Posted on 04/30/2014 8:18:37 PM PDT by montag813
When I use to drive a cab they wouldn’t even pay the full fare. Like say the fare was $4.90 they would give me $4 bucks saying they were “rounding it off” or they would complain complain about anything and everything about the ride then give me less than the fare because of those complaints. And this went on with blacks who had plenty of money as well, who lived on 5th avenue, Park avenue, Central park west would would come out decked in gold and fur, no matter they would pull the cheap crap with me almost every time. One buddy of mine drove Spike Lee, picked him up on Park avenue and he gave him $9 bucks for a $11 buck ride. Real nice, the guy is loaded living on Park avenue and he cheats the taxi driver who makes $60 a day if he’s lucky $2 bucks. It the slave mentality, it really is. They feel white people in the United states owe them because of slavery even though their ancestors could have been in some other country the entire time slavery was going on. It’s this mentality that “because I am black I was a slave so you need to be a slave as well and work for nothing”
She appears to be confusing Jim Crow segregation, which her grandmother would certainly have experienced, with actual slavery. But her ideas on who controls various industries are insane. Also, I'm not so sure the store owners aren't black themselves.
They mentioned coming from Uganda. Many of the African-Americans I know do not like black immigrants from Africa. The people who come here (from all over) looking for work are usually very industrious and have the moxie to make a difficult transition. The people who, like this woman, can't fight their way out of a paper bag, are particularly insulted by blacks who are diligent workers or financially successful. It destroys their victim-of-racism worldview.
There has been a fair amount of ethnic cleansing of blacks by Hispanics of areas of SoCal over the last 15 to 20 years, from what I’m able to piece together. It is certainly not something the mainstream media has taken an honest look at.
Probably.....just needs to re-direct her frustrations to something useful. Many don’t want to...it’s easier to stay on the welfare rolls then to exert energies necessary to find your way out of that ditch. Sacrifice is a word foreign to the language for many on the welfare rolls, I think.
Of course welfare pays them better than a low wage job....somehow there’s no sense of dignity, rather the victim roll is easier to “hide” under.
......”Many of the African-Americans I know do not like black immigrants from Africa”....
...I’ve seen heard this spoken about within the black american community. And it streams over into dislike for Mexicans as well.
The best part of your post was mentioning how those from other countries generally do make something of themselves when coming here...they are not accustomed to generations of free handouts as are many black americans...who have learned through the generations how to play the system to their advantage.
So you are right saying the black americans cannot hide anymore.....instead they still call the race card, only now it’s those coming from other countries who get the breaks in their eyes....they do not “see” the work involved nor the sacrifices people make to get ahead.
Sharpton and Jackson... among others.
And they don't want to hear any helpful tips from older experienced people at work, either. So there's no help for them, and when the collapse comes, God only knows. Keep your powder dry.
At the very least “they” owe us reparations in the form of a lump sum payment representing what would have been passed on to us by our ancestors had they no been so cruelly destroyed by “the system” - it’s only fair and just......
“They feel white people in the United states owe them because of slavery even though their ancestors could have been in some other country the entire time slavery was going on. It’s this mentality that “because I am black I was a slave so you need to be a slave as well and work for nothing”
The problem is that they stiff other blacks as well; blacks have told me that they don’t receive wedding gifts from other blacks, and they’ve also told me about the tipping - the race of the recipient seemed irrelevant. Back during the “Million Man March”, there were scenes where they were passing dollar bills around; I don’t think non-blacks understood the significance of that (you were supposed to keep passing them to others, instead of pocketing them - I suspect Al $harpton and Je$$e Jackson were holding church baskets in the front to catch them all...).
Definitely Georgia, Atlanta metro. She mentioned living in Lithonia.
Someone should tell her that it was Republicans that freed the slaves.
That would make her head explode.
Hey, I’m living on retirement and I’ll gladly give you the full amount myself if you can make it happen…soon!
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