"Race discrimination is still the high card in our society today even doe it may look toned in your eyes it is still a big issue in the inner cities against working Poor blacks that can't land jobs no matter what degree of education they prosess."
What about rich blacks in the city with high levels of education? Can they get jobs? How would the employer know the highly educated inner city black person was poor? Why would they not apply for jobs outside of the city if there was some inner-city anomoly against employing blacks? A black person with a low level of education in the inner city may have trouble finding a job, but so may an under educated white person in the city, or anywhere else for that matter. The level of education is the crucial factor in finding a moderate to high paying job.
The fact that a black person can receive a "high" level of formal education illustrates a much lower level of anti-black racism is this country than was the case just 3 or 4 decades ago. Anti-white racists have the advantage of the media, most college professors and most politicians in their favor by being allies or too afraid to decry any actions or words from a person of the racial minority.
Most inner city labor/factory jobs that supported blacks and others are now gone. Global economics, not racism, is the cause. If the factory owners were racist, and presumably white, why move a factory to Korea or some third world nation? When the entire world is thrown into the available work pool, almost all Americans are overpaid by the law of supply and demand.
"I drive nice cars when I able to, I eat in fancy resturants when i can afford it, I live in a beautiful duplex & I have a Master degree, a Bachelor degree & a Business degree which I earn them all one by one. The question I lay onto you is.. Why am I working at Burger King??? Did I mention to you all I'm a Black Man". "Could that be a little reason then any to have a little bit of a hang-up in our society??? Or do I have to Smile & say yes sir no sir & take it on the chin???
Cornel West"
Cornel West is a famous professor at the most prestigious university(Harvard) in the richest, most advanced country in the world. I don't understand the quote. How does he afford to live in a beautiful duplex, eat fancy food and drive nice cars while working at Burger King? Why did the racist landlord or real estate agent lease/sell him the duplex? Why did the racist restaurant owner let him in to eat? What racist car dealer/rental agent sold/rented him a nice car? Is this quote something he wrote 40 years ago, before he was established? If so, how did he live a better than average existence, financially, while working at Burger King? And if it's a decades old quote, not to mention one that defies reason, about the state of racism in the U.S.A.; why choose this quote as representation of the state of things now? Cornel West delites in racial discord. It's existence, and perceived existence, is his stock and trade, his bread and butter (eaten at fancy restaurants he reached by driving a nice car from his beautiful duplex). If racial discord ever ends, Cornel West won't have a role to play, a reason to be on t.v. or even an acurate sense of self. He defines himself by racial issues and the waves they make. He is more than happy to surf those waves to success.
All too many "leaders" of the black community thrive in an environment of racial unrest, scream fire where there is no smoke and rouse the indignation of blacks, browns and whites, who otherwise would be calm, in order to get their faces on t.v. They run for president when the pre-election polls show them at 2%, solely to gain puplic notoriety. They support their lifestyles and pad their egos by widening the racial divide. If a well known black person like Bill Cosby shows his concern for his fellow black americans by suggesting they stop blaming the white man and racism for the state of their lives and pick themselves up and determine the quality of their neighborhoods and futures, he is attacked by these same so-called black leaders and called an Uncle Tom or traitor.
Racism won't end until whites understand that blacks can be just as hard-working, kind, insightful, dedicated and just as they are. This realization is well on it's way in this country. Racism also won't end until black people look into the mirror and see a man or woman named James or Vanessa, e.g., who happens to have black skin (more accurately brown), rather than a black person who happens to be named James or Vanessa. The Cornel Wests of the world encourage the "race first, name second" identity mentality. They want blacks to be a part of the group, rather than individuals. It's almost impossible to make your living by being the "leader" of individuals who lead themselves. The fact that the phrase "black community" is so often uttered is an indication of the problem. One doesn't often hear about the white community or asian community or Italian community. If black people live in affluent suburbs, sparce rural areas, sleepy coastal towns and every other type of area as well as inner-cities, how does one define the "black community"? There hasn't been a geographical black community in nearly a hundred years. Black people live everywhere. The phrase "black community" is meant to divide people's loyalty by their skin color and is therefore routed in racist beliefs. This fosters racial discord from all sides. Racism won't end until black people stop buying into the divisive efforts of the opportunists that call themselves "black leaders" and white people reject the tacit guilt they feel about being white with which this country's media and public figures of all colors inoculate them.
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