Jeffr586

And I'll be honest with you, the bigger the economic divide the more you are gonna see these type of things happening. All of these unions picketing because people are tired of being left behind and these are people with jobs. This whole trickle down economics thing is not working for everyone. It's only working for the top one percent and people are fed up.

Yeah, like I haven't been tormented by white folks??? That doesn't make me put every last white person in the same category. The last 23 years I've lived in an area where me and my family or one of about five black families. The undertone that comes along with that on a constant basis is tremendous. Ensure nobody jump me because I can handle my business, but they sure did try to torment me. No, they didn't rob my store because I don't have one, but the mental suppression is just as bad as if they did. The constant scrutiny how did he get a Mercedes? How did he get Audi? How did he get a land rover in the smug look's from people that don't even know you might as well have been physical because they were definitely mental. Calling the police and asking them to investigate me because I have nice things and the police doing it... So let's not talk about who's calls and people anguish, whites, nowadays have always had a hand up and determine peoples outlooks. And yeah, you might not be running around, breaking into stores and stuff of that nature but the economic suppression is pretty much, the same as if you would break into our communities and steal everything we got. You're just doing it with the law backing you.

Like racism came out of thin air??? It kinda did... Here's the definition of racism. "rac·ism /ˈrāˌsiz(ə)m/ noun prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized. "a program to combat racism" And with one-party committing a insurrection against its own government I really don't think you have any platform to stand on when pointing fingers. And don't let one of your sports teams win a championship... you burn down the whole city turning over cars and that's when you're feeling good about life...LOL My ancestors lived in Wilmington North Carolina when they decided to burn the black communities down because they were making progress and doing too well without them. This happened to several cities across America so don't tell me how violent you are not when your statistics show how violent you are as a race. These kids are tired of being the bottom of the barrel while white America goes off and does whatever it wants to do for getting them. They're screaming out for help and you're not helping. I bet you if your race was slated to be poor their whole life, all because of the color of their skin, you'd be acting out as well. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wilmington-massacre-2/

Wow that's a lot of traction. People do need to hear other people's opinions especially when their faults so the truth can come out. I don't know how often mines are changed but if you can enlighten one person a day, you're making a difference.

Would've commented earlier, but I was busy having fun playing golf yesterday with some of my childhood friends... I've known these guys for almost 50 years. As for your comment about demonizing... There's no demonizing... it's the truth!!! I will say... when the truth feels like you've been demonized it's probably because you know the truth and the truth hurts. I'm sorry you couldn't help, but until you understand the social economics of the whole problem, you'll never be able to help us. Furthermore, you can't even help your own race. You have no ideas for them, so how do you think your idea is going to work for us? Your community is not even following those policies you talked about. We need people to stop being racist and making racist policies. As far as the violence that goes on in your own communities, if you took more pride in that, instead of trying to tell us what to do our communities would be better as well. I would love to have a real conversation about the solutions for all our communities, but I will not be talked down to by someone who thinks that they're doing better than us because they’re communities commit a couple of murders less. With your community committing 10,000 suicides that nobody seems to be addressing... out of this 15,000 annual gun related deaths and you're still committing murders in those 15,000 annual gun deaths, I don't think you have a strong enough standing point to be telling people what to do. If you want to talk about real solutions which are economically driven, I'm more than happy to have that discussion but you're not gonna come in here and tell us that we aren't good fathers and you're not gonna come here and tell us that somehow your society is better when the federal government statistics and CDC statistics say otherwise. I don't know what alternative facts you're looking at but until green is green and blue is blue your alternative facts mean nothing to the truth.

I get it you want to help, but when you say that raising peoples wages, which would lift them out of poverty, which would help them out of their situation is too much... there's really nothing else to talk about. You see you really don't understand what is going on in these communities. When every day of your life is a struggle to survive and you watch your mother and our father struggle just to put food on your table and then you see your whole neighborhood doing the same, 20 bucks seems like a lot and worth fighting over. If you don’t understand that, you don't understand the fundamental problem and there's almost no way you can help. Soldiers go to war and come back with PTSD. These kids grow up in war zones, and the only thing that outsiders can call them is thugs... Not taking the time to realize that these young men and women have been through some of the same things soldiers have gone through and need some of the same care, mentally as well. Then you top it off with a steady diet of gun trafficking and drugs coming from outside of their cities to help them with their demise and you got a recipe for disaster. These kids don't have land to grow the drugs on, they don't have the means to produce the guns they receive, but somehow it gets into their neighborhoods. We all know who's behind it, just like the government pump drugs into Watts California, back in the Day. And I'm not pointing fingers I'm just saying what we all know is true. Until you eliminate those two major things coming outside of the neighborhood into their neighborhood, which they don't have the vehicles to go and get it, we are going to continue to have this conversation.

