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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Again and again the slaver references, that was 150 years ago and nobody alive today was any part of it[/b].

As for the issue of bad parenting, look at the numbers and statistics.  Far worse school performance, far greater dropout rates, far greater likelihood of children suffering from domestic violence, far greater percentage of kids in homes with substance abuse, far greater likelihood of kids getting in criminal trouble in the AA community than there is in other communities.  And it's all from within, nobody from the outside is forcing these parents to be bad parents.

Deny all you like, try and shift blame all you like but that won't change the numbers.[/quote]

Then let's talk about the Ku Klux Klan, an organization whose sole purpose was to lynch Black Americans, and the ones they chose were often Blacks who had land, and businesses, and some success, which the KKK felt made them "uppity" and a bad influence on other Blacks. My parents remembered their family being terrorized by them as kids, and also remembered that my great grand parents owned farm land in Mississippi and was driven off and had to abandon that land because of the KKK. And how about the town of Rosewood? Spike Lee made a movie about it, but you probably haven't seen it, I wonder why?

Let's talk about the FHA, or FAIR Housing Authority, which was established in 1968 to allow Blacks to obtain mortgages from banks, as many were discriminated against in even borrowing money, and also to stop the practice of "redlining," in which banks drew red circles around white neighborhoods and business areas and would not allow blacks to even apply for mortgages in those areas.

1968, people. 2 years before I was born. My parents bought in 1975, in a white neighborhood. We were the first blacks to buy in the area, and our neighbors painted "Nigger" on our fences, put firecrackers in our mailboxes and threw deflated basketballs at our front door in the middle of the night to make us think bombs were going off, and tried for years to run us out of the neighborhood. And my family built our home from the ground up, it was the best house in the neighborhood, and always well maintained. I and my siblings have all been labelled gifted since we started in school, we're all studious and successful. You couldn't ask for better neighbors than our family.

And our experience was not atypical during those years.

And before you say I hate all whites because I've had those experiences and that history, 3 of the people I count as closest to me in my life, not just friends, are white. But that doesn't change the very recent past. I am amazed, just amazed at how much so many of you on this board do not know, and yet you persist in posting ignorantly.

My grandmother used to say, "if you don't know what you're talking about, at least keep your mouth shut so you don't reveal your ignorance to the world."  A lot of the posts here make one wonder if most white people ever think they might not know enough on a subject to speak...[/quote]

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