Ferguson, Missouri
Will America ever get over the racial divide?
This country’s racial divide was not created overnight and will certainly not be swept away overnight. Everyone has perceived views of every racial group that exists in America. And these perceived views have been evolving in every American largely through the influence of the media, through news, through the learning of history and through interpersonal contact of people of different ethnic groups.
This is natural because that’s how we learn to perceive the environment and people around us.
Unfortunately in America the perceptions of minorities has been slanted throughout history based upon the status of the minority in question in our society.
For instance, the Irish were looked down upon as ignorant drunkards. Italians were viewed as criminals. And Eastern Europeans were considered ignorant and only good for manual labor. Asians were seen as crafty, not to be trusted and excellent at math.
Do I really need to go on about Jewish people, African Americans and Hispanics?
We pretty much all know what those perceptions have been.
However in America today the African American situation is different because to an extent, African Americans can control how they’re perceived and the media presents them.
If African Americans didn’t glamorize through music and movies the criminal element that exists within their community and not make the criminal element out to be heroes and something their youth should epitomize, this part of society’s perception of African Americans would change.
Critics will say I’m making the victim the cause of their victimization.
But a very simple example of what I mean is demonstrated by the dress of gangster rappers (even “gangster” is a criminal term).
The wearing of the baggy T-shirts over baggy jeans without a belt is the way criminals are made to dress in prison, so in essence they are glamorizing being dressed like criminals.
Yet no ethnic group in the world tells its youth to dress like a criminal!
No ethnic group in the world tells its youth through its music to glamorize the selling of drugs and other criminal pursuits! I’m not saying this relates to the slaying of the youth in Ferguson, Missouri because I don’t know exactly what happened in that situation.
What I am saying is that if you change the criminal perception of black youth, maybe we can change the likelihood of them being shot, arrested and viewed suspiciously by society.
And as criminals by their dress, walk and criminalistic slang language, such as “You feel me?” “Know what I sayin’?” “What up bro?”
Quote of the week:
“Be the change you want to see in the world” —Ghandi
Calvin Sense is a prominent member of Greater Kansas City’s African American community who has chosen not to reveal his true identity.
It all boils down to education and the family unit. People need to want to learn and people need to have a family unit that stresses learning. The common denominator of nearly all the disenfranchised, whether they be white, black, red or yellow is the fact that the great majority of them are stupid/ignorant.
You’re getting close to the truth… But why are blacks percentage-wise so much more likely to have these problems than any other race, even controlling for income and education?
Because it seems when some blacks do the right thing and rise above their circumstances they aren’t held up as role models rather they are told that they’ve “sold out”, they’re an Uncle Tom, they’re “too white.” I don’t see that with other cultures.
I have to agree with Calvin but I think Jefferson was right about blacks will never be able to get over slavery here in the US. And systematic racism absolutely exists in cities like St. Louis, KC and all points in between that I think as a nation we will never be able to overcome.
I have no answers to our racial ills, only questions. We desperately need leadership here of the like of Ghandi and MLK jr. but they don’t exist anymore. Only shills and conmen like Sharpton et al are here to pilfer and extort, not help. This is very sad.
“Critics will say I’m making the victim the cause of their victimization.”
Why yes…yes you are!
well, they’re certainly not helping their cause, that’s for sure.
Most white people understand if a police officer says stop … that means stop.
Why can’t black people understand this?
Because often, running works.
http://m.vice.com/read/how-poor-young-black-men-run-from-the-police
Why don’t they get this upset when innocent blacks are killed by other blacks like in Chicago?
There is no money to be made.
There are always exceptions, but African American behaviour is predictable at stereotype level. African American voters, vote predictably at stereotype levels. The blowback “Calvin Sense” would receive from African Americans for penning this commentary is predictable at stereotype levels. Hence, his request for anonymity.
African Americans insist on being judged indvidually and NOT steroptyped by the dramatically dissproportionate levels of crime commited by 2.5% of the population (Black Males from the age of 16 to 35 commit 52% if murders in teh US.) .
“An analysis of ‘single offender victimization figures’ from the FBI for 2007 finds blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white — with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study.”
Though blacks are outnumbered 5-to-1 in the population by whites, they commit eight times as many crimes against whites as the reverse. By those 2007 numbers, a black male was 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse.
If interracial crime is the ugliest manifestation of racism, what does this tell us about where racism really resides — in America?
And if the FBI stats for 2007 represent an average year since the Tawana Brawley rape-hoax of 1987, over one-third of a million white women have been sexually assaulted by black males since 1987 — with no visible protest from the civil rights leadership.” – Pat Buchanan
African Americans insist on being sterotyped when it comes to “Protected Class” legislation, Affirmative Action and the 41 Federal Programs/ Set Asides and Quotas that restrict society at all levels with respect to relations with those same African Americans.
Liberal behaviour is no less stereotypical and insists on “Mental Compartmentalization” with respect to police actions every day in the street. Officers of the law are well aware of the malevolent bedrock of hatred that exists in the African American community for the police, exacerbated by the Liberal Main Stream Media which selectively emphasizes stories that further that same Narrative of Police and White Hatred. The officer on the street must, at his life’s expense (Literally and metaphorically), ignore the facts when facing life threatening violence from African Americans or suffer the consequences.
The over emphasis on Michael Brown’s death, Trayvon Martin’s death, Emmit Till’s deaths denote a financial straight line reference from those deaths to the coffers nation wide filled by tax payers for grifters from the White House to thugs in the street who profit from those deaths while ignoring the 8 to 10,000 deaths every year of murdered African Americans who die at the hands of other African Americans.
We live with predictable generalizations as our guide. It gets cold in the winter, with some exceptions and we should get out our winter clothes.
This summer, it is getting hot and the usual suspects will get paid.
Perfect, Chuck.
+100
Well said Chuck. I wish we could get to a point in this country where we could discuss this openly without someone shouting racists.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/michael-brown-strong-arm-robbery-657032
Translation: I’m bitter and I hate black people. I mean, I really hate them. I can only view things through my special White Male Reality Prism, which turns everything into something only I can understand.
Click here for a chuck audio transcript, read by chuck himself.
Thank God!!! For a moment there, I thought I was dead.