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I think it would come off more genuine if you were to say how do we keep people from committing crimes because the crime stats show that even per capita white people commit more crimes. Yes young blacks commit a high rate of homicide but what I'm trying to say to you is the systemic problems calls these problems. And if you think inflation is bad because somebody at McDonald's is making a extra 50 cents to a dollar an hour you are sadly mistaken. Especially not when almost every industry is recording record profits. That is why inflation is high not some lady who can barely make her rent with three-part time jobs, this is a trickle down effect and what is trickling down is not water...LOL... So let's do this, since our black communities are already doing the majority of the stuff you talked about how about we work on the systemic inequality problems IE financial situations that are holding these communities down, because I can promise you if that is not part of the solution, your checklist that we're already doing is not the answer. And I'm sorry but I have to make this statement, we've had to do videos in the past for foreign students especially Asians to tell them not to plagiarize. It was that big of a deal at our university that we had to make a whole video about it and the underlying statement was these people cheat. Not saying all of them, but I'm speaking from experience on that one. And with the recent media stories of affluent white people paying for their kids to get into schools, I wouldn't talk about lowering the bar...LOL... We knew this was happening all along, just couldn't prove it because no one would listen. Kind of like with all the body Cam footage and cell phone footage of police brutality. We knew it was happening but nobody was going to listen...LOL

All of those comments you just said aren't solutions when your luck in their father's up for life on petty drug crimes that white people skip through the system on. Besides take a look at these numbers. When you read this you'll see what I mean about you just coming up with stuff off the top of your head that you heard someone else say not even looking up the facts. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20210929/114092/HMKP-117-JU00-20210929-SD012.pdf This goes right along with what I've been saying all along, your laws are getting in our way the same laws that you skip through we get caught in the net. Black fathers have always been more involved in their kids life just like this article states from the government mind you, that you didn't take the time to look up you just spit out something that you thought should be true. And who says we aren't already doing some of the solutions that you're talking about as a matter of fact that is all we're doing but when you have a system that is rigged against you and people like you reiterating false statements that they heard about we can't make headway because the policies hold us back. Like James Brown said I don't want nobody to give me nothing open up the door and I'll get it myself. But when that door is locked and when it is open it's only open to a few of us that song is just a song. And like I stated earlier how are you going to expect a kid that has been raising themselves to not to want to have sex? I stated earlier I don't see you asking white kids to not have sex and they're having plenty of it. That has never been seen as a solution just asked Sarah Palin who stated the exact comment about kids not having premarital sex while her daughter was getting pregnant. It sounds good but it's not very enforceable.

All of those comments you just said aren't solutions when your luck in their father's up for life on petty drug crimes that white people skip through the system on. Besides take a look at these numbers. When you read this you'll see what I mean about you just coming up with stuff off the top of your head that you heard someone else say not even looking up the facts. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20210929/114092/HMKP-117-JU00-20210929-SD012.pdf

I didn't like them and they offended me I didn't even read them where are your solutions?

Again you have come with no solutions, only talking about one black person that you hired that didn't work out Boo Hoo!!! Over the past 25 years I've seen numerous white men get hired that were ill qualified for their positions and boy did they hide from work. Just yesterday my supervisor who I trained by the way put out our project numbers For the last year. For the three media content producers me being one, I had 12 projects with 50 independent deliverables. My other colleague who is white has 6 projects with 30 deliverables. My other colleague who is Asian have five projects with 16 deliverables and needed assistance on most of them to complete on time and still missed deadlines. There goes your Asians work harder than everybody else theory and I'm gonna screenshot this document and show you...SMH I currently work at a university as a video over IP professional and I have seen white men run from work or take so long to complete it they might as well not even have had the job so don't tell me about who's putting in the time. Furthermore how do you think these people coming out of poverty can possibly afford a college degree? They can't even afford rent and you wanna talk about giving them a job if they qualify? And your universities lower the standards for black students is a bunch of crap. I'd love to hear and talk to those so-called friends you said said that because I could read them the riot act as well. I'm going on my 25th year at the university I work at and if anything, these black students that come to this university have to be 10 times better than their white adversaries just to even be looked at. It's either that or they better be running touchdowns and slam dunking basketballs. And you're talking about I act like I know you, I don't have to know you to read what you're saying and again the only thing you came out here to do was to point your finger at the less fortunate but like I said I'm not one of them and I have facts on my side not alternative facts. And if what you say is true and you're willing to hire the best candidate even if they're black, I applaud you but don't think I have to await your beckoning call when you come on a site for African Americans and start pointing your finger at what we need to do. Especially when the majority of gun deaths happen to white people from suicide. You don't see me on some white site talking about what are you gonna do about your suicide rate... along with your crime rate which by the way even per capita is still higher than ours. Yes unfortunately our black on black murder rate is way too high but your white on white rate isn't 0. Like I stated before we do have a major problem in our black communities and I've given many examples of how to fix it, you on the other hand seem to think you know who we are and you don't, at best all of your stories or third hand and some of them are just straight up faults.

