Is this why you don't really blame white privilege/racism and put more blame on blacks?
Oh no, I am fully aware of the very bad history in this country from slavery, to Jim Crow, that we as blacks have had in this country. I also understand that it's really only been since about 1970 (less than 50 years ago) that we have been truly "free" to participate in the modern American system.
But keeping that in mind, this does NOT stop us from doing what I lined out, which is to embrace group economics. For all of the bad history we have in this country, there is still over $1.1 TRILLION in black spending power annually. That's a fact. But what's also a fact is that a dollar stays black for less than 6 hours.
Despite our very bad history in this country, we can still do BETTER for ourselves as a group than what we have been doing over the previous 50 years since 1970 when we became "technically free".
Another fact is that Africans come to this country, can barely speak English properly, and excel on the level of Asians. And Africans are as black as they come.
Again, I'm not saying we didn't have a bad history in this country, what I'm saying is that as a group....we can do BETTER for ourselves than what we have been doing.
You were probably one out of the few to bust your ass to get out of that neighborhood while you watched other blacks goof off and do drugs? Are the people that you grew up with still fooling around while you are actually working hard and being responsible for yourself?
Yes, most of my family on my mother's side are still "hood living". There are many things as blacks that we can do for ourselves RIGHT NOW, that we are not doing.
Why is it in every thread you start, you are so lost?
Gang violence in Chicago has other causes, other solutions, and is addressed.
It's not addressed anywhere near the level of excitement, attention, or focus like the police shootings are. Just go on social media and please tell me EyeBRollin, how many tweets, facebook posts, etc., can you find about the Chicago shootings over the 4th of July? Then COMPARE that with how many tweets, facebook posts, etc., you see about Alton Sterling.
I'm NOT saying not to discuss bad policing, I'M not SAYING THAT. I'm saying that if Black Lives Matter, they should matter when anybody takes the life. I want to see the same level of "pissed-off-ness" about the Chicago shootings.
I want to see Black Lives Matter marching in Chicago against the gangbangers.
That's all I'm saying.
My property taxes shouldn't be going towards police that will shoot me because of the color of my skin. That's the general idea. Police serve the public, not murder them.
I agree 100%.
Tenacity, people call you an Uncle Tom because you are an Uncle Tom. You should apply to work at Fox News. They'll hire you, seriously.
I assume you define Uncle Tom as a sell out to the black race? Can you PLEASE explain to me how am I turning my back on the black race when:
- I'm listing out solutions to actually FIX the problem in the black community
- I have and still from time to time, mentor young black men when I can
- I prefer and predominately only date black women
What is up with this shyt, that whenever a black person doesn't word for word, repeat some FAR LEFT LIBERAL SHYT, that means he's turning his back on black people? So does being BLACK automatically mean you have to stand for some FAR LEFT liberal shyt??
For nearly 50 years, we have been voting in the same Democrats to run the inner cities, the same inner cities where jobs have been shipped overseas, cops are over-policing, and in my hometown of Flint they are being poisoned by the water.
Democrats and liberals have been in control of this shyt for nearly 50 years and nothing has changed. But I'm an Uncle Tom because I don't kiss a Liberal's a.ss??
