Black People - Stop Blaming Racism, Take Responsibility

[Napoléon]

It's an issue of poverty more than race. It gets mis-labelled as a "race issue" because a disproportionate amount of black people are poor relative to white people.

Ding ding.

Economics.

Isn't that what I've been saying all along?

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Just to re-iterate, because I feel like much of what my point actually is gets lost with my own ramblings at times:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/co...baltimore/

"To all the looters in Baltimore"



The OP of this post sums it up:

"The point is not that the stereotypes or discrimination are justified. But that to the people who already hold these views against various minorities, the looting and rioting only serve to deepen their conviction. The whole "unarmed black man" storyline gets lost when people are assaulting firemen and cutting firehose lines."


I brought up this whole issue because I was reading into the Baltimore thing. Then someone posted the video I posted in the OP of this thread. I thought it was relevant.

At the end of the day, committing crimes, choosing to join gangs, all that bad shit, doesn't do you or your 'people' any favours.

Ofcourse there's injustices. Nobody disputes that, but apparently I do according Pizza. I think every black person is a violent criminal according to him. This is exactly the problem in my view. People get bogged down in the who did what. They want to find blame. They use racism as an excuse. Yes. They fucking do. End of story.

The proposition in the OP, to 'take responsibility' isn't the ultimate solution to the problems that black people as a community face. But it's a damn lot better a way of going about things than rioting in the streets like what is happening right now in Baltimore.