I'm a proud African woman and I don't care if my skin is pitch black. But I bleive I beleive in equality.
Why are so many raxist people in nb and in the world a example
I beleive rthe world is doings better by electing Obama. Because he is black and people are starting to nof see color.
God bless
*sigh*
The sad reality is that, prior to the Civil Rights Movement and the establishment of the Welfare State - Black Women were more likely than white women to be married. The trend for Blacks was 'up.'
There are multiple factors that actually played into the development of racism during the Civil Rights Movement era. Ironically, the South was where Blacks tended to be most successful. It was when they started branching out and moving into Northern states to under-bid unionized labor for construction and other jobs that prompted the clashes that eventually led to the Civil Rights Movement.
While I do not agree with segregation as a policy - segregation as a normalcy will happen. People tend to collect with those they identify with. Few Blacks actually supported many of the tenants of Affirmative Action - such as 'bussing' - where schools were forcibly integrated.
If you think about it - it makes sense why this ultimately led to more violence rather than creating the homogenous society that the idea proclaimed it would. If you take a bunch of kids out of a school and move them away from their friends, and deposit them into a school where a bunch of kids recently had their friends moved off to some other school - it's going to create tension. Particularly when socio-economic factors are involved and you have such immediate distinguishing factors as skin tone.
But it was that same mentality that started the Urban Development programs that tried to create housing for the 'under-privileged.' Not only was the idea fundamentally flawed; many of the buildings were poorly conceived, with designs that made crime easy. Start funneling a bunch of people in lower socio-economic brackets into these homes, and then start cutting them a paycheck every month - it's no wonder conditions got worse rather than improved.
The various welfare programs were, also, poorly conceived. Working women who were up for promotion would often plead with their bosses to not give them a raise - because it would disqualify them for child-care subsidies by the government (the costs of which exceeded their net pay increase considerably). Women with children were -discouraged- from marrying under these programs, because of how the benefits played out.
When you start to look at the statistics, it becomes clear that - as well intentioned as they may have been - the various programs designed to "help equality" did exactly the opposite. Low-income blacks are less likely to be hired than low-income whites. Why? Because when you hire a kid from the Bronx with a questionable record, you are taking a chance on him/her. If he's white, and he's a screw-up, you can fire him and hire someone else. If he's black and screw-up, and you fire him... you've got an Equal Opportunity complaint being filed against you with lawyers jumping down your throat. Or a substantial risk of it.
Employers have had that figured out for decades - and it shows in the statistics.
On the other hand, if you're an accomplished black person, you're more likely to be hired than a white person. Things like Affirmative Action are great if you're a black person from a good socio-economic background with a proven education and track record. It's not so good if you're from the lower end of the economic classes.
In the world of education - it's generally negative. You take a B+ or A average black student from a State University and throw him into MIT because off racial quotas. Now he's a C+ average at best at MIT and barely stands out (if he completes a degree at all).
Which doesn't help his economic future very much.
Which is why an absolutely insane portion of blacks have been, more or less, driven onto the Welfare system. Once there, the integrity of the family structure rapidly decays because of the poorly conceived 'benefit' structures and the overall tendency of people to adopt an 'entitlement' mentality.
Which then rears its ugly head, later. Families that have grown up on government benefits tend to feel as though other people -owe- them things. It's hard to blame them - if they are raised and shown the drama of the civil rights era while seeing payments from the government come in... it's easy to come to the conclusion that society as a whole owes you something.
And, as people do, they like to use such points of leverage to manipulate their environment. Children saying: "This is racism!" to being told to stop being disruptive in class turns into "This is Racism" when they get passed up for promotion.
Eventually - it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Even when there is no legitimate racism being expressed, cries of racism from a race will eventually garner a negative response from other groups. And who could blame them? If every time you tried to address a Chinese person about a problem you have with their behavior, you got called a racist - you'd start to not want to be around Chinese people.
The problem is, at least in our society, that calling "racism" has become a way of life for people, lawyers, and politicians. And the prophecy is starting to self-fulfill.
I don't agree with our President. He's the worst executive we've ever had in office - as far as I can tell. He is completely out of touch with reality, with being constructive, and with the values of this nation. He's a deceiver and says whatever he can in order to put people against each other.
The same people that say: "You're just a racist" when I bring up the man's shady, even treasonous actions are the same ones that were jumping for joy because we voted in a black president.
"Racism" is a political tool. "Vote for Obama, show the world that Racism has ended!"
"All criticism about Obama is from racists!"
It's hypocritical, but it works because people generally aren't racists. If they were - that strategy wouldn't work. Obama would never have been elected to office because people would have said: "The hell? A black President... we can't have that!"
Now that we have a black President, he's immune to criticism because people don't want to deal with: "you're just one of those racists."
Just look at truly racist groups - like the KKK. They don't give a shit whether you call them a racist or not. They dislike the man for his race AND for his policies (at least, quite a few of them do), and they'll have a parade about being superior because of race.
The reason "You're a racist!" has power is because the people it is being directed at aren't the racists.
Edit: It's the adult-world equivalent of "You're gay!"
It only works to distract the argument on people who aren't. The people who are, generally, just look at you like "uh... no shit."