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Loyalty is Royalty. Strength and Loyalty
People tend to lean towards things that resemble them and that make them comfortable right? Racism is so ingrained in this society that to the untrained eye, or unwanting to see it eye, it's invisible. Now onto answering to your post.
Who set up the ghettos? Who runs them today?
Who established the first prisons in the US? Who grows them faster than schools today?
Who makes the laws? Who's crimes cost tax payers more money? (rich folks' crimes)
Who sets the zones?
If you live the American Dream (nice house, car, job, money, etc) why would you want someone who you may see as less desirable (under-educated, under-employed, unenculturated to your norms, etc) coming close to you bringing your property value down, bringing their hood ass up in your grocery store, raping a T.I. song next to your precious daughter in the school cafeteria, putting Tupac pictures on their desk at work, etc?
A few groups of people control almost every aspect of our lives and most of us aren't even aware of it. They fund the schools, they make the economic boundaries, they control the media, and they create and enforce all of the laws that we are to live by.
Please don't tell me that you think that powerful people don't scratch each other's backs?
This generation could easily erase the lies in America's racist school history books, it could easily bridge the poverty gap just as easily as it widens it. The international banking industries could make things better for the people but they make it better for themselves. They'd rather grow the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex then strive for peace. Gil Scott said, "The only thing that's wrong with peace is you can't make any money off it." They could flip the money from the prisons into the schools in order to decrease prison population. But they'd rather increase off-site work programs, take away education programs in prisons, and underfund the art programs in schools.
Ain't nothing change! This generation is as racist today as when they made genocide on the indigenous people of the Americas yesterday. I ain't trying to hear, "My ancestors did it so don't get mad at me." Fight for freedom and justice as hard and as passionate as me and I won't have a reason to be mad at you nor will I have anything to blame on you. I know white people who'd die for the cause before anybody else. I can only blame them for being part of the solution. What can I blame you for?
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It's called being institutionalized. The culture of mostly all impoverished communities is at such a low state that some of the residents get sucked in the undertow and loose the fight to try to escape it.
Originally Posted by blackwisdom
Did you catch that from my first post?
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People want to hire who they want to hire. Imagine if you gave birth to a business. That's your baby! How would you feel it some beurocrat FORCES you to hire a certain type of people, just cause. Some people are fair and don't mind cause they're doing it anyway, but others aren't so much fine with it.
On the flip side of it imagine how you'd feel to be an Affirmative Action hire. People mean muggin you cause you got the job cause you black. "Huh, he beat out my cousin who's suppose to have that job all cause he's black!" How do you think s/he'll be treated? It's a double edged sword.
It's suppose to balance the playing field. More black's owning multi-million/billion dollar corporations will balance the scales more effectively in my imagination.
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Opps. I'm only refering to admissions to colleges and Universities, not jobs. I understand the whole job thing and what not. In my opinion and from what I see, Affimative Action helps young adults that want to go to college, but really don't have the knowledge to be admitted into the college they want to attend because they have been educated in urban schools. A certain Affimative Action programs (mainly for minorties and poor whites) helps bring them up to speed. As a result, the students do excellent in their classes and received the degrees. Because minorties grow up in urban areas, the education they receive doesn't compare to the education in the suburbs tha the whites receive. Is that fare??
Last edited by IrOnMaN; 08-26-2007 at 01:08 PM.
Loyalty is Royalty. Strength and Loyalty
I'm not versed in the program. If it's to bring them up to speed and prepare them for college/university then I guess that's cool. I know some people say that that's what community college is for. I guess it sounds good?
From what I understand they need to put education programs in prisons if anywhere. Maybe it'll cut back the recidivism rate.
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