The truth is a lot of people see what we're saying about race. A lot of perfectly everyday people who don't go to protests and stuff. But they vote, they talk, they sit on juries, they can make decisions on where to live and what to do. They don't avoid living in black neighborhoods because of what I say on the Internet, though maybe that helps. They avoid living in black neighborhoods because blacks tend to be more violent, more criminal, less clean, less hard-working, etc. It isn't "talking shit" to simply state the truth. Most of the whites who bloviate about how much they love the blacks, aren't racist, whatever -- they've got the biggest reservations. Most people try to be friendly to blacks, and there is some of the reverse. People generally want to avoid trouble. It doesn't mean they love each other.
wow. . . .i'm almost speechless, but i've come to understand a little of why "the majority" think the way that they do.
to address your statement about the tendency of blacks to be "more violent, more criminal, etc. . . ." these tendencies--WHEN and WHERE they occur-- are a manifestation of the psychological impacts of the generational abuse suffered by black people at the hands of a hostile, prejudiced society. as i've stated several times in my discussions on these boards, the african man and woman are the very founders of what we know as civilized culture here on earth. so there is no validity in an argument to the effect that black people are in any way innately inferior to any other race on earth.
for centuries, the black man and woman were forced to perform backbreaking labor, with no benefit or rights to the rewards of his work. this fostered in the black people an apathy and detachment to the work that he performed. he was not a part of the collective effort in the eyes of the society which was built on his back. indeed, he was considered to be of no more value than the livestock on the plantation he was bound to. there was no reason for him to put forth a wholehearted effort in his labor, as it would do him and his family no benefit, nor change his status as a slave.
throughout slavery & for up to a century afterward we were degraded, brutalized, and murdered in the most inhumane and obscene ways fathomable, with no recourse or protection afforded us because these deplorable acts were all LEGAL in the eyes of the US Justice system. this would foster in the black man and woman a need to be ruthless and to be ready and willing to go to any length to protect themselves and their families. even to the point of becoming the aggressor in the majority of instances in an attempt to avoid being victimized.
i don't know what your basis is for your claim that blacks are less clean than whites, but i will say that any deficiency in hygiene that i have ever witnessed amongst my brothers and sisters has been inextricably tied to the conditions of extreme poverty that they had been subjected to.
as for us being more criminal, i've already posted the numbers to dispute that!
so then the argument is--well the days of slavery/jim crow are long gone, and that's absolutely true. legislation has been enacted to, at least on a general level, ensure that the horrors of yesteryear will never be repeated. but to assert that that is sufficient to correct the problems incurred by the years of intolerance/mutual hatred and resentment between blacks and whites, not to mention the destructive degrading impressions and practices that had been branded into black culture, would be erroneous to say the very least.
think of a child, abused in his home from the time he is born until his parents are finally caught and arrested when he is 13 years old. then he's turned over to foster care, where he endures new fears and insecurities. he never know who he can trust and no sense of family, love or self-worth. . . .then he is adopted by a loving family who tries to make up for all of the horrors he has endured in his young life and provide the foundation that he will so desparately need.
if the child continues to act out, is distrustful of these new people and does not readily adapt to his new circumstances, is it HIS fault for having the history he was subjected to?
his circumstances are actually better than the black american's because there was no "loving family" to take us in and try to make things right after the signing of the Proclomation, or the end of segregation. . . .in fact black people could hardly depend upon one another! not quite half a century afterward, whites are exasperated with us for the reasons which Mr. Joyce so eloquently enumerated. . . . .