How Blacks are to blame for Racism vs. Blacks

[Carmel]

If the rigidly segregated educational system continues to miserably fail poor blacks by failing to prepare their children for the world of work, then admonitions to "stay in school" may ring hollow.

The rigidly segregated, social engineering experiment that is our Prussian based school system will continue to fail all of the overly pathologized, studied, readjusted children. But that doesn't mean the school system is a failure. Not at all. To look at it another way, our school system is a booming success, it's just that the designers' and gatekeeprs' interests are not the same as yours or our kids'.

Think about it for a moment in the simplest of terms. He who pays the piper he calls the tune. Uncle Sam is footing this bill. So what interest does govenment have in the 'proper' education of our children and what are the interests of families, friends and home towns?

I want my kids to be clever, confident, clear headed, ambitious, skeptical and powerful. Governments was people to be obedient, predictable, unquestioning of authority, maliable and directable.

I think Cosby is a fucking sanctimonious idiot who Uncle Tomed his way to third base and thinks he hit a home run. But there's a grain of truth to what he's saying, whether he understands it in this context or not (I strongly suspect not). Regardless of the root causes of social breakdown and overall environment our kids have to deal with, they still have to deal with it. They grow up fast and this is going to take a long, long time to change. We'll be old, tired and irrelavent when they take over and run things. We need for them to be clever, confident, clear headed, ambitious, skeptical and powerful.

 So get your kids out of school or at least talk turkey with them about these things.

This makes a lot of sense, however its fundamentally innaccurate.  WE foot the bill, the government is just the middleman.

Somewhere around 80% of mine an yours truly's property taxes go to our local public school districts.  Public school isnt "free", we pay for it....we pay out the nose actually.  We pay whether we have children or not, in school or not, grown and in their 40's or not. I am currently trying to find some miracle windfall this year to pay our 6,000 property tax bill that will go almost exclusively to the school district.  My son is only 3, and I pay for him to attend private day-care.  

Okay, so the state lottery contributes to education as well, but who contributes to the lottery?  

People should be up in arms, and education is just one of a long list of issues we should be demanding more control over.

Along the vein of education, look at the prison system and what we pay for there.  Some sorry sap gets 5-10 for some jackass drug charge and who supports him? We do.  Who foots the bill for his GED when he decides he wants to get it? We do.  Who pays for his college correspondence courses so when his time is up he can emerge into the world a well-fed, fully educated felon?  We do.  I dont think the asshole should be in prison to begin with....but we gotta start somewhere, and when it comes to our tax dollars we are being fleeced to no end. Especially when it comes to education.

[Carmel]

On the subject of race:

I dont ever feel it necessary to differentiate by color or physical attributes when discerning someones character.  HOWEVER, culture and someones behavior based on such, is something I do take into account when forming judgement on someones interaction with me.  Basically, everyone gets the same chance with me until they open their mouth.  For example: There are alot of african-american men who approach me and behave overly invasive with their actions and comments.  It makes me very uncomfortable to be approached in this manner, no matter the mans race.  Its up to me, however to refrain from automatically making an unfavorable judgement on any black male that approaches me.  I am just as likely to be approached in this manner by a white guy or hispanic guy, but I only have my personal experience to work from. Its a cultural issue...some people behave a certain way within their own culture and it is perfectly acceptable, whereas someone outside of that might feel uncomfortable.  This has nothing to do with color, but culture instead....and we all have a culture.

I am Hispanic-American myself, and I see all manner of ignorant behavior based on race, even just within my own culture.  Ive mentioned this before in other threads, that there isnt just cross-racial racism, there is inner-racial racism too.  Thats something that really sends me flying trying to understand.

[Anonymous]

political correctness is denying the feelings you have inside because the conditioning which your mind has gone through it makes you feel guilty about yourself. news flash: its completely normal to fear those who don't look, speak, act or live like you. PC kills, instincts save~

[Anonymous]

i suggest almost all of you are cute./
 black racism is a plague, and a cultural one. there is a profound cultural deficit in the black community.
 i live in an asian community, never would i consider assault, courtesy is the norm, indeed, it is simply assumed that i would never insult them, nor they me, they may not particularly like me, but one thing stands out.. they are a war-like people, and, as such i may never insult their women, nor will they ever insult mine.. admire them, sure, , but never insult. i'm actually kind of proud of them, and although that sounds patronizing, it's not meant to be,.
 i've got a couple black buddies, who can'[t even walk un-armed in their own neighborhoods.. and cosby is vilified, and sowell.
 god forbid i should walk with them.

[Anonymous]

they may not particularly like me

Nobody likes you Art

[Anonymous]

He can't hide, can he?  :rofl: