I hope that more blacks like Peterson come out and express their views. He is very rational and is not caught up in "blackness" as many people are. See "blackness" is like a religion and if you are yourself in the black community, I mean if you don't have a set of general behaviors and attitudes then you are seen as a sell-out.
Being black myself(father from East Africa and mom from Panama) I find that "blackness" to many ethnocentric people, no matter the obvious social and societal problems that goes with it, is more important then being yourself or acting different(acting right, conforming to the general society).
Being born in and growing up in Miami, FL I was able to witness these patterns but I was given the impression from everyone in the minority communities that Blacks were constantly being harrassed and discriminated against continiously. This I never really found and for most of my life white people have been kinder to me than black. That's the truth. I love black people and anyone for that matter but the things I see going on in the black communities kill me.
Its becoming more and more obvious that welfare, affirmative action and other inequalizers was, and is the Trojan horse of the Black community.
I just hope that whites or more specifically liberal whites stop babying blacks, and stop treating them like children that can't take care of them selves. In a way I don't put that much blame on white liberals because blacks were given a brain by God to use which they choose not to use to its full capacity.
I am glad that you have found this to be true. As a white man, I have tried to make it true. I have, on occasion, observed discrimination against blacks. However, I have seen with other ethnic and religious groups as well. Honestly working toward a color blind society is the right answer; no bigotry, no racial preferences.
Stanley Crouch of the NY Post has been writing very good articles condemning hip-hop, rap, gangster clothing, etc.
Then there is Roy Innis of CORE who the media ignores.
Errol Louis, NY Daily News, liberal, is trying to clean up his neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn by appealing to the decent people who live there.
I have several successful middle class friends who are black. They all function on solid conservative values (hard work, family, church), which is the reason they are successful.
Unfortunately, I see plenty of the opposite. The father of one young man I know had fifteen children with three different wives, used drugs, was abusive to his children, and spent time in prison. It's amazing that he has turned out as well as he has.... I have to credit his Mom for doing a good job under crappy circumstances. Sadly, his younger brothers/sisters aren't doing so well. The daughter of another friend was harrassed and taunted in our local High School because (1) she is studious, and (2) had friends outside her racial group.
It's time to operate on the principle articulated by Erich Fromm, a Jewish psychologist who survived the death camps..."there are two human races, the decent and the indecent".
Nice post King Arthur!
A slightly related question, since this is a conservative forum:
Do you think the GOP can ever break the stranglehold that the DemocRATS have on 90% of Black voters?