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Hmm, it appears that you are more psychologically invested in 'our' community than I am. The fact that you have rosy tinted glasses on, claiming there isn't a problem that needs to be tackled -- proves that your self-esteem is an extension of the black community. You cannot even fathom that there is a real problem, because then you feel that I'm somehow attacking you, and others with the same pigmentation. Throwing out ludicrous assumptions that I'm experiencing self-hate? Just to get your point across is pretty low, my brother.
Open your eyes. Lots of people who are black/minority have succeeded, but my thread is about how we can break down the numerous road blocks that have been put in place to stop so many of our brethren from reaching their full potential.
Any road block youre talking about is so systematic no amount of throwing people under the bus will improve it. Everything people like you perceive as community failure is a consequence of allowing your enemy to become your benefactor. After social integration without economic integration what you see today is the result. Add in the inability to control our own image(corporate owned labels, hollywood, and tv) and you have a perceived crisis on your hands.
I challenge you to explain one issue black people actually have. How quickly we lose sight that the average man in the world lives off what would be comparatively nothing compared to most blacks in America.
Any issue you perceive black people as having is the result of some form of social engineering or acts of warfare. When you make people's only hope for income illegal, you will send a lot of them to jail. When you criminalize someone's very existence, he may become a criminal. Its not up to you or me or anyone else to try to force someone to play by the rules of what society has deemed appropriate.
In terms of education, failing schools are a direct consequence of integration and a loss of tax base. I have been successful in the education system just like a lot of my friends and family and a lot of the men on here, so to say education is a black issue is again a manufactured crisis. But, until people take charge of their own education there is nothing others can do for them, lord knows the goal posts have been moved there.
I think what you percieve as black issues more stem from the evil nature of our world. In America we have the illusion that everyone is supposed to have some abstract shot at greatness and a storybook life. That just is not reality in this world. As the descendants of slaves we have grown to be the 8th most powerful economic group in the world, I think that is an achievement to be proud of.
And dont think you know whats in my head, if you loved yourself and your heritage you would not have been fooled into believing in black inadequacy.