I'm not picking on blacks or making fun of them, heck, I have family that lives on the Big Rez but we learned years ago (and too late) that the addiction of dependency on others (gub'mint/BIA) will gut you.
It p*sses me off that blacks are looked at as a single, monolithic group that is judged by their lowest common denominator but they, as a people, do nothing to change that perception.
Ignored are the Americans that happen to be black, that are part of what makes America great- the everyday citizen to the real achievers. What we see are a people that cannot even run a family, let alone a business, city, state or country.
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Dream on....
Spot on. I have known, and now know, plenty of "Americans that happen to be black," but I also know a lot of people who buy into the Race Industry Philosophy, most of whom are what people in the suburbs call "failures" (as in, "I don't want you to grow up to be a failure"), and those black people dedicate enormous amounts of energy to finding someone to blame.
I also know black people living off the government who recognize that depending on the government "will gut you," mostly the older generation, some of whom are doing their level best to raise their kids (or their younger kids) to be independent. Many of them understand that you have to get through school, for instance, and are bound and determined to make sure their kids get that diploma. They also insist their kids "dress decent" and so on.
What they don't realize, IMHO, is how their underlying attitudes still handicap their kids. For instance, they want their kids to succeed, and they recognize that this generally requires being willing to work with non-black people, etc., but they don't fight the kid's attitude that whites/the police/the powerful people are out to get them, or they don't argue when the kid rejects honest work as "beneath them."
Getting a high school degree, not getting pregnant until married, not marrying until you're into your twenties -- all those things do make a huge difference. But attitudes matter, and part of that addiction to dependency is sliding into a particular set of attitudes toward life and toward work. A middle class kid with a good college degree (STEM) who says, "Well, I'm just going to sit home until I find a job I LIKE" is going to lose momentum, but he'll probably survive and, if the economy improves, may do okay. A lower class kid with only a high school diploma who has that attitude is facing a lifetime of living off someone else, and even one with a poor college degree (arts, humanities, social sciences) is looking at a lifetime of being underemployed.