(July 22, 2016 at 5:37 pm)Imaginaryfriendless Wrote: these US blacks have everything at their fingertips- loads of scholarships ands grants for black folks, but instead many of them just draw welfare or unemployment and sit on their butts, or sell drugs, and complain that they have been slaves! So they want more free stuff.
Unless they were born in Africa and moved to the US, there is no need for hyphens. They are just AMERICANS. Not "African-Americans". Ridiculous.
I feel you, brother.
Here's the thing with slavery/racism. Black folks were just getting in the game during the time when upward mobility was accessible. My dad, without a degree, worked 30 years for IBM in manufacturing. He earned enough that my mom didn't have to work. They got a house and I had a nice enough upbringing, and went to a decent enough college. Paired off with another person with the exact same upbringing, and now our kid is going to have a relatively easy go at things.
When the racism subsided enough that black people had a fair enough shake to hop in on that, it was too late. That 30 year career at IBM doesn't exist anymore. The 30 year career working in the factory is gone. Now you get shit pay if you can find someone who isn't cutting corners with illegal labor. And they just keep piling on ways to have less workers, and pay those workers less assuming they can't find a way to ship them over seas.
And the lack of opportunity snowballs. You got all these people with no path to financial comfort stuck in the same place. That's not going to be a very nice place. Then they send all their kids to the same school. A lot of those kids are going to be pretty shitty. Having a couple shitty kids in a class makes teaching hard. Having a class of predominately shitty kids is going to be nearly impossible.
The butterfly effect of slavery has definitely fucked a race of people by causing them to miss the boat that was well paying/low education/manufacturing careers.
When Trump says America first, this is what I think of. Stopping outsourcing with the trade deals written by corporate lobbyists looking to drive up their stocks, and stop corporations/shady business from driving down wages through shady legal, and illegal immigration. People try to paint it as some Aryan white thing. But when I think America first, I think about giving poor black community at least a chance. My family got ours when the getting was good. But now, that opportunity is gone. I'd like to see it brought back. I don't know if Trump can do it. Probably not. But at least he'll be pushing in the right direction, I think.
