Lyndon B. Johnson was the GOAT president for Black people

[number21]

So what do you think should happen?

Leave it in God's hands.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

You're thinking of the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed under HW Bush.

None of y'all nïggas took Poli Sci 1000??

Keep telling y'all a lot of these people on here that try to sound counterculture couldn’t even name their city manager or councilman representing their town but try to school folks on domestic and international issues

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Leave it in God's hands.

So we should all spend our lives doing nothing?

God helps those that help themselves.

 

[MajesticLion]

Business decisions that happen to fall your way doesn't mean they were designed for you. Especially when you have absolutely no ownership stake in said business, much less any say in how the business is run.

And no, a claim isn't an ownership stake, no matter how moral nor valid. Refusal to understand the difference is simply posturing.

 

[number21]

So we should all spend our lives doing nothing?

God helps those that help themselves.

Looking for "justice" is pointless and doing nothing. You're either in power or you're not. So, it's more productive to gain power and be ready to be in power once this current society crumbles. And to gain power, you need a proper culture where you and your own always come first, along with a set way to live that everyone follows and respects.

But most people want "justice" and "equality," so I do my own thing and leave it to God.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Looking for "justice" is pointless and doing nothing. You're either in power or you're not. So, it's more productive to gain power and be ready to be in power once this current society crumbles. And to gain power, you need a proper culture where you and your own always come first, along with a set way to live that everyone follows and respects.

But most people want "justice" and "equality," so I do my own thing and leave it to God.

So what are you doing to create this?

 

[HarlemHottie]

Ugh. Lazy thinking and cynicism.

Basic fact is the average black American has more opportunities and ability to gain wealth than folks who had to grow up under government enforce second class citizenship. Black folks today who think we have it as bad or even worse than folks back then are suffering from a first world privilege mind.

Folks on here posting on their cell phones while working in multi racial offices doing their 9-5 while the poorest people, often black folks, were literally starving and suffering from extreme poverty before safety nets were implemented with a lot of the reforms in the 60s and 70s. Things aren't great or even good now but folks always use hyperbole and want to pretend they had it as bad as our ancestors. Remember, our ancestors had to act subservient to whites to such an extent it was viewed as OK for normal everyday white folks to lynch black teenagers for supposedly whistling at a white woman. This was more normal than not compare to now. Black folks still face this shyt from time to time but you have a much much better chance at justice for it than back then. Derek Chauvin in 1960 wouldnt be getting stabbed up in prison.

I still maintain black folks today are privileged minded if they are out here thinking we have it worse than our ancestors. shyt is borderline disrespectful. Talk to your grandparents or people who grew up back then what they had to endure and trust, they will tell you stories of shyt that would make modern folks shake their heads.

What you mentioned in the Second paragraph is a luxurious problem compared to what our ancestors had to face. There weren't even any sort of discussions about reparations even being entertained outside of a select few revolutionary (for the time) minded black folks. Not saying shyt is great but things have improved in some areas for us compared to what our grandparents and folks before them had to deal with. These are just the facts.

Not against talking about current issues but whenever I see shyt like the above, I get a bit agitated. I often see college aged black folks who are way better off than our ancestors saying this shyt and also spouting off disrespectful shyt like "we aren't our ancestors" despite the fact our ancestors fought and died for some of the rights we have today. Spoiled as fukk. This while they got an expensive college education, posting on Twitter form the newest iPhone, and well fed and well dressed spouting this shyt. Just rubs me the wrong way personally.

The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/04/economic-divide-black-households/

 

[number21]

So, what are you doing to create this?

Nothing. Most of you nikkas are lost and stuck in lala land. I'm not looking to save you cats. Whoever gets it and who doesn't isn't up to me.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Nothing. Most of you nikkas are lost and stuck in lala land. I'm not looking to save you cats.

So you're not doing anything and you want everybody else to stop trying to do something?

 

[number21]

So you're not doing anything and you want everybody else to stop trying to do something?

It's up to God whoever gets it or not.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

It's up to God whoever gets it or not.

So again, you're not going to do anything. And you want the folks who are doing something to stop.

Does that make sense to you? Be honest.

 

[number21]

So again, you're not going to do anything. And you want the folks who are doing something to stop.

Does that make sense to you? Be honest.

Nah. Didn't say you should stop trying to save the world, just that it's goofy. And if you want my "advice" on what to do instead, I already stated on what, but I know it already has and will go through yours and other negroes ears.

So, I leave it up to God to help those gain an understanding of what's the real problem and how to go about it.

Have a good one. I'm done.

 

[Fiji Water]

Idk, I'm literally sitting in a lunch hall at my high-five-figure job right now next to a plethora of different ethnicities, and I'm not being side-eyed, refused service, physically assaulted or being dragged out just for being a Black man...

Not saying it's enough but it's objectively better than how it was in the 60's. Be realistic breh.



You're thinking of the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed under HW Bush.

None of y'all nïggas took Poli Sci 1000??

it was a precursor and model for the ADA. But I'll take the correction.

This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.


Title VII of the act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to implement the law. The EEOC enforces laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age in hiring, promoting, firing, setting wages, testing, training, apprenticeship, and all other terms and conditions of employment

Civil Rights Act (1964)

EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Civil Rights Act of 1964; 7/2/1964; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789 - 2011; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. View All Pages in the National Archives Catalog View Transcript...

www.archives.gov

And this furthers my point that other groups can have specific laws in place but suddenly it's an issue when it's for black people. Not saying that attitude isn't shifting.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

This is true. He was racist but passed many bills for our equality.

This is what politics is about. Dealing with distasteful people and getting what you need.

Saying you can’t deal with Trump cause he’s racist is idiotic, so is Biden and he ain’t giving shyt either.

 

[I Really Mean It]

Idk, I'm literally sitting in a lunch hall at my high-five-figure job right now next to a plethora of different ethnicities, and I'm not being side-eyed, refused service, physically assaulted or being dragged out just for being a Black man...

a select few brehs were doing the same thing before the civil rights act passed. notice i said that the collective state of our people has not changed for the better in a marked fashion.

we are arguably worse off, not just economically, but - and, perhaps, most depressing - spiritually and psychologically.