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<b>clamburglar</b>, i agree he has probably had a harder life than me, and that i can never really 100% understand what he's gone through. he works two jobs, and he's a great guy. but i also think that once someone gets to the point where they see everything as "all of these problems come from group x" they're beyond what demographics say and it's beyond objective reasoning (on his part). did white people bring coke in in the 70's, snowballing till where lots of black people in the ghetto smoke crack? maybe. but who's fault is that? whitey didn't make them smoke it.
what bothers me is that i think the older generations still look at everything today as having the same problem, and assume that's why things are the way they are for the current one. instead of looking at what's behind the problem, it all comes down to being so steadfast and hardminded in his thoughts that it's because of the white man. just like i'm sure if you go to the middle east, you will find some arabs that think all of their problems are because the jews are in isreal (anywhere in teh middle east, not just the west bank). and because people think in this sort of way, where everything is caused by group x instead of looking beyond that, the world will stay screwed up.
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