[sofaman]

"If Stan Tookie Williams had been born in Connecticut in the same type of situation, and was a white man, he would have been running a company," Foxx told the AP when the film aired last year on FX. "But, born a black man who has the capability of having brute strength and the capability of being smart in the ways of the world, he's going to get into what he gets into."

This is a breathtaking statement.

[Prime Choice]

Yes. Breathtaking in its utter stupidity.

Anyone who claims that minorities are being somehow "held back" or "held down" because of their race is a chump. Just take a good look at the Asian community and tell me how they've been harmed by racism.

If anyone's holding down blacks, it's the black community itself. It's the crabs-in-a-bucket syndrome: one starts to climb out and the rest grab ahold of him and drag him right back down to their depths.