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Obama is absolutely a role model for young black men, but he should really be a role model for any young man of any color. All young men should aspire to be great men when they grow up, and pick a role model that lives a life worth emulating. Race should be irrelevant.
Not if it's true. Only race baiters find racism where it doesn't exist.
No. However, they are, by and large, certainly incapable of providing the same kind of financial stability and quantity of care that a two parent household tends to be.
Who says they are? They are the product of 300 years of social, cultural and economic destruction. That's a fact.
Who cares? You're still not a member of a class of people who actually struggled much after being here.
Within 50 years of Irish immigration into the US you were considered first class citizens.
Of course it does. It has made this debate far more easy to use than the catch phrases you use to get likes on this thread. Look, it's simple - America, white America, thrived off the free labor provided by blacks for 150 years. It destroyed our culture, told us we were worthless and then sold us off for 100 years. Then, after it told us were all free and equal men, it denied us property and lynched those of us who stood against injustice for another 100 years. By the time the 1900s rolled around, it gave us inferior learning institutions, voting tests and denied us access to what every other ethnic group in this country had: wealth. So now, 50 years away from the time when that was all legal, we're supposed to be doing just as well as the rest? Haha, you're being silly.
Only that's not true, the roaring 20s as they were called were a decade of prosperity for well, damn near everyone who lived in cities. So the Harlem Renaissance was not only natural but expected. At the time however, it was criticized for being a cheap copy of European culture. What's I think is far more interesting though is the fact that your own source cites poverty as the declining factor in this movement:
Racism is irrelevant?
Blacks themselves. They encourage scapegoatism and "blaming whitey". If you're a success doing something besides ballin, slingin, or rappin, you're a sellout. If you speak coherently, you're "talking white". If you're black and support responsibility amongst your own, you're an Uncle Tom.
Black culture does great at keeping their own people down and explaining who is to blame for it.
African Americans, I have seen one doing the same job I did for over 4 years. Say to me on his first and only day at work "I aint no slave" i said "hey man i did that same job for over 4 years".
what do i do at this point? he was hired to do a job but still felt like he was a slave. Whatever they have jesse and al not so sharpton telling them how they been oppressed.
Now he was doing a job i did i made 8 an hour he was making 10 an hour. But hey bricklaying is tough work once you start out as a laborer. at the time i was a bricklayer already and was making a pretty good living. But he could not see past skin color total shame.
Correct answer is not on the list. Crack.
Prior to the introduction of crack, blacks were on track to equal whites in pay, housing, education and a whole host of other issues. Crack basically stopped that and they lost ground.
You have a point. When a white person claims that something other than themselves is the cause for their lack of success, their claim might be justified. When a black person does the same, it can't possibly be justified
I see. When you said:
the reaching out, taking and throttling you referred to meant "be clean cut, middle class, educated and have no criminal record"
yes, and when millions of young adults all say the same thing, there must be something to it. Unlike when millions of black people say the same thing. Then, there's nothing to it.
Why yes again! For the very first time in history, it's hard to find a job.
Yes, because if a black single mother doesn't earn much money, it proves that she's incapable of earning much money
But if a white, clean cut, middle class young adult doesn't earn much money, it not his fault.
He should be a role model for anyone in this country, regardless of their color or his for that matter. Anyone in this country can rise to great things. You have to want it, and you have to work for it. Obama is actually also proof that you can go from food stamps to the White House in a few decades.
Yes, unless you can show that the racist beliefs of those black people can somehow explain the lack of success of white people
Yes, unless you can show that the racist beliefs of those black people can somehow explain the lack of success of white people
Whatever negative trends that occur within the black community, within America, are a product of American society. They don't exist apart from American culture, they are part of it.
White people never say "I ain't no slave"? I'm sure the idea was 'well, this isn't easy'. How ridiculous to have a 'story about a black person' in the first place.
That depends entirely upon the actions of the black person in question.
If a person does the right thing, and is screwed over for it, they have my sympathy. Some ghetto gang-banger decrying "racism" as being behind his poverty, when he made the willful decision to drop out of school and turn to crime, does not.
Yup. You play by the rules, you work hard, and you aim to make something of yourself.
If a person is unwilling to do so, they have no right to complain.
Why yes again! It is harder to find a job right now than it has been in fifty years!
i loved it work hard stayed in awesome shape built some muscle! Hot and hard work.
Because the only people who believe that racism plays a role in the problems that black people experience are gang bangers :roll:
Unless you're black. Then, your lack of success is due to the fact that you didn't reach out and take success the way the Irish did years ago (though for some reason, the youth today seem unable to do the same----but that's not their fault)
But only for young people. Older people have no problems finding jobs. All they have to do is reach out and grab one. They make it happen!!
Please, you'll excite the ladies
The African American community has higher drop out rates, higher crime rates, higher incarceration rates, higher illegitimacy rates, higher STD rates, higher murder rates, higher death rates, higher obesity rates, and higher abortion rates than any other group in the modern United States.
And you wonder why they are lagging behind?
No one is imposing these things upon them. African Americans choose to do these things of their own accord, and they pay the price for them.
Older people have jobs already, and where they do not, they have all-important "work experience."
Besides, no one is saying that young people should stop looking for jobs. I'm simply pointing out the fact that our economy happens to be a train wreck at the moment due to the after-effects of the 2008 recession.
This is something that happened to us, not something we brought upon ourselves.
More than five, less than a thousand.
Huh?
Blacks themselves. They encourage scapegoatism and "blaming whitey".................
Black culture does great at keeping their own people down and explaining who is to blame for it.
The title is evident. Who is the MOST to blame for the problems of African Americans today??
If 5 minutes of searching shows your claim of "education" is BS, then it is up to you to show any of the rest as being true.How is that a myth when your post fails to address every other claim?
Yes, we have already determined that the problems of black people are entirely of their own making, but the problems of young people are entirely caused by something else.
So now you've given up on your blather about how culture and the media influence youth?
Yeah, it's so unfair for employers to value experience.
Yeah, and traffic laws are biased against licensed drivers.
I swear...
Actually I have a number of academic journals clearly revealing that the drugs laws were specifically made to target minorities such as blacks, Mexicans and Chinese. I would be more than happy to send them over to you.
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