[cyborg]

A person does not have to be black to know that there are legions of black people who are succeeding just like everyone ELSE. SOME people are only surrounded by the rubbish gangsta rapper and to them that's the sum total of black achievement. They LOVE to wallow in their ignorance, instead of challenging their OWN personal prejudices. I know too many people who are black, who have been through HELL with racism and prejudice and poverty then turned out better than a lot of my white friends (who thought they could just slide through life with daddy's money). SOME people just do not want to know, meet, be friends with intelligent smart dynamic black people so they can continue to post how black people are lazy,single parents,stupid, committ crimes and get their degrees in prison.

[dwd1]

Now that is some real truth... Cuts both ways... We have idiots and we have heavyweights.... I think the act of pointing out that there are bad fathers, criminals, uneducated, apathetic people in the black race is something we can all accept and recognize... Nothing to be proud of... However, it does not mean that we are the only ones... And sometimes, I feel like this all boils down to one kid on the playground sticking his tongue out at another kid and saying "I got more than you" or "You are less than me"...

[dwd1]

And as much as I would love to go back to school, I am not willing to commit armed robbery (a respectable crime in criminal circles) to go... :-)