I believe that the greatest danger to the black community, advancement, and well being of blacks in general, is what is regarded as “Toxic Black Culture”, which encompasses ghetto culture and Black Liberation Theology.
This amalgam of negative traits I refer to as “black culture” is divisive, racist, insidious, and corrosive. It is misogynist and violent in all aspects. It ridicules and rejects education and self-improvement.
This is an important distinction: I do not in any way believe blacks are any more dangerous than whites UNLESS they are immersed in “Toxic Black Culture”. If they are, they are every bit as dangerous as those statistics on crime and violence indicate.
I do not in any way believe all blacks buy into this “Toxic Black Culture”, so I do not refer globally to all American blacks as devotees of “Toxic Black Culture”. But the black community at large which contains both good and bad elements is maligned by the bad elements, in much the same way that the Islamic community suffers in respect, with a key difference: Blacks are born as they are and that is a racial characteristic not under their control, while being muslim is a choice.
As a consequence of that distinction, I would never be able to deny a black person the right, by default, to be treated as an individual worthy of individual assessment apart from any group, entity, or prism of race or color. I cannot say the same for devotees of Islam, as it is a conscious choice, and I must view them through that prism of their beliefs which at the core run counter to my own.
Interesting philosophical discussion—and hilariously irrelevant to life in the real world on the street.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk ... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Jesse Jackson
Not so sure about the black culture being divisive, racist, insidious, and corrosive some do have their own way of how they see and act in life rap music and the way they do or say things.
Not a race issue some people are different form their own.
The problem is that crime becomes acceptable and expected. When you get mugged in a city, you get the blame for being in the wrong place. They have no interest in stopping crime like that. It’s why people abandon cities after a while, especially as they get older.
When we did a survey for where to put a Habitat for Humanity development in the city where I lived, they surveyed the city leaders and the potential recipients. The #1 priority for the city leaders was access to city transit. The #1 priority for recipients was a safe neighborhood. IOW not near a ghetto. Transit was at the bottom of the their list.