WHERE ARE WE BLACK PEOPLE...ARE WE LOSt?

Question

IN AMERICA TODAY IT SEEMS AS IF WE ARE AT WAR WITH OURSELF...OR PEOPLE ARE DIMINISHING AT THE COST OF OUR OWN FAULTS...WE NOW HAVE THE BLOOD ON OUR HANDS OF OURSELFS THIS IS SAD...AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE FOR US TO UNITE AND GROW TOGETHER... DEFEAT POVERTY, DRUGS, AND GANGS...DO YOU THINK THESE ISSUES ARE DEPENDENT UPON ONE ANOTHER...OR DO YOU THINK THERES NO HOPE LEFT, HAS THE WEAPON OF HATRED BEEN PASSED DOWN TO US ONLY FOR US TO FINISH THE JOB, WILL WE EVER WALK TOGETHER AGAIN IN PEACE??? CAN WE GET IT TOGETHER BEFORE ITS VIRTUALLY TO LATE??? I AM AFRAID FOR US...1

Answer 1

“I like to call it race conditioning “ in the 60,70, and maybe 80’ Our people had high hopes, but it seems in the later years we have changed our views on what is most important in our struggle for equal rights. Society has taught us to as I say “Get Yours”. Blacks or African Americans which ever you feel is “politically” correct have made great strides and vast improvements over the decades but I personally feel it is more for self gratification whether then the improvement of the culture as a whole. I have seen it in my family first hand, we find our across the river of success than destroy the bridge so we can say we are not the statistic, not the average black person, the exception/exceptional successful black person. To u I wish we could unite and over come like in the 50’s and 60’s but the problem is we have settled in becoming the 2nd minority, We feel since we have become lawyers, senators, doctors, we are equal but we have left most of our people behind in the projects and jail with no way out forced to live on Uncle Sam and his hand outs. People feel it’s easy to get of the governments aid but truly its not because the system is designed to keep you on it. People say it’s easy to find a job but, yea that true, but what type of job. You receive free housing free food free health care form the government, but they want you to go to the temp agency to get a job making 10 dollars per hr with no benefits to get your welfare cut in a month. Not many single mother families can survive of that. Successful blacks have to take this problem into its own hand by supporting black communities and schools not shunning them (Oprah). MLK was right education is the key, but unity is the essential the handle to open the door. We are getting educated but we are not staying unified. Educated Blacks are moving out of our neighborhoods’ instead of staying a using their positive influence and recourses to encourage and mentor our future generations. They’re lost and its not they fault it’s the past generations to busy making money to raise them. When all the positive role models leave the only thing left to look up to are the rappers, athletes, drug dealers who seem successful in all their dysfunctions. I was hurt when Opera built that learning center in Africa, not because it was in Africa, but because she said that the inner-city school children had no desire to learn that why she didn’t use her resources here in the states. Also its sad to see how the illegal immigrants came together in the hundreds of thousands to voice their opinion. We can never do anything like that again because we have segregated ourselves. Rich blacks, poor blacks, light skin, dark skin, urban, conservative, professional, blue collar, we find ways to separate ourselves from one another but the truth is as long as we are separated we will have social injustices place upon us like aid for Katrina, Racial profiling, Media poor portrayal of Blacks, etc. But even with all this don’t feel afraid for us, black are against the wall people like defenders. We will take in until we can’t anymore and once that time occurs we will overcome. America knows we have the power to cripple it from within the last thing it wants is a entire angry black nation, that why when riots happen blacks often receive what they ask for. I not pro riots and in no shape or form do I support them but when a race has no voice RIP MLK no champion to speak and lead its people the only way to get attention is to destroy what others hold dear. That is why we have wars because if you are not willing to risk you life and fight or die for what you believe in than you have settled for what you have. "Hand outs"

Answer 2

Simple answer is this. The All Blacks lost the game completely on their own. With something like 70% possession in their favour, and having a squad that could split in two and STILL beat every team in the world, the All Blacks should've won. Fact of the matter is a very off-form NZ team faced a French team who raised their game well above their normal levels. Forward-pass or no forward-pass, the All Blacks could've and should've won that match by at least 15 points. But in saying this, the French missed a stack of penalties, and may not even have needed that forward pass to win the match. You can blame the coaches, the trainers and Graham Henry himself. But the only people who can handle the ball are the guys on the pitch. As such, it is the NZ players who lost the game. Nobody else.

Answer 3

I am afraid for our whole country.

In the 70's and 80's, I had high hopes that we had made it through a hard period of civil rights unrest and that black Americans and white Americans could work together to make our country better.

Now, I am afraid that the professional rabble-rousers of both races have driven wedges so deeply that co-operation has become increasingly difficult.

If we do not learn to live and work together, we will all become bogged down in racial conflict that pits blacks, whites, Asians, and Hispanics against each other that no one can win.

Doc

Answer 4

I think black ppl are getting their act together as more of them get older and more mature, then they talk sense into the younger generation....black ppl know right from wrong, they just needed some adjustment time to get it right.....now there seems to be a gang infestation with ppls from South of the border, but wuddya gunna do

Answer 5

buddy,

nothing is lost here, only you have lost your faith in your inner being...................

you want to get back on your feet, tell yourself that "you will do it". believe in your self & the rest is a matter of following.

as they say "it is all in the head".