I think a generalization is in order, as the majority of blacks DO expect someone else to take care of things. Even those with more money, expect someone else to take care of things. How many blacks do you see helping with the relief effort. Or how many do you see lambasting Jackson and Farrakhan for riling people up, not helping them in their hour of need....
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"Even those with more money, expect someone else to take care of things."
Not the ones who are my long time friends. These people are ones who say, "Get out of my way, I wanted this completed before the wife gets grey hair.
"How many blacks do you see helping with the relief effort."
I have two Black friends, both are executives in a large corporation who have taken their 30 day vacations to go down South and help out where they are needed. I don't know if they have yet, but from 20+ years of friendship, it wouldn't surprise me if they don't each end up giving six months wages to private individuals they determine worthy.
Are they the exception amongst their race? Yes, I believe they are. Exceptional men with exceptional wives and fine children who would shoot a looter faster than I would.
Don't use too broad of a brush.
Tough.
I would dare say that you're wrong.
And that, to be perfectly honest, is an insult to those of us who are out there with a different mindset and conception of reality.
I don't have to justify myself to you or anyone like you.
And quite frankly, if you don't like it, tough.
First of all you don't know this.
Secondly, even if it was true, it is no excuse to smear ALL blacks with the sort of generalization Jesse Peterson made.
I like Jesse and think he has a lot of good things to say, so I am sorry to see him marginalize himself with this sort of inflamatory rhetoric.
Even those with more money, expect someone else to take care of things.
I know plenty of blacks with more money than I have, and I have NEVER heard ANY of them express what you say above.