused to take it as the last word. He decided to sue the central passenger rail company for renunciation of access and filed a lawsuit at the US District Court in Louisville, where the testifies of the blacks would be allowed. Robert Fox won his case and was awarded $ 15.
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Jubilent, the Black Community began to test its right to ride. However, local whites did not respect the federal decision and returned. In turn, the blacks have committed themselves to non-violent resistance during their protests, setting a stage for a sit-my that will happen during a modern civil rights movement almost 80 years later.
White riders threw a black passenger out the window, beat up the black man trying to board a stroller, and drivers often run a wheelchair from the trails when Blacks refused to get off.
It all reached his head when the black teenager named Carey Duncan refused to leave the cart. The whites gathered around and swinging the stroller forward -leaving it, trying to enlarge it. Duncan kept his place for a dear life as he listened to white hatred, calling for his death.
So far, the blacks have gathered on the street and the police feared the clutter would explode. They arrested Duncan and accused him of messy behavior. Whites? No charges.
Mayor Louisville realized that the issue had to be resolved and finally agreed that he would surrender in the demands of the protesters: the blacks were now allowed to drive a wheelchair without restriction.
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I’m telling this story because these are the types of people I come from. They lived in a time when the whites said, “We must keep the former slave in the position of inferiority. We must bring such laws that will make it feel his inferiority.” These blacks refused.
That’s why the words Shelby Steele mean so much to me. His words support the tradition of the power I strive for every day. We prevailed too much to allow the victim to reject us all.
