Originally Posted by pan6467

Other than saying black hustlers and not just calling out names like: Sharpton, Farrakhan, Rev. Wright, and so on.... I tend to agree.

It seems everyone wants to blame everyone for the riots but the people who riot.

People need to e held accountable for their own actions, not the actions of their fathers.

Some people seem to forget that and choose to blame the white man and the current US for slavery.... well, no one today owns slaves in the US, legally and I do question the agendas of those who propagandize the past and would rather keep the blacks living in the past than advancing in the present and future. Those people propagandizing seem to be the black "leaders": Sharpton, Farrakhan, Rev. Wright and so on.

I don't see Clarence Thomas, Tiger Woods, and many successful black men and women today living in the past and being hateful, resentful and poisoning the youths mind. I didn't see or hear of Thurgood Marshall doing it, Hank Aaron, the vast majority of black entertainers.... just those who thrive in impoverished communities that keep their audiences only if they keep the misery and hopelessness alive.

People are people, regardless of color, religion, ethnic background we all bleed red. If we are taught from those our parents follow that we have to hate, resent and cannot move forward because someone will always hold us down and we have no chance.... the vast majority will believe that as they mature and act in ways that fulfill that destiny.

However, if those leaders taught these people, not to leave their women with children, not to poison their communities with drugs, not to hate but to move forward in positive ways (AND this is NOT just the black urban community but the white urban leaders also) ..... we'd see a huge difference in this country. If we taught that people make their own destinies and can go only as far as they believe they can go.... Things would change.

But people will continue to listen to the Al Sharptons, Louis Farrakhans, Rev. Wrights and follow them because it is easier to hate and blame their own personal failures on forces they can't control then to accept responsibility and work to better themselves.

Tell Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Charles Barkley, David Patterson, Oprah Winfrey, Micheal Jordan, Drs: Daniel Hale Williams, Mark Dean, Charles Drew; tis Boykin, Colonel Frederick Gregory, George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, and so on that they were all limited because the "white man" controlled the country.

(Of course many of them have been called "Uncle Toms", "Tokens", my personal favorites "Not Black Enough" or "They forgot where they came from")

If I grew up in poverty or in an area so full of hate, resentments, conspiracies, and so on and I got out of that and made myself into something.... I'd want to forget about all that bullshit also.

As long as you have leaders like Sharpton, Farrakhan, Rev. Wright and so on... and they have followers.... there will always be racial problems and people living in the past and never seeing what the present can and does offer them.