Xerxys

guy44 - no, it's not a joke. I do believe we live in an equal opportunity America. I think that there exists racism. Racism in that it is a prejudiced hate of an individual/s based on their skin color. Do I believe it affects them so much that it causes them to lose out on job opportunities, scholarships, loans, grants? Do I believe it affects them so much that it causes them to be wrongfully persecuted and incarcerated? etc etc? No. Not any more.

Numbers. There are more black people that live in the projects than there are white people. There are more educated white people than there are blacks. I'm of the stance that a job, scholarship ... etc etc obtained by a white person was simply because the white individual was not only more able than the black individual but got there first.

Dippin, the numbers are true but I feel that it was not done out of racism. Profiling does happen, it's done by software, by plants and we have to employ profiling for the purposes it supplies. If I were to see a dark and hooded figure across the street walking toward me in some ungodly hour of night I care nothing for the figures race but I WILL instantly assume he/she is dangerous, wants my money and to kill me and prepare myself accordingly.

Please, I am not defending the polices' actions. I'm saying that today, now in this day and age, police don't wake up and think I'm gonna get me a nigger!!

Manic, black minorities today are about to set the next stage of history our children's children will be taught to not do. I'm not comparing the racism that was before to what it is today ... but the racism I feel amongst the black populace is in a degree in itself loathsome.