No, my position is that most blacks are racist as are some whites.
So your position is that more blacks are racist than whites. Yes?
I believe most blacks are racist. And being that blacks make up about 12 percent of the population and whites about 66 percent I would guess the number of racist from either group would be difficult to gauge. It may be that more whites are racist than blacks given their greater number. Clips like that of Sherrod and the NBP member ranting about killing "crackers" along with Rev. Wright's and Loius Farrakhan's racist comments reinforces my opinion about blacks in general. Not to mention the time I spent in prison and saw first hand the racism of blacks or the times I sat in a black church and listened to the tales of woe at the hands of "******".
It became apparent that all the ills black folks face is ******'s fault, at least that's how most of them feel. It has been taught to them for generations that white society is keeping them down, so they have grown accustomed to playing the victim and blaming the white man. Forgetting that it was ultimately the white man that granted them freedom and afforded them the same rights as any white man, if not more so what with AA and the like.
I found this post fascinating.
And it informs much of what my research has revealed...
Much of the racial attitude is based on being told that it is the whites' fault, and the ease of accepting same...
1. A similar take:
a. Shelby Steele offers this assessment: the success of the civil rights movement has resulted, for blacks, a dramatic widening of choices in life, and the new freedom is, in a way, frightening. Steele calls the residual resentment ‘race-holding,’ by which he means any self-description that justifies to that person, or camouflages his fears, weaknesses, or inadequaies. See Shelby Steele, “The Content of our Character: A New Vision of Race in America.”
b. “From this dilemma they are driven into rushing headlong toward a "race holding" pattern wherein they tenaciously exaggerate the virtues of blackness. "Race holding," Steele argues, is where many of today's blacks now find themselves. Forced into a bunker mentality, they are reduced to "recomposing" a self image constructed out of dubious examples of black superiority: e. g., "coolness," the possession of "soul," etc., in contrast to the reserved "unfeeling, passionateless" whites. Steele considers moving beyond this debilitating stage presents the biggest challenge facing this generation of black Americans.”
SHELBY STEELE'S RACE PROBLEM AND MINE
2. A sense of inferiority is perpetuated by preferential admission policies of universities, which do an extreme disservice to minorities. Blacks and Hispanics do not currently perform as well on standardized tests as do whites and Asians, and therefore the desire to ‘equalize’ the groups, results in minority students with lower SAT and high school grades than would be required of whites and Asians. One can only imagine the effects on these overmatched minority students.
a. Thomas Sowell point out that, worse than having to compete with better prepared other student, they may choose to reject standards for achievement, standards which contribute to their character development. Either he can admit that he is not qualified to compete at this level, or, in an effort to maintain self-respect, he can attack as illegitimate and/or racist, the standards themselves. Further, blacks will be angered because they will know that others know, or at least suspect, that they have succeeded only because of the color of their skin.
b.The liberal mistake is to treat blacks and Hispanics by different standards from the rest of society. Christopher Lasch makes that point in denouncing the idea that “respect for cultural diversity forbids us to impose the standards of privileged groups on the victims of oppression….[this is] clearly a recipe for universal incompetence…” Christopher Lasch, “The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy,” p. 84-85
Obviously, he is saying that if standards are lowered for minorities, they will eventually be lowered for everyone.