You're black right? You and I are deff. going to butt heads on this one. I wont disagree with you that black people aren't exacly even with whites in this country. However in this day and age if you're 15 and you decide you'd rather be selling drugs then going to school. The fault is yours. Not that of white people. Black youth in this country are in some cases throwing away all the chances our grandparents didn't get or even our parents. If you'd rather play ball then become a doctor. Dont blame white people when you brake your leg and ruin your chances to play again.
Why is it people feel the need to blame somebody whenever they go to jail? If you get caught with coke on you. You're not going to jail cause you're black/white/hispanic. You're going to jail because you had drugs on you. It's against the law. Bitch about it all you want but you're still in the wrong.
You mentioned that 70%-80%(it's actually 71%) of all black kids are fatherless. How is that white peoples fault? Considering for a minute that 50% of America is currently divorcing how the hell is it their fault that some black men dont have enough courage to father the babies they make? If you dont like kids. Dont have sex without condoms. Easy as that. Bill Cosby said it. If you screw up. It aint somebody else's fault. It's yours. You screwed up. Not them.
There is a correlation between the Civil Rights Movement and present day black society, you're just not seeing it. Many of these issues are systemic from years of oppression and other socio-economic reasons. If a kid sells drugs, it's usually for money, why ? Because black rappers demonize our women on MTV making them out to be loose whores who like guys with fast cars and lots of money. These black rappers get record labels through rich white music companies to promote their filth on T.V. Young blacks see this on T.V. and want to emulate this. Those actions and behaviour didn't come from their parents, but from a society who craves sex and violence. White youth love this kind of music too !
71% of black homes are fatherless. That could have something to do with jobs and lack of education which could stem from years of being told you couldn't do something. I don't know.
When you exonerate white people, you wipe their slate clean of past wrong doings. It was their policies through Jim Crow that oppressed and humiliated generations of blacks, and we are still feeling the bitter sting of racism to this very day. When blacks starting getting their first taste of real prosperity around the 70's i.e. full time, jobs, cars...(it wasn't until the 80's when home ownership really kicked in for blacks especially single mothers) we got in hurry to compete and forgot all about the Struggle. We wanted to be like our white oppressors.
Then Reagan became president and Reagenomics kicked in which did severe damage to Blacks especially:
Reagan's administration had a powerful impact on civil rights initiatives. Reagan believed many of the social programs and anti-discrimination laws passed in the 1960s and 1970s to improve conditions for minorities actually worked to increase ethnic and racial divisions in the United States. For the first time since the 1960s, the federal government stopped actively promoting programs designed to promote social and economic advancement for minority groups. See Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Reagan was particularly opposed to programs such as affirmative action, which favored minorities in jobs, education, and the awarding of government contracts. While proponents of the program thought affirmative action was necessary to counteract the effects of years of discrimination, conservatives felt affirmative action amounted to reverse discrimination by granting minority groups special privileges that were denied to the majority of Americans.
In 1981 the government announced that it would no longer require contractors doing business with the federal government to comply with affirmative action programs. During the Reagan administration, the U.S. Justice Department supported a number of legal challenges to affirmative action laws. The debate begun during the Reagan years over the effectiveness of affirmative action continued to generate controversy throughout the 1990s.
Under Reagan the Justice Department also cut back its efforts to enforce job discrimination and fair housing laws. It also opposed court-ordered school busing, in which children were bused from one neighborhood to another within a city in order to achieve racial integration in public schools. Reagan expressed the opinion that court-ordered busing was an unwarranted federal intervention in local government and that it destroyed the community nature of neighborhood schools. The Reagan administration supported legal challenges to busing and also defended tax breaks for private schools that were exempt from participation in busing.
MicrosoftR EncartaR Reference Library 2002. c 1993-2001 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
We started going down hill from there.