That is very true. I dated a chick from the Ivory Coast for a couple years and heard just how much real Africans despise black Americans. She came here on a student Visa with broken English and put herself through school, got an engineering degree, and went on to get an MBA. How much welfare do you suppose she'll be collecting in her lifetime? She may run into people that don't like her because she's black, but do you think she'll give a fuck or use it as an excuse - fuck no. If American-born blacks want to be taken seriously they have to start taking responsibility for their own actions and stop blaming everyone else for all the problems in the black community.
Why does the black community excuse Michael Jackson being a child molester? Why is it so hard to disown somebody like that? What kind of an example does that set for children - yet they put him on a pedestal like he was a god. Or the culture of women getting pregnant for a check, dad's running out to leave families fatherless, etc., respecting the neighborhood drug dealer while making fun of the kids that go to school for being too nerdy, or "trying to act white" - these things aren't caused by piece of shit cops like this. Black Americans need to take a long look in the mirror and make the necessary changes in their culture and community in order to survive because there are no more excuses. Not a single black person in this country has any clue what it was like to be a slave, and very few even know what it was like prior to the Civil Rights legislation.
There are racists (on all sides), and that's a fact of life - deal with it. Stop using it as an excuse to live in perpetual failure. I have to deal with that mindset every fucking day with my 14 year-old daughter because her mom is black (American born) and that whole side of the family has a perpetual defeatist attitude that I constantly have to stamp out of my daughter. They convince this girl that failure is to be expected and not her fault etc. I see the shit up close and personal and it makes it very clear where most of the problems lie with that poison mindset. Why does she only hear from me that she can be whatever she wants if she works hard towards her goals?
People in power are rarely held accountable like they should be, but the media plays a large role in this. How many white people are shot or beat-up by white cops every day? Or how many black people are beat-up by black cops? The media exists to shine a light on the most sensational shit - then try to make it look like it happens regularly. How many arrests happen every day/month/year in this country, and how often does some fucked up shit like this actually happen? Every couple of years, out of hundreds of thousands of arrests? Of course you're going to get over zealous, under educated cops that fuck up - the odds demand it. I don't know if the cop was a racist, or if he shot the guy because he didn't like black people or not. Who cares? He fucking shot a man that he shouldn't have shot! It doesn't matter the color, or his reasoning - the guy should not have been shot - doesn't that make it bad enough? Shouldn't that be enough to send the cop to prison? If the victim was white, should we let the cop then? Or if the cop was black? I don't understand the fucking point.
Fuck it whatever. I guess I wouldn't care but I hate to see my daughter's mind poisoned with that self-fulfilling, defeatist mindset and it's a real shame that most kids won't have someone there like me to tell them differently and they will just grow up to continue the same cycle of fail because black people won't take a look in the mirror and fix what's wrong with themselves, and are happy just to go through life blaming everyone else.
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