My fellow Americans. I invite you to read this column by Bob Herbert in Saturday's New York Times. It puts racism in America in proper and accurate perspective. --Jim Broede
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/opinion/19herbert.html?_r=1&hp
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You know, folks, we can kid ourselves and say that racism is no longer a serious problem in the USA. Or we can face up to it. And admit, it's darn serious and time for cleansing of the American soul. --Jim
I find no where in any of your comments from others that states racism is no longer a serious problem in the USA. Although I find many examples here of how you try to bring the subject up trying to make it a bigger issue than it truly is. Racism is world wide. I do not feel that you bringing it up in every other blog will solve anything. Actions speak louder than words. I hear of no actions you take.
We need a national discussion on racism. We can't discuss it too much. It's a national shame. With worldwide ramifications. Many white people don't want to discuss it, or even admit that it's a serious problem. You know it. I know it. So I'm trying to trigger discussion. That's something, isn't it? Yes, I'm doing something. By writing about the subject. By taking issue with people I consider to be racist. I challenge 'em. Rather than just let 'em go. I see people who are in complete denial. Kind of sad, isn't it? --Jim
We need a national discussion on racism. We can't discuss it too much. It's a national shame. With worldwide ramifications. Many white people don't want to discuss it, or even admit that it's a serious problem. You know it. I know it. So I'm trying to trigger discussion. That's something, isn't it? Yes, I'm doing something. By writing about the subject. By taking issue with people I consider to be racist. I challenge 'em. Rather than just let 'em go. I see people who are in complete denial. Kind of sad, isn't it? --Jim
I am sorry jumbo, but if you think that posting daily here about racism you are catching the attention of the nation you are sadly mistaken. You have a handful of people that vist this blog. Most lose interest quickly. Its like watching Nick at Night. All re-runs over and over again.
I'm not trying to catch the attention of the nation. Only a handful. Maybe 2 or 3 or 4. Heck, I'm not thinking big time. If I influence one or two people in my life, that's good enough for me. I don't spread myself thin. For instance, I have only one love interest. That's all I can handle. That's all I want to handle. My blog isn't intended for the masses. Only the special elite. Meanwhile, I'm amused by the people who come to the blog and don't like it, but still keep coming back. They're an interesting study. --Jim
You talk to talk but can you walk the walk?
Talk is cheap
We need a national discussion on racism. We can't discuss it too much. It's a national shame. With worldwide ramifications. Many white people don't want to discuss it, or even admit that it's a serious problem. You know it. I know it. So I'm trying to trigger discussion. That's something, isn't it? Yes, I'm doing something. By writing about the subject. By taking issue with people I consider to be racist. I challenge 'em. Rather than just let 'em go. I see people who are in complete denial. Kind of sad, isn't it? --Jim
Broede's Broodings said...
I'm not trying to catch the attention of the nation. Only a handful. Maybe 2 or 3 or 4. Heck, I'm not thinking big time. If I influence one or two people in my life, that's good enough for me. I don't spread myself thin. For instance, I have only one love interest. That's all I can handle. That's all I want to handle. My blog isn't intended for the masses. Only the special elite. Meanwhile, I'm amused by the people who come to the blog and don't like it, but still keep coming back. They're an interesting study. --Jim
Could you explain these 2 posts they confuse me. You first state that "We need a national discussion on racism" You are trying to trigger a discussion.
Next you state that your only trying to reach 2, 3, maybe 4.
Its very confusing to me how you flip and flop.
You stated you once worked for a newspaper. I googled you and found an artical about a school board meeting. So you reported on school board meetings as your "reporter" employment?
I not only walk the walk, I run the run. I'll bet you can't keep up with me. Because you tire yourself just yapping. --Jim
You are probably confused because you don't quite know how to read, dear CD. Words and meanings. I don't expect to influence more than a handful of people in my blog. That's all it is. A relatively small-time blog. No big publication. It's my broodings. Have you not noticed what it's called? Broede's Broodings. Not any more or less than that. I'm not the one that's going to stir a national discussion on racism. It's gotta be the media. And politicians. And organizations such as the NAACP. All of us. I do a little bit in my blog. But that's all. A little, little bit. And hey, you should know better than to judge my newspaper writing on one article, one story. From 1969 to 1998 I wrote thousands of by-lined stories in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. On many subjects. Check 'em out if you have time. Go to the library at the Pioneer Press if you want. Read a cross-section of the writing . Then form your judgment. --Jim Broede
Hey Jimbo, I CHALLANGE YOU to run a marathon with me. Game on
You have to PAY to see past articles.
Have you ever written your representatives? The President? The NAACP? Have you ever even written a "guest" opinion in your local paper-if they have such a thing? The power of the written word CAN be useful, if indeed it is used.
People, this is just simple little blog. Lower your expectations. Congratulations, Jim, on all of the recent attention. Must be a lot of us have absolutely nothing else to do.
Anon2
Accepted. As long as I get to choose the time and place. It'll be worth it. Just to meet you face to face. You won't be anonymous anymore. --Jim
It's worth paying to read my stuff. And hey, I've not only written to the NAACP, I've served on the executive board of a local chapter. And I always feel I could/should do more of everything. Don't we all? --Jim
You let me know what Marathon I will be waiting.
I hear you got run out of Florida.
I don’t see myself as an exceptionally good writer. But writing has always been a romantic outlet. Helps me to understand myself. And others. An opportunity to reflect. In a romantic way. Since I retired, I’ve written daily. In a journal. Called Broede’s Broodings, just like this blog. And in a weekly newspaper, I had a personal column called Broede’s Broodings. It was really a column of romantic notions. One could laugh. Or cry. Over the same column. Just depended on how one chose to take it. I talked of love. My sort of romantic or dream love.
When I wrote for newspapers, I focused mostly on ideas. And ideals. Often romantic ideas. I went south in the 1960s, and wrote for papers in Lakeland and Vero Beach. And I got sidetracked. Into the civil rights movement. I was on the executive board of the NAACP chapter in Vero Beach. And I was a militant. And I got into trouble with the political big-wigs. And more or less got run out of town. It got to be a dangerous time. But I saw the whole ordeal/experience as romantic. As spiritually fulfilling.
In my younger days, I moved around a lot. From job to job. I was editor of the college newspaper. At a small liberal arts college. And then I went into the Army. And I went to the Army Information School at Fort Slocum on Long Island, just off New Rochelle, and I got into New York City on weekends. How romantic.
And then I was sent to Europe. Stationed in Frankfurt for 2 years. And guess what? My primary job in the army was sports editor of the 3rd Armored Division’s weekly newspaper, The Spearhead. And I got to travel covering sports events. And on my leaves, got to places like Vienna and Prague. But mostly, I spent lots of time in London. My favorite place. Again, I felt a sense of the romantic. I loved it.
Well, I came to Minnesota by a circuitous route. Went to work for the daily newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. writing government news, breaking stories, and feature stories. Often on controversial topics. With a sense that I was leading a romantic life. And I met Jeanne.
And the romantic odyssey continues today. Meeting strangers. Like you. And thinking -- isn’t it romantic becoming acquainted with strangers? People I’ve never met face to face. Potential friends.
And as I sit here writing this, I tell myself I’m enjoying the moment. Savoring life. And offering opportunities to strangers. For dialogues. With me. Feels romantic. Makes me feel good and happy and romantic…in the Broede sense. –Jim Broede
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