I like that story, especially about the black G.I.
I wonder why most of the active members on the Sphere ignored Ralph's Black History Month thread back in February, where all we really had to do was post great poems by great black poets, of which there are a great many, even after being alerted to the thread by me in a few of the political threads going on at the same time?
Why?
Because most of the active members were busy writing doggerel in the anti-Trump threads that had been going on at about the same time, busy patting one another on the back and feeling very comfy.
I was told by one senior member that, well, perhaps those members didn't have time to join in Ralph's thread? Which seemed odd since they apparently had plenty of time to write political doggerel and congratulate one another, over and over.
Then another senior member said that they did were not black and did not feel that it would be proper to try and imagine what it would be like to suffer bigotry and prejudice, so they did not feel comfortable joining in the thread.
Then another senior member told me in private that...
No, let's not go there.
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