Dystopia Wrote:So, you are arguing for individual responsibility and trying to succeed and get out of The life, but now you're saying blacks are responsible by what other blacks do?
The way I'm reading it, he is not arguing that blacks are responsible for what other blacks do, but rather, some blacks are responsible for their own behaviors that play into the hands of bigots by exemplifying stereotypes. And the fact is that bigots then pick up on those past behaviors to justify perpetuating stereotypes into the future.
Racism exists. In America it is most often expressed as white-on-black racism, which results in blacks having higher poverty rates, lower educational levels, higher arrest and conviction rates, and a host of other disparaties. None of that justifies the violence and destruction going on in Baltimore, which harms blacks as well as whites.
Racism is not an excuse to destroy the property of innocent folks. Using it as such an excuse only harms the cause of equality.
