Comments on: Stereotypes about blacks and welfare persist

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:41:41 +0000

..correction: “if I DON’T teach etc etc”..that was obvious. But continuing on the subject. All these years that we have experimented “affirmative action” or “quotas” to help oppressed minorities, we haven’t done anything else but trashing the Constitution. A society learn from its mistakes and moves on, doesn’t look at the past. You James…you keep looking at it. Turn your head and look ahead of you! What a legislation like AA has done to minorities is a lot worse than slavery. It is “leveling” the people with capacity and skill of any race to the less capable!” the weak bring down the strong to his/her level which reduces men in preferring equality in servitude rather the inequality n freedom”. De Toqueville..my friend. Read it. People that think that they are “owed” something because of whatever reason will expect to benefit from that FOR EVER! Is that what you want for America folks? I do not!!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:33:31 +0000

James..James: you live in the past my friend. You are telling me that when an African American is born in the US the White people take him and put into a ghetto? this is 2011 man, everyone has to have equal opportunity, everyone can go to school and better him/herself. Every family, neighborhood has the obligation to “watch” over their kids. Ghettos today, white or black, have no reason to exist if not for the people that want to live that way!! That’s very simple. If crackheads, pushers and gangs are roaming the streets is because you don’t keep your damn teenager sons and daughters away from trouble! Family, lack of moral values. That what it is today! If i teach my daughter how t behave and moral values and i keep watch on her..she’ll pop kids up like a popcorn machine! Your boys? Well you know the answer. Jim Crow era is ended..do you realize that? I have seen the stats and who do you think can take the blame? The white evils? I am sorry..but I say NO! YOU and YOU only are responsible for you failures! And i refuse to accept your statement about “white families benefited from slavery”. Do you think that all whites were slave owners? Are you familiar with the indentured slaves, whites? Your world is made of millions of whites owning slaves? Are you serious? Discrimination was ended by whites and civil rights movements alike! Quit whining! And what about “affirmative action”? Is not “discriminatory” when applies to minority?..How long you think is going to take to erase the impact of that history and why ALL whites today have to pay for what FEW did it decades ago? What about all the ones that immigrated in the US since slavery was abolished? You are just biased. Until we keep bringing particular needs up, tied up to ethnic group, we are not going to MOVE ON!

By: James

James — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:39:36 +0000

Sure there is racism today, and goes both ways, but i haven’t seen so many people complaining like in the AA community!

That’s interesting, Frank, because I run into a lot of people who complain bitterly about what they believe is racism directed against white people.

And is always about their community suffering “more” than others: unemployment, discrimination,etc.

Well, that’s simply true, Frank. Have you seen the statistics on the difference between white and black unemployment in the U.S. right now? The gap is horrifying. No one is saying that black Americans suffer more than every other demographic group on every measure imaginable, but most socioeconomic statistics show black Americans at a distinct disadvantage.

Is not the white devil that put your [censored] in ghettoes … !

Actually, Frank, it is precisely white people who established black ghettos in the U.S. Have you not heard of red-lining, and similar practices, which forced black Americans into black residential enclaves against their will? Are you not familiar with the Jim Crow century, in which black citizens were prohibited from most educational and career advancement, while black neighborhoods were systematically starved of resources and infrastructure?

It is YOU and only YOU responsible for your own failures!

This has never been true, Frank. The success of individuals and families has always depended on a blend of individual work and community resources. White families in this country benefited from centuries of slavery, followed by another century of blatant discrimination and of affirmative action programs for white Americans. The impact of this history could not have been erased in just one or two generations.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:38:39 +0000

I keep reading nonsense, on this matter. “we still need to close the gap between..”, “blacks live around a “set up for failure” environment etc etc. Sure there is racism today, and goes both ways, but i haven’t seen so many people complaining like in the AA community! And is always about their community suffering “more” than others: unemployment, discrimination,etc. When you guys are going to stop? if AA are unemployed is their own fault! If AA are performing poorly in schools is their own fault! Is not the white devil that put your [censored] in ghettoes or transforms school in battle turfs! It is YOU and only YOU responsible for your own failures! Black power, black panther, BET, we need more blacks here and there..all this crap! I am tired to hear it: just [censored] work and learn some when you go to school my friends!! Then you complain about stereotypes…go figure…

By: jas

jas — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:06:25 +0000

This all upsets me how people continue to look at black people and other minority groups. FYI black people were NEVER handed anything and it is still like this til this day so that statement was completly wrong. It is 2011 and people need to get over theirselves i really feel things are getting worse and worse and it shouldnt be that way we all need to get along and stop stereotyping one another.