Thanks!

Funny how solutions sound like the blame game to those who are to blame for their policies.

That's funny, you're saying I continue to blame others but I didn't hear any recommendations on how you're gonna help our communities or how you can even stop your own communities from being so violent as well. I tell you what, you fix your problems first and then come back and tell us how to fix ours until then I suggest you tried not to talk about our communities and talk more about fixing yours, because there's plenty of stuff you can work on in your own. It kind of reminds me of how Republicans always seem to know an abscess over gays to the point they would make legislation about them. I don't wake up thinking about gay people and their lifestyle. I don't wake up thinking about white people and their lifestyles. But you all can't seem to stop obsessing about everybody else's problems when you have the bulk of them. If you wanna help us help yourself, because when you stop putting obstructions in front of us we can help ourselves. That might not be the answer you wanna hear but that is the truth and until you stop racism and systematic oppression these neighbourhoods are going to continue to have problems including yours. Why? Because we are all intertwined. I don't know what answer you were looking for but I've given you plenty of them on how to fix the problem and you don't seem to want to acknowledge any of them. - I've talked about fair wages so people can work an 8 hour shift and take care of their families. - I talked about letting these people keep more of their taxes instead of millionaires and billionaires being exempt from taxes. - I talked about gun stores being responsible for the same crimes that are committed from selling guns to these criminals. - I talked about loan practices that would allow these families to buy homes that they can borrow from like other Americans have done in the past. * You on the other hand told me about third hand stories of your Asian friends. None that you've experienced yourself, but you heard about it. * You talked about our crime numbers like white people's crime numbers we're zero... Yeah OK...LOL * You repeatedly stated no blame game as you played the blame game. Again that's like saying no offense when you're getting ready to try to offend someone... Not cool. Essentially what you're doing is gaslighting and you had no intentions on coming up with any kind of solutions for our community as well as yours which by the way could use some attention as well. So with that I hope you don't comment anymore that would be great and I hope you going fine solutions for your own community and then come back and tell us how you figured it out and how it's going and what we can do to fix ours. Until then... Good Day Sir!!!

Meanwhile, in this community that I live in over the last 22 years, there has been a guy who decided to kill his whole family, as a matter of fact, that's happened several times and numerous break-ins and vandalism by young whites, including one break in that happened across the street from me with the neighbors cousin being the burglar. I grew up in an all black neighborhood and so did my wife who is from Philadelphia and not once did anybody kill their whole family, nor did someone's cousin break into their house. I can only imagine what happens in the trailer parks, especially with the statistics showing that its definitely happening.

My biggest problem is people talking reckless about our communities, and don't seem to have an answer for their own. I will say this again if other cultures will get their stuff together, they wouldn't have to blame us for every thing. You've definitely got plenty of work to do in your own community instead of talking junk about ours. If you want to help, start with your legislative choices and policies. If you want to stop the violence in our community, make sure that the serial number on these guns and who sold them to these people who are committing these crimes in our communities go to jail, just as long as the person who pulled the trigger. I bet you'll see a change then. Yup make these gun shops on the outskirts of these big cities who can't seem to stop selling to unlawful gun owners pay for selling to unlawful gun owners for the crimes that these unlawful gun owners commit. I bet you'll see a difference in gun violence in our communities then. And that explains it, you just mention Asians being able to own shops in black communities and you think Black people are happy about that? I love to see how it would go with a black person own in the shop in Asian community or Jewish community or white community... Probably not so well. I hate to keep bringing up where I live now, but it makes a difference. 22 years ago my wife and I bought this house in a county that still had a sign up that said welcome to Clayton the home of the KKK. I bet my Land Rover with a U-Haul trailer up to the house and you should've seen the neighbors looking. That scene day I went to the gas station to buy beer for my brother and cousin who helped us move in, and you would've thought I came in there and rob the place...LOL... A week later, I'm in the grocery store, as I'm leaving out, this white lady was in front of me walking to a Ford Tempo, nonetheless, which happened to be part beside my Land Rover. She clutched her purse like she had something for me to steal as she put the key into her door. I hit the auto unlock button on my truck and her jaw dropped.. I'm saying that to say this per the FBI report, the robbery rate and crime rate is not zero for the white community. She probably should've been more concerned with the guy that had the trench coat on in 80° weather....LOL Again, look at these numbers... Until your community as a goose egg or you willing to help my community stop talking about my community because by you saying no blame game you're playing the blame game. Just like when people say no offense, you know, something offensive is about to come behind it. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43

