We shouldn't diminish what black people have gone through over the last couple hundred years, but you also can't punish people living today for the sins of their parents and grand parents. I'm not completely clueless. I and my father both have experienced racism in this country, my father moreso than me, because I am articulate and can speak unblemished English. However, we both look very obviously hispanic with brown skin. So we both understand what racism looks like when you haven't even opened your mouth.
However, that is where the comparison ends. My father never had a chip on his shoulder. He was wealthy in Cuba before Castro took it all, so even though he started here poor, with nothing, he had the confidence of a person who knows what he's capable of. He never made it big here in the US, but he made enough to put us through good schools. Then my brother and I both made it big. What he taught us was confidence, knowing you are not less than any man, and never to have a chip on your shoulder. Most of all, he taught us to never act like a victim. Take your strengths and make do with what you've got. If you fail, then it is your fault, he'd tell us. Try again and again and again and don't let the ignorant and racist people see it when they hurt your feelings. In the end, you control your own feelings. No one else does.
The only difference between my father and I is that he truly loved all people he met. He's an extrovert's extrovert. I'm an introvert and tend to be a little more intellectual and a little less accepting of people's quirks. The bottom line is that black people will never get ahead as a race, the way they are approaching things now. Here's what I see. They act and complain like victims. Their plight is always someone else's fault, never their own. They don't prioritize education. So they remain underdegreed and their manner of speech invites derision. Ebonics is not an educated person's way of speaking. You start to understand what I mean by that, when you hear Biden say, "You ain't black." It sounds stupid, because it is a stupid way to talk. You want to get ahead in this world, in this country, then the more articulate, well read, and well spoken you are the better. It is something that can be learned. Look at Obama. That man was one hell of a communicator and was damned well educated. He also didn't have a chip on his shoulder. He was different and many black people called him an Uncle Tom for it. That's a poor reflection on the black people that they'd not look up to someone like Obama. I don't like Obama's policies, but I can admire what he made of himself.
In addition, if you act like a criminal and dress like a criminal, then people will treat you like a criminal. Wear the football jersey and wear the cap turned 90's degrees and the pants with your butt hanging out, and you can forget getting a job, or if you do, forget getting a promotion. Then when protests break out, looting, stealing, breaking, and beating the shit out of anyone that doesn't agree with you is just damned guaranteed to get you exactly nowhere. You will scare the shit out of all the people with power and money. Hell, I"m brown and this scares me a bit, but then again I am a believer in the 2nd amendment, so I am prepared to defend myself.
The black community gives too many excuses for their behavior and doesn't hold themselves accountable for the better. Until their leaders do the hard thing of changing their culture, they will always be in the underclass. No amount of virtue signaling or blaming others will change the plight of the black people. Only introspection and lifting themselves up will do it. And screw reparations. I wasn't born when all of that happened and I've never been racist in my life and have had people be racist to me on many occasions, but I've never asked anyone for anything and I won't start now. Black people will take hand outs from white people at their own peril. That's a recipe for selling your dignity into the toilet. They should have more respect for themselves and their own abilities than to ask others to pay their way. And when someone gives you something, in this world, they will find a way to extract that favor in some other way. There is never a free lunch, never. |
