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Originally Posted by pan6467
The "we" is the liberal white suburban idealist who propagates these ideas for some guilt fetish they have for being born or raised in the position they were while others suffer so. And the really warped thing is if you talk to these people and delve into their pasts you'll find the only blacks (I reall hate saying African American so I'm going to stop... it's separatist in my mind) they ever really met were either ones that grew up in their area or the ones they met in college. Very, very few who believe this have had to live in the "hood" for any length of time. Hell, I doubt some ever ventured into the "hood" after dark.
I used to think that way also, then I joined the military and met guys from the true inner cities of New Orleans, Newark, New York, LA, Chicago. Very few of them ever said anything about feeling "the white men holding them down". They looked at the military as a way to get out of the gangs and go to college or find a career. My best friend in the Navy was MS2 Mike Chisholm from Newark, he happened to be a black man, one who was extremely intelligent. He taught me a lot. He told me how he could have stayed in the "hood" but knew he was better than that.
I have met a lot of successful black men and women, far more successful than I have ever been and they all took pride in where they were. None of them once said "the white man held me down" or "the white man owes me". They accepted personal responsibility for their actions and moved forward and I have seen some of them called Uncle Toms and "sellouts" and traitors to the race. But, why? Because they accepted responsibility and didn't buy into the "white man is holding you down"?
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However in the know you may be, your relationships do nothing to legitimize your argument nor do they counteract the fact that it takes a strangely selective perception of the past to proliferate that "white guilt" nonsense.
I've alluded to it in my previous posts and it's been said by those who have more patience than myself but I'll put it out there again - if you think that all the poor need is to get off their asses and stop feeling sorry for themselves then you simply don't have the slightest clue as to what you're talking about.
You and I can both agree that reparations in the form of cash are a bad idea but that nonsense about success only being one good idea away isn't even true for the middle class, let alone the poor.
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Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe
Even if cash reparations would do some good, I'd imagine we'd fair better if we took a serious stab at ensuring that "We The People" actually referred to all of us.
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