Posted on 11/21/2021 12:13:18 PM PST by thecodont
I’m entirely with you. All people, black, white, etc., should condemn poor, illegal, immoral and self-destructive behavior by blacks, but blacks, especially, should do so. Instead the majority of them have been cowed by the left to blame those behaviors on racism.
I taught for 10 years at an all-black urban high school. When I tried to speak about middle class values, even without using that label (work ethic, honesty, etc.) the other teachers yelled at me. I said, great, then promote ghetto values. Up to you. They shut up right quick.
Still, as much as blacks must condemn the illegal behavior of other blacks, whites mustn’t condemn all blacks for them, either.
There is still a Sears there? I thought they were all gone.
... what’s particularly sad is that a large strain of male blacks who do condemn illegal, immoral behavior are the Nation of Islam types who base their entire ideology on race.
Middle class black America, as with Muslims, needs to find it’s voice.
That said, I know white teachers at black urban charter schools, in the worst of the worst neighborhoods, who complain that their black male principles are “too conservative”. LOL, that’s the point, idiots!
I think it all comes down to white, leftist America: losers who blame everyone but themselves.
I know, but we have to be careful with that rhetoric. If you’ve ever seen such comments on Citizens Free Press, it’s embarrassing. FR has the highest standards: we condemn democrats, feminists, leftist, marxists and assorted other fools, but not people based on their race.
Excellent points and you are correct.
“San Francisco to limit car access to Union Square after Louis Vuitton theft”
well, if this works, probably best to just ban all cars wherever a robbery might take place ...
Those lawless, thieving cars!!!
“San Francisco to limit car access to Union Square after Louis Vuitton theft”
actually, it might work better to just ban all stores near Union Square that might get robbed instead of banning all cars ...
“San Francisco to limit car access to Union Square after Louis Vuitton theft”
when cars are outlawed, only outlaws will have cars ...
Stand by...
Leftists doubling down on stupid. Instead of prosecuting crime, the innocent public at large suffers the consequences. Idiots.
It’s hard. When the majority of a given race wants me dead, because of *my* race, it’s hard not to condemn and avoid all people of that race.
It’s hard, but of course, you are correct. Still: Not sure how to balance fairness with practicality, here.
I hear you.
Up until about 2009, when cell phones took over the world, I, a very white man dressed like a white man, used to go to S.E. DC to deliver used computers to some of my poor black students. I’d park my car without too much thought, and I never felt threatened. (The experience demonstrated to me how poverty is inter-generational: just about every home I went to had nothing on the walls, a TV blaring, and loud yelling either there or next door.) Looking back, it shows how much Obama **ffed up racial relations in this country. Today, I wouldn’t even think about going into those neighborhoods.
I stay in touch with a number of my former students who are now in the 20s. When they have babies, I talk to them about raising children with books, curiosity, patience and love — you know, the way middle class white people do. They never call me a racist for saying those things, although many white people would. It’s insane. (Thank you, Barry.)
One thing we can do is to stop supporting the media and entertainment empires that laud and model black criminality and ghetto culture. I no longer buy movies, I’m all out of sports (except tennis which I only watch via European coverage), and I opt out of as much advertising as I can.
Something truly awful happened when Obama got into the presidency. It didn’t have to be that way, but that vile little parasite poisoned our country. Sure, his message of victimhood resonated, but it only resonated because he preached and promoted it at every opportunity. None of this crap would be going on if he had taken the precisely opposite reaction to Trayvon, etc. (I was still teaching when that happened, and I remember the attitude of the school changing after Obama started mouthing off about it.) Evil ever creates opportunity.
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