A lot of blacks have a vastly-inflated sense of their personal abilities. This is why so many cry racism at the drop of a hat. They are not playing mind games. They do in fact think that they are putting out superior effort and results, and any failure to reward them for these outstanding efforts constitutes racism.
The UK's left-wing Guardian on the phenomenon, back in 2000:
The poor academic and economic achievement of black people is often blamed on low self-esteem, the result of discrimination from birth and endless negative stereotypes. But the most definitive study on the subject now contradicts this belief: black teenagers do not have lower self-esteem than whites, but higher. Anti-racism campaigners claim that the report suggests there is even more discrimination against blacks than previously thought.In an article in the US journal Psychological Bulletin, an African-American psychologist shows that whatever the effects of racism, poor self-esteem is not one of them. Except for the very young and very rich, blacks have higher self-esteem than their white counterparts, she demonstrates, and have had for years.
Trayvon’s pathetic girlfriend is Exhibit A of someone with an excess of self-esteem. Only fools such as Piers Morgan and his fellow blind media types agreed with her assessment of herself.
“Higher self esteem” would seem to be just a new name for what we used to call “overconfidence”. Confidence is wonderful, without some degree of confidence a person is powerless, I know because I have been in that condition, afraid to try because I “knew” I could not succeed. On the other hand overconfidence causes one to believe he already possesses knowledge and skills when in fact he is lacking. This can result in problems of all kinds, up to and including death. When the overconfident are put in charge they create disasters of all kinds, the current situation in the USA would be a prime example. Install a totally unqualified community organizer as president and rather than seeing the Earth begin to heal itself as he claimed you will see what we are seeing, a nation destroying itself.
A lot of blacks have a vastly-inflated sense of their personal abilities. This is why so many cry racism at the drop of a hat. They are not playing mind games. They do in fact think that they are putting out superior effort and results, and any failure to reward them for these outstanding efforts constitutes racism.