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The question was rhetorical. As far as my understanding of what I can see with my own eyes, offer some rebuttal rather than an unsupported statement that I probably don't grasp black culture. Its pretty well out there for all to see, failures and all.
Unsupported statement? It is precisely your evaluation of black culture that shows plainly that you don't have a full grasp on what black culture is. Its easy to point to the failures of any culture, but there are many positive aspects and subsets of black culture that I am extremely proud of and that you did not mention. Yet, you see fit to paint/criticize black culture with a wide brush?
The question was rhetorical. As far as my understanding of what I can see with my own eyes, offer some rebuttal rather than an unsupported statement that I probably don't grasp black culture, which I didn't label as singular but referenced the dominant one that seems to be the norm for the urban areas with high black densities. Its pretty well out there for all to see, failures and all.
But I hate black culture. No bones about it. I don't see that it encourages hard work, education, achievement , taking care of family, ethical behavior, and self reliance.
Agreed. You could argue that black culture is "normal" and white people are super uptight puritanical workaholics and the only reason they get to have the "right" culture is because they are the majority. But that is reality and instead of calling everyone a racist perhaps it might be better to be honest about differences in the culture. I am a proponent of this with women vrs men too.
I know two black people who succeeded very far in life but both just do not have the "work ethic" that white people tend to be born with or learn via environment. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are wrong or anything but, white people tend to look at them and see a lazy person. That is because that same person in white culture would be lazy. There is no way for a white person to let them in on this and when the world seems to think they are lazy they can only presume racism.
It makes me irrationally annoyed now to see a black person committing crimes. Only because if they just turned to the dark side (white culture), thanks to affirmative action and general society norms, they could have the keys to a bright future. If they would only do it "our way".
I see it with police officers as well. I don't think black culture really understands police culture and it has lead to some major tragedies. Police culture says, you do what I say when I say... immediately or I will shoot you. Ok not right but all white people seem to get this. They don't diddle around, they don't ignore a first command.. they do what the officer says and figure the court will sort it out. But too many black people just cannot or will not succumb to "white culture" and act accordingly. This has of course made police over reactive and made for some stunning tragedy when there were black people who did act accordingly.
I truly think society wants us divided and continues to ignore the differences between the groups at a higher level thus everyone is confused and no one can be honest.
Unsupported statement? It is precisely your evaluation of black culture that shows plainly that you don't have a full grasp on what black culture is. Its easy to point to the failures of any culture, but there are many positive aspects and subsets of black culture that I am extremely proud of and that you did not mention. Yet, you see fit to paint/criticize black culture with a wide brush?
Then you have the thread to explain this. Please do so. Why isn't a culture that enriches fools who rap about drugs,crime and rape, that devalues education, that refuses available work, that blames every ill on others, that ingrains dependency on handouts from the more successful, that blames their rampant crime problem on everything BUT black criminals, etc, etc, broken?
And more to the point of the thread, why is a dislike and disrespect of such a culture considered racism? Why should I not have a lack of respect for such a culture?
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