I understand that. But this is that “discussion” we always hear about us needing to have. By that they mean, white America must hear this endless wailing and list of grievances.
If there is to be a “discussion” on race, it needs to also address the fact that violent crime is utterly epidemic on the black side, and that whites are not racist for generally avoiding contact, or large gatherings of young blacks. They are being sane and avoiding being attacked.
This is a modern phenomenon, and this violent young uneducated urban culture, has amost nothing in common with black America up until the early 60s.
If the problem cannot be discussed, it cannot be fixed.
Well, I am one of those people who generally avoid contact out of fear of crime.
Maybe that makes me racist, I don’t know, but what I do know is that it makes me still alive. I spent 14 years of my life living in New Orleans, and I am no fool when it comes to black crime. If I see people who look suspect to me, I avoid them like the plague, and I do not care if it hurts their feelings. I say if you want to be respected then be respectable.
With regard to listening to their list of grievances, my attitude on that is that I have never done anything to them, ever. I am willing to listen, to an extent, but beyond that, nothing, the past is the past and those people are gone.
I believe that we must find a way to come together, but I do not know if it can be done. I do know that there are other forces who must have us divided, and I hate those forces. I think this song is a valiant effort in the right direction though. It does not anger me.