Not the years of slavery...
That ended 149 years ago.
...Not the years of legalized racism...
The Civil Rights Act was enacted 50 years ago.
...Not the years of Jim Crow laws that made it illegal for blacks to start businesses let alone drink water etc...
That stuff was dying-out in the 1950s after all the Black contributions in WWII, and the Civil Rights Act - 50 years ago - pretty much put a cap in that.
...It sure wasnt making it illegal and punishable by death to learn how to read...
That ended 149 years ago.
...It wasnt the GI Bill who let whites buy property to build family wealth and prevented blacks from doing the same. .
That was a flaw in the post-WWII (first-ever) GI BIll - more like its enforcement, rather than the Bill itself - and was fixed in the 1950s and 1960s - 50-60 years ago.
...It wasnt the burning down of successful black Cities during hundreds of race riots that destroyed and envied success...
Where? And burned down by whom? And how long ago was that?
...It wasnt the war on drugs...
The war on drugs was a good thing.
...Its not the unfair justice system that punishes blacks harsher than whites...
More violent people require more draconian controls... yes?
...And if they are punished harsher that doesnt change the fact that the locked up person should be there for his family..
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
...Its not underfunded schools...
True... to this very day... although vast progress has been made in this area in the past two decades.
...Its not underfunded housing...
I don't recall many inner city Housing Projects for White Folk.
...Its not the development of "the projects" which is almost like Jail Light...
It's called warehousing... in the most economical way possible... with as little strain upon the taxpayer as may be practicable... a viable idea that went sour.
...Its not testing Syphilis on blacks who only wanted to serve this country...
That was wrong... but, how long ago was this?
...Its not hanging blacks from trees and taking pictures of their murders...
'That was wrong... but, how long ago was this, on any sort of appreciable scale, in which it was sufficiently commonplace so as to be a living, breathing factor in development?
70 years? 100?
...Its black people....Thats whats wrong with black people...
To some very real extent, you are correct.
The country at-large needs to continue to remain sensitive to the mistreatment and barriers inflicted upon Blacks throughout much of their history on this continent.
But the country at-large has (1) made enormous temporary concessions to Blacks in the country in order to help set things right and (2) continues to subsidize them heavily (as a percentage of a given ethnic population) to this very day, at a time when Donor (Taxpayer) Exhaustion is quickly setting-in, in earnest.
Blacks have, indeed, experienced some terrible and damned unfair treatment and practices in times past, and we can still see some residual trace-elements of that mistreatment in our present society, but we've long-since reached a tipping point, where Blacks are, by now, far more empowered to seize control of their own destinies in this country.
....Or thats what whites want blacks to believe to cover their own Holocaust in America
What Whites want Blacks to believe is that they are going to have to start taking responsibility for their own successes and failures, just like everybody else.
As to accusations of Holocaust, I don't recall either Southerners or Northerners setting-up Black Extermination Camps, but I may have missed that day in History class.
For now, spare us the histrionics and hyperbole and focus upon the Black community getting its shit together and beginning to pull its own weight across the spectrum.
No one with even the slightest sliver of 'objectivity' within, will deny that Black Folk have made sizable contributions to this nation throughout its entire history, and that they've also come through marvelously and courageously during several 'pinches' or crises or times of danger.
But, 50 years after the Civil Rights act, and after a half-century of Racial Quotas in a variety of high-end endeavors (including college admissions and federal and state hiring) it's time for Blacks to 'come through' in (for them) a different way - collectively - namely, pulling their own weight, economically and socially, during peace time - over the long haul.
It's time.
To stop blaming ****** and to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
After 50 years of preferential hiring, college admissions, etc., the era of White Complacency over Quota Systems, etc., is fast approaching its end.
It was never meant to last forever,and it couldn't last forever, anyway.
Time to suck it up and start shouldering the burden themselves.
At least they're better prepared for it now, after the past 50 years, than many of the ancestors of White Folk were, when it came
their time to break out of the lower strata.
's are easy to put down... 2 digit IQ's and all!
