LewRockwell
Last year, a black man by the name of Derrick Wilburn came forward at a school board meeting in Colorado and gave a three-minute personal testimony. It was one of the most sensible and powerful statements on the race situation in America to be found anywhere.
This is, in part, what Mr. Wilburn had to say that day:
“I am the direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black, all four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great great grandparents, all sixteen of my great greats. On my mother’s side my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father’s side we were enslaved in Texas.
I am not oppressed, and I’m not a victim. I neither oppressed nor a victim. I travel all across this country of ours, and I check into hotels, and I fly commercially, and I walk into retail establishments, and I order food in restaurants. I go wherever I want whenever I want. I am treated with kindness dignity and respect, literally from coast to coast.
