Quote from nutmeg:
I can accept that. There seems to be many reasonable intelligent comments on this thread, probably based on our limited contact with Black America, Black authors, and our own opinions based on White media, the white life, etc.
I'll assume you are right in your judgement that we are clueless but that's about the end of it really. What do you want? Are you asking us to do more, based on your comments that we can't possibly know what it is to be black? Your comment begs Black America to do more for Black America because only black people understand black issues.
Re" Childbirth analogy. One does not need to have cancer to treat cancer.
This is what people miss.
Slavery, I think, was abolished in 1865. 99 years later, the civil rights act of 1964 was passed.
What this means is that there are people living, and with considerable power, who still think blacks are inferior.
They do not take into account systematic conditioning of blacks to believe that they are inferior.
Rap music is an ongoing effort to perpetuate that. If you are not a drug dealer, who become a rap star; or an athlete, or some other kind of entertainer, you cannot escape the ghetto, or so they say. This is media driven.
White children have Donald Trump and Bill Gates to look up to. Black children have 50 cent, and Allen Iverson to look up to. Again, this is media driven.
When the Bill Cosby's of the world say get off your ass and go to school. The poverty pimp like Eric Dyson attack him.
Much of the current black middle class political figures were built on the civil rights era, which in itself was a media event. The poorest of the poor were unaffected by desegregation. They are segregated to this very day.
In Atlanta, the late Coretta Scott King had a "poor people's dinner" the cost of the dinner was about 2K.
Some blacks did begin to figure it out in Tulsa, OK.
The district was burned to the ground....by whites.
The government gave no redress.
Pavlov has done many experiments on the effects of consistent conditioning.
The result is that this mess was created over time, and with considerable planning. The solution will take time, and considerable planning.
