WOW! Powerful! Thank you! I wanted to respond, but being white, I thought I should keep my mouth shut. Your blog has changed that. I am going to say what I think, wherever I am and let the chips fall where they may. I have been afraid of being called a racist most of my life. Today it really doesn’t matter. I need to be heard.
From your blog – lets start a new race! The Black Race. Since it was your blog I should let you be the charter and first member, however, in my new space I am going to be the charter and first member.
The Black Race is —
A ‘race’ you can’t be born into – you have to elect to join.
Your skin color does not matter nor does your sex.
The major criteria for joining is your need to be with people who understand equality and are equal to you and you and you to them.
A race concerned about this planet and how we take care of it.
A race of people concerned about the food we eat and what is being done to it.
A race of people into which you can put your most cherished foods, holidays, symbols, sayings which were a part of your former ‘race’ and which you want to remember and hang on to – and where others will also celebrate ‘your’ things as their own.
A race of people whose members reach out to one another to mutually be there for those of us having a difficult time getting through this life.
A race of people whose members do not tolerate homelessness.
You may maintain ‘membership’ in the Black Race and any other race you choose at the same time. (added 6/20/2015)
The Black Race has members spread around the globe and are citizens of many countries. It is not limited to one country. (added 6/20/2015)
Your name needs to be inscribed in the membership book of The Black Race. Currently, you can do that by sending an email to bettinanetwork@comcast.net until a separate site is established for The Black Race and then new members would send their names to that new address. (added 6/21/2015)
Only those who sign up to be members of The Black Race are accepted. No one is automatically a member of the Black Race. (added 6/21/2015)
We need a creed and a membership card. Each person who joins The Black Race should have their own card made up with additional cards to give to their friends, relatives and colleagues. All are welcome to join the Black Race – and to tell the media and others that you are Black. Maybe we should have little dinner parties to announce to our friends that we are now Black.
I will start the Black Race Creed:
I, (your name), am a member of the Black Race. If you do harm to one of us you do harm to all of us.
As a member of the Black Race I give up whatever White Privilege I have been given. (added 6/21/2015)
If there is anything you want to add to this definition of the Black Race, please feel free to do so. If there is anything you want to add to the “Black Race Creed”, please feel free to do that also.
If you want to be public about your membership in the Black Race, send a blog to Bettina’s with your name and reasons for joining. Come out of the closet all of you Black people.
Does someone want to contribute bumper stickers which read “I am a member of the Black Race” ?
*Ed Note: Currently, there is no such thing as a Black Race, so this conversation about whether or not Rachel Dolezal is Black or not is a ridiculous conversation. African Americans also don’t constitute a race of people. So this initiative to start such a race has a clear field.
And oh, by the way, we have had a couple telephone calls asking us to find out where Rachel Dolezal has her hair done. Anyone know the answer to that?
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Volunteer with Bettina Network Foundation, inc. to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.
Send your event information to be included in Bettina Network’s Menu of Events to: bettina-network@comcast.net
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The Black Race*
WOW! Powerful! Thank you! I wanted to respond, but being white, I thought I should keep my mouth shut. Your blog has changed that. I am going to say what I think, wherever I am and let the chips fall where they may. I have been afraid of being called a racist most of my life. Today it really doesn’t matter. I need to be heard.
From your blog – lets start a new race! The Black Race. Since it was your blog I should let you be the charter and first member, however, in my new space I am going to be the charter and first member.
The Black Race is —
A ‘race’ you can’t be born into – you have to elect to join.
Your skin color does not matter nor does your sex.
The major criteria for joining is your need to be with people who understand equality and are equal to you and you and you to them.
A race concerned about this planet and how we take care of it.
A race of people concerned about the food we eat and what is being done to it.
A race of people into which you can put your most cherished foods, holidays, symbols, sayings which were a part of your former ‘race’ and which you want to remember and hang on to – and where others will also celebrate ‘your’ things as their own.
A race of people whose members reach out to one another to mutually be there for those of us having a difficult time getting through this life.
A race of people whose members do not tolerate homelessness.
You may maintain ‘membership’ in the Black Race and any other race you choose at the same time. (added 6/20/2015)
The Black Race has members spread around the globe and are citizens of many countries. It is not limited to one country. (added 6/20/2015)
Your name needs to be inscribed in the membership book of The Black Race. Currently, you can do that by sending an email to bettinanetwork@comcast.net until a separate site is established for The Black Race and then new members would send their names to that new address. (added 6/21/2015)
Only those who sign up to be members of The Black Race are accepted. No one is automatically a member of the Black Race. (added 6/21/2015)
We need a creed and a membership card. Each person who joins The Black Race should have their own card made up with additional cards to give to their friends, relatives and colleagues. All are welcome to join the Black Race – and to tell the media and others that you are Black. Maybe we should have little dinner parties to announce to our friends that we are now Black.
I will start the Black Race Creed:
I, (your name), am a member of the Black Race. If you do harm to one of us you do harm to all of us.
As a member of the Black Race I give up whatever White Privilege I have been given. (added 6/21/2015)
If there is anything you want to add to this definition of the Black Race, please feel free to do so. If there is anything you want to add to the “Black Race Creed”, please feel free to do that also.
If you want to be public about your membership in the Black Race, send a blog to Bettina’s with your name and reasons for joining. Come out of the closet all of you Black people.
Does someone want to contribute bumper stickers which read “I am a member of the Black Race” ?
*Ed Note: Currently, there is no such thing as a Black Race, so this conversation about whether or not Rachel Dolezal is Black or not is a ridiculous conversation. African Americans also don’t constitute a race of people. So this initiative to start such a race has a clear field.
And oh, by the way, we have had a couple telephone calls asking us to find out where Rachel Dolezal has her hair done. Anyone know the answer to that?
_____________________________________________
Learn More About How We Use Your Donation!
[give_form id=”3763″]
______________________________________________________________
Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk – or email us.
Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network Blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.
Volunteer with Bettina Network Foundation, inc. to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.
Send your event information to be included in Bettina Network’s Menu of Events to: bettina-network@comcast.net
This is a curated blog so you cannot write your responses at the end of each entry. TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com
TO LEARN MORE try www.bettina-network.com
Tags: bed & breakfast, Bettina Homes, Bettina Network's Lifestyle Community, Rachel Dolezal, Racism, Sexism
This entry was posted on Friday, June 19th, 2015 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Bed & Breakfast, Bettina Homes, Bettina Network Educational Institute, Bettina Network Foundation, Bettina Network's Lifestyle Community, Guest comments, Historical Homes, Rachel Dolezal, racism, Reader Feedback, sexism, Ubuntu. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.