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Originally Posted by Robert
Steve, lets talk about the native americans. In Canada we gave them a plot of land and removed their desire to work by giving them a regular paycheck on the government. The reason they dont complain is because they're wasting away on the reserves we gave them. I have been to Tulsa and OKC, I wouldnt go back it was so dull.
On to blacks. Though slavery is over and it would appear we have equal rights we dont. If you look at how the media displays black culture you'll see its actually oppreseive. You should rend the movie Classified X a very interesting look at black's in movies; ever wonder why there is always the token black character? This explains why.
Further more not only does our media encourage blacks to think they can be gangstars and make alot of money but there is also a huge cultural difference. I watched an interesting documentrary from the early 90's done by the South African TV Network. This looked into how white people live in Europe. Though I never looked at it from a black persons point of view before it was very interesting to see the differences.
There are huge differences, though they do contribute to our society. I believe in a time to come we will see how government has kept oppressing the blacks by helping to bring illegal drugs to America and brain washed them into this 'gangstar' life style. Rap sucks, it preches hate, lust and money. None of these things get you anywhere desirable if you focus on them.
Can a black man become the CEO of a major company? Still in today's world its more likely a female to make the job. America/Canada is still run heavily by whites. Look at congress or my house of parliment. It's all white people. Nothing has really changed in 150 years, now blacks can earn their own income and vote. Society still treats them as a second class citizen and sadly alot of them fall into acting that way.
I couldn't blame them. If at every turn you were told you are a gangstar, you're dangerous and its easier to get a crappy job and steal then you would to. It's amazing what happens if from a young age you're exposed to negativem messages. It's truly an example of psyhcological conditioning.Dont assume for a minute you understand what its like to live in a black persons shoes, its far tougher then we could imagine.
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Well...here in America it would seem that things are a bit different as far as natives go. Yes, they have land, but it's always in the shittiest part of the shittiest states. Since there's not much room to farm in any real way, most live off of government provided food. Problem is that they're not at all used to the heavily proccessed ingredients in those foods so now there's an explosion of diabetes on reservations. To the effect of roughly 80%. It's been 450 years and we're still fucking them.
While I won't take any particular issue with your post, I'll just say that it's an extremely dangerous and borderline offensive stance to take. Saying that blacks don't have a choice because of society and the media is not supportive to blacks...it's actually kind of insulting. That's the same stance that Jesse Jackson takes and he's done more to set black people back than any other public figure (if you want to know what I really think of him, see:
http://www.hstuners.com/forums/showt...ht=open+letter ).
Just because the media portrays blacks as this or that I think to say that all of them are pressured to follow that image is quite a stretch. I mean...pretty much all people have a concept of a right and wrong way to live their lives. No media outlet is going to change that. Plus, such an argument patently ignores all of the people that have shoved aside the idea that blacks are gangsters and rappers and made good lives for themselves. I'm also not really sure you can look to elected office as a sign of racism. Principally because they're elected. Black people have the voting numbers to make a real difference at the polls and, if they were so inclined, could appoint black leaders. That is, of course, unless you live in the south. If you're black and you live in the south you're pretty much just screwed.