Comments on: Study: Black Pessimism On The Rise

Just One In Five Blacks Say They Are Better Off Compared To Five Years Ago, Survey Shows

[feelfree1]

brianbwb,

Your perspective is always interesting.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by tiddsanbeer

In fact, my point is that I cannot accept that our heroes died and continue to die, or otherwise suffered and continue to suffer in the struggle for equal citizenship, so that we could become just like the dogs that stood, and still stand, on our potential. My soul cries to see "Black" soldiers, in military service because it was the only legal way out of their situation, in Iraq, treating innocent civilians in the same manner as "whites" did our ancestors, and our brethren, to further the corruption of those who still regard us as less than human.

I believe that our heroes sacrificed dreaming that we could one day be what our potential allows us, unfettered by and uncaring of what "whites" like or dislike about us, or our cultural evolution, to create a life where I can, as long as I don''t bring harm to others, whatever I choose to be.

[brianbwb-2009]

It is as if the educators have given up on any embetterment for the future. Wake up and learn something today, just for the fun of it!
Posted by AgentG1967

The problems with education are many, first, public education in America does not prepare children for life in the modern world, choosing instead to focus on irrelevant propaganda called "history" and "social studies" rather than science, technology and business.

One example, because I am a musician, why do schools not prepare music students for the multi billion dollar industry that is music, instead focusing on irrelevant knowledge and facility in arcane and non commercial forms?

The other problem is that the fascists don''t want America to be smart enough to understand the details of its corruption, so ever since the college students led the protests that ultimately drove Nixon from office, education budgets have been ever diminishing, as proven by Bush''s veto of an education bill, in favor of financing his illegal war.

Here is our enemy, the "race" issue will have to be taken up when the more immediate threat is addressed.

[AgentGGG]

This is probably the most unfocused discussion I have ever seen on any topic.

The issues are not music, crime, the GOP, or even racism. The core issue is that African-Americans are in a vicious cycle of being undereducated and underskilled. True there is great psychological oppression, but we must pass on hope to the next generation.

To break the cycle, every single person should strive to attain the best education and skill set possible. I am amazed that people do not realize that. It is as if the educators have given up on any embetterment for the future. Wake up and learn something today, just for the fun of it!

[brianbwb-2009]

If I, in my life travels and experiences, exposed myself to black culture, which I have, and found it not to be something that I particularly care for..I have every RIGHT to form a BELIEF. Posted by tiddsanbeer

I have absolutely no problem with your beliefs, you are entitled to them, as I am to mine, but once our beliefs motivate us to support those who would twist the concept of government to deny either one of us the right to our beliefs, (the Pats, Robertson and Buchanan, David Duke, Robert Novak, George Bush and his klan, the kkk, aryan nations, and other core groups of the Republican party) then we go beyond holding beliefs, and move to denial of the right of others to hold dissimilar beliefs.

[brianbwb-2009]

By the way...at 45 years old, I have heard only a handful of whites use the "n" word, but countless times the brothers use it on to themselves.
Posted by tiddsanbeer

At 50 years old, and having lived in several countries around the world, I have heard the n word from "white" Americans so many times that if I had a quarter for each time, I could buy California. The context is understood, just as it is when the "Brothers" use it, and the two are polar opposites, like the difference between myself, or Jeff Foxworthy calling you a "redneck", the difference in context is understood. And if you don''t want a sunburned neck, which I understand can be painful, a backwards hat makes sense does it not?

I have met Mr. Cosby several times, and he is indeed a fine human being, but what he "gets" is germane only to his own experience, which has been a unique one.

You say I live in the past, but I say all statistics show that racism is living in the present. My fight is not over until those statistics say they are, but right now we all have a greater enemy to face.

[brianbwb-2009]

"If everything I said is true, then how could that be construed as racist?"
Posted by tiddsanbeer

My point was that everything you said was not true. I made a line by line refutation based in fact, not supposition, whereas your statement was all supposition, not backed up by fact, and designed to malign a culture that by your own admission, you don''t wish to understand. That is what makes your statement racist.

Do you own stock in companies that practice discrimination? If you own any stock at all, the answer is probably yes. Do you support the Republican party, whose most vocal members are all virulent racists? If you have, then your statement "I have never done one bad thing to a black." is also not true, for you have enabled them and their racist policies that negatively affect every one, especially "Black" people.

[brianbwb-2009]

Actually in a few decades (less then 40 years) they''''ll be the majority of people in America, even more of them then white people. Then they''''ll run the country.
Posted by SgtRDS

Demographics bear your statement out, Sarge, My position however is if we don''t fix the more immediate problem of rampant, unchecked fascism, this country won''t last another 10 years, let alone 40.

[sgtrds]

Whine whine whine. The Hispanics are coming, and they will be the minority who gets all the perks soon.

Posted by tburzio at 08:09 PM : Nov 13, 2007

Actually in a few decades (less then 40 years) they''ll be the majority of people in America, even more of them then white people. Then they''ll run the country.

[sgtrds]

The republicans are in charge. The republicans hate blacks and are the favorite party of the Klan. Blacks are pessimistic.

A + B = C.

This is a surprise to anyone?