By living I mean take care of your family and friends, go to church, go to work, build a business, go to the gym, take care of your health and perhaps all too many people need to see a shrink everyday because they do not know what matters.
If institutional racism is the playing field that you believe you are on, then play on that field. Don’t whine about it.
We can all conjure up something to be angry about. But it seems to me, that blacks are mad that their culture and traditions cannot compete economically within the United States. Welfare did not help. Affirmative action did not help. Children out of wedlock did not help. Murder in inner cities did not help. Rap culture did not help. Black Liberation Theology did not help. Obama did not help.
The only thing that will help is turn to God for guidance, work hard at whatever job you are capable of, get married, stay married, raise your kids to be good citizens with a work ethic reflected by your own actions, value education, be content with what you have and hope for a better future for your kids.
On White Privilege:
The best revenge for minorities against White Privilege is to compete and succeed. If you believe that the “playing field” is not level then you have two choices, compete anyway and work even harder to succeed, or go find another playing field.
The other playing field would be to succeed within your own minority community. Black owned businesses in Black neighborhoods, buying from Black distributors and producers.
Minorities will never find a solution in expecting Whites to tip the playing field in their direction. The two groups have a completely different view of the field of competition. I think that Whites go about their lives competing on the field of life and don’t even see the Blacks on the sidelines. Blacks stand on the sidelines and have no idea how to get on the field. For some reason they think they need to ask permission of the Whites to play?
Just step on the field and compete! Or don’t. It’s up to you. But don’t blame it on me if you can’t.
Booker T Washington:
Booker T. Washington (1865–1915) warned of such people within the black community in his 1911 book My Larger Education. He described them as “problem profiteers”:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” (p. 118)