re: I'm glad the BLM crowd is so dedicated to equality

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Don't get me wrong, I understand what you are trying you say with your questions and sympathize to a very, very small degree, but is "white privilege" really the most concerning issue within the African American community? Improving issues within the African American community should be the main concern.

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You're 100% correct.

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The majority of the country will never take the BLM movement or the excessive whining about white privilege seriously until blacks make more of an effort to fix the issues within their own community.

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BLM is a farce and I've derided it numerous times on this board. No one should take them seriously.

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If all the African Americans in Baton Rouge decided in one day to all move away and to never come back, do you think the high violent crime rate currently plauging the city the would improve? I think you know that the answer would be yes, and drastically. Just look at the violent crime statistics by race for Baton Rouge if you don't believe me. And the majority of this crime is black on black.

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Yes, it would get much better from a crime standpoint. Black people commit far more violent crimes per capita than white people, but isn't this question a small example of what I was discussing with Puck? You've suggested removing all black people from BR, not just the criminals, which are far less than the majority. Someone earlier said that the majority of black people are on welfare, which is false. So, if a poor black kid in BR is trying to get out, he has to overcome not just the poverty and shitty educational opportunities, but he also has to overcome the sins and stereotypes of what amounts to a minority within his own race. The idea that the poor black kid in BR can make it with just as much effort as the poor white kid in BR is a farce. The black kid has to do more to get out.

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the response from you to my question will probably be something about how what I'm saying is an example of white privilege.

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Well part of it was an example of the underlying basis for white privilege, so

FWIW, I hate the term white privilege just as much as I hate the term BLM. You're not going to have much of a conversation when you come at white people trying to undercut their success by blaming it on their privilege, and you're not going to rally support against police brutality by ignoring the lives of other races who are killed by the police. Both terms marginalize what is an otherwise worthy conversation.