re: Maya Angelou dead at 86

May she rest in peace

These are the kind of threads I get banned from so I will heed your advice.

I still think this thread is dumb and will make my voice be heard on instagram.

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To some extent, as I get older, I sympathize with them. I don't like them, mind you, but I somewhat understand the situation. John Lewis, for example, went through the civil rights movement and the subsequent decades, and still acts like we're in the same situation today. But if all of the highlights of your life were in that period and in that fight, I imagine it is hard to change how you view things. I do think it tends to make you bitter and makes your work really limited in scope.

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Ok, I'll agree there's something to that, but how can you ask an entire race of people to do something that you aren't willing to do yourself?

Seems like most of the "civil rights" leaders don't want people to be color-blind. They want revenge for crimes committed by people who are LONG dead and gone.

Have never heard of her, but John Feinstein just said on his radio show that she was "one of the most important writers to America in the past 50+ years". R.I.P.

She may be the GOAT but sadly this is going to be more about her race than about her accomplishments

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I sympathize with them. I don't like them, mind you, but I somewhat understand the situation. John Lewis, for example, went through the civil rights movement and the subsequent decades, and still acts like we're in the same situation today. But if all of the highlights of your life were in that period and in that fight, I imagine it is hard to change how you view things. I do think it tends to make you bitter and makes your work really limited in scope.

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Those people have a perfectly valid reason to resent the past and that period of time. The problem is when they then teach their children "white people used to beat the shite out of me simply for walking down the street, so dont' trust white people because they're evil".

Nobody under 50 was around for that time period so they should have no reason to feel entitled to anything or resentful about it, IMO.

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Ok, I'll agree there's something to that, but how can you ask an entire race of people to do something that you aren't willing to do yourself?

Seems like most of the "civil rights" leaders don't want people to be color-blind. They want revenge for crimes committed by people who are LONG dead and gone.

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Don't get me wrong, I'm with you. But as I experience more things and see how people cling to things from the most exciting or meaningful parts of life, I simply understand more WHY they're like that. I wish they weren't.

A good one is Hank Aaron, who is a total a-hole. I don't like him at all, and I'm a huge Braves fan. But, if I was breaking a monumental record while getting death threats, and perhaps never got as much recognition for being a superior hitter as I should have, I'd probably grow old with a chip on my shoulder too.

I'm just saying I can see how/why people develop with the bitterness or tunnel vision issues we're talking about.

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She may be the GOAT but sadly this is going to be more about her race than about her accomplishments

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Wasnt her race a big part of why she was famous?

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She may be the GOAT but sadly this is going to be more about her race than about her accomplishments

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Her race was her accomplishment. If she would have been a white woman spittin those same rhymes you would have likely never heard of her. But being who she was at the time it was is why she is so revered. I'm not saying that as a knock on MA. I'm just saying..