"The slavery has left us to play catch up and we're just not there"? You've had a hundred and fifty years, and you're not caught up yet? You've had forty years since the Civil Rights movement, and you're still "just not there"?
You have a negative opinion of America--perhaps not overall, but on this certain subject--because you don't believe black people are given equal opportunities. You believe black people should be given opportunities, even though you fail to realize that this is already happening. And you believe that the opportunities black people (or any other minorities) get through AA come at the expense of white people. Affirmative Action is a program that takes things away from one race of people to give to another race of people, simply because they belong to those races. Now, you're telling me that those aren't racist beliefs?
"That analogy is BS. And since when has AA been about just handing out jobs to black people. Hell, no one just handed me a job. If thats the case, when am i gonna get handed my job."
AA has ALWAYS been about just handing jobs to minorities, what don't you understand about that? And if nobody's handed you a job because you're black yet, try finding a company that employs primarily white people and has only a small percentage of minorities, and they'd have to give you a job because they'd be afraid of getting sued if they don't. Because of, obviously, things like Affirmative Action.
There are all kinds of people who expect things given to them, but you would be hard pressed to find a white person that expects things to be given to him simply because he's white. Not so with black people.
"I mean, why would millions of black people all across the country exaggerate one point? I dont get it. If racism is not as bad as i say, why do even hard working black people (not the ones you claim want something to be handed to them) even say the racism is still there? Are we all lying?"
Why? Because they can, and they know people will pay attention. It's been shown time and time again, when somebody cries "racism", the entire country pays attention to them. How do you think Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton made names for themselves? They pale in comparison to Rev. Martin Luther King.
And how many "hard working black people" say they're still being discriminated against? Look at Bill Cosby. He says the same kinds of things I'm saying, and the last time I saw him, he was black. A lot of black people love him because he tells the truth, and a lot of black people hate him because, well, he tells the truth, and some black people don't want to hear the truth. And he DID have to experience racism, because he's old enough to know what it's like.
As long as you, and any other black person, keep seperating yourself out from the rest of America, you'll never come to realize what's really going on. If you keep saying, "well I'm black, so I couldn't understand such-and-such, and you're such-and-such, so you'll never understand anything about being black," you will prove yourself correct because you never will understand anything else. As long as black people keep seperating themselves out of the rest of American culture, they have no reason to wonder why they are not a main part of American culture anymore. You're not being alienated, nobody is being racist against black people, black people are alienating the rest of society and pushing themselves further and further from reality.
Originally Posted by Sasquatch
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