Black Means Bad?
This was originally posted as a comment on "Blacks Attack" but I felt not as many people would read it if it was a comment.
In her post, Dominique makes it sound like black people try to terrorize everyone else. We are not like that at all. You would only understand if you got on the bus and every one looks at you like you have something growing out the side of your face. We are treated horribly, and people wonder why we want to treat them the same way. When you walk down the street, people don't grab their purses and hold them close to them like they're expecting you to rob them. It's something we don't expect you to understand, it is infuriating having people scared of you. I understand why people would be scared, but some of the scariest looking black people are the nicest. Half of us don't care what someone else is doing, you can drop money in front of us and most of us will pick it up and hand it to you.
We are not worried about robbing people and almost all of the violence involved with black people is against each other so what do you mean we try to instill fear in other races? Dominique said that the black people who live in the projects are committing most of these crimes. Did she realize that the majority of the crimes that happen with black people are are around my area within 20 miles of my house if not less,and where I live is classified as one of the richest black neighborhoods in the United States, probably making it one of the richest black neighborhoods in the world?
It has nothing to do with poverty but instead with propaganda. By the way, rhe average black family makes just as much if not more than the average white family. Rappers talk about sex money and drugs, and a lot of them have no experience with what their rapping about, it's all about what sells:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/washington/26rap.html
This is an example a Rap songs made to sell off of talking about drugs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT02_Crw2EY
This one is about money:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w070JX_P5OE
Comments
Yupz I partially agree with
Yupz I partially agree with you about what you said when you expressed what you thought about the post that Dominique made about blacks and how she feels about them. I do remember witnessing something that happened to someone else. I remember that my friends was walking down the street and then this ignorant white person was like why are you black people so stupid. I felt this anger in my friend that I have never seen before because he was always usually so quiet and he was a very calm person, but I guess this was a trigger. My friend was like listen I don't have time for your racist comments and look if you have a problem with black people too bad cause we are not stupid, just because we have a different skin color or we just look different doesn't mean we have to be what people think we are. The white man stood there feeling so shocked and he just kept walking. I was thinking what kind of person would actually go up to someone and say why are black people stupid. I don't think people are stupid, cause everyone has the capability to be as smart as the next person and it doesn't matter what skin color you have, what ethnicity you are, etc. That day my perspective about some people changed, I used to think everyone was nice, but now I think not everyone is nice because people can be so ignorant these days, but you don't let that hold you back and keep moving forward with your life because talk is cheap and it doesn't mean anything....
i agree with you that there
i agree with you that there is a lot of unneeded racism that affects the way we think about people of other races. what you said about the rappers, i also agree with since it gives people the idea that since most rappers are black, they they represent the whole black race. I think that the way the most famous black people are idolized and how we think of them, affects the way we think of all blacks. I think Obama is a good representation to show that black people are not all like the rappers we see. He is educated and he is an idol for a lot of people. Even though i dont agree with his polcies/politics, i think that he shows that black people can be more than what people think of them as.
I didn't it mean it to sound
I didn't it mean it to sound like that. I know that in every ethnicity there are good people and bad people. My point was you would think that a certain group of people who have gone through harsh treatment and who fought for their rights would be looked up at, and not repeat what was forced on them. Instead some people choose to repeat that terrorizing characteristic on other people, instead of learning not to practice the violence that was onces practiced upon them. If it didn't come out like that, now you know.
From a certain group of
From a certain group of people have terrible history , well, humans are stupid and live in a cycle of hatred, so there is no learning from the past. If there were learning from the past then they would fear, do terrible things to one another. Peace is not possible with out fear, or regulation, or law. We can help, but to know that people could never fully understand each other. From people knowing true pain, and the fear of pain will put an end to conflict toward stability and peace. With respect can we accomplish alot. Eventually time will pass and the pain will heal and people will begin fighting again.
to the dude above me ..
to the dude above me .. respect doesn't always prove a lot. it can also mean that your trying to "fit in".
Vincent i love your post and
Vincent i love your post and no black is not bad except Kwaqu :))))))))))))
No.
No.
Well, it's not only black
Well, it's not only black people that feel that way. Hispanics, Asians and even Whites (man, that sounded so racist in my mid) can feel the exact same way. I mean, anyone could be in a gang and anyone could grab their purse in fear if they saw somebody coming on the bus with a hoodie on and a cap pulled down on their eyes lower than their GPA.
You can't say it's only Blacks because then it sounds unfair to all other races that go through the exact same thing.