re: 7 Things I Can Do That My Black Son Can’t

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i get heated talking about this, too, because those pieces of shite destroy the educational opportunities of plenty of good kids

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I'm with you, brother.

These types of articles really annoy me. I worked in a job for 3 weeks (only job I have ever left) that required me to visit mostly poor black people in their homes in BR and NO, some lower middle class neighborhoods and some really dangerous neighborhoods. I was stared at, yelled at, cursed at, intimidated, and on 2 separate occasions a weapon was flashed at me. Not by the people I was visiting but by the people hanging around in the neighborhoods. I was called a bitch, a cracker, a honkey, a white she devil and several other names. I was told I "best get on up out of here if I knew what was good for me." I was there to help the people I visited. All of that was simply because I went into a neighborhood where I was the only white person. I had to make a stop at Glen Oaks HS one afternoon and was surprised by the amount of cops present just to make sure school let out safely. The cops told me to get a new line of work. If a black person goes into a white neighborhood and the worst thing that happens is someone thinks they're suspicious and calls the cops, I don't think that's nearly as bad as what I experienced. I'm so tired of being blamed for other people's problems.

BTW, I'm native American. My family hid in the hills during the Trail of Tears. They went on to build successful lives outside of the reservations. They worked hard and built something. My grandfather (100% Cherokee) was both a police captain and fire captain in his hometown in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. He was very well respected at a time when NA'S weren't generally accepted. You can go to his old firehouse today, 40+ years after his death, and he is still remembered and revered by his colleagues and even new recruits. So I don't like this excuse BS. Do something for yourself and your community and nobody gives shite what color you are.

I'm sure. But I'm not. I truly don't care about color. People always want to make it a color issue when for most white people, it's about class. I don't associate with trash of any color. People who use the system and blame other people and live their lives with anger towards other groups for supposed injustices that have befallen them are not friend material. It's not about their color. White people do it, too.

I'm going through a hard time right now myself, struggling to find a job and care for my family. Some of it is circumstance and some of it is poor choices on my part in the past. There are consequences to choices, and sometimes you have to learn it the hard way. But, it has zero to do with my race or gender. Like my ancestors, I will eventually make my own destiny. I don't dwell on their suffering or use it as an excuse for my own failings. I'm proud of my family, but ultimately, I am an individual and where I came from has nothing to do with where I'm going.

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I have yet to see any of my ancestors mentioned in a History book

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You can't win with people like the yahoo author, he would be bitching about how insensitive the school was if it made his kid do a family tree.

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3. I Learned About My Ancestors’ History in School

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I didn't learn anything about Cajuns in school.

While racism most certainly do still exist in ?the US. Its not as rampant as many people would have you believe. I have heard some people claim racism is just as bad as it was in the 50s. Then on the other end people on this board would have you believe theres no such thing as racism any more.

The main problem is, too many people are looking for excuses for why they cant succeed. So many people think the man is holding them down. But unfortunately, the only man holding them down is the man in the mirror

He's just another white guilt liberal that's race baiting...

Sounds like something Jesse or Al would write.

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Even BLACKS think successful blacks may have gotten there via quotas, tokenism etc etc. Take your complaint up with reality.

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I disagree, maybe some people will say that. But we as black people absolutely love to see someone that look like us succeed. So what you are saying is not based on reality