My neighbor’s two boys were on the HS basketball team with three black kids. The black kids had fancy cars and my neighbor was dirt poor and barely making it. The five of them were together most of the time. One day when the black kids were on their own, they stopped to collect on a drug debt. The debtor was a middle-aged black male. He told them to go F themselves. The captain took out a gun and shot the guy dead. All three went to prison because in Florida, if you are with someone who kills you share the guilt.
I asked the neighbor’s boys why the captain had shot the man. The answer with total sincerity was, “He had to. The man ‘dissed’ him.” My conclusion is that blacks live in a totally different world with its own rules. The neighbor’s boys understood that world because integration brought it into the white social structure.
I knew a black coworker who sent his boys off to an African boarding school for high school. He said they came back speaking perfect English, well-educated and most importantly, not a part of the American black social structure.
I’ve worked with and known blacks who did everything possible to insulate themselves from this corrosive structure. They want to live in the white social structure and they do. But they are well aware of the alternative and what it means to living in a civilized society.
“He had to. The man ‘dissed’ him.” Maybe dueling should be brought back.