How long were YOU a slave? What white man bull whipped YOU?
YOU bought in. YOU sold yourself. And now you are pandering right here BEGGING for time because YOU don't have the balls to go after something.
But YOU NEED guilt and that tit is dry. Guilt don't play no more.
Why did white males need 400 years of white male AA in order to get ahead? Last chance.
It was a built in privilege based on the "principles" that America was rooted in.
Unwritten and not frequently spoken but believed by a larger percentage than many believe...."America was founded for white people by white people".
The internet is the last safe haven for some of the fringe lunatics like the ones you are asking that question.
I would agree. The United States, as it was envisioned and built, is a result of western values and culture. It has proven the most successful experiment in the history of the world. Now that may be an over simplification with all things relevant but a large part of it holds true.
The question as to the state of the modern African American male is whether or not he would partake in this experiment. The answer has been thus far in the negative. Blacks in the United States had no culture except largely that established as a slave class. They did, however, quickly advance in literacy and income. Nevertheless, they have never fully accepted the successful model of western civilization. They created a subculture in rebellion against that civilization. They Afrricanized their names in protest. They developed a new style of dress, a culture of animosity toward authority, and an intolerance of any black man who dared attempt to join in the western model. They held as hero's Marxist/socialists like W.E.B. DuBoise and black Muslim black nationalists like Malcolm X. They founded organizations like SNCC (Which became a radical Marxist anti-white organization).
More and more, as blacks became enfranchised, a question as to what political direction they would take was established. They demanded the government pay for their ills via social welfare. They demanded that the U.S. taxpayer grant them racial preferences in college admissions and contracts. Indeed, it was after they were enfranchised at the height of their political power when they started to lash out and burn their own cities.
Today, the lower class blacks are still a counterculture who still shame those who try to escape the black cultural norm. They are still burning their cities for perceived "injustices." they are still criticizing western civilization. Other minorities (to include Africans) have well surpassed them, assimilating and educating themselves into the western fold. In fact, these minorities do better than most white people. With the preponderance of evidence demonstrating that blacks seem to be the only minority who can't climb up the latter we need to look to history in order to establish why. Never before in their history have they had so many children born out of wedlock, never before in their history have they had the degree of unemployment they enjoy today, never before in their history have they made up so much of the welfare rolls, and never before in their history have they ever been such a contributor to violent crime. Whilst no one can argue that things have not gotten better for African Americans we can see clearly that in many cases they seem to be regressing.
The "White Affirmative Action" theory proposed by Asclepias is therefore ridiculous by modern standards. The only thing that blacks have to blame for their lack of advancement is their own culture. Can anyone argue that black culture fosters education, advancement, and achievement? More recently, during the past 20 years, they have been blaming their lack of advancement on the past. They have developed a culture that refuses to acknowledge its own faults while whites have developed a culture that has over acknowledged their own faults. Blacks have developed a culture of victim-hood. White culture, on the whole, is much more subject to disagreement and change than black culture that ignores its faults and therefore preventing their own advancement. They demand that the country change to their culture instead of adopting the positive aspects of other cultures and dropping the negative aspects of their own. They are culturally conservative in this regard. The modern black man/woman has no one to blame for their modern ills but themselves. All other peoples have risen above.