The sad thing about this mentality is that you can't see the truth even though you write it in your own words.
Why is it that blacks from Africa achieve more than those born in the US? I agree that some of it is institutionalized discrimination, but how much?
How is it millions of immigrants (of color) move to the US with little or no money, and yet make a better life for themselves.
The answer is that while you can blame some of it on racism, that is not the root cause of the issues. Your "blame the victim" is just nonsense.
Why is it that one segment of the population is "targeted by police"? The answer is that "one segment" is not black america. That one "segment" are the
thugs, criminals and gangsters who create the problems. The color of their skin does not matter. The fact that they are thugs, criminals and gangsters matters.
It seems silly that I have to say it, but the job of our police is to protect the rest of us from that one segment.
Rather than playing the victim/race/slavery card, maybe if you (derrick76 I am speaking directly to you) stepped up and taught your friends, family, children that you have to rise about all this BS.
Your criticism of "amerikkka" is ignorant. America is far from perfect, the police treat people alot better than other countries. If you don't believe, me, go to Jamaica or many of the African
countries, and mouth off to the police and see what happens.
Exactly.
The fact much of the serious crime seems to come from the black community whose born and raised in the US, it shows further problems:
1. Not enough good black people are helping out their own community, or
2. Maybe there are tons of good black people trying to help, but some reason it's not working
Doesn't matter if it's #1 or #2. Either way, the community isn't helping itself enough to stem the tide of having a disproportionate number of black people doing serious crime and gang crap. And that's why cops spend a lot of time roaming bad areas.
On the other hand, Chinatown is a pretty scuzzy and smelly area sometimes. It even looks ghetto in some parts. Yet, how often do you see cops roaming Spadina and policemen cracking Asian skulls and arresting them? Hardly ever. Because Asians don't seem to cause a lot of trouble.
Don't cause trouble and fewer cops will come by with sirens blaring.
I think one thing that would help out a lot of black people in the US is the attitude and etiquette. Every race has smart and dumb people. But when it comes to landing good jobs, a resume gets you in the door, but then it's up to you to land it. A job might have 100 applicants. But only 10 get called in for an interview. Now it's up to the final 10 to prove to the hiring manager whose the best.
I've spent my share of time in the US on business and vacation, and let's face it. It must be the upbringing or something, but it seems a lot more black people have that ghetto-ey attitude and way they talk that seems agitating. Everyone reading this knows what I mean. You even see this at the US airport where some of the airport employees have that attitude. So I can see why some black people don't score that good job because the hiring manager met you and no way he's going to hire someone for a decent level job with attitude. I wouldn't myself.
The reason 10 people got in the door is because their paper qualification is all good enough. Assuming none of them lied, the experience and technical skills are all good enough. It now comes down to personality. Are you someone who is well spoken, seems likeable, and can be managed? Or are you someone who talks back, gives attitude to coworkers or customers? If you are the latter, you're done. You'll get a shitty job somewhere where the manager need anyone to fill the job, but have fun landing that really good office job.
Notice how zero offices have employees that have that really agitating ghetto talk. Zero.
