Ed, over at the website of the Conservative Brotherhood posed this question. Here is what Cobb was able to put together (click here to read the rest of his list):
1. Being forced to live with others based strictly on skin color which determines nothing makes us more accepting of people who are not like us.
2. (OS) The willingness to discipline other’s children in the neighborhood.
3. A general desire not to be phony and put on airs of superiority.
4. A genuine spirituality for which no material or social reward can be gained….
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Here are a some things that come to my mind:
- Our unique ability to tell a story
- Our ability to still laugh when faced with pure hell
Your turn!
Hmmm…
Interesting…
Thanks.
this reminds me of a conversation with a co-worker last week which i am still mulling over. basically, he said some black folks in our school district (educators, mind u!) have problems because they forget they’re black. isn’t he saying, they’ve forgotten their place?
i think as a people, we’re more dynamic than that!
-Perseverance- from seeing ourselves being hung and whipped in slavery to seeing our young brothers kill each other in the name of a gang instead of uniting under our skin color.
Compassion strikes me. More than once I’ve heard soldiers who had been wounded say that Black medics seemed to be more attuned to their pain. It probably holds true in civilian life also.
Once we get behind something–ITS OVAH!