I Get IT, Why don't you?
We all remember our first, probably most memorable first is our…well this is a family blog so you get the point.
Some important first that I remember are:
Shirley Chisholm the first black female U.S. representative congresswoman.
Thurgood Marshall first black male U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Dr. Charles Drew the inventor of the blood bank (and a huge part of my chosen profession)
Mae Jemison the first black female astronaut.
Madame C.J. Walker first black female millionaire
Ursula Burns first black woman to become chief executive of Fortune 500 company.
Barack H. Obama first black president.
There are more notable firsts that I can recall but for me these are a few in which I feel tremendous pride. What many people fail to realize with Ms. Sotomayor’s nomination is the exact same thing they failed to realize during Obama’s nomination for the Presidency of the United States, Pride. Sure we all have pride in accomplishments from our fellow man but there is something undeniably special when it is someone who either looks like you or comes from a similar background. For those that believe minorities are indifferent to issues or a person’s record and that only their ethnicity or race matters I laugh at you and I reject your bigoted views. Nominations like Sotomayor’s and Obama’s will cease to be racially significant when they are no longer the first of their kind. However, for now Sotomayor’s nomination is another proud moment for me as a woman of color.
All the proud firsts you remember are based on the happenstance of your skin color, but other people are the ones with bigoted views?
You're right, I don't get it.
I remember doing reports on some of those people during my school days..and it's funny how as I read the names I get a snap shot in my mind of who they are and what they did...
You and Phelps at it again? LOL
Go.
@Phelps,
"Happenstance" is the word you chose to use. I specifically stated the following (because you appeared to miss it the first go around)
“Sure we all have pride in accomplishments from our fellow man but there is something undeniably special when it is someone who either looks like you or comes from a similar background.”
Secondly, bigoted is the appropriate word usage especially when people (who shall remain nameless) believe that all people of color base their choices in color alone. All of the people on my list are black and worked hard for what they achieve. Achievements are important to us just like they are to you. You just fail to believe that because you see, as well as I, color attached to the individual. However, for you color is the only thing that sticks out not their achievements.
@ Ash,
"You and Phelps at it again? LOL"
Serious side eye
I figure that it rates right up there with Dallasites being proud of the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl. They did it, and we live in Dallas.
Phelps,
You don't see how overcoming historically system of institutionalized racism and the obstacles it caused is important or a reason to have pride?
I don't get you.
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