Black People - Stop Blaming Racism, Take Responsibility

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Nothing on this? Would of thought AF would be all over a topic like this...

I mean I even mentioned gun laws.

*Huff puff*.

Sorry I'm late. None of this would have happened if black people had guns.

On a srs note, and I can't speak about black people in the US because I'm not from there, there are definitely instances of inward looking 'communities' (a term I hate but for lack of a better one) that thrive on otherism and enjoy isolationism. People prefer the company of others who are of the same race/ethnicity/cultural background/religion (and so on), so seeing ghettoisation here in the UK shouldn't be a surprise, and it's something we definitely haveseen in several towns and cities. People of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin tend to be the lowest performing in education and have higher rates of poverty than any other demographic. There are constant attempts to reach into those communities to try and uplift them into integrating into the rest of society (I'm talking in parsimonious terms here, the actual politics is rather more nuanced), but the results have been poor. No real increase in integration, and no real breakthrough in breaking down the barriers between these communities.

Partly this is because government, both local and national, have given with one hand and taken with the other (animosity towards the PREVENT agenda which is seen in some communities as trying to create Uncle Toms), but the other reason is a victim mentality amongst some influential members of given communities on government action and intervention (and of course the media). There are numerous examples of this, such as the Trojan horse scandal in Birmingham schools, with influential members within some Asian constituencies claiming it was a government conspiracy against them and an attempt to tarnish their communities, despite the fact that the people who were most vocal about extremism within these schools were themselves members of those communities and teachers within those schools.

I dunno, it's far too early in the morning and I've got a fuck load of accruals to post.