Speaking truth to lunacy

 

This article condemns the epidemic cycle of violence among young urban black men in America. It blames them as the source of their own problem, and charges them to become their own solution. Truer words were never spoken. But you can’t call it racism because the author is black. So there.

1. I’ve been trying to reckon for a long time, the question, whether or not blacks have had an overall positive or negative impact on the American way of life.  If one was to list the contributions any ethnic group has made to America over the years, there would be a long list of positives and a long list of negatives. Its a difficult question to answer. Some might even say one which should not be asked at all.

   So much emphasis is placed on righting yesterday’s wrongs that we never come to an honest conclusion about which ethnic groups are functioning properly or what to do about the ones that are in real trouble. It seems like when it comes to race, especially the black race, you must place blame on the greater society first in order to misdiagnose the root of the problem.  This lunacy has led to an exacerbation of the problem despite the huge amount of money spent to fix it.  The trillions and trillions of dollars spent on the Great Society over the last 50 years is one such example.

   I am really torn here. On a personal level, I’ve known and worked with so many black people of outstanding quality I should accept that I have enough personal experience to walk away knowing blacks represent an ethnic group that makes America great.

   Unfortunately I would have to never turn on the television, listen to the radio, open the newspaper, access the Internet or leave my backyard again to sustain my blissful ignorance.

   Why is there so much hatred, violence and lack of decency being generated from a portion of society that makes up roughly 15% of America? How does this small percentage of people have so much influence on American society and what is the impact it has on the future of the country?

   Posted by Kuso JiJi       12/01/2007  at  04:33 AM  



2. You want recompense for slavery? That was over, what, 140 years ago? Yes, it took a long time past that before equal rights, voting, education, etc. Then came affirmative action, aka reverse prejudice. Where quality performance was waived for the sake of melanin.

   Or, you could have had my attitude. I don’t give a rats rectum where you’re from, how good a suntan you may have, I DON’T CARE! Do your job well, you’ve got a job. There is nothing stopping anyone from doing an outstanding job except attitude and peer pressure. The celebration of violence and counter-productive activity must stop.

   You’re not an “Uncle Tom” if you speak well and get a well paid job. You’re someone that wants to suceed in life and get out of the low-rent district. Oh, and study your history you idiots. This “Tom” person ran an underground railroad to get slaves away from their masters to freedom.

   Or is that precisely WHY a sucessful black is considered same? Because he inspires the youth to grow up and “bail from the hood”, or however they say that. That must be it! The renewed inspiration to escape from the slavery of a culture such as that. Hip-hop is b.s., and remember you can’t spell crap without rap.

   Posted by cmblake6       12/01/2007  at  08:51 AM  



3. I am sure my Irish ancestors were dispossessed by English, somewhere, somehow, sometime. I DEMAND COMPENSATION!

   Italy for the Etruscans!

   Right yesterday’s wrongs by shitting on today’s good!

   And that one guy looks awful white-ish. See, THE WHITE MAN DONE IT!

   Bah, humbug, all of it.

   Posted by Rickvid in Seattle       12/01/2007  at  11:47 AM  



4. Compensation? For descendents of slaves who lived 140 years ago? FUCK YOU AL & JESSE!

   Posted by Macker       12/01/2007  at  05:46 PM  



5. Macker; Right On!

   Posted by Len - KC       12/01/2007  at  08:48 PM  



6. Yeah, the basic premise points up a sickness.  For the first 100 years after the Civil War, thousands, if not millions of black people struggled and died to get ahead, to get an eduction, to join the greater society.  For the last 40 years, except for a brief period in the 70’s, succeeding generations seem less and less interested in either the greater society or an education.  You become what you worship.  If you worship lawlessness and death, guess what?

   Yo Homes!  Ain’t The Man hold you down today.

   Posted by Dr. Jeff       12/03/2007  at  08:53 PM  

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