You know what? I have been wrong.
The civil rights act was signed over 50 years ago. Certainly in 50 years we should have been able to catch up with whites. There are far too many black women left out there alone. Far too many of us black men spend our days playing dominos and drinking when we should be with our kids. As men we could save the black community by getting married. We could teach our kids how to act which would decrease violence in our community.
We have had ample chances over the past 54 years but instead of taking advantage of the many opportunities America provides, we have wasted our time and money in a doped up drunken stupor while letting our communities become crumbled down cesspools of crime and instead of taking responsibility, we blame whites.
So after all these discussions I have learned at lot and the fact is you guys were right. Now don't conflate this to mean I am going to join the republican party and suppport Trump.
I hope your wonderful attitude reflected in this post catches on across the nation. If black men can discipline themselves and help each other learn to treat their wife well and have children only with the one he's married to, you'd be setting an example for white men, did you know that? If you can spend your life helping your brother to give his wife the stability of his hard work, support, and helping her with the kids, you will have stepped onto the same winner's circle as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Bless you in your efforts, IM2. I am speaking from my heart and will put this on my prayer list for you to be given the strength and love for your brothers to encourage them to be better than white men. I love competition when it is used to make people do great things. I think you have a seed that can furnish this nation with better fate for black children, and you will see children having pride in who their mothers and fathers are that care enough for them to respect each other and the bond of a good family.
Lol! Everything is wonderful just as long as we say what whites believe. Our experience doesn't count.
Your experience should be equal pay for equal work, educational opportunities, and extra pay for incentives you take that add to blacks being put in the winner's circle when they win. You're half there already after Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, 90% of the AFL and NFL teams, and a fair share of baseball players who hit them outta the park. Some of your actors have outpaced all others, and although he fouled out in one avenue and got jail time for it, Bill Cosby was so good you couldn't see the color of his skin for the gift of himself he gave on stage and television screen. He's possibly one of the best actors who ever lived. Look at the game of golf. In my lifetime, the best player who ever said "fore!" may have been none other than Tiger Woods. Some of my life's favorite songs were sung by black women and men whose voices were pure silk. We all got a New Attitude with Roberta Flack, R-E-S-P-E-C-T with Aretha Franklin, and whistled as though we had a day at sea when Bellafonte crooned "Day-oh!" or unwound with so much laughter we formed tears with Bobby McFerrin's "Don't worry, be happy."
You guys beat us whites in everything else. Why not go for the gold and keep your plan to beat us at staying married to the same person for life?

I nominate you to be the coach of this.
There are 40 million blacks. You described maybe 4,000.
Well, I don't know how you want to hear this, so I'll say it slowly if I can. There are 380 million people over here right now. What I said about Michael Jordan may not be what I meant. He's not one in 40 million. He is one for sure in 380 million in America, and to the best of my knowledge, there has NEVER in the history of basketball been anyone like him. EVER, on the face of this planet. We are quite graced to be living right now, because of the best athlete in the world that Michael Jordan was in his prime. There will be generations ahead who will not have his peer, unless he has grandchildren, generations removed, maybe one out of a thousand who could match him, and it will not be in my lifetime, and that close call could die at an early age if he lacks a stable set of parents who kept pictures of him, stay married through prodigy #2's 25 years until he is a pro, and that's only if he cares for the game of basketball, or if it is still popular as it is today when he gets here. He will also have to be blessed with a similar height or within an inch if he has the best foundation muscles in his legs to help him effortlessly jump as high as Michael could. He must also have the gift of perfect rhythm, and a thousand other traits we can scarcely identify of the refined things he could do with a basketball, often from half a court away, and quite often at the professional 3-point line. He's like an Einstein of basketball. I was trained in sports in college, have travelled among athletes of olympic gold medals under their belts and their coaches. I'm telling you, there's nobody in any race that had mind over matter like Jordan did in his prime. Baby, he was one in 7 billion alive today, and I'm pretty certain that unless Mr. Jordan is cloned, we won't see any comparison with his fluid aplomb in running, passing, teamwork, jumping, hitting nothing but net time after time just for the sheer joy of hearing fans swoon out loud. Get it?
And you could take your 40 million blacks, establish in them a desire to excel in beating a path to family solidarity and total faithfulness to the cause of excellence in staying together and learning how to cope with divisive differences through Christian (yes, Christian) behaviors that need to be learned just like fidelity, self-control, personal determination, goal-setting, saving for old age with a nest egg that is only touched after age 70, and then with caution, because a few hundred thousand dollars can evaporate in a year if you are careless in spending, and if you plan on a diet that will help you live in good health to the age of 95, and you have 25 years from age 70 to 95, do the math. a million divided by 25 is $40,000 a year., and the cost of living in 50 years it takes one of your children to get there (if they are 20 years old now) could be higher than that for two people in one year. If you want to travel a couple of times a year to say a foreign country or two, you're going to need $25,000 for a 8-country cruise around the Baltic Sea, or the Mediterranean, or a trip to Africa to find the countries your mother's parents ancestors came from as well as your father's parents ancestors. That's just what stuff costs. Social security by then will only pay gas, electricity, food, water, and some medical. If house insurance now is $2,000, in 50 years, it will be $8,000 for a regular place, and if you got the American dream because you worked very hard and got very lucky in a stock purchase, you could afford a lot of things. If you had bad luck, you could still save some money so you can replace a car every dozen years or so, with a modest auto. Getting by on social security is not going to ring any bells in the near future because instead of giving people their social security with interest accrued over the years, our Congress decided around the time of the Johnson administration to dip into Social Security by voting it in, after it was set up to accumulate interest for participants. If you understand how bad that is, try saving $8,000 for paying taxes on a modest home when between the two of you if you are both still living, you might get just under $2,000 a month with $500 out for utilities and water, and food is going to go through the roof if you think the costs are high now, think again about paying $700 for two to make their own food out of the store they purchase raw foods to cook and process more cheaply at home. Eating out is approximately twice that, and if you lose function in the knees or hip replacement stuff, you will be eating out and frequently, because nobody feels like cooking and doing what has to be done to prepare vegetables and meats for cooking and making desserts.
Forgetting can also waste money. If you forget to put the food away after meals and cover and refrigerate it properly, you can grow enough mold in it you will never see on the counter in a kitchen warmed by a recent use of the oven, or someone gets thrifty and turns the air conditioner off on the warmest night of the summer. You will have enough mold in that food the next day to spend a month in the hospital trying to survive your tummy and gi tract issues caused by food poisoning, unless it's botulism, in which case, one or both of you will wind up in the morgue, so no worries after that about paying bills that do not go away after retirement.
My point is, good luck, and do what you can for your 40,000,000 people with re to their family life. If you do that, you'll never have to worry about being anyone's idea of a second class citizen, although you already aren't second class in any way, shape or form. If you can figure out a better way to do it than just simple, down-to earth hard work, thorough thinking things through to the end, go for it. Encourage as many college kids to become stock exchange brokers or have market training and learn how to make money trading in that way, the do's and don'ts of investing. That way, at least a few young people will be there for you when you're older to help you remember what to do. And remember, if whites can do it, blacks learning to do it have as good a chance as any to learn how to win on the markets. Just make sure you always tell the truth, avoid routing the savings accounts or you will not get to go on the vacations you planned, but not to worry. Keep investing, and one time you'll not have worries any more about the picky things I described above.