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Like I said in the post above me, if you're not familiar with the problem I'm talking about, then I suppose there's no cause for you to be concerned. No one's forcing you to participate. If you feel it's irrelevant then leave the thread. Simple as that.
Well what i got from your post was that white people and ignorant black people think ghetto young black kids dont give 2 ****s about education. Thats almost a border line racist comment no?
We can say the same for hispanic and white kids that live in poverty etc. This can go a few different ways..
Best thing people should do is , stay focused, stay out of trouble, and work yourself out of poverty. Make money the clean and honest way, get an education whenever you can. People learn something new everyday.
Yeah, all of those little Einsteins hanging around the street corners waving their gang signs really care about education. What kind of education? How much to charge for a crack rock? How many rounds fit into my "chopper's" magazine?
I come from a black family that values education. In my extended we have a half dozen in Ivy Leagues and over half of my family total has gone to college. I am third generation college.
This isn't necessarily a rarity. Another example is Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson. He is fourth generation college educated IIRC.
*shrug*
It certainly does. I used to live in a mixed neighborhood and the children next door used to stand on the porch and shout "Oreo, Oreo, You're only black on the outside" at the young professional couple across the street. They moved out of the city after the same kids ran their son off of the porch in his wheel chair and then tried to blame my son becasue we're white. It certainly does depend on the family. Not surprisingly, there were two generations of welfare recipients in that family. They lived quite well with three daughters drawing welfare for their own children and mom still drawing for her minor kids. At least they drove nicer cars than me. Of course that was one crowded house. Mom, dad, three grown daughters with kids, a grown son (who slept in his car in the driveway) and a minor child in a 3 bedroom bungalow.
It certainly does. I used to live in a mixed neighborhood and the children next door used to stand on the porch and shout "Oreo, Oreo, You're only black on the outside" at the young professional couple across the street. They moved out of the city after the same kids ran their son off of the porch in his wheel chair and then tried to blame my son becasue we're white. It certainly does depend on the family. Not surprisingly, there were two generations of welfare recipients in that family. They lived quite well with three daughters drawing welfare for their own children and mom still drawing for her minor kids. At least they drove nicer cars than me. Of course that was one crowded house. Mom, dad, three grown daughters with kids, a grown son (who slept in his car in the driveway) and a minor child in a 3 bedroom bungalow.
You sure seem to have an unusually great deal of information about these families. The only thing you didn't tell us was when they got their welfare checks.
I'd be interested in hearing how you knew for a fact that no one in that home had an education or that your son was blamed for harming the handicapped boy simply because he was white.
...that is, of course, if this story is actually true. I find it odd that, in your world, any educated black person automatically qualifies as an "Oreo" and everyone else just so happens to be welfare queens and racist troublemakers. Do you observe the same truths among whites who aren't educated?
Yeah, all of those little Einsteins hanging around the street corners waving their gang signs really care about education. What kind of education? How much to charge for a crack rock? How many rounds fit into my "chopper's" magazine?
do you think these young people on "street corners" represent the majority of young black people?
I think I get what you are saying OP. from personal experience, I was teased, not so much for my good grades as I was for my taste in music and tv shows. the way I talk, not because it is "proper", but because I have a bit of a valley girl accent. Most people would rib me about it and I was actually friends with most of them. I only experienced this as a serious bullying issue, briefly, in junior high. I still feel very much connected to other black people. It is FAR more offensive to me when non blacks, especially whites, comment on the way I talk or act, like black people can only be a certain way. and yes, this has happened many times.
As a black person, I think there's some truth to it, primarily amongst the poorer and poorest blacks rather than the middle class. Unfortunately many middle class blacks absolutely refuse to make any distinction between the two and instead insist on calling these issues "black problems" as if we have this we're all in this together type of mentality. From the outside, I presume that this LOOKS like a "black problem" because we allow it to be categorized that way.
And sure, there are poor whites, Asians, Latinos etc who have similar views as those of poorer blacks, HOWEVER middle/upper white people (especially) have drawn a clear line between the values that they hold between themselves and the poorer ones. Whenever there is a discussion about "white people" be it here, the news and anywhere else--we never really discuss the poor ones and their"bad habits" because we have been trained to discuss those issues as a class distinction rather than a one in the same type issue with middle class whites. You rarely if ever hear them blending the two of them together.
It'll never die if you keep bring it up and using it as an excuse every time you want to defend the actions of a young black man who did something wrong.
Right... b/c the way myths and stereotypes die is by people who know the truth, ignoring it...
I find it funny that people who prefer to let ignorance thrive, are the ones who regularly appeal to it.
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