| RG3Hunna said: So because Obama hasn't had the success that we all hoped that means he set black people back? This is what I don't understand about some people, blacks are always judged unfairly off of what another black has done negatively. If Deandre goes and robs the bank, that doesn't mean all black males are bank robbers. For every Deandre the bank robber there's a barrack obama and for every Lorenzo the drug dealer there's a hermain cain. This is the one thing that infuriates me about our culture, Blacks are always judged unfairly off of the negative someone with black skin has done. This is what made the black community upset about the Trayvon situation, sure Trayvon might have attacked Zimmerman and he was wrong for that if he did but the point was it never would have happened if Zimmerman didn't follow him and the only reason Zimmerman followed him was because he looked "suspicious" and there's nothing more suspicious in america then a black man in a hoodie in a wealthy neighberhood and we've been trained to believe that nonsense. :( |
You've got it backwards. You are correct that when Deandre robs a bank, it doesn't mean that all black males are bank robbers. However per our culture today, it also doesn't mean that Deandre is a bank robber. See Deandre had to go to an inner city school where he didn't learn anything. He had no father figure to keep him in check. His mother was poor and often unemployed. The man was just playing the hand he was dealt. He didn't want to rob a bank. He was just making use of the only path available to him.
That is what we hear all the time. It is what we hear with President Obama right now. He isn't a bad president. He wants to fix everything. He made those promises but the problem is society, Republicans, racism, you name it. He was supposed to be the person who couldn't be held back or kept down and instead the same old excuses are trotted out as to why he has been incompetent and ineffective.
You note the Trayvon Martin situation. You blame Zimmerman for following him. The reality is that Martin was supposed to be in school. He was supposed to be with his Mom. He was supposed to probably be dealt with for petty theft and drug possession so he didn't think he could go around and clock someone in the first place but the system won't deal with Martin on that level because when it does, it is labeled racist.
Does that completely excuse Zimmerman? No but we want a perfect reaction to an action when that action has been allowed to go on too long and get too big. Life isn't that way. Zimmerman thought that Martin looked suspicious becuase he acted like a criminal. The point was Martin was a criminal. He hadn't been prosecuted for it, just had the school system slap his hand a bit out of fear they would be labeled racist but the point was he was engaging in criminal behavior. Assault, drug use, vandalism and theft are all crimes. Martin was suspended for scribbling WTF on a door but when looking for the market they "found" 12 pcs of ladies jewelry, and a man’s watch, in addition to a flat head screwdriver described as “a burglary tool”. They were turned in as found items when they should have been treated as theft. If they had been dealt with accordingly Martin might be alive today.
