The Ebony Experiment?!

This is another one of those news stories where I am like Say What?!?? I don't understand this. I really truly think that it will bring about the wrong kind of change. This family, the Andersons, an African-American family living in Chicago, have decided that they are only going to buy from black merchants, and only black made products, for the year 2009. They are calling it The Ebony Experiment . I think that this is crazy. It's like reversing the civil rights movement. Discrimination is discrimination, no matter your color or ethnicity.

See the article here, Their year of buying black, from the Chicago Sun Times.

I swear the country was past thinking like this...

I really believe that it is a very bad idea. That it will only bring about more discrimination and bad feelings, rather than good. Right now, everyone is having a hard time, not just the African American community. It so reminds me of the Germans not wanting to buy from Jewish shopkeepers pre-World War 2. What happens when the white Americans want to buy white-only products from only white store owners??

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.
~ I love me some Bill Clinton