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.

[flaymzofice]

^ I think Brandon was simply referring to the cursing which littered your post as opposed to accusing you directly of being racist. He actually agreed with some of what you were saying.

I don't think it's necessary for anyone to elaborate on the details of their social environment to prove a point. Laziness, violent/criminal behaviour, working for a living may indeed be a choice but sometimes it is presented more than a little less favourably, in circumstances very much similar to those you have described. What one chooses to do with themselves at that given time, is just their decision. While I will be hypocritical and admit that I am guilty of this, we shouldn't judge them for the choices they make. After all, we could be a slip and turn away from being in the very same predicament and who knows how we will respond?

Seeing others make the 'stupid' decision empowers us to do otherwise and in the same turn of hand, makes us complacent. We can be (though aren't necessarily) fooled into thinking we would never make the same 'mistake' but it only takes a lowering of the guard once to fall into a routine we may not necessarily know how to climb our way out of. I am a firm believer in our choices making us who we are (just a belief and not one everybody is compelled to subscribe to), but just because we make a few bad ones, doesn't make us unredeemable for life.

Obviously I say this, but those who make no attempt to make amendments, well, again, genocide for the leeches isn't an idea I am completely opposed, whatever rights all are entitled to in the name of equality.