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Originally Posted by bringer
i guess your view on these issues is relevant to where you live. here in central california, everything you said isnt true. btw, i never said racism doesnt play a large role, its just not as big of a role as a kid who doesnt go to school because he's a "gangsta" like his rap hero, or his parents are on public assistance and tell their kids not to try because the white man wont let them succeed. i think your parents and community leaders telling you theres no chance to be successful is more harmful then the 1 in 20 businesses that look at your race as a determining factor.
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I 100% AGREE
You are a product of your enviroment. But here is how it works:
Nomatter what race you are, it takes a really determined person to be successful. You don't even have to be the smartest person. But DRIVE is what does it.....
Now, for thousands of years...although differently in today's times.....there IS racism going on. As i mentioned.....This is subconcious racism. This is people being more afraid of blacks than whites. This is cops tending to arrest a black person over a white person.
Life's tough....there is no way around it. Takes determination to make something of yourself. Black people are continually knocked down by whites much more than the other way around....
I am by NO MEANS saying that it is 'OKAY' for black people to just give up because of this. But the overall tendancy of the race is to give up because of this...and if the tables were turned with blacks having all the money and whites being pushed down...the EXACT same thing would happen. It has NOTHING to do with the color of their skin
There are determined blacks that get past this. But of course there is going to naturally be less % of blacks who overcome the hardships of life to make something of themselves because due to society they have a hell of a lot more hardships to overcome. If they are determined...they will still do this.
a TON of people have dumbass parents or had bad role models at one time or another....We are in a world of communication and there are many outlets to get "the truth"......Just because you grew up in bad enviroment and look up to allen iverson doesn't mean you're going to be a gang banger.
What WILL make you gang banger is people continually telling you that that is what you will become....from BLACKS AND WHITES.......
But it all comes back to white people because the black people who got convinced to tell other black people that that is who they should be were subconciously convinced this by the white population. Its just cycle that hopefully wont be never ending
I HATE cry baby minorities....I'm not saying AT ALL that we should be giving black people or any race for that matter special breaks. I'm just trying to make the point that blacks are no different than whites and if the same situations were in place but the races were flopped the exact same thing would happen