Unfortunately, a few black criminals HAVE caused white controlled media to make all American Blacks look bad. From the early days of manumission, news media has been pivotal in creating the universal black boogie man. Sadly, there are far too many whites, especially white males, who willingly accept that message without question! They DO judge all Black people based on the actions of someone else. To them, Ol' grandpa Jones is in cahoots with Snoop Dog. That media blitz is why a black man in a suit is followed and watched closely when he shops, while the white guy in the khakis and T-shirt is stealing them blind!
Notice too, the deafening silence when I pointed out the racial disparities in policing, judging and sentencing. That phenomenon should have been addressed long ago.Felony arrests for drug offense are likely to occur 12 times more often if the perpetrator is black than if he is white. What that means is disenfranchisement. Most states don't allow felons to vote and many, if not most, employers won't hire them. Policemen, Judges and pillars of the white community understand this dynamic well since they invented it. Could that be that when the white kids are caught selling or using illegal drugs they are slapped on the wrist and sent home with a scolding while the black kid is prosecuted to the fill extent of the law? I think most thinking people would answer with a resounding, YES!
JQ, you are absolutely correct, and being the age that I am and having traveled to the majority of the states in this country, and also abroad, there is definately an insidious culture of subliminal thought shaping that is played out in American society on a daily basis.
Media driven paranoia, ranging from the "welfare queen" stigma, to the belief that the majority of blacks are part of a so called "hate ******" conspiracy, that is perpetrated through conditioning from "Rap Lyrics", and "Black leaders who are followed blindly by a mindless, non thinking monolith.....Lol!
Speaking for myself, and those who I know, if I had spent as much time before retiring giving a second thought to and worrying about what the general white population thinks, I would have had no time to focus on family and the people who matter most to me.
So my statement about having "no regard for what they think" was more directed towards avoidance of wasting any energy on the ones here who are part of the lunatic fringe.
The ones who cannot express an intelligent thought, and appear to believe that by an accident of birth that they have been rewarded with a designation of superiority.
Those type in my opinion, are nothing more than ignorant buffoons, who are an embarrassment to civilized individuals of all ethnicities.
More to follow........