MJinZ
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Perhaps. Jim Steinman said "Every hero was once, every villein was once, just a boy with a bad attitude", so you have a point. I myself would not have equated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with naked dancing men cavorting in a parade in front of children, but to each his own I suppose.
I once applied for a TVA training program, or tried to. I was not allowed to take the test or even fill out an application because they were only taking minorities. (Technically they were only taking minorities and children of existing TVA government workers, but one can't say that to the non-elite.) Your interpretation is that it's perfectly okay to discriminate against me in order to discriminate for someone else because he has darker skin, and that will somehow make up for discrimination against some third person. In other words, we aren't real people, we're merely representatives of our respective racial groups, so it's okay to make me less equal if it will make their group more equal. I can't imagine how you possibly reconcile that with the concept of America, however imperfectly realized.
I do wish I had known earlier that I was in a position of privilege. When I was young and had to leave the house to use the bathroom, that might have helped. On those cold nights when the coal stove roasted you on one side and froze you on the other, when I'd wake to find ice crystals on the inside of our windows so that you couldn't see out, my position of privilege might have warmed the cockles of my heart.![]()
It's all on a spectrum.
Honestly, it's not the dancing flamers that make much of a difference, but the outspoken gay lawyers and activists and all that. But in any case, everyone who stays quiet should honestly realize how much others who actually put themselves out have accomplished on their behalf as well.
