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A white woman weighs in on current black culture
Category: News and Politics
I received an email today with an article penned by the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson in the WorldNetDaily on Sept 21, 2005 in which he suggested that some of the African-American people stranded in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were "welfare-pampered," "lazy" and "immoral." Peterson also criticized New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin for blaming President George W. Bush for his lack of response to the crisis, stating that "responsibility to perform legally and practically fell first on the Mayor of New Orleans."
Read full article here: www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp
I have long believed that the civil rights movement created a victim's culture with an entitlement mindset that has had a terribly negative (destructive?) impact on so many blacks. I think Martin Luther King would be ashamed to see what has happened to his people. I had never heard of Jesse Lee Peterson, but I know that Bill Cosby has been very outspoken saying these exact same things.
African-American kids have no male role models because black men increasingly impregnate and leave. It only makes it worse that 13% of all adult black males are incarcerated (a number that keeps rising because anger and hopelessness create a self-perpetuating cycle). Kids who try to do well in school are ostracized for trying to be white, and it simply goes downhill from there. Education is the foundation of any societal change, and lack of it has a deleterious effect on the individual, the family, and society as a whole.
There is absolutely no way any white person could say any of this, but perhaps if this guy and Bill Cosby could get more people to speak out—like maybe Obama and Oprah Winfrey— it could start the turn-around. It would do a whole more good if Oprah would fund a school in the deep south instead God-knows-where Africa.
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Posted by SavvyGranny on 2008-01-10 12:08:30 | Rating: | Views: 211
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SavvyGranny,
In reading your post I think that you are not far from understanding the plight and or the intentional plight of some blacks. I quote you when you said, "I have long believed that the civil rights movement created a victim's culture with an entitlement mindset that has had a terribly negative (destructive?) impact on so many blacks." unquote. To correct you (because I think that I'm a better authority to do so) Welfare has given lots of people, and not only blacks, the mindset of entitlement that is destructive to the betterment of people. The destructiveness of Blacks (while not excusing their actions) was not started with the blacks. You have to consider the years of humilation that was state sponsored here in America. And you need to look into all the viloence that was imposed upon blacks for so many years.
Richard Nixon himself was recorded as saying to feed drugs into the black neighborhood because they live like animals anyway,and eventually they will kill each other off.
The detrament of blacks was like someone building a snowball on a hill top and rolling it down the hill. Once the momentum starts, the original builder doesn't have to participate any longer, and they can view the aftermath of their creation.
Years of involuntary servitude gave blacks "slave mentality" that has been past on for generations. Then to top it off, the news media and police is to blame as well. The media shows only the negative side of the black people, which is why I think you believe like you do, while the police pursecute blacks in unpresedented numbers. Often creating cases rather than solving them. So, there is kind of a rebellious attitude going on. Then the law itself; where if they kill another black, time behind bars will be minimal. If they slain a caucasian woman, with blonde hair and blue eyes (which rarely happens) then the town wants that suspect's blood. Or better yet, Crack, the dirrivative of Cocaine (and commonly called the poor man's cocaine) in the possesion of a black will get him 6 years behind bars. Whereas if a white male has 1 ounce of cocaine could maybe face 2 years with half of that in probation. So, what I'm getting at the Civil Rights gave the blacks an equality factor. It wasn't right away, but the playing field was giving us rights to go into restaurants, bathrooms or drink in water fountatins. The mindset of entitlement is the double standards that our government started and now don't know how to stop it. The double standard of racist comments that a black can say about a black and not the reverse is phenominal. Its not true that there are no male role models in black families but what's true is that the American family has a total break-down, black and white alike. Our country is becoming a police state. If you get a speeding ticket, you can be jailed if you don't sign the ticket acknowleging (as they say) that you received the ticket. And racial profiling that was portrayed on black for many years only seemed to have stopped after the terrorist took down the towers in New York. "God forbid if we stop a Muslim in their cultural dress, because we may suspect something". I tell you this because I served this nation with honors for 20 years and I've been involved (as a victim) of some of these attrocities that I've mentioned. Even though I have no record, I dress conservatively and I have raised my kids and have been their role model. I don't think that you mean any harm with your comments, but I'm hoping to let you see, my prospective of the way we black men are treated. And after tell you all of this, lots of the things that blacks do and why they do it, is a mystery to me, but, it will get reported 5 times faster than any other race.
Mostuffa
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Posted by mostuffa
on 2008-01-10 12:40:16
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Mostuffa,
I "get" what you are saying, and every word is true, but truth will not do a damn thing to stop the spiral. We need for African-American men, like yourself, to take a stand for education, to keep kids in school, off drugs, and on birth control. And it wouldn't hurt if there was a liitle more outcry about the low class, sexist, racist lyrics in far too much of the music kids listen to.
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Posted by SavvyGranny
on 2008-01-11 08:58:55
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