It is very easy to pass judgment. But I guess it is hard to imagine the circumstances an average black person grows in. Just few generations ago, they were bought and sold against theirs wishes. It is not just poverty. They were uprooted from their family. This destroyed their sense of identity. They had no support base that a traditional family provides to its members. Once you find yourself in this unfortunate situation, it takes generations to get out of this. It is a vicious cycle. Yet, majority of blacks have broken that vicious cycle and have managed to create an identity, a culture they call their own. They lead normal life despite being meted the most cruel treatment imaginable. My hat is oft to all black folks. They are my hero. Every single of them.
And they, along with idiot whites, have just taken HUGE steps backwards due to Ferguson.
My family didn't own slaves, so their plight is not a concern of mine. MY family came from Ireland and other parts of europe. They had their own probs with being treated poorly. My parents and their parents weren't taught they were OWED and lay blame and sit on their asses. They fought to get out of their poverty. Blacks need to do the same. All over the USA, there are ghettos. Filth. Drugs. Thuggery.
My folks didn't have nasty streets, drugs and filthy houses full of bums sitting around planning on who to rob instead of WORK or go to school.
Even poor people sweep the dirt floor and teach their children how to better themselves. STUPID poor people who have morons enabling them just pass on the ignorance to their children.
Dear Gracie and Vikrant:
your posts remind me of me and my boyfriend who come from two different sides on this issue.
Gracie your post is like my bf also Irish and there was slavery and rape/forced breeding of blacks with Irish to make more slaves, so there is common history and why these two lineages were forced by rape to hate and fear each other, passing this phobic hatred from generation to generation.
Vikrant I volunteer in Freedmen's Town where the generations that used to own their own land they built themselves
had it taken away by eminent domain and corporate welfare paid to developers to seize the land at taxpayers expense.
it's been genocide but without violence, so nobody sees it in the news. Black churches have burned down for the convenience of developers to sweep the history, even remove graves to build a Federal Reserve building over historic sites, and nobody has looted or protested, no ministers have called for violence.
the peaceful people in Freedmen's Town who have worked diligently to protect the history without violence
are heroes. and they are fighting for the one thing that has never been talked about in this fight for equality:
the right to own property which would make people equal if they owned and ran their own towns
as Freedmen's Town once did. nobody wants that or else it would start a revolution nobody is ready for.
the one thing I would add to your post is that Blacks were 150 years behind on the learning curve
of owning their own property and businesses. and in Freedmens' town where they once owned
their own churches businesses and homes, it was taken away. so you wonder why blacks stay poor.
Gracie I understand your anger because my bf and I are both angry
that the black leadership has basically pimped the poor blacks.
trained them to give millions if not billions to political campaigns
and then turn aroudn and say there is no money to save black history.
while millions in taxes are given to corporate developers to seize and destroy property here,
the nonprofits who wrote grants to buy and save history went unfunded, instead they were evicted
so coprporate developers could take over.
when I tried to help, I got screwed over by some of the very black community leaders I trusted
to counteract the wrongs. they left me with thousands in debts and can't pay it, so my bf is mad at them.
it is a big mess. I am angry too, burned out and in debt with two jobs just to pay the interest.
the historic houses I worked so hard to save may be torn down by now because I couldn't do this alone.
the blacks are too busy blaming the wrong people
they won't even invest in saving their own history.
the liberal/conservative split was abused to finagle millions of dollars to fight political wars
whle the historic preservation plans went without funding and more churches and history are destroyed for lack of funds.
Gracie I am at a loss why all these ministers publicly preach for Brown and Martin
and yet don't say a word when it comes to the destruction of historic churches in Freedmen's town.
it does seem that only violence gets in the news,
and when people protest peaceably they get no credit.
so Gracie I find it hard to blame people if that's the only way they can get public attention
when we try to work peacefully nobody cares
we have to change the way the media covers these issues
so maybe this photo is a good start, how can we do more stories
and pay more attention to people like this and quit rewarding looters with our attention
