[Morpheus2009]

Well, if we take a look, statistically speaking, blacks are not safe from other blacks in the wrong part of town. What really hurt was the loss of the father in the family, but that has been going on for a long time.

[Secret Agent Man]

sevral generations.

[gitmo]

My father was in the Navy when I was a kid. He was stationed in Chapel Hill, NC with the NROTC at UNC. We had a house out in the country, and I hung around with some professors' kids, some black farmers' kids and a couple of pretty rich kids. I remember being so impressed with the black fathers and their families. That was the late 50's. I was in the first grade. Racial unrest was beginning to raise its head. Living way out in the sticks, I was unaware of the unrest and the injustices.

We were then stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Lived there from the late 50's to the late 60's. With a brief interlude for that little spat between Kennedy and Khrushchev.

Blacks in Gitmo were no different from whites. The only real cultural divide was between officers' families and enlisted men's families. We were VERY isolated from the culture of the States.

When we came back to the states, I was shocked by the changed in the black family. The black families I met were scrambled: the children didn't know their dads and many were rudderless.

I still cry over this. I guess I missed the slowly boiling frog syndrome. My brother and I were mystified at the attitudes of our friends towards the black kids. And we were clueless why the families were torn apart.

I still don't understand much about racial tensions, racial slurs. I often feel like a stranger in a strange land.

[Soul of the South]

“Well, if we take a look, statistically speaking, blacks are not safe from other blacks in the wrong part of town.”

The truth is a black youth walking alone in a any predominately white neighborhood after dark is safer than a white youth walking alone in a black neighborhood after dark. The black youth is likely also safer walking alone in the white neighborhood after dark than he is walking alone in a black neighborhood.

Government has tried fixing this problem for over 50 years and failed. White people today have rejected the KKK and embraced political correctness to the point where they put themselves in physical danger in order not to be perceived as racists.

It is only blacks who have not changed. It is only blacks who can fix their own culture of violence.

[mrsmel]

Indeed. It’s whites who aren’’t safe to go into black areas. There are no equivalent “no go” areas for blacks or anyone else, in white areas. If our Founding Fathers could see that their descendents are barred from going into certain areas because blacks will stomp or kill them, I wonder if they would think their sacrifices were a waste and they should have just remained a colony rather than spill their blood for what this country has become for their descendents..