Realtors and lenders were just fine for trying to keep Black people from buying homes in my communities. Mind you 22 years ago my family and about five others were the only black families around here and these lending agencies were found guilty just four years ago. This is in the past this is the present. And I don't have to explain to you what home ownership can do for your lending prowess. You can't get home equity loans when you live in apartment, but you can if you live in a house. Furthermore, I gave you plenty things that could be done to help. One would be for these companies who are taking these people who work 14 hours a day and don't get to see the kids that you are talking about growing up to become criminals a fair wage... that would help!!! People crack me up like Black people don't work we've been busting our butts more then any race in this country for years for pennies on the dollar ad that. If anybody's lazy is the same people who are trying to call us lazy. When is the last time you drove through the country size of America and found enough work for the white folks that live out there to contribute to society? You can't because it doesn't happen. There are no businesses out there for them yet and still they sit on their porches, watch Fox News and yell that Black people are their problem. How about we stop giving them welfare because they are no businesses where they live and let the people in the cities who are busting their butts 14 hours a day while the kids sit at home with no guidance their money back since these people can't stop talking junk about them. Yeah, that's one thing we can do give the taxes back to the people who are paying them the people in the blue states and blue areas of the states who work those 14 hour day jobs leaving their kids unattended. Let's give their taxes back to them and stop feeding the folks sitting on their front porch out in the countryside of America, who are using up all the resources that would be a start. And again, that's not a blame game that is a fact. https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/ https://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queens-2011-8

I'll say this about the blame game and then I'll leave it alone, this whole post was about the blame game but unless you're culture fixes their problems we can't fix ours. We are products of our society, a society that many groups would like to stay on top off and control. We have the best athletes, some of the best minds that have ever lived, and have proven that when, given the opportunity we can be the best in anything we set out to achieve. It only takes one of us to show the world. How was done, and there are plenty examples of that from the Williams sisters to Tiger Woods to Lewis Hamilton to Neil deGrasse Tyson, all the way up to the President of the United States of America. And that my friend is why we don't get the support and funding that we need to bring our communities out of the darkness. It's because people are scared that if we have equal playing ground, we will dominate all things in society and that's just not my thought process, they show it by the processes, they enact to keep us down. Then constantly berate us with why haven't you done better knowing good and damn well that they fix the game.

Do you want to know what it looks like for a black man like me who is not one of the statistics that you're talking about who has been busting his butt for the last 30 years? I have train almost everyone in my department, including my now supervisor who is White. I can almost promise you that the skills that I possess and the work that I have done over the last 30 years if I had been white, I would have been top dog. So let's not try to equate apples to apples when what we're really looking at is apples to raisins. The same people will sit in a meeting listen to me, come up with a great idea act like they didn't hear it and then two weeks later is there idea. That's America to a black person, a leech that can't be trusted and will suck your blood if given the chance.

They've been stacking the decks for decades... You can't tell me, you didn't know this? "For decades, U.S. banks denied mortgages to Black families—and those belonging to other racial and ethnic minority groups—who lived in certain areas redlined by a federal government agency called the Home Owners' Loan Corp. (HOLC)." https://www.investopedia.com/the-history-of-lending-discrimination-5076948#:~:text=For decades%2C U.S. banks denied,(HOLC). Every last culture you talked about, still considers them selves better than blacks, and will gang up to discriminate against us, All the while copying is stealing everything we do from the way we dress to the things we create, and then point their fingers in our faces, and tell us, we are not good enough, and that somehow everything that we've already done to prove our worth is not worthy of their accolades. The sad part is all of those cultures you talked about got access to the United States because of the hard work African-Americans put in to free everyone. We still didn't get access to the funds that everyone else did. My grandfather went to war in World War II for a country that wouldn't even let him use the same bathroom. Policies and regulations were put into place to keep us from succeeding and still are. All you have to do is look at the voting restraint laws that Republicans are trying to put in place right now to keep black communities from being able to access the same services to vote as other communities. that is not a blame game that is the truth and it's happening now. This is not some 50 years ago. This is today tomorrow next week next month next year that these policies are being forced on our communities. They're not doing that in Jewish communities. They're not doing that in Chinatown. But almost every African-American community these laws and policies are being put in place. Again that's not the blame game that is the game.. It cracks me up. When I hear white people say Black people need to get over it, you first!!! Our color is the first thing anyone sees and we can't hide that. Jews don't have to be Jews if they don't want to. Our skin says we are black every day of the week every minute of the day and every year of our life. I'm not trying to get into the blame game, but the person who created this article was definitely in the blame game.

