Quote Originally Posted by boost
eric I have to admit that I feel kind of slighted by you completely ignoring any points I, or for that matter anyone else makes.


You pretty much have a tag line and its "blacks need to be responsible and have better leadership." And you have repeated it time and again. Im not saying that this is not true, but what I am, and many others are saying is that the root of the problem is not in the black community but it really goes all the way back to slavery. Denying that is like playing in a tournament where all the left handed people start with 500 chips and all the right handed people start with 10,000 chips; towards the end of the tournament the righties say "man, I folded aces to a lefty preflop just to help him out but the all still complain, and I mean look at that lefty over there with a big stack, he did just fine!" [sorry but poker analogies come easy..]
Please please please please please please don't use analogies like this. It's so stupid. I understand the point you are trying to get across. I'm not going to debate american history through some metaphorical example of a poker tournament though. Period.

I wish I never posted in this thread because it's such a slippery slope. I hope to see true equality in the future, and by that I mean true equality of opportunity. It reminds me a bit of what wuf talked about earlier in the thread, white people are so terrified of saying n***** but will do other things with more substance to keep black people down. Read his post on it. Is it really so bad that I bring up my perceived issues with black america and then brainstorm ways to help it? I.e. fix schools, stay in school, have better leaders in the black community, etc.

What do you think of this? http://www.apatheticvoter.com/Newsle...Journalist.htm

Written by Juan Williams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Williams



Why not just go ahead and call me an Uncle Tom and a sellout? Why bother with trying to put a new coat of paint on the same old personal attacks by saying that I am "demeaning black people," that I'm the "black Ann Coulter" and a turncoat against the cause of racial progress for black people in the United States?

That's a sampling of the nastiness flying at me since I wrote a book that holds today's civil rights leaders accountable for serious problems inside black America. I've suggested that many poor people are capable of helping themselves by graduating high school, keeping a job and having children when they're married and ready to be parents.

One hard, unforgiving fact is that 70% of black children are born today to single mothers. This is at the heart of the breakdown of the black family, the cornerstone of black life for generations. Some of these children without two parents may turn out just fine, but most add stress to the lives of their grandparents, neighbors, police and teachers who have to take up the slack for absent or bad parents.

It is easier to attack me than to deal with the hard fact of a dropout rate now at about 50% nationwide for black and Latino students. The average black student who gets a high school diploma today is reading and doing math at an eighth-grade level. Even with a diploma, that young person is ill-prepared to compete for entry-level jobs or for a college degree.’

And what about the tragic fact of a 25% poverty rate among black Americans? That's more than twice the 12% national poverty rate and more than triple the poverty rate among whites.

My critics are busy blaming racism for all this poverty. But that tactic is losing its punch because so many people of color, including black people from Africa and the Caribbean, arrive in this country and outperform native-born black people in educational achievement and income. And it is hard to make the old "racism is the whole problem" argument when the other 75% of black America is taking advantage of 50 years of new opportunities — since Brown vs. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act — to create the largest black middle class in history, with unprecedented wealth and political power.

The core group of black people trapped in poverty today is not defined by lack of opportunity as much as by bad choices. Black youth culture is boiling over with nihilism. It embraces failure and frustration, including random crime and jail time, as the authentic expression of black life. "Keeping it real" and "street cred" in that destructive world require gunshot victims, the "N-word" and treating women as "bitches" and "hos." There is no arguing that this is a sick mind-set.