BarkellWH -> RE: It’s hotter than (Aug. 28 2021 20:09:58)
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Then looked at me like I was a criminal when I walked passed. I thought yeah, ok that’s how that black dude in Oakland felt when he walked through the parking lot in Montclair Whitey white neighborhood. Actually, many blacks feel safer in a white neighborhood than they do in their own crime-infested neighborhoods. Remember Jesse Jackson's observation when he was running for president in the 1984 campaign, quoted below. “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” I have no idea whether or not that white walking behind Jesse Jackson was exercising his "white privilege," but I imagine Jackson's relief was much more pronounced than it would have been if he had heard those footsteps behind him in your "black dude's" Oakland. And by the way, something the media are extremely reluctant to discuss is that many of the recent assaults on Asians in the United States, particularly in Oakland, New York, Brooklyn, Detroit, and other cities, are perpetrated by blacks. And whenever there is an inner city riot, whether in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, or elsewhere, the first thing the rioters trash and loot, after trashing and looting the nearest CVS, are Korean grocery stores. Which brings up another recent phenomenon, that of applying the term "people of color" to, as is repeated ad nauseum, "black" and "brown" people. No one today applies the term to Asians, I think because Asians as a group have cultural characteristics that lead to family honor, hard work, and academic achievement that are not often found in the so-called "black" and "brown" communities of "color." Yet, many successful Asians come from very moderate, even poor, circumstances. The difference is largely one of culture and attitude. It is not racism to recognize that certain social pathologies exist among many black communities that inhibit taking advantage of education and opportunities that in many cases could lead to reasonable success. That is not the whole story by any means, but it is a significant element if one wants to understand the differences in achievement among minorities. Bill
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