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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Bill Cosby isn't all wrong -- 50 yrs ago AAs fought to integrate schools. The parents in those families had respectable jobs -- they worked hard at whatever jobs they could find and emphasized the value of education to their kids. They faced discrimination and I'm sure hated it, but they accepted it and dealt with it as best they could and hoped for something better for their kids. That generation could have made more excuses -- their lives growing up were far worse; they were closer in time to their ancestors in slavery, they were still dealing with "colored" everything. Yet they chose to deal and move past.

Now a few generations later -- things are "easier." I'm not suggesting there isn't racism, but AA kids at least have access to schools. Yet across the board, AA kids are always the lowest for everything (NOT YOUR KID but across the board) -- lowest achievement, lowest HS grad rate, lowest college attendance, lowest college grad rate. They yell and scream about racism and slavery holding them back -- being several generations removed from it; their grandparents and great grandparents made more of themselves with far fewer opportunities.

And while they're complaining about what's holding them back, they have enough time and energy to pick up the thug culture. From pants half way down the ass to the language, gang signs (whether in a gang or not), and weapons.

Sorry but all the successful of AA families I know have distanced themselves from the majority of AAs out there; that is the only way to get ahead -- not bc you won't still face discrimination -- but bc you will still keep pushing forward bc you won't be pulled into the vortex of "the world is unfair, why you try -- let's just blame EVERYTHING on racism."[/quote]

Is it because there is a sense of entitlement or sense that whites will feel guilty? Whereas the previous generations knew that whites would not put up with angry thuggish behavior and try to take away more of their rights?[/quote]

I think in the 60s-70s and definitely before that, AAs definitely knew that if they were even perceived as committing a crime, they were off to prison no questions asked and once you had been to prison -- good luck gaining employment when you got out. And I think AAs a few decades ago knew they had no one to depend on but themselves; if they couldn't make enough money to eat and pay rent and their own parents or grandparents couldn't help -- they knew they wouldn't survive so they had to keep hustling. Now there's a baseline level of -- well at least I'll get x from the gov't so I'll get by. The downside risks of not hustling were huge decades ago -- now, not so much. Despite the overwhelming stress those families must have felt -- they made it work; steady employment, tried to raise the kids with good values and emphasis on education/trades. Now it's like a free for all -- do whatever you want or do nothing and if it doesn't work out, scream racism and collect gov't assistance.[/quote]

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