Being black..., ...Is no excuse for failing. Options

[Kontroll]

Listen, I'm not racist. I'm just bringing up a topic that I know is on alot of people's minds.

Everynow and then I see these movies, or whatever...people saying that black people can't get anywhere in life because they are lazy, or because they are black they can't get anywhere in life.

I was sitting infront of Jeremy's house waiting for him to answer his friggin door. I was thinking about Albany(Where I live for the most part) and how it's just run down. Most of the people that live there are black.

I was thinking about how I see all this crap about how black people always say they might as well as just give up and deal with what they got. In movies, or even in real life. It pisses me off because the color of your skin does not affect your brain at all. It's an excuse and not a reason...

...if it was a reason then every black person would be in poverty. Is this not true? And you can't blame it on your environment because there have been many black people who have over come it. So, why do some black people just give up and don't try to succeed?

I know not only black people do it, but I'm just bringing this one up first. I'll talk about white people some other time just to be fair.

Input please. If this is in the wrong forum, just move it. Thank you.

[bat19]

Lets get something straight, okay. I'm not saying that rap music is the only reason we have gang violence, I'm not an idiot. When I wrote what I put above, I wrote it in haste in about 5 minutes. If I had thought that my idea would be interpreted that I'm saying rap music is the direct result of all the drugs and crime, I would have gone into a much longer descriptive. I apologize for overestimating people and will state the obvious much more frequently.
As far as saying that I have rascist views, your a f**kin moron dude. Not once did I say it was all the blacks or all the spanish, or all the whites. I said it's everybody. Every ignorant, lazy, gangster lowlife that I see and feel like crossing the street just to avoid. Don't get me wrong, I'm no pussy but from what I've actually witnessed(not saw on television or heard about in music), these people stab or shoot first and ask questions later. They have no conscience or morality. To call me a rascist is actually telling more about yourself for thinking I was only talking about blacks. I know as many gangster, lowlife blacks as I do gangster Puerto Ricans or Gangster white kids. I also know many black guys who think that kind of life is retarded and would rather work for money than steal it.
If I were talking about all black people and all Puerto Ricans, my mother would die, my sister would die, my niece, nephew, brother in law, all my uncles and my aunt, and my grandfather would all be included in my second holocaust. I am 1/2 Puerto Rican and rather proud of that fact, yet I don't go out and get high and get arrested and get into fights every day. My brother in law is black and though he treats me like an a-hole, he is one of the smartest people I know and has provided a great life for my sister and they're two kids. He grew up in a bad neighborhood in Rochester and my sister grew up in apartment projects in Brooklyn. Neither of them to my knowledge have ever been in a gang or gotten into fights over lost weed or beat some kids ass in front of a gas station for his cell phone.
Of course there are many different types of ignorant people. There's also the white trash types which I unfortunately am also related. My father's side of the family is comprised of a bunch of (white) people who enjoy doing drugs, drinking until they are incoherent, and would rather fight you to prove a point than sit down and discuss it. I have two sisters currently pregnant where one of them is going out with her first childs father but pregnant with her recently ex-boyfriend's child who was married(and she knew he was) and the other isn't 100% sure that the baby is her boyfriends. I have a brother that has been in and out of jails and homes for being violent and abusive. Why? I grew up in the exact same house as him, I lived in the same areas and pretty much socialized with the same people. He does not have ADD or any of those other excuses, rather he just has a violent personality. So f**k him. The point of this is that violence is a choice, laziness is a choice, working for a living is a choice. The reason Ichose to talk about the gangster ignorants instead of the white trash is because I was replying to a post created after Jake observed the neighborhood I currently live in. Yet I have a job, I don't do drugs, I've never been arrested. What makes me different? I mean I am Puerto Rican, shouldn't I be in a gang or something?