Let's go back to the 1950's...
Thank God that Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't respond using your line of reasoning. He didn't turn to his congregation and say:
"White people are incapable of goodness. Our only option, as people of color, is to accept the fact that white people will always treat us with injustice, always humiliate, torture, segregate, and murder us. Our only option is to learn some self defense."
Please note that I have not called any of you "dick head" or changed the spelling of your names (perhaps you have more in common with that restaurant patron than you recognize.)
Please take a minute and recognize that violence against women-that racism, sexism, and homophobia are are tools of patriarchal oppression. Are you claiming not to recognize the similarities?
Please think about it....
Lorne Coleman
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