06-23-2020, 11:10 AM
(06-22-2020, 08:56 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: True, it is cyclical. However, we have to think of the whole chicken and egg thing; which came first?
Maybe it's just me, but their ~250 years as chattel followed by an immediate attempt to find any excuse to incarcerate black men because they feared what would happen to the economy without free labor followed by successive efforts to continually oppress them and incarcerate black men tells me that the systemic oppression caused the culture, if we choose to call it that, to form. When fathers could be sold away or locked away at the drop of a hat for quite literally the entirety of African-American history, what should we expect to occur?
If you are going to excuse black criminal behavior today because of history then you also have to excuse white racism because it was created by our history also.
Personally I think it is bullshit to say it is okay to be a racist because that is your "culture" just as much as it is to say it is okay to be a crimnal because it is part of your "culture"
White people have to work to change their culture but black people do also. The problem we have right now is so many people are saying that none of the problems black society is suffering from is thier own fault. They will never excape poverty if they don't work on thier own problems at the same time white people try to eliminate systematic racism.