By: Hoboe

Hoboe — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:38:45 +0000

This response is to the statement that the African Americans have been given everything (no one has given me anything) First, this is a lie that has been perpetuated for several decades and, for convenience, given that African Americans have had to fight for whatever they got in contrast to other minority groups who have benefitted from their gains. Remember the civil rights movement? In addition, remember how much they and American Indians have been and continue to be robbed of? I suppose you feel that American Indians and Latinos have been given everything as well. I’d like your response to this question. Second, white local and state governments built the cages that you call ghettos. I would not expect anyone to build substandard housing for their own people. Don’t expect to ever see white ghettos in American since they are built for African Americans. Furthermore, when were projects built for white people?

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:08:10 +0000

I agree with the author. The funny thing is my people(white people) complain about this and that so much its pathetic. I see a lot of blacks pulling themselves up by their boot straps while we blame every other race for the job we didn’t get. We are becoming pathetic. Stop whining about other races when we might have the largest portion of people on social programs behind latinos in this country.

By: cute

cute — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:46:22 +0000

Darrius that’s nice but think. What is in the black neighborhoods for black kids to see Gun shops and liquor stores? What are surrounding black kids? What do they see everyday? They are all in one little area, thinking and doing like each other. While whites are doing the same thing thinking and doing like each other. Why are the schools in those black neighborhoods so bad? Why is the education system so low? If you can’t see that everything is set up then you can’t blame them for not seeing it. Think deeper into how things work. Study, read articles look at the unfairness. Only about 10% of the youths in those areas join gangs which means 90% don’t. And please don’t say Black this and that the people you know are on that system so your figures may be wrong. The people I know personally are not on the system. I am definitely not. You are stereotyping us right now the same thing that you don’t like for whites to do. Do you ever go to the trailer park to see how they live. I get what you are saying but channel your energy into starting programs in these neighborhoods. Don’t judge. That type of stereotype is why blacks who make it don’t go back and help other blacks who don’t. This is why we don’t favor each other or help each other because we are too quick to judge each other. You think white people make it without help from somewhere or someone. How will we make it if we dont help one another? Whites hire whites, do blacks hire blacks? Not really cause they see them as a threat or are quick to judge them just like you re doing now. For things to change we gotta help one another, when will that start.

By: cute

cute — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:31:01 +0000

Yes but whites don’t go through what blacks go through so none of them should be on welfare. Black schools are 3 grade levels below white schools, white don’t get discriminated against as often. How many role models to whites have in comparison to blacks. How are black portrayed in the media in comparison to whites. The fact is no white man should be on welfare ever given the upper hand they ve had. Personally I hate welfare people should work for what they get. People on welfare need to go clean the streets, work for the government do something for christ sake, whether black or white. SSI is a part of the welfare system and whites are 3 times more like to get that than blacks. So? All factors added in whites are no better than blacks they damn lazy too.

By: Darrius

Darrius — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:32:00 +0000

Shotei I completely agree with you. I’m black and I’m sick of us blaming slavery for everything. Black people are still poor because the majority of them don’t want to work for anything. They either want to get on welfare, steal, sell drugs, or all of the above. And it’s getting worse and worse. Blacks have every opportunity now to be successful but they don’t take it. They drop out of high school instead of going to college and getting a degree. Then they join gangs, destroy neighborhoods, and walk around with their pants going down to their knees. I was raised by a single mother on the south side. I wanted to be successful, so I went to school everyday, I went to college, and thanks to this government black people are always saying is against them, I got the money to pay for college, which all black students can do. There is no reason for so many black people to still be poor and uneducated. It isn’t anyone’s fault but their own. Whites aren’t the ones telling black teenagers don’t go to school, join a gang, and act ignorant. Blacks in the 50s and 60s sacrificed so much to make this country a better place for us during the civil rights movement. They showed dedication, intelligence, and courage. This is something you will rarely see from blacks these days. I shutter to think what the country would be like today if blacks were how they are now during the civil rights movement. Now they just want everything to be handed to them. They don’t seem to believe in working towards a goal.