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They were better off because they were run by white people working and trading closely with thier home countries to maximize profits. Back then, they were barely countries themselves, but extentions of the host country. Now take away the constant communication between the host country, the money of the country to fall back on, the recources the host country could pump into them, and instead, give them a montain of debt and people trying to exploit you at every turn so that they can get goods cheap, at the expense of allowing your country to progress. Not to mention being forced to purchace food from other countries because they destroyed your local economy, meaning food is incredibly expensive and rising every day because oil is rising every day. Not to mention again, that having oil or other recources puts a big ole target on your country to be exploited and cheated out of it (like what actually happens, unless you think all the changes in power in the middle east and all the unrest that goes on in certain countries and them having some of the largest oil reserves in the world is a coincidence.)
| Radej said: Blue collar crimes being reported more then white collar crimes? Because credit card fraud is equivalent to rape. Sterotyping by police does play a role in some regards, but those predjudice are often times born out of real statistics. Black men account for 6.5% of the US population but 50% of all gun homicides, tell how that statistic is skewed by racism? Every day black men kill each other in American cities, like 80 people were shot in Chicago July Fourth weekend, black men shooting black men is somehow the white mans fault? |
No, those prejiduices are born out of real racism. And Self Fulfilling Profecies where thier own prejuidice of expecting black people to be the ones committing crimes leads to it actually happening. (Like a teacher not working as hard to help a black student than another student because they think they will become a criminal anyways. The lack of help leads them to drop out of school, where they end up turning to crime to provide for thier families. That statistic sounds like it could easily be skewed by racism actually. Factors I have mentioned before coming together could easily skew those numbers.
Blue collar crime are reported more despite white collar crime being more damaging (just look at the recent global depression) because rich people are literally above the law.
I remember this story recently of this black actor who bought a watch for his mother as a gift for graduating community college, and was going to go to her graduation, but the security guards racially profiled him as a criminal and detained him while he was leaving the store, and ignored him when he tried to dhow them proff that he bought it. He missed his mother's graduation. That story just pisses me off to no end and things like that happen every day.
| Radej said: Even if I conceded that every single problem facing black people throughout the world is because of racism, slavery, and colonialism, those problems won't be solved by anyone by black people. No matter what the United Nations does, no matter what Obama does, no matter what the NAACP does, it ultimately comes down to the individual making better choices, which black people, collectively, are not doing. |
How are they not doing this, collectively? Unless you're saying that the majority of black people are actively being lazy and violent instead of genuinely wanting to improve thier standard of living, and I wont even go into how much I dislike that statement.
I agree that many black people are quick to blame racism and not make any effort to try and better themselves, but just as many people are going "get over it blackies" without realising that there are still numerous problems, prejuidices and the like that are in need of serious overhall and education. It's definitely a problem everyone needs to come together to fix. Racism is very much a culture problem more than a legal problem and this culture is partly from a perspective of what white people think of black people and what black people think of themselves. BOTH need to be fixed if progress is expected to be made.
And honestly, throwing the blame copletely off white people is often used as a way for people to stop thinking about racism because "groups I'm in actually being shitty to other groups makes me so uncomfortable like wow." (not saying this is what you're doing, unless it is.)
