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Originally Posted by hypnotizes
It saddens me to see some of yall say shit about my race when I dodged 2 years of bullets for you bigots, just so you could have the freedom to say some of the most ignorant remarks anyone has ever uttered.
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First off I want to say thank you for signing up to defend our constitution and way of life, although many here, including me, do not agree with the Iraq wars, the soldiers themselves signed up for a higher purpose.
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Originally Posted by hypnotizes
Im sure that you will find that majority of serial killers and mass murders in American history are white males. Thats true, so should I be racist to all white men now? Its true like you said so it cant be racist. Come on man....
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That's a good point. Worldwide though, I think you'll find the anomaly of serial killers to be pretty evenly spread out in terms of strictly skin colors.
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Originally Posted by hypnotizes
Look, another post here said discriminate the CULTURE not the race. Thats sad, but true and i too live by that. I as a black man admit that if I saw a thugged out group of MY OWN people, I too would feel uneasy. Thats because I know how some think. I was raised around it. On the other hand, if I saw a crew of white men stepping out of their ford pickups with the confederate flag and deer hunting outfits, Im gonna be just as cautious.
Any research has a variable. Lets try this idea on for a change. Take those stats you got of black males and the crime rate and do the homework. Look at the enviornment and not the skin color. Poor? Uneducated? Broken homes? I bet all that is a factor. You take those factors and put that with ANY race, I bet your crime rate will go up. Criminal instincts is not a gene. Its a cause and effect of enviorments.
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How do you explain what Oprah found when she opened her school in South Africa for little girls from the most impoverished environments? Our inner city kids asked for expensive sneakers, the poor of Africa asked for books and uniforms. What does this tell you?
Perhaps the problem isn't poverty per-se, but rather the
culture of entitlement. The entire rap music industry, with the exception of a handful of educated and politically minded rappers is built around the entitlement culture. But let's not limit the blame to rap music here, but rather cite it as an example of the glorification of entitlement culture. White liberal institutions also glorify entitlement culture as well. Rednecks also have their own ideas about what they are "owed."
Dr. King's dream was that the day would come when a man would be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin. I think that judging entitlement culture is entirely in the spirit of what Dr. King intended.
All in all -- good post, btw. Just wanted to add a few comments
