Quote from maxpi:
...Now I want somebody to tell me how a small culture that hates the greater culture around it and insists on not joining the greater culture socially, with the greater culture providing nearly all the jobs, is going to make it?
Max
Maxpi,
There's more to the U.S.A. than Southern California.
I remember one day I was talking to a software designer in Seattle...
She's black and had recently moved from Southern California (I believe she lived there for 15 years).
Yet, she was raised in Chicago not far from a place called Cabrini Green.
She told me that she doesn't go to her office parties because a co-worker that's popular had made a racially sensitive remark to her in front of other co-workers during her first week of employment...
Something like..."at our next office party...you can bring the watermellons".
Now...her reply was..."its individuals like you that perpetuate the pain".
She reported the incident to her boss...he told her how harmless the guy is, how hard of a worker he is, how well-respected he is, there's never been any complaints against him by other co-workers and that he does volunteer work at the homeless shelter and surely most at the shelter must be black kids...
He obvious doesn't have a problem against blacks.
Note: I myself did volunteer work at a homeless shelter for street kids in Seattle...1 out of about 25 homeless kids were black...not the other way around.
He then told her if there's any thing else bothering her...he has an open door policy.
She documented the incident and then put it aside except for one thing...
She doesn't
socialize with her co-workers (parties, get to gethers, lunch breaks et cetera) because none of them defended her that heard the comment...
Whom does she socialize with...people at Hiking club (all white), her husband speed bike buddies (whites and one hispanic guy)...
she basically socializes with anybody but those at her job.
She told me that her co-workers know very little about her personal life thinks the reason why she doesn't socialize with them because she's got a problem with white people.
Maxpi, just because you see the few blacks at your job socializing with white co-workers...doesn't necessary mean they have a problem with white people...
It could be something as simple as them having a problem with their co-workers.
Also, someone once told me the most racially prejudiced people in the USA by far was the Aryan Nation or something like that.
Maxpi...I know for fact your truly misinformed when you say the black culture
insists on not joining the greater culture...socially.
If that were true...then the following I've seen with my own two eyes are an illusion...
1. Blacks and Whites interracial relationships...
2. There are black athletes breaking ground today in white dominating sports like hockey, swimming, tennis, golfing, TV journalism, CEO, board of directors of major US companies, doctors, engineers, democrates, republicans, military leaders, entreprenuers...
most of them did it without ever mentioning the
race card to get where they were.
3. In my pre-med study groups...black students from poor backgrounds, middle-class background, upper class backgrounds didn't walk around being anti-social, anti-white...
Yet, they did walk around with a thinking that "I'm cool with you as long as you treat me fairly."
4. I've seen more blacks attacked by whites than whites attacked by blacks...
If your getting opposite stats about the above from the media (TV or whatever)...your misinformed.
Note: When I use the word attacked...I'm not talking about just physical violence.
5. Where I went to high school...the hispanic or latino students got slapped with all the ignorant sterotyping images about their culture such as anti-social, resentful, ...
6. Black businesses is one of the fastest growing areas of self-employment in the U.S.A.
Heck...when I was a kid...there was this kid (black) that had a monopoly on the grass cutting in the neighborhood...charging $5 bucks per lawn...
Today he's now an Architect (owns his own firm)...employs whites, hispanics, blacks, asians, biracials and a few others...
Maxpi...I can go on and on and on...
The fact is this...blacks have been insisting on
integrating into areas of the U.S.A. that use to be considered off-limits, not allowed, not the norm, too demanding et cetera...
Geeesh...you should get out more and see what's going on all over the U.S.A.
Here's another story...I remember when I worked at UPS as a student...another student (pre-law) said something about another student to me...
He said..."that's one lazy ni#@er" after seeing the guy clock in late by 5mins for the 3rd time that week.
I replied..."he's working 2 jobs about 30hrs a week...taking a full load of classes...gets good grades and is the group leader of my pre-med study group...I'll make sure he knows how you feel".
When I notified the other guy (pre-med student)...his response was "guys like that will never allow blacks to heal".
Wake up Maxpi...racism is still here...it won't go away and it will still attempt to keep cultures imprisoned...
Therefore, in my opinion...
The biggest enemies of the greater American culture are those that make false generalities about blacks or any other culture.
Further, I've lived in a mostly black neighborhood and I've never seen a white person beaten by blacks...
Heck...even the black cops in the area didn't harass the white residents.
I've also lived in a mostly white neighborhood and attended mostly white universities...I've witness over a several dozen racial verbal attacks and three racial physcial attacks...
initiated by white residents, white students and white cops...
against blacks.
Maxpi...you mentioned sociology studies...
My best friend a current Sociology Grad student (daughter of a owner of a famous U.S. company that's now a franchised name) told me from her studies, her internships, her books and her own white background of Upper class...
The most racially prejudiced people in the U.S.A. are not blacks and this is an illusion created by the media (TV, newspapers, radio et cetera)...from my own personal experience growning up in different cultures...
She's correct.
What can blacks do about?
Keep on joining and integrating while trying to ignore people like
YOU that refer to them with words like...
HATES
ENEMIES
RESENTFUL
UNCOOPERATIVE
Going No Where
Going to make it?
Wake up Maxpi...there are blacks succeeding in all areas of America...
they probably won't have a problem with you unless you say or do something to them...that's unfair.
Maxpi...here's an interesting website that I feel may contain some useful information for you or for those that think the way you do...
http://www.tolerance.org
The above website may help you to examine your own obvious bias and help you to overcome them.
Maxpi...here is another fact...
1. California leads the nation in the number of existing hate groups.
2. Most hate crimes committed in Southern California are against minorities...
by what you call the
greater culture.
3. Most of the racism (racially motivated incidents) in Sourthern California are occurring in the rural areas that are rapidly changing.
Simply...diversity isn't appreciated in those areas.
Maxpi...here are your first few sentences...
Quote from maxpi:
Each political party has their own favorite minority people.
The Democrats favor the Blacks and the Republicans, who are employers, favor Mexicans.
Why is that? Mexicans work, they have family values, they are not looking for a handout or a favored position and they will work two jobs if that is what it takes to make ends meet for their family...
Max
I don't need a college education to read between your lines...its that subtle crap like that that's the real enemy of America.
NihabaAshi