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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 714686" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>I find myself having two reactions...:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">as [USER=11]@kg01[/USER] and [USER=1586]@A Love Supreme[/USER] have said, it is sad...no, heartbreaking....that American citizens, my brothers....have to fear acting in certain ways simply because of the color of their skin. But I do not doubt them, every single black male friend I have has told me the same story. EVERY SINGLE ONE. And, they have had the same conversation with their sons. That makes me want to cry, that we do that to each other.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I do feel that the media does not help matters and makes them much worse. Is there racism? Yes. Has racism affected every black person? Yes. Is it exaggerated by the media? YES. Does that exaggeration provide a false story to young black males about our society and their chances of "making it" in America today? Yes. We need better...not only from the white community to continue to stamp out racism at every turn and every place we find it, but also in the black community and amongst its leaders and the media. Instead of a constant torrent of stories about how racist American society is, we need to focus on the stories about how much progress we are making and how much more possible it is for every race to progress and "make it" in America today.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">We also need to have a really honest assessment of why there are certain underclasses in our society that haven't changed much in the last century. In many respects, blacks have made tremendous progress. In many other aspects, they have regressed. The number of young black males growing up without Dads at home is shocking. The paucity of jobs for quality people who are not college educated is a national disgrace. We have taken the very jobs that poor folk (of all colors) could slide right into...manufacturing and trade jobs, and done our best to export them to China for the last 40 years. Instead of making furniture in North Carolina, textiles in Alabama, and autos in Michigan, we have sent all that overseas and left the communities who used to work in this industries high and dry. That is a national travesty, imho. Thus we have many poor folks (of all races) who look out there and see no chance unless they get a college degree...and then they see how much that costs and how many people have buckled under the burden of student loans...and they get discouraged. And without a strong family support system, which we as a society eroded with drugs epidemics where we all too often turned a blind eye because it was "those people" who were being decimated, we leave a generation of young people to fend for themselves. We have seen the enemy and it is us.....</li> </ol><p>/End rant</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 714686, member: 944"] I find myself having two reactions...: [LIST=1] [*]as [USER=11]@kg01[/USER] and [USER=1586]@A Love Supreme[/USER] have said, it is sad...no, heartbreaking....that American citizens, my brothers....have to fear acting in certain ways simply because of the color of their skin. But I do not doubt them, every single black male friend I have has told me the same story. EVERY SINGLE ONE. And, they have had the same conversation with their sons. That makes me want to cry, that we do that to each other. [*]I do feel that the media does not help matters and makes them much worse. Is there racism? Yes. Has racism affected every black person? Yes. Is it exaggerated by the media? YES. Does that exaggeration provide a false story to young black males about our society and their chances of "making it" in America today? Yes. We need better...not only from the white community to continue to stamp out racism at every turn and every place we find it, but also in the black community and amongst its leaders and the media. Instead of a constant torrent of stories about how racist American society is, we need to focus on the stories about how much progress we are making and how much more possible it is for every race to progress and "make it" in America today. [*]We also need to have a really honest assessment of why there are certain underclasses in our society that haven't changed much in the last century. In many respects, blacks have made tremendous progress. In many other aspects, they have regressed. The number of young black males growing up without Dads at home is shocking. The paucity of jobs for quality people who are not college educated is a national disgrace. We have taken the very jobs that poor folk (of all colors) could slide right into...manufacturing and trade jobs, and done our best to export them to China for the last 40 years. Instead of making furniture in North Carolina, textiles in Alabama, and autos in Michigan, we have sent all that overseas and left the communities who used to work in this industries high and dry. That is a national travesty, imho. Thus we have many poor folks (of all races) who look out there and see no chance unless they get a college degree...and then they see how much that costs and how many people have buckled under the burden of student loans...and they get discouraged. And without a strong family support system, which we as a society eroded with drugs epidemics where we all too often turned a blind eye because it was "those people" who were being decimated, we leave a generation of young people to fend for themselves. We have seen the enemy and it is us..... [/LIST] /End rant [/QUOTE]
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