12-08-2011, 10:15 AM
(12-08-2011, 01:14 AM)username Wrote:(12-08-2011, 12:46 AM)Middle Finger Wrote:(12-06-2011, 11:08 PM)Cracker Wrote: Blacks are arrested and charged with violent crimes at a rate 10 times that of white people even though they are less than 20% of the population.
Is anyone really surprised that a less educated, previously enslaved group treated horribly for the vast majority of its existence here has such poor stats? I mean really, is anyone surprised at all?
Yeah, well when one of them was elected president and leader of the free world it kind of fucks up the whole "whoa is me, my ancestors were slaves and I'm repressed and I can't possibly get ahead" kind of mentality. Time to move on....
I don't believe Obama's family represents or was a product of the wholesale abuse, discrimination, and oppression that went on in America. More importantly, mass scale civil rights abuse and neglect went on all over America until only relatively recently. Now, only a generation or two from that era, of course there is still entrenched poverty and a negative culture. I'm just saying, is anyone really surprised? Your response sounds like a defensive denial. I am all about individual responsibility but I am not going to play stupid and pretend that it's some big mystery as to why the stats are the way they are.
