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when my parents immigrated to this country “legally” i may add. They were dirt poor! They had nothing! They had very little education and didn’t speak a word of english. However they didn’t go on welfare..they didn’t join gangs...they didn’t do drugs..they didn’t go robbing and shooting people. They busted their butts working two or three jobs to raise a family. And if they could make it this country and “dealing with bigotry as well” so can african americans. There’s something fundamentally wrong with the black community and it’s not poverty!
Record low unemployment doesn't mean all those people who got jobs actually got good jobs with good wages. And further, say every worker hypothetically got a 15% raise across the board. A worker who just went from $9/hr to $10.35/hr; yeah, they got a 15% raise, but are they really any better off?......
Yes, of course they're better off! They just got a 15% raise, whereas under Obama low-income wages were flat.
Let's figure: they just got about a $230 monthly raise. Where I live, that would pay for my electric bill AND leave me an extra $100 to put toward better quality groceries or gas in the car.
You can keep saying that, but it doesn't make it true. Or, more accurately, it doesn't make it true that Republicans care any more about blacks than do Democrats.
Sorry, but Republicans hate African Americans.
Time to stop talking around the issue and just state it plainly. This thread is just more proof. It’s really ONLY about anger that blacks didn’t help Trump. So now it’s time to lash out and denigrate black folks as a whole.
I get it. But frankly, I don’t care about white conservative anger. I rather enjoy it myself. Y’all hate us, and we hate y’all. Why not leave it at that and be satisfied? We don’t have to like each other to live in this country.
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If they're business owners, they do. Business owners do better by going to Republicans, without all that needless regulations. (And news flash: most business owners are from from rich. The majority are 1- or 2-person operations, making an OK living.)
Unless you're saying that black people don't own businesses?
Don’t be a smart alek.
Business owners are a small percentage of EVERY race of people. The overwhelming majority of people are employees.
So black business owners aren’t gonna be substantial enough to raise the black vote to a number high enough to put Republicans over the top among black folks.
It's gang mentality and drug culture in their music and who the youth idolize. Rap music glorifies everything that is wrong with urban youth and the youth then try to emulate their idols.
Modern Rap music is pretty horrific, but plenty of white suburban kids don’t shoot up their community or drop out of high school after listening to it. It comes down to no father in the house. That’s why these kids join gangs and just lose their minds.
It's their anti-white man.....and became their ghetto culture....which became their afro-american culture
...which by no means applies to all blacks
but it is the culture that's promoted as "black" culture....the other choice would be just promoting normal everyday culture that everyone does.....but that won't get you "special" treatment
Ghetto culture is actually southern white redneck culture. African slaves hijacked it when they arrived.
The poverty rates among Native Americans and Alaskan Natives is higher than that of Black people. Their death rates from violent crime, drugs and alcohol are also higher in many parts of the US. Where is your criticism of them? Have they not been here for 1000's of years. Your parents seemed to have climbed the ladder to success much faster than them too, yes? What about poor whites in the south? They have been free members of the ruling class for over 300 years and yet they suffer from poverty violent crime and drugs also. You parents seemed to have achieved success faster than some poor white American whose family has been in Appalachia for 200 years. I guess its not politically correct to complain about Indians.
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My parents immigrated to this country legally and my perspective is entirely different from yours. This country intended to make an underclass out of over 40 different ethnicities, stripped them all of their cultures, languages, religions etc. On top of that, they would not allow them to be full-fledged members of society, robbing them left and right, raping their women and daughters etc.
And you’re upset at AAs in general because there is a minority among them that did actually become that underclass and commit a high amount of crime? What do you think would come out of the above?
Anyway, it’s quite apparent that you seek approval the majority so you constantly make these types of threads for attention. Get a hold of yourself. The majority of African-Americans are law-abiding people who are not on welfare and have accomplished much in a short period of time despite all that has happened to them. So have a seat sir.
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Yes, of course they're better off! They just got a 15% raise, whereas under Obama low-income wages were flat.
Let's figure: they just got about a $230 monthly raise. Where I live, that would pay for my electric bill AND leave me an extra $100 to put toward better quality groceries or gas in the car.
Big deal, most people spend more than that a month just on food or gasoline
when my parents immigrated to this country “legally” I may add. They were dirt poor! They had nothing! They had very little education and didn’t speak a word of English. However they didn’t go on welfare..they didn’t join gangs...they didn’t do drugs..they didn’t go robbing and shooting people. They busted their butts working two or three jobs to raise a family. And If they could make it this country and “dealing with bigotry as well” so can African Americans. There’s something fundamentally wrong with the black community and it’s not poverty!
I would listen to this more carefully, OP, if this had been YOU who had accomplished this, not your parents. You can't really take credit for something others, besides your self, do.
Bravado by proxy.
Additionally, did they come here because they chose to? Or were they brought here against their will?
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