Will Millennials Be The CHANGE MAKERS For Race Relations In The United States?

[SirReginald]

I was having this discussion with my father today in the car on how his generation kinda dropped the ball a bit. He was born in 1952. Anyway, I was having this discussion with him after I left the temp service (work this week ) We were discussing Black issues. It got kinda heated.

Joe Gorilla: While I respect your generation you guys did kinda dropped the ball.

Father Joe Gorilla: F-ck you mean we dropped the ball If it weren't for us you guys wouldn't be sh-t. Your generation elected to do drugs and kill your own brother.

Joe Gorilla: Do you know why that exists? When you put impoverished people into a jungle with NO resources what do you expect I don't condone it, but there's a lot of issues. We have to go to the root. See, I'm a Black man in the U.S. That could happen to me. I could be shot down. They look at us as Black.

Father Joe Gorilla: You're a militant. You better think about you and stop concerning yourself with the Black race. Y'all dropped the ball not wanting to listen.

Joe Gorilla: While I respect MLK we should have went the Malcolm route UNTIL we got our resources down packed. Then, we could have slowly integrated when we got the capital. Look at the Jews, Hispanics, and Asians. Riddle me this, why is it that Asians and Arabs can come in our community and not put any thing back? All we have in our community is lying azz slickback headed Pastors. We need real change.

Father Joe Gorilla: I don't know. Also, yall have to do better.

Joe Gorilla: We need honest leadership and another MLK/X type figure.

Father Joe Gorilla: People don't listen to one man anymore. They do their own thing now. Why do you keep up bringing up stats? I don't care.

It then goes to a stalemate and bickering (calls me crazy and militant) Also, went on to say I talk White (& can't break that voice), but they wouldn't accept my azz when I tried to fit in.

Point is, that our generation and the babyboomers are divided. Do you think we will be the change for the Gen X'ers. Can we pick up and establish economic & political power where our people kinda dropped the ball after integration and trying to join White feminism (Black women)?

I became aware after the Mike Brown shooting. Give me your take and yes I'm breaking my pledge of not making a thread. Hell, Doobie Doo makes more than me and I won't even be on the rest of the week.

Like I said, I respect my parents generation. However, we have a higher incarcertion rate NOW than we did THEN. 2,300,000 people are locked up in the U.S. right now.

P.S. I meant Black millennials.

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[Michael9100]

we'll assimilate.. how else could we fix the "race" problem?

Multiracial in America



Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one black America, now there are four:

• a Mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society;

• a large, Abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end;

• a small Transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that even white folks have to genuflect;

• and two newly Emergent groups—individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants—that make us wonder what “black” is even supposed to mean.

 

[SirReginald]

we'll assimilate.. how else could we fix the "race" problem?

Multiracial in America



Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one black America, now there are four:

• a Mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society;

• a large, Abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end;

• a small Transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that even white folks have to genuflect;

• and two newly Emergent groups—individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants—that make us wonder what “black” is even supposed to mean.

Good point

 

[HAL 9000]

No lol.
Millennials are just as racist as their parents

Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

EDIT: You just have to spend a few minutes on popular image boards to see that racism is alive and well in the millennial generation. It's the new counter-culture, hence why every edgy teen thinks it's cool to be racist.

 

[SirReginald]

No lol.
Millennials are just as racist as their parents

Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

I meant Black millennials.

 

[Tom Foolery]

Millennial are helpless. Welcome to the new reality.

For black people, no generation learns from the mistakes of the previous. It's a destructive circle that will end us soon.

 

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[MajorVitaman]

I meant Black millennials.

Most black millenials be on some cupcake shyt breh

Our generation is soft

 

[SirReginald]

BTW I mean our generation of Black Americans and Blacks worldwide.

 

[Michael9100]

No lol.
Millennials are just as racist as their parents

Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think

even that isnt stopping groups from assimilating...

 

[SirReginald]

Most black millenials be on some cupcake shyt breh

Our generation is soft

So, in other words we're f-cked? That means Gen X will be f-cked too

 

[SirReginald]

Most black millenials be on some cupcake shyt breh

Our generation is soft

P.S. you gotta point on the soft sh-t.

 

[Emoryal]

 

[Tim2520]

They've been telling us that racism will die out for Generations now. I'm still waiting

 

[number21]

Nah man. They're just as bad like they always are. White people don't and can't change.