Wow.......I guess I will give my thoughts on this. Bear in mind, I did not sit and read everyone's comments....
Towards the first post about affirmative action: In the beginning stages of Affirmative Action we lived in a completely different world than we do today. White people were obviously the majority since slavery was recently ended and blacks were having a hard time entering the work force, along with latinos (let us not forget the latinos). In today's society, Affirmative Action is completely useless. It now gives white people a reason to be racist. I know this sounds weird, but just imagine if you were competing for a job and you knew that you were the best qualified. You knew that you were miles ahead of the 100 white people that applied for the job, let alone the 15 blacks. The next day you find out that you lost the job to a black man because the company needed to fill some numbers. You brush it off, but then it happens again.....and again.....now you start to grow a little prejudice. See how easily that springs. The one problem that I saw with Affirmative Action was that it never set a minimum standard for each race a company needed to include. Why is it that a white person can get turned down from the Hong Kong Buffet because he isn't asian, of the Kurry King Palace because he's not Hindi? Anyway.......I can talk all day about this, but I will move on.....
The thing that was said about Blacks can say things and Whites can't.....that's just bullshit. I say whatever the fuck I want to and the only people that don't are a bunch of pussies. Just because Black People feel the need to say cracker all the time, or honkey or white boy, doesn't mean I feel the need to say nigger......but if I did feel like it, I would......see what I'm getting at? I know that about ten people are about to come in here and say that I wouldn't say that shit to their face, and you're right, but not because I'm afraid to, but because that's just not something I go around doing.
Next is the statement that Blacks can't seem to get motivated to get out of poverty. I think this is the most assinine statement I've ever heard. I'm white and so are both of my parents. My father left us when I was about 3 and I think that was the last time he had seen over $1,000 at one time. He lived with various friends until he was kicked out of their houses because of his alcoholism and deadbeatedness. He ended up sharing a house with two friends in one of the most poor areas I've ever been to in NJ....and I've been to quite a few projects in Philly. He ended up getting beaten to death in his own house during a robbery by his neighbor's boyfriend. Now, on the other hand, I am in the Army and my current chain of command goes....Section Sergeant - SSG Marrisette (Black), Team Chief - SFC Mcmanus (Black), First Sergeant - 1SG Henderson (Black), Company Commander - CPT Highsmith (Black). Basically, what I am trying to say is that it is not the color of the person's skin that makes them lazy.....it's just a lack of ambition.
Next was White people who embrace black culture are met with racism from blacks......no, they are just wiggers
™ I guess you can say that I embrace the black culture or whatever, and I have been met with racism from blacks, mainly because I grew up in a predominantly black area, but it was never because I was embracing the black culture....come on now.....
Next was the comment about BET. I don't think it is wrong for black people to have their own TV station. It makes money and that is what TV is all about. What I do have a problem with is them same black people saying that it would be racist if there was an all white channel, or a white entertainment, where they played predominantly white shows. I don't think it would make any money what so ever, but just the fact that people wouldn't allow it pisses me off.....
Lastly was that comment about rap leading us in a downward spiral.....what the hell are you talking about? Do you know that the majority of sales of rap CDs are from white males? By this I am talking about the people that buy rap CDs....not the actual artists. That's all I really have to say about that.
In conclusion.....I am not a racist person (most common statement from racist people) but I do see problems with the way certain people help stereotype their race. I don't walk around with my pants hiked up to my nipple eating mayo sandwiches, so why do black people walk around with their pants down to their knees just destroying the english language.....then they have the audacity to say that they have "mad vocab" when they spit a verse.....go figure