until we get to the point where we can have a factual conversation about Blacks as a culture in this country without being accused of being a white supremacist or if you are black, Uncle Tom, we're never going to figure this out.
Blacks live in a world of duality - non conformity, along with the idea that segregation is good if its their idea (and therefore beneficial to them) is what is holding them back.
Indians and Chinese have integrated into this country without much racism in the last 50 years because while still maintaining an attachment to their culture , they want to integrate, not segregate, they want to conform, not rebel - Contribute, not consume.
The amount of tolerance we've created for African Americans -media, politics, income security, job placement, education - would be considered an advantage that would lead to superiority with any other culture - and yet other cultures, people who arrive here barely speaking English, overcome and integrate into our society often in a single generation. We see it now with Asians dominating our STEM fields in our education system.
We're on at least 3 generations now since the civil rights act and African Americans are no further ahead, still burning down their own communities in protest every 20 years
Spot on assessment. That leads to the question: Why?
It is not because individual blacks are incapable of improving themselves. We have many black Drs and Lawyers in this nation.
But, like the American Indian, the American welfare system has created vast "reservations" of blackness. And like the Indians, to excell, one has to leave the reservations and integrate into mainstream America.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
