10.17.09
St Louis Escorts: Commentary: Don’t blame Limbaugh for our faults
Typically when blacks talk of the past and about how “things ain’t what they used to be,” it often is a reference to the civil rights movement and the time in which my community rallied together for a common cause — equality. We saw remnants of that synergy this week as Al Sharpton, the NAACP and several black NFLers openly opposed Rush Limbaugh’s inclusion on a team trying to purchase the St. Louis Rams.
And it is true, we were more willing to be our brother’s keepers 40 years ago. But if we’re being honest, not all of our brothers and sisters were worth trying to keep back then.
Not every black person was willing to sacrifice self-interest for the better of the whole. Quite a few of us sold out and were more than willing to be puppets or manipulate racial tension to keep crumbs of power or money.
We still had black-on-black crime, gambling, theft, prostitution, murder.
See the full article from “CNN”