Quote from ByLoSellHi:
As far as I'm concerned, and this is not a flame-baiting post, but rather, an objective observation, African-Americans do not own businesses and stores even in their own communities (there are exceptions of course, but the general pattern is tight).
Koreans, Vietnamese, Jews, Arabs, Hispanics, Greeks, Italians, Poles - you name it - they all own stores, shops and businesses of all kinds, both in their ethnic communities and outside of their ethnic communities.
I remember when the LA Riots took place after the Rodney King beating and subsequent events, and most of the stores in the Compton/South Central area of Cali were owned by Asians, and the few black owned businesses went out of their way to mark the outside of their businesses as "black owned," to deter arson and looting.
I believe there is objective information to indicate that blacks, for whatever reason, simply lack the same spirit of can do-ism in business matters that other minority groups have displayed.
This hurts African-Americans more than anyone else, as they have to rely on many unscrupulous (but not always) businesses to supply their basic staples of life, and the money from that commerce does not necessarily stay in, and improve, their communities.
One example of this is the very high number of cash advance and liquor stores, and lack of grocery stores with fresh produce, in predominately black neighborhoods.
I don't believe I'm a racist to make this observation, and if you think I'm wrong, or that such 'objective' data doesn't exist, tell me, and tell me specifically how I'm wrong.
Also, if you agree, tell me why this is the case. Is it cultural? For other reasons?
Quote from Gio 2009:
Is it safe to assume that everyone here believe there are no substantial genetic differences between blacks and other races and that any genetic difference is inconsequential with regard to cognitive ability and/or behavioral traits?
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
"I always marvel when bigots claim bigotry ....
in actuality, i don't marvel at it all"
Stupid is as stupid does, and you do stupid mahhhhvelously...
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
100% cultural.
Zero to do with race.
Same with Native Americans, it is cultural.
Coincidentally, both the blacks and Native Americans were abused for hundreds of years by the white...
Women were second class citizens for thousands of years, they like blacks and other groups sold into slavery, they were treated as property.
This has nothing, zero to do with any evolutionary process beyond the nature of cultures to perpetuate themselves...either positively or negatively based on what is handed down to the children.
Most of the redneck klannish here don't recall or never studied the sixties and the first movement toward black pride. They have no understanding of how blacks were treated even after the end of slavery. They have no idea what the Jim Crow laws were. They laugh when some old cracker calls an elderly black man "boy."
It takes time for cultures to change. The black culture is slowly changing...but it takes time.
We can look to the redneck klannish southern states, who got their ass kicked by the northern states in the Civil War...but do we see that the southern inbred ignorant scum has "evolved" since the Civil War?
Or are they the essentially the same culture of redneck, booger eating, Dixie worshiping, racist, cousin fucking, hillbilly white trash they have always been?
It is culture 100%, not race.
The stupidity of some people to think it is race...all they have to do is look to countries that are predominately black, and see that whites do not own all the businesses. In South Africa, due to the racist whites and the political power they had from the British Empire days, it took generations to empower the black people in that area of the world.
Quote from Gio 2009:
Ok, but what about all the blacks in Africa who have never been enslaved and live in more squalor and violence than American blacks by an enormous margin? It seems to be the case with blacks in Brazil and Mexico, and even black communities in Europe. I'm not trying to be "racist", I've traveled the world and am calling it as I see it. Indeed blacks in America seem to outperform blacks everywhere else in the world. Hence, a history of slavery doesn't seem to be very correlated with low social and economic output. It certainly doesn't seem to have manifested itself that way with Jews. Why not? Why were they an exception to these maladaptive effects of slavery in previous generations? I'm open minded and am just calling it how I see it, so please try not to persecute me for daring to step outside of the PC bubble.
Quote from OPTIONAL777:
Racism and oppression did not stop at the southern state borders...
Quote from Gio 2009:
Ok, but what about all the African nations which are nearly all black and whose citizens have never lived in slavery, yet their populations live in more poverty, squalor, and brutality than American blacks could ever imagine? You didn't respond to that.