07-14-2020, 07:13 PM
What is really difficult to address is when minorities get carried away with blaming everything on racism and refusing to take any responsibility for their own problems. It is like when the #metoo movement kind of jumped the shark when a lady had a bad date with Aziz Ansari and claimed it was sexual assault.
A few years ago Don Lemon was preaching to blacks that if they wanted to prosper they were going to have to do something about the fact that over 70% of their children were born nd raised in single parent families. Now that BLM said kids don't need two parents because they have "a village" he won't go there. But there are plenty of stats to show that is BS, plus the simple economic realities of single parent families keep the black community from reaching its potential.
20 years ago black communities were requesting more education funding to help their kids who had been raised speaking African-American Vernacular English. Now they claim that it is racist to tell children not to use African-American Vernacular English.
And many blacks still refuse to acknowledge that blacks commit violent crimes at a MUCH higher rate than whites other minorities (even when adjusted for socioeconomic status). I probably know more about racial profiling and racial inequalities in the criminal justice system than anyone here. Those are problems that hurt the black community, but I have also seen the numbers collected from black victims of crimes committed by other black people. You can't blame the police or the criminal justice system when blacks are being arrested based on allegations from other black people.
I don't think it is my place to start lecturing to black people about these problems, but it frustrates me when I see black people denying these truths while lecturing white people about how we don't understand anything.
There are actually plenty of black people who try to address the glorification of violence, misogyny, and "thug life" in the Rap and Hip Hop culture, but they just don't get a lot of attention. Again, I don't go there, but it gets annoying after a dozen facebook posts about how everything is the white mans fault.
And, of course, if I do ever mention any of these things I am labeled a racist by a lot of people.
What many people call a "discussion on race" is actually a "lecture to white people". We can't have an actual "discussion" if only one side is allowed to speak.
A few years ago Don Lemon was preaching to blacks that if they wanted to prosper they were going to have to do something about the fact that over 70% of their children were born nd raised in single parent families. Now that BLM said kids don't need two parents because they have "a village" he won't go there. But there are plenty of stats to show that is BS, plus the simple economic realities of single parent families keep the black community from reaching its potential.
20 years ago black communities were requesting more education funding to help their kids who had been raised speaking African-American Vernacular English. Now they claim that it is racist to tell children not to use African-American Vernacular English.
And many blacks still refuse to acknowledge that blacks commit violent crimes at a MUCH higher rate than whites other minorities (even when adjusted for socioeconomic status). I probably know more about racial profiling and racial inequalities in the criminal justice system than anyone here. Those are problems that hurt the black community, but I have also seen the numbers collected from black victims of crimes committed by other black people. You can't blame the police or the criminal justice system when blacks are being arrested based on allegations from other black people.
I don't think it is my place to start lecturing to black people about these problems, but it frustrates me when I see black people denying these truths while lecturing white people about how we don't understand anything.
There are actually plenty of black people who try to address the glorification of violence, misogyny, and "thug life" in the Rap and Hip Hop culture, but they just don't get a lot of attention. Again, I don't go there, but it gets annoying after a dozen facebook posts about how everything is the white mans fault.
And, of course, if I do ever mention any of these things I am labeled a racist by a lot of people.
What many people call a "discussion on race" is actually a "lecture to white people". We can't have an actual "discussion" if only one side is allowed to speak.
