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2) Increase funding for Inner City Schools
money wasted neighborhoods who dont give a shit about education.
2) Increase funding for Inner City Schools
No, they don't. This is a racist statement. This right here.
Racism isn't defined as "pointing out racism."the only one talking racism is you. maybe you are the racist?
what are you laughing about?
What do you offer?
A Dictatorship over thoser, you do like or not?
Are you Supreme Human being?
I would say NO.,..Arrogant and Ignorant - YES
This Planet is SHARED PLACE not only for arrogant and ignorant human species, but for others too - animals, birds, fish....etc...
What is a Democracy? When others can live the way they want? Isn't so?
What is a Dictatorship?
When someone tells others to live the way HE?SHE likes...
So, where are you at?
Where are you - so is The Country....preaching democracy under dictatorship?
You don't like what black people wear...N-word whites use as much as black people do....
Where did Native Americans - Indians disappear? Oh...OK you already have taken care of this problem....
Don't you think, that you can be a Problem Yourself? The World is overcrowded and some "must go", maybe you're one of those, than "must go"...
Just like you think of others, that are "not fit" in your point of view"?
If you disagree please point out which group of people you find to be less racist?
Some sort of progress.
The institutional racism that you and so many love to refer to was in the past. It does not exist any more. You could probably find examples of private businesses owned by racist individuals or such, but you will not find racist laws on the county or federal level any more (besides affirmative action) so who exactly is holding onto antiquated beliefs?
... I suppose I should have said from the county to federal.
What about cities, towns, and villages?
I'm not sure I would specify any singular race as more or less racist as a whole. But if I had a gun to my head it wouldn't be the race most involved in enslaving another group solely based on race then legally discriminating against said race for a hundred years after freeing them.
You do realize that white people bought black slaves from Arab slave traders and other black people right?
I think the act of enslaving and selling someone is more involved than merely buying a slave. .
I think the act of enslaving and selling someone is more involved than merely buying a slave.
Really, dummy? So please clue us in on what happened to the slaves that Europeans merely bought?
I'm sure you've heard of auction blocks.
White people didn't enslave black people. Black people enslaved each other and were offered for sale to whites at value prices.
Im not sure what is hard to understand here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_ActSome sort of progress.
The institutional racism that you and so many love to refer to was in the past. It does not exist any more. You could probably find examples of private businesses owned by racist individuals or such, but you will not find racist laws on the county or federal level any more (besides affirmative action) so who exactly is holding onto antiquated beliefs?
2013 11% of all adults disapprove. At least better than 23% in 2003! Unfortunately still > 1 in 10Do you approve or disapprove of marriage between blacks and white?
What do you offer?
A Dictatorship over thoser, you do like or not?
Are you Supreme Human being?
I would say NO.,..Arrogant and Ignorant - YES
This Planet is SHARED PLACE not only for arrogant and ignorant human species, but for others too - animals, birds, fish....etc...
What is a Democracy? When others can live the way they want? Isn't so?
What is a Dictatorship?
When someone tells others to live the way HE?SHE likes...
So, where are you at?
Where are you - so is The Country....preaching democracy under dictatorship?
You don't like what black people wear...N-word whites use as much as black people do....
Where did Native Americans - Indians disappear? Oh...OK you already have taken care of this problem....
Don't you think, that you can be a Problem Yourself? The World is overcrowded and some "must go", maybe you're one of those, than "must go"...
Just like you think of others, that are "not fit" in your point of view"?
I don't know that there is a great deal of value in the opinions of white people (who constitute the overwhelming majority of the members of this forum) about how to "fix black society." My own observation is that many white people, even well meaning ones, don't really understand black people or want to, and are inclined to treat symptoms (e.g. saggy pants) rather than the underlying problems.
In practice, there is nothing anyone can do to change the major historical attribute that separates African-Americans from other ethnic groups (including, among others, African immigrants) - the fact that they descend from slaves, and were brought here and owned here as chattel for hundreds of years, both before and after we existed as a nation. I think it's naive and simpleminded to believe that this doesn't matter, or that black people should just "get over it" - this is a big issue, though one that is not, probably, fixable.
What is potentially fixable is the way our government has engaged in a pattern of both malign neglect (e.g., redlining and the War on Drugs) and benign neglect (the availability of long-term public assistance benefits that have created generations of unemployed/unemployable people of color).
At this point I think the benign neglect is probably the more harmful of the two, at least where I live. Minnesota is quite politically liberal yet has the greatest disparity in unemployment rates between white people and black people of any state in the US. This is not because we are more racist (I have lived all over the US and that just is not the case), it is because we have chosen to create a system that incentivizes single parenthood and makes it possible to live indefinitely without employment. Obviously this in turn devalues education and ultimately has largely destroyed our black middle class. I can't think of a more depressing, humiliating condition to live in than just keeping your head above water with the help of public assistance benefits, but I think the alternative (i.e., getting cut off and having to work for a living) must be terrifying to long-term recipients. We should be dedicating funds to helping them build job skills rather than rationing out a subsistence income every month IMO.
The reality is that fixing these problems requires courage and taking the long view. I would have liked to see President Obama take a greater leadership role in this arena, but he has not. Sadly I doubt any of this will change anytime soon.
I'm pretty sure malign is a verb, and therefore cannot be used as an adjective? You call attention to the fact that people misunderstand a complex problem, without support, and then seem to reduce this problem to welfare abuse. Otherwise, pretty good.
Definition of MALIGN
1 a: evil in nature, influence, or effect: injurious <the malign effects of illicit drugs>
b : malignant, virulent
2: having or showing intense often vicious ill will: malevolent