For Some Reason, This Picture Makes Me Cringe ... (page 2)

frankiespeakin

Well, I think he looks just fine for his age!

All Corporate like an all,

Come on, Sylvia--there's always going to be one. The token black dude is a common feature these days. I've been there, sort of. Actually, in school, I was like, the second-tier token black guy, because I wasn't particularly sociable. But why not? It's the easiest thing to do, to put one black person out there and say the oft-repeated unspoken reality: "See? We like black people too!"

Of course, not knowing any of the Governing Body members personally, I can't speak for their views on race. But clearly, if the statistics I read are correct, black people generally aren't getting the uh, management positions in the organization. In my entire life, 20+ years that I can remember, I've only seen one black district overseer. Anyone at that level and above tends to be white. Is that wrong in itself? Well, given that the organization is really not all that different from the sharecropping system, it probably makes sense.

It would be easy to cloak prejudice behind any organizational procedure or doctrine (as they did with segregation--it was more important to obey the law of man for the sake of maintaining the meetings than to show Christian love and sit with a brother brother). But I don't know. It gets to be a difficult subject to fairly discuss. I'll leave it to smarter men to figure out. Oh, right, shouldn't do that anymore...

Obviously, Herd doesn't realize what's going on any more than anyone else on the inside does. Just another victim of victims. Just like all of us.

--Christopher