thereisnospoon
Gold Member
You libs..It's all about making excuses rather than meeting challenges.One can not discuss the issues of today without understanding the context of those issues - for instance, the fact that whites in America had a 160 year history of building and inheriting wealth in the United States before the first black Americans were legally allowed to do so. The impact of that can not be understated. The policies of the time created the segregation that forced blacks into blighted urban cores with declining schools while whites were able to accumulate wealth via a low-interest 30 yr mortgage in a suburban town free from said blight.
Context is important.
I agree it is important in that aspect. But those born of my generation dont bear those burdens. Like my last sentence that you omitted in the quote, they had all the same opportunities I had.
No, they didn't. They didn't live in the suburbs where most Whites had moved. They didn't have access to the superior suburban schools. They didn't have a generation or more of culture that looked at wealth building as an achievable goal thanks to government programs such as the low interest, 30 year mortgage.
No one forced them to not do as I did.
of course someone did! The government did by forcing them into blighted neighborhoods that could not create strong schools because they had almost no property tax revenue.
YOU CANT MOVE FORWARD IF YOUR CONSTANTLY LOOKING BACK
You also can't understand the current if you don't put it in the context of the past.
The liberal welfare policies of the Great Society and the New Deal did not "force" minorities into living in inner cities. As a matter of fact before the great suburban boom of the 50's and 60's cities were racially diverse.
At the same time when suburbs began to grow, welfare programs included in LBJ's Great Society made it easy and convenient for people so inclined to accept the government goodies. As the middle class escaped the cities, others stayed behind out of economic necessity or sense of community. Many blacks stayed in the cities because they could not bring themselves to leave.
To say that black people were "forced" to stay in cities is racist to it's core. You're busted.