Even though there is clearly a race problem in this country, the truth is that the way that the African American community is going about it is just ignorant. If people are mad that you are being perceived as thugs and criminals, what good does it do to act that way? Loot and riot? Brilliant!
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Yes, there may be a race problem in this country but a lot of it is caused by the blacks themselves. Why do they insist on calling themselves African Americans instead of just Americans? We have come along way in race relations and we still may have a way to go but it is a two way street not a one way one. It takes efforts on all sides to assure that the playing field is as equal as possible. That requires the blacks to make sure those who do not do what is socially acceptable in our nation are told so and how they might correct it, by their own people. When that begins to happen with regularity, a lot of our race problems will cease to exist.
Andy, can you define what you mean by socially acceptable? I ask because what may not be socially acceptable to you may be just fine for me and vice versa. As society has changed so have the social norms. I am not a big fan of piercings but it has become more common and acceptable by society.
A measuring stick to use when thinking of last nights mess in Ferguson.
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Andy, I like to use an analogy when I think of race relations in the US as compared to a pendulum.
For the majority of our existence as a country, black people were treated as less than whites. Sometimes by law, and many times by much worse means. In the 1960's a lot of that began to change.
The pendulum was released in the 1960's after being held in place for over 200 years. Should we have expected it to stop in the middle?
And why must that be? I can clearly specify the reasons I don't like the man's policies. It cheapens everyone if your answer to any negatives sent towards the President are due to his race. If you call all people who disagree with you bigots, there is really only one bigot.
You want me to list all the white Dems I don't like?
Harry Ried.
Nancy Pelosi.
Al Gore.
Charles Shumer.
Elizabeth Warren.
So if you disagree with someone that is another race then it is racial? Completely false.
Let me answer a few questions and lay out a bit of backround for some interested in this discussion. 1st of all, when I said socially acceptable I may have sent the wrong inclination. I was referring to criminal activity and other unwarrented or illigal activities. Drug dealing would be an example. 2nd, it depends on where you lived and were raised as to when blacks were granted the same privliges as whites. I was raised in segregated schools. We had Caucasians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, all segregated into one school. We all got along just fine. I will state that there were cliques but sometimes they included more than one race. So I didn't growing up, have the same experiences or attitudes of those so prevalent in the South. The West, it would appear, was far ahead of the South as far as race relations were concerned. The pendulum analogy is a good one but not applicable to the nation as a whole. Bear in mind, I graduated from the high school I talk about in1948, when the South was still deep into segregation. My main point is, I do not believe race relations can be talked about in as broad a sense as many do. They are much more personalized and individual than society and groups project them to be. This is only one man's opinion but I have found it to be true all my life. One more thing. I dislike our President Obama intensely but it has absolutely nothing to do with race. It has to do with his complete inept ability to lead our nation and be a world leader.