Posted on 01/18/2015 5:48:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Black households have one-tenth the wealth of white households in this country.... the disparities are still enormous and will take many generations to overcome without direct intervention. And by the way, the leveling of the playing field helps white people by enabling previously disadvantaged citizens to contribute to the nation's economy to the full extent of their potential. If Blacks weren't committing so much crime, they wouldn't get so much attention from police. The common impulse of whites has always been to blame Blacks for pathologies that whites played a central role in creating.Nope, I blame criminals for committing crimes, and I'm unconcerned what any particular criminal looks like -- apart from black-on-white hate crimes, btw, the only significant hate crime wave that has ever hit this country in my lifetime. Pathology? Not my doing. Not fixing it with therapy or pastoral counselling? Also not my doing. Direct intervention? Bring it on, you'll find out what reparations means.
As my Norwegian mother-in-law opined the world was saved when the excuse discovered.
And it has devastated many black communities to the point where it could take years to salvage and re-educate people to re-acclimate them to productive society.
Fortunately many escape that fate, but not so many escape the lies that hold their brothers in socialist bondage.
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Nick Chiles thinks like a “chile” - simplistic and only digestible inside his own fantasy land.
Maybe to an extent, but I think culture is mostly habit. Some cultures have good habits and some have bad habits. People who have an ability to look outside of themselves and their surroundings can begin to develop better habits, but that’s less IQ than EQ.
A whole lot of selective statistics and weak arguments. For example blacks aren’t violent criminals,, yes it’s true about 5% of blacks are criminals and most are law abiding, but at 5% they are 300 times more likely to be a criminal than a white person.
They make the argument that their situation makes them less likely do do the right thing because of their environment in the middle class section. Then in the next section lament how they are more likely to be killed by the police, without giving remote consideration that they get shot by the police more often because they make the wrong decision.
As to education, sorry but citing that freed blacks valued education, which they undoubtably did, is an example relevant to modern black culture in which large swaths don’t give a damn about it is idiotic. I have seen first hand how far too many of your children show up to school and how they act when there... same thing with your urban neighborhoods... I live in a city that still largely has its ethnic neighborhoods, and I can walk into a “poor” neighborhood that is not largely black and it will be obviously poor but not full of garbage on the streets... I can’t walk into any poor neighborhood where blacks are a significant part of the population without seeing garbage everywhere. Don’t blame that on others corrupt perceptions.
Etc etc.
“If it wasn’t for white people there wouldn’t be 50 million blacks in the USA.”
“They didn’t swim over here by themselves”
But nowadays there are planes to fly them back and no one to stop them if they feel so oppressed here. “Freedom Flights” would most likely be provided gladly. African-Americans need to become Americans or re-patriate to the African nation of their choice. They put Africa in front of America so they should be in the place where their allegiance lies.
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