Quote Originally Posted by BlueCat00
Well Fengzi I just came out of the south and racism beleive it or not is alive and well. Take for instance Harrison Arkansas the head quarters for the KKK yes they still exist. Not only do they exist they had the nerve to adopt part of the highway near Fayetteville.....guess where we threw all our garbage?

Harrison still has a sign hanging in their town square that says All Niggers must check in...their are no black people in that town....
we lived in Rogers Arkansas...my son worked for Braums and had a boss that would back away from the counter if blacks came in and would have someone else serve them. My son reported him to headquarters and instead of firing the man they just moved him. So go spend some time in the south and you'll see what I mean.
When I was there I heard a man yell at his kid to get out of the water because he was not to swim with beaners....(mexicans) if you want to see total ignorance just visit a few southern towns.....

You are an educated person of course you would hire on merit..as it should be
just keep in mind as sad as it is you are an exception.

I have met many men that would not hire a person simply because they were of color.
Racism is why I moved my kids from Arkansas. Their school even refused to recognize Martin Luther King's holiday.
So it's still like that in the South? I actually lived in North Carolina and Florida when I was young and do remember what it was like. I remember when I first moved to California from Florida. I was 15yo and still in high school. I was amazed that the prom queen, a white girl, had a black date for the prom. It didn't bother me, I was raised to believe that what is inside is what counts. It just amazed me though. In Florida it never would have happened, at least not in '85. The guy never would have made it to her door in one piece. Sad. I hoped it had changed in the past 20 years.

So, I admit I may be ignorant about what the rest of the country is like. But it really isn't that way out here. My neighborhood is like the United Nations. There's White Americans, Blacks, Persians, Koreans, Chinese, Hispanics, Russians, Christains, Muslims, Jews, and who knows what else. And this is a good neighborhood where house prices start at $700k. The average corporate boardroom out here is the same.

With such a mix of people , getting ahead really does depend on the person's skills and knowledge. Despite this, even out here it is the predominately Black cities such as Oakland that have the highest crime rates and large numbers of people living in poverty. We still hear the same stories about Blacks being held back, but by what? And what about the whole ebonics thing? I don't know if you remember, or even heard about it, but a few years back some folks in Oakland wanted to recognize ebonics as an official language(or dialect). This was so that teachers wouldn't correct the little black children when they were teaching English. The people pushing for this were the same ones who complain about blacks being held back. So what's the message? I mean, if its wrong to teach Black kids the skills they need to get out of the ghetto how can they complain that they're being held back.

Look, I know what my ancesters did and I'm not proud of it. But, much much the same when talking about Isreal, it has become taboo to say anything negative about the black community and this has to stop if their situation is going to improve. They have to not only accept their positives as positives but their negatives as negative. If we are to open the door for them they have to step through it on their own. And that means they need to stop glorifying the ghetto and gangbanger culture and start looking to successful blacks as role models. Not convicted felons.