Thanks, Lloyd. I agree with you and am trying to take the same approach.
It boggles my mind when I wonder why black people won’t listen to you, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, etc. There are so many great black Americans in history for them to look up to and emulate.
Instead they follow Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the like.
Why, Why, Why? These are good black people who I work with everyday. When I was growing up, (I’m 61) black kids were better behaved than whites. Their parents, and especially their grandparents demanded it.
Now, the black young kids run in gangs shooting each other, have babies with both black and white girls and don’t get married, black babies are aborted at 2 or 3 times the rate of others. It is so, so sad.
Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of lazy goof off white kids, too. I’m just saying something has gone drastically wrong in the black communities over the last 40-50 years.
Sometimes, I wonder if it might be because the civil rights laws forced them to integrate. They had great schools in their neighborhoods and took a lot of pride in it. They were forced to attend white schools where they were not always treated well. I think they rebel against their situation and try to prove their superiority instead of equality. Kids do stuff like that.
I hope my words have not offended anyone. I’m just trying to figure out what’s wrong and why we can’t all just get along.
Is it even possible to get into the heads of these misled (if not something stronger) folks and figure out why they are falling for this balogna in such numbers? There seem to be more chips on black shoulders today than there were during an era (late Jim Crow) when there were still actual reasons to hate the system of Whitey.
The way welfare schemes bribed families into becoming dysfunctional, to in turn crank out more dysfunctional and unhealthily dependent progeny, has to bear some blame.