And yet you speak as if you can speak for the "black community."
So you got a 3.5 in highschool. I'm supposed to be impressed?
You were spoiled and got everything you wanted? ... Neat?
I'll tell you there is really only one question that you need to answer. Just one.
Of what use are you to me?
Can you make something I might want to buy? Can you repair something I use? Do you have knowledge and/or experience that is hard to come by? How about a sort of trade skill - some kind of construction, welding, machining, etc?
That's one of the other nifty little things you're never told about the world. No one cares about where you went to college, how well you did, etc. They really do not. What matters is what you can do that the other 20,000 people who have taken that course can't (and that may simply be there aren't enough of them to physically cover the demand for that skill).
No one really cares what your parents' income was unless you're dealing with some aristocratic douches looking to arrange a marriage or something (and those don't work too well in the U.S.) No one really cares how much stuff you had as a kid. And when it comes right down to it - they really don't give a damned about your education.
I've met a lot of people with degrees requiring more years of college than they can count without using their fingers. They usually get fired and replaced with a trade school graduate who knows how to crack open a book or type things into google when he runs into something he doesn't know.
The only thing that really matters in this world is what you can do that would make those around you willing to enter into a trade agreement with you. Perhaps that trade agreement is a joint partnership - also known as employment - perhaps you are striking out on your own.
Generally speaking, I pay as little attention to rap as possible. What little artistic expression was in that medium has been eradicated by the culture that has developed around it. It is about as vile as sports have become in terms of propagating cultural delusion.
Oh, yes, "they" must be the problem.
"We" - "they" - "some"
Do not delude yourself with such tripe.
Each individual is responsible for his or her own actions.
If there was a person in your streets, throwing fire bombs at local businesses - what would your reaction be?
Would your opinion suddenly change if he was black? Or white? How about Asian? Or can you even tell behind the ski mask?
The answer is that no rational human being would give a damned what color the person was. The fact is there's a person doing something openly and blatantly destructive to the area amounting to property damage and the possibility of harm to persons. Little more needs to be known than that.
If, at any point, you start considering race - you've stumbled into racism. His race (or mysterious lack thereof) does not suddenly change what he is doing, does not suddenly make it right, and does not suddenly change the consequences of allowing that behavior to continue.
But time and time again:
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" Altogether, 19 people were wounded by Sunday afternoon and no arrests had been made. According to police statistics, between January and the beginning of August, shootings were up 12 percent compared to 2013. "
Where are the calls for the arrests of these people?
Why are there not riots to bring the perpetrators to justice?
Or peaceful demonstrations?
Or... anything?
Now I am going to actually level a finger, here.
Yes. You are racist. "The whole black community" - meaning whoever says: "I'm part of the black community." Even in areas where the police don't bother to patrol, any longer, because the gangs have driven them out - it's black people killing black people. Thugs killing thugs or the complacent people living amongst them.
Is it really "racism" from "whites" that is holding "the black community" back?
Harken back to your first post in this thread.
Racism does still exist and it is damaging "the black community."
Which is precisely why those blacks who don't bother being a "part of the black community" do pretty well for themselves.
The racism that is holding back the "black community" is the anti-white racism underlying the self-victimization of "the black community." "Woe is me." "How are we ever to do anything without change?" "We need change." "We need justice." "Oh, white folk never let us do anything."
It's the politics of hopelessness. It's what warlords use to incite people to become their pawns. It's how Hitler came to power in Germany and how he went about exterminating the Jews. It's how the Croats overthrew the Serbian rule of Yugoslavia and re-initiated an age old process of ethnic cleansing.
Someone always stands up and beats the drums: "You have been mistreated. No one understands you... except me/us - I/we do. And together... together we can make things happen!" Then they ask you to vote for them... and eventually they ask you to carry a rifle for them. Before too much longer, you're getting justice against those who were so 'mean' before.
Perhaps I'm misreading your post and it's not a proper one to grind an axe against.
But I see this time and time again. I went through high school and college in a fairly diverse area. I saw people of all different ethnicity succeed and fail. I saw men and women succeed and fail. I saw people speaking all different languages succeed and fail (though most of them were successful even without 'special help').
The common denominator across all of them was attitude. The people who succeeded were looking for success. The people who failed were looking for failure (or otherwise so focused on/worried about it that they wouldn't have seen success if it smacked them in the face). The people who succeeded sought to develop his/her self. The people who failed sought to blame others/luck/god/circumstance.
They may not have been able to succeed in anything they chose - at least not at first... but they were able to find success - they were able to grow and develop as people.
But those who make the choices that lead to failure simply fester. They never see success even when it is right in front of them. They never see opportunity - they only see what they do not have.
While there are certainly other problems out there - welfare has successfully -destroyed- the core black family by incentivizing single parent homes. Regulation has basically turned unions into the only source of trade labor (they even control things like construction codes... and you kind of have to sell your soul to them in order to be able to learn the codes to get certified - or sign over your first born child to get the building codes/regulations for that year.... and the codes change yearly).
Affirmative action/Equal Opportunity has made it virtually impossible for the low income racial minority to get anywhere in life. It helps if you have a good reputation - but no employer is going to take a risk on a kid who has a checkered past who is going to wrap him up in a racial discrimination lawsuit for firing him if he doesn't pan out.
So there are obstacles that need to be done away with - ironically, the very things most of the liberals staunchly defend as necessary to protect the people they have, by all metrics, destroyed.
But nothing is going to change until "the black community" stops seeing itself as the victim. Even when you take law enforcement out of the equation, when you take "white owned businesses" out of the equation, etc - things don't suddenly get 'better' for the 'black community.' They kill more of each other than the police ever did (rightfully or wrongfully). They rob and steal from each other. Then they try and blame the 'white folk' who stop to buy gas on their way through town.
It would be comical if I didn't know where this leads.