Also, why I have a gun.
A nineteen year old girl and her 23 month old son were killed in a home invasion robbery. The gunmen shot her and her son in the head, as well as 9 year old son of the drug dealers she was staying with. They also shot the drug dealers' 11 year old daughter--several times--but she survived, and is in stable condition.
This happened in the still-crime-ridden area around New Orleans.
The story doesn't mention physical descriptions, only what the gunmen were wearing. It has become a trend in the media to leave out physical descriptions when the perps, victims, and drug dealers are all black.
Look, if you don't want people to make assumptions like that, Reverends Jackson and Sharpton, then tell your people to stop living down to the stereotypes. No, not all people of color, whether black, Latino, Asian, or Middle-Eastern are violent criminals. However. A disproportionate number of violent criminals are minorities.
Just... stop. You are in a nation where you have a chance to move out of the self-imposed ghetto you live in. You can be anything, do anything you want. The only thing stopping you is your own behavior, and the politicians who tell you it isn't your behavior but your color.
Stop believing in identity politics. You're in America. Be an American first. Take advantage of what capitalism has to offer. Yes, there are a very few up at the top--but they come down. They don't stay there, and you don't have to stay at the bottom, feeding from government handouts that keep you voting against your best interests, and killing each other over territory and drugs. Seventy percent of the Fortune 400 are people who climbed to the top on their own: making their fortunes, not inheriting them.
The government, the NAACP, MEChA, and all those other identity-politics organizations out there tell you that all Americans are racist, that whites are racists, have the power, and will keep you down.
They're lying to you. They're the ones keeping you down. They're keeping you down so that you will believe that you need them.
Truth is, you don't need them. They need you. They need you to believe that you can't make it on your own so that they can keep the power they've grabbed.
Your power.
Take it back. Take back your rights and your abilities to do what's best for you, as individuals, not you as a group.
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Righteous rant, HH.
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Indeed. I've known too many minority folk who actually lived during Jim Crow and other racist bullshit, yet made their way, to believe it can't be done without the help of paternalistic white liberals (who want to keep them chained down on the liberal plantation).
WV: bledin: Yeah, I'm bledin for the Sharptons and Jacksons and all those other jerks getting rich off the poor folks.
I give my students this speech every semester I've taught a face-to-face classroom. I believe that everyone can make a better life for themselves with every fiber of my being. I did, after all.
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