The caps in the title are a tribute to Lee, who is sorely missed on getbig. 
This is the greatest column by Lee that I have ever read in my entire life. 
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"If [Henry Louis] Gates thinks it's so terrible being a black man in America, why not see how he likes it in Africa, a continent ravaged by poverty, famine, disease, wars, and political corruption?
My wife is from South Africa, a nation ruled for many years by the bad white man. And yes, there was a lot of overt racism and oppression of the native people. They all thought their hell would turn to a heaven once the black man got control back, but it didn't quite work that way. The place went to shit. The whole country is on strike. The people get all kinds of free entitlements, but all they do is clamor for more, more, more! Blacks from poorer parts of South Africa come to the cities willing to work for less money, and the city folks murder them to keep them from stealing their jobs.
I'm so sick of all this crap. Look at the past, learn from it, and move on! Don't live in the past and dwell on how unfair things were. I find it really hypocritical that blacks spent so much time fighting against segregation, and nowadays you have all sorts of pageants and awards shows specifically for blacks. If you had a White Miss America or an awards show for white musicians, that would immediately be reviled as racist.
What Priest seems to forget is that the reason you have paegants like a Miss Black America, along with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is because they were established, during a time when blacks COULD NOT compete in the Miss America competitions or enroll in other universities.
Does desegregation mean we should close down Grambling, Florida A&M, Hampton, Tuskegee, etc., as institutions of higher learning? Absolutely NOT!!
It's wonderful for black people to be proud of who they are and celebrate the achievements of their race, but the only whites who do that are neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't approve of what these people preach. I'm just trying to make a point. It just seems really odd that it's only OK to be proud of who you are if you're a minority. If you're not, that pride is called being a white supremacist. On a similar note, why is it acceptable for a black comedian to ridicule white people, mocking the way they walk, talk, dress, dance, etc., but if a white comedian ever did something similar he would be - pardon the pun - blacklisted?" - Lee Priest, November 2009 MD [P. 60].
There's a difference between being proud of your own race and denigrating that of someone else. The KKK and Neo-Nazis are more about belittling non-whites than they are about uplifting whites.
This month is Hispanic Heritage month. But, for some strange reason, I don't see any Latinos making derogatory statements about whites, blacks, or Arabs.
