[quote author=VillageBelle link=topic=73278.msg454133#msg454133 date=1351866516]
ahhhh....exactly what most of us feel - blacks were expecting the moon and the stars from Obama and when they didn't get it they are angry!
Maps.....look at this from my very simple view
in America, if you ain't white, means you are black!
that means that all of the INDOS are also considered Black
and are not being treated any better than the African/Americans
and i have a couple of busloads of family living in the USA
and in the last 8 years they have continued to do what they have always done
work and work and work.....to build a life for themselves and their families
if they lose one job they make sure they find another
they work themselves to the bone in order to send their children to school for an education
how come they don't feel that they were being held back?
sometimes you need to put the intricacies of politics aside and just do what you have to do to survive
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belle..please do not be as simple-minded as those imbeciles who talk about colt 45 and such silliness.
there is a strong black middle class in america.
everywhere you go black people are represented strongly despite the fact that black people are under attack socially, face all kinds of deliberately fostered obstacles every day.
there are black students on all university campuses. there are tons of black colleges and universities.. all full.
every year there are at least a couple hundred black sports millionaires created. tons in the entertainment industry.
I posted some jazz music here...George Duke, Stanley Clark etc. every one of those are university graduates, capable of conducting symphony orchestras..and do so when they have the time. and there are tons more around and coming out.
those guys are the cutting edge of musical artistry and creativity..none greater
in government, industry and finance, up through to the highest levels, black people are strongly represented. in science, the space programs..at CERN the massive project collider looking for the god particle..there too.
in academia as teachers..writers, winning Nobels etc.
and all this despite every conceivable obstacle against us..including this debate right here now.
there are ghettos full of black people sure..whose bahavior is impaired by generations of being down.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I NOTICE: DESPITE ALL THIS TALK HERE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE NOT WORKING HARD AND GETTING UP LIKE THE REST..MEANING INDOS AND CHINESE ETC....
WHEN BLAC PEOPLE ACTUALLY DO THAT NO ONE WANTS THAT EITHER.
THAT IS WHAT I SEE. INDOS, CHINESE, WHITE PEOPLE FOR THE MOST PART, HATE BLACK PEOPLE JUST AS THEY THINK WE ARE. BUT WHEN BLACK PEOPLE MOVE, ARE BEING SUCCESSFUL... THEY HATE THAT EVEN MORE, WORSE...IF THAT CAN BE IMAGINED.
UNDER ALL THE OLE' TALK NO ONE AT ALL..OTHER THAN BLACKS.. WANTS TO SEE BLACK PEOPLE SUCCESSFUL, OUT OF THE GHETTOS AND UP TOP. AND THEY DO ALL THEY CAN TO PREVENT SUCH A DEVELOPMENT.
that is what I have lived all my life, took particular pains to find out.
I see captain talking, but what and how would he feel if suddenly the ghettos transformed themselves and black people came to power everywhere?