**LiLp-DeFiNeD wrote:
What confuses/pissses me off is the "African american" stereotype situation,
They go around begging to not be considered thugs and not followed around by people in stores,
and yet, most of the dark people I know, tend to wear big baggy clothes that closely resemble a thug, and are very easy to steal in.
If you wear baggy clothes your a thug? clothes define thug? I personally don't agree with that "thug" wannabe crap or the fact that some young black dudes wear their pants with their ass out, but you are purely enforcing a stereotype that all blacks in baggy clothes steal.
FEOS wrote:
It's true that there wasn't a level playing field in the first part of the last century. But there is one now. So, if we follow the logic, it will never be level because of what happened back then. I find that incredulous. The longer that is used as an excuse for the current state of the black community, the greater the divide will grow. At some point, people have to start taking ownership of their situations and stop looking for others to blame.
Focusing on the differences instead of embracing the similarities is what causes racial tension. All sides are guilty of it, to greater and lesser degrees.
There still isn't a level playing field. IMO we probably will be dead when that comes about, but who knows. +1 for the last statment but you really have to walk in the shoes to understand that a black person doesn't always own their own situation. Their are kids out their who are doomed at birth or placed in situations that make their success difficult.
LiLp-DeFiNeD's above statement is ignorant (not an insult) to what really is going on. Stereotypes are poison to our society.