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question for the black folks...
Shallow:
--- Quote from: TeeRaySix9Teen on July 04, 2005, 02:20:49 AM ---
bottom line is, if it can happen...why isnt it? Like i said before, do you agree that we are are born equal? If you do, then you have to admit that the reason why this progress isnt taking place isnt necassarily because the people dont want it. Or else youre saying that if you were in the same situation youd act the same (remember, the equality part. lol). I cant speak on Canada, its a completely different country then the US. Like you said, i know Toronto has a very big population of people from the Carribbean. I dont think i know one person from the Carribbean lol.
To me, its just funny that people cant see that there is a problem here. And it isnt that minorities, or black people for our argument LIKE living in poverty, its that theyve been forced too for so long and only very recently had the same rights as whites in this country. Every country out there has wealthy, and poor people. Why in America is there such a dispairity between races? You cant honestly believe that one race works harder then the other. Thats fuckin ridiculous. Like i said, where i work im in charge of hiring/firing...etc. Ive had everybody work for me from white to black to hispanic to asian to middle eastern and even african. And by FAR, the worse workers were the white people. Most of them didnt want to work. Mommy and Daddy were just making them or some shit. And once they went to college, they were made to quit their job because Mom and Dad were going to take care of them. Others didnt have that luxury. So there has to be something else thats holding certain people back in this country. Anyways, im getting kinda tired of this subject and its only going back n forth...without really going anywhere lol. The way i see things is this. White people in this country (in the past) have created exactly what they wanted, a country for them...ran by them. they used others in order to create that, and now they have to deal with those "others". They dont want to, but have to. Its such a cop out to say "pull yourself up", when youre the one on top. Especially, when most of the time you didnt even work your way there. To expect others to work 10 times as hard as you, to get where youre at...and then critisize them for failing is bullshit. If the roles were reversed we would all go through the same struggles as everyone else. If a white person can tell a black person that they need to look at themself as the problem for why they are where they are. Then that same white person needs to look at themself, because like they say if youre not part of the solution...youre part of the problem.
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I'm not sure where in the states you're from, but if you travel the country and read the sats you'll notice there are way more poor down and out white people than poor black people. It may not be the same percentage wise but that is irrelevant. The point is for every ghetto there is a trailer park or two. For ever black homicide there are 2.9 white suicides. Maybe where you're from, a northen city I presume, whites are on top of the world, but if you go to parts of Arkansas, Montana, Michigan etc, you'll see more than your fair share of whites with nothing.
Let's go back in time to the slave trade era. The population about 100 years ago was 90% white 10% black. So it was at most about that 400 years ago, maybe even less blacks. But for argument's sake we'll say 10%. There is no way humanly or logically possible 10% of the nation enslaved could support the other 90%. What does this mean, we'll plantation owners had dozens of slaves, and well to do folks a had a few here and there for cleaning and such. But the vast majority of whites had no slaves and had no benefits because of slaves. While the fertile land was taken by the rich so the slaves could work on it, the shit land and mountain tops were given to the common white, who was only needed in times of war, possible slave revolt, or taxes. Everything else they had to fend for themselves, and they didn't get much out of it. When you say the worst wrkers by far are the whites at your work place, that leads me to believe you live in avery nice area where there are plenty of rich whites, or at least well off whites, because believe me there are a lot of places across the country with all whites know is hard work.
P.S. Does anyone live in the South? Someone told me that the black population in the south is filled with nice small towns and not much crime.
Compton Casanova:
I Agree with Lyrical G. Forget about racism in another country, but in your own home. You have some seven year old white girl talking smack to a forty year old black man in South Africa! >:(
Sikotic™:
Fuck racial excuses, I don't use that as an advantage.
My race has nothing to do with an issue. Now if my person has an issue with my race and hold a grudge against me because of it, that's a different situation. Unlike some black people, who want to be equal with everyone else unless it benefits them, I like to be treated fairly always.
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