Quote:Appreciate the ideas but you missed the mark.


What dictates the school you attend? Residence. What dictates where you live?

Why are there so many blacks living in the ghettos and poor neighborhoods? What did their parents do/not do to put them there? What did the grandparents do/not do to put the parents in this situation? And the great grandparents before that? The "opportunity" was almost never equal - even when segregation was deemed unlawful.


Yes - if a black kid and white kid were born as neighbors on the same street to families with identical social and economic class - then things could be considered relatively equal for those 2 specific children.


Very important to recognize that you are unequivocally a product of your environment.


And your last point: Blacks are 25-30 times more likely to join the military than Whites. So we have to put our lives in danger and risk death to protect the country for rich white peope just to get "equal" education? Thanks for nothing..,


Keep the conversation going. Seriously, ask a black co-worker to chime in.

 

If you want to have an honest and open conversation, then just think about the first bolded statement.  Address the numbers of single parent homes, the numbers of public government school dropouts.  Address the so-called "no snitch" policy that has become part of the culture of these neighborhoods.  It isn't because people don't have the opportunity to advance.  The opportunity is there and has been for a very long time.  It's not for the government or anyone else to "give" somebody a better life, it's up to people doing it for themselves.

 

To get back to the original topic.  Why do black people think that they are "owed" something from everybody else?  It's a point-blank question not meant to be offensive, but open and honest about it.  Even though my ancestors went through wrongs throughout this countries history, I don't feel that my country owes me anything.

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