I don't see anybody, encouraging white kids to have kids later in life and my high school was full of young white girls who were pregnant. Keep in mind I'm not one of the statistics that you're talking about, my dad was a principal and my mom was an English teacher. But in those jobs they've done more to help all communities there anybody running then mouth on the Internet. The statistics of black teenagers getting pregnant, more often than whites also reflects on the fact that their parents are working too much and too hard to keep an eye on them. As far as welfare whites have always even per capita used more resources. And if you take into account farm subsidies, and other sources of government help, they weigh supersede, anything that someone in the hood is getting. It's literally peanuts or pennies on the dollar. Even these giant companies get government kickbacks that way, supersede anything that these communities receive. Imagine taking some of those million dollar government subsidies going to these companies and putting them into resources in these neighborhoods... Now that could do wonders. I've always thought it funny that someone who could barely afford to put shoes on their kids feet getting $1000 a month is a strain on the economy but a company who hasn't paid taxes and taking this person's income tax as a subsidy is fair. My wife and I along with my 19 year old son have been living in what used to be rural now the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina for over 22 years. I remember being home some days that I didn't go to work for one reason or the other, and going to the grocery store and watching these white people come in with their government, subsidy cards, and buying food when they thought everybody else was at work. I worked in news at Fox 22 in Raleigh North Carolina for about five years as a photo journalist. I've always had access to the numbers of the actual crimes being committed, and who's getting government subsidies. And it was surprising how many crimes were committed in the countryside of our viewing area. But guess what nobody was driving all the way out 45 miles to cover Jimmy's crime, when they could go right up the street from the TV station and cover Raheem's crime. It was convenient and it fit the narrative, but the statistic showed that the same number of crimes were occurring when you had the same amount of people in an area. Which means that if they are 1 million people in a city, you take that sing million people in the countryside and you would have the same amount of crime. It just doesn't get reported or if it does, it have to be so big that they cannot sweep it under the rug.

Check this out, those minorities that you've talked about. They have been successful in America because they can get a business loan. They're not giving business loans to Black people in the hood. That's where we can start. Any quality is still our biggest enemy. I had a friend of my wife, whose father came here from India tell me that it was easy to pull himself up by his bootstraps because he worked hard he came over got a loan and open a gas station. How many Black people do you think they're gonna give loans to to open a gas station? There are plenty of ways where we can make our black communities stronger and better, but they all start with equal opportunities. We can start with paying their parents a fair wage so they don't have to work three or four jobs and leave a six year old home in apartment most of the day by themselves. Black leaders can only do but so much talking, if these kids are hungry and starving and have no guidance, Martin Luther King and Jesus himself can't change the path they are headed in. It always kills me during Thanksgiving and Christmas people want to go and hand out turkey dinners to the people who are starving. Where the hell were you the whole year? Where were you when it came time to vote for policies that would help these people? These problems aren't problems that clear up when you feel like it, it has to be a commitment from everyone. By the time these kids get to high school and have been fending for themselves for 6 years, do you really think they wanna listen to anything anyone else has to say. They're well on their way to doing whatever the hell they want to do because nobody cared when they needed them the most. Bottom line is put your policies where your heart is. If you truly want to see, changing these communities, you would stop voting for people who only want to see these communities fail.

There are a lot of problems that need to be fixed in our communities and the fixing of those problems would alleviate the crime and gun violence in our neighborhood. Please call equal opportunities. Still to this day we do not receive the same equal opportunities. The majority of the welfare recipients in America or Caucasian yet the face of welfare in America is black. Those white recipients receive welfare in the countryside of the US without any scrutiny, but a mother in an inner-city has to have a job that pays her nowhere near enough to take care of her family, which she stays away from for most of the day to provide. The system is set up so if she wants assistance, she cannot have a man assisting her. In the countryside of America, they receive their assistance, regardless, through farm bills, and other assistance. So, if you really wanna talk about helping these inner-city, let's discuss how we got here in the first place. Furthermore, those statistics count... That's the good thing about science and statistics they work whether you want them to or not. You don't get to cherry pick the truth the truth is what it is.