re: Question regarding the black power fist at NFL games today

First of all, please don't try to use Barack Obama as an excuse why Black people have finally been accepted and assimilated. If that's the the case it still took wayyyy too long, but that is the argument that is asinine. Barack Obama was elected President because he was the best of the worst. Let's be honest, in 2008, there was no way any Republican would win office after the Bush Administration. The new generation of voters, reviled everything that party stood for at the time. It's balancing out now, but it was nowhere near close then, and Democrats, as progressive as they try to portray themselves to be, could not fathom a female president at that time. I was on LSU's campus the night Obama was elected President and as a Black man, we were not welcomed or felt a new dawn had come, but felt like the Old South was bound to rise again any day now. There was plenty of talk about how he should be hung, so don't act like he's the measuring stick for our cultural acceptance.

How about I work everyday in a public service job, being called the n word daily, by the same people I'm trying to help. I'm helping you but I'm less than you. How about being called the n word by a 3 or 4 year old little white girl. She wasn't just repeating, but was taught to understand what the word meant, and when to use it, again in a situation where I'm working as a teacher's helper to further kids. In a place where, most of the kids were white but most of the staff was black, who else was that guided toward? How about having no criminal record, a great gpa, good job experience and no negative remarks from any former employers, but not being hired to jobs and then testing the theory that it was because I was black and changing my race on the application from Black to Decide Not to Answer and getting calls to the same places, who wouldn't call when I stated my race.

I'm still young and yet, I'm discriminated all the time, what's sad is, I got to a point where I believed that was ok, it was normal, cause that's just the world I live in, but why? If the nation I live in says I should not have to go through that? Why not say anything? Why not stand against it?

I never said all white people are racist, that's very untrue, I'm also not of the belief that all black people aren't racist. But if I'm skeptical of a white man, based on history, I have every reason to be? What exactly is any white man's reasoning based on history, to hate or despise a black man? What was it then and what is it now?