What do you think is the biggest problem in the black community?

Question

As a black man, I look forward to white people having more answers than blacks. But I believe that their answers would be more racism based than anything. Black people has been bred to hate themselves and fear the reflection of themselves in the mirror of ethnicity. For years I hated being black,,, Hell I grew up in the south but when I became a man I realize that black people were the white man biggest threat and needed to keep us contained in order for us not to take over. Which is what we are doing now. We set trends... why else do you think OTHERS are spending millions to look like us and risking life and limb under the surgeons knife. But we have nowhere to lead people until we regain the love for one another. I LOVE YOU BLACK PEOPLE BUT I LOVE ALL PEOPLE

Answer 1

I'm going to try to put this in a way that doesn't sound completely racist...
I grew up in a small town with no black people in it. I went to county schools, because our county consisted of many small towns and no large ones. There were black students at my school, but they only lived in about 3 of the towns in my county. My family had no issues calling them n!ggers, but it wasn't until I was in the Navy that I heard the black guys calling each other n!gga. How can a culture take a term that was meant as an insult and turn it around to be almost an endearment? Yet they still get angry when white people use the n-word. And I hear black guys call each other "boi", I guess, but they have a conniption fit when a white person calles them "boy". Is it ok for blacks to use those words because they spell them different? I think part of the problem in the black community, is that some of them still live in the stereotype of the lazy, jobless, welfare-recipient, dope smoking n*****. I'm not talking about the black people who keep a steady job to feed, house, and clothe their family. But there are still so many living on welfare, popping out more kids to get more money from welfare, and those are the ones that the white people are racist against. The sooner that those people get off their butts, put down the crack pipes and one hitters, and go get themselves a job, the sooner the "problems" in the black community will dry up.
I'm sorry that black people were slaves when this country was first formed, but slavery was ended in the 1800's. Segregation was ended in the 1960's. Black people are offered every opportunity that white people are. Only YOU are holding yourselves down. Stop forming gangs and shooting each other, stop selling and doing drugs, and get out there and make something of yourselves. Go get a job and take care of your families. I've seen whole neighborhoods of black people who live in crappy, rundown houses, but drive Escalades and Expeditions... Houses are a much better investment than a vehicle. White people will be less discriminatory towards blacks when blacks stop fulfilling the very stereotypes that they complain about.

Answer 2

I hope I express this properly. I am a middle aged white woman who spent my first 41 years in the south and the last 6 in New England and New York. I have lots of friends of all races and the one big difference I've noticed between my black friends down south and my black friends up north is there was a lot more (I want to say hatred...but I don't think that's the word) bad feelings toward whites down south. I heard from my black friends in the south a lot about how white people in the south still want to be "masters" and keep blacks down. In the north the blacks that I know don't think that way (at least the ones I've become friends with). They have more respect for themselves and others. They approach whites on an equaI footing which is the way it should be. I think what I'm trying to say here is that we all (every race) need to take every individual we meet for who they are. We will either like that person or not like that person due to his or her personality, characteristics, integrity, etc... and not say someone is a particular way just because of their skin color. Skin color shouldn't come into it. I know that this seems like the impossible dream, but if we each learn to do so and teach our children to do so in a generation or two we could be there. Then when we're there everyone would have the same opportunities as everyone else. We should all be striving together to help each other have better lives, not battling each other.

Answer 3

The people

Answer 4

For one, we don't stick together and help each other out. Slavery flourished because Africans who were better off would sell poorer Africans. Those who succeed do not give back to the community a lot of times.
Lack of educational opportunities is another problem and so is poverty.
There are still what I call "color struck fools" worrying about light complexioned and dark complexioned and who has "good" hair.

Answer 5

Well, I can't speak for the rest of the US, but in DC, it has to be teen gun violence. There are so many wanna-be "gangstas" here that spend too much time on the street and not enough time in the classroom, and alot of A.American teens are getting killed every day. This morning the news estimated that two-dozen were killed in July alone. My 16 year old uncle was killed in 2001 due to gun violence in DC because he bumped into someone in a carry-out. It's just crazy.

Answer 6

Lack of accountability for their own actions. A "I am a victim" let me sit on my behind and you clothe and feed me mentality. A defend all thoughts and behavior no matter how wrong and vile, and blame it on racism. An entertainment culture that glorifies gang mentality and behavior, and promotes using women merely for pleasure. The culture needs a cleansing from within. Listen to Bill Cosby- he is making a lot of sense these days.

Answer 7

Poverty, violence against each other, pretty much everything you all can't control because the white demons keep you suppressed. Poverty comes from the fact that you can't get equal opportunity which leads to robbing, and violence because you're pissed off because you can't feed yourself, let alone your kids. I know I am white, but I am different. If I could change things, trust that I would. I hate what my race has and keeps doing to you.

Answer 8

We have been socialized to believe such horrible things about ourselves and we have become exactly what they told us we were. But enough is enough, we simply need to build each other up not rip each other down. If our ancestors could stick together through such horrific things that we could not even fathom and still help each other out so can we. We have become comfortable and have forgotten our responsibilities to one another as members of the African -American as well as the human race.

Answer 9

crime from seeking a stand as the ever best don...just like the lives of Tupac Amaru Shakur (Lesane Parish Crooks) and Christopher Wallce (Notorius B.I.G) and as well as some conflicts going on within the black community to prove the best say in the like of 50 Cent of the Gorilla Unit (G-UNIT) and Ja Rule of the MURDER I.N.C

Answer 10

The biggest problem of the black community is racism. Blacks have allowed themselves to become violently racist against, whites, hispanics, and even each other.