People who don't live in "majority-minority" areas really should just stick to repeating what they've been told about minority folks. Easier that way -- no one on either side of the argument are likely to change the others opinion. So for those people.. keep the mantras simple:
Repeat to yourself daily..
1. African-Americans as a group need your (read: White People's) assistance.
2. Never collectivize African-Americans as a group. They are all shining diamonds that the white man stole from Africa. ..but they all need help.
3. You are a White Devil, guilty from birth.
These mantras are especially effective when repeated by white men as they watch interracial gang-bang porn featuring African-American men with 18 inch penises defiling white women in unthinkable ways.
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No point in arguing.. one side will continue living the experience and the other can keep fantasizing about how cool it must be.
As for me, I just returned a little while ago from a holiday school singing event at my son's public school. White kids make up less than 1/4 of the whole student body. I know some of the kids in his class and their parents, asian (all kinds), white, "Latino", black, American Indians, Muslims, Christians and all that too.. and various combinations. It's a cereal box photographer/PBS kid show's cast dream come true.
From speaking to the parents & kids I can say without a doubt that it isn't race alone that makes people shitheads. It isn't poverty either, to say so would be discrediting all the civilized parents who are doing fine jobs raising their kids in the ghetto.
The majority of ghetto people just seem to be plagued with laziness, entitlement mentality, herd mentality, "I gonna gets mines" / chip on the shoulder attitudes, trendy "gotta have them spinnin' rims!" fad following bullshit. Sucks to be one of the more responsible & intelligent black families stuck in the ghetto.. or so I am told.
While I don't have to live it, I see ghetto shit every day. Especially when I take my kid to school & pick him up... roads closed for shooting investigations (haven't witnessed one yet but I hear shots a few times a week), black guys staring down hispanic/latino/south american/mexican guys as they pass each other on the sidewalk, mothers holding babies and/or pushing strollers standing on the double yellow lines, in traffic, with the crosswalk 10 feet away.. today a man was trying to ride his bike down the road but couldn't keep it in a straight line so both lanes of traffic behind him were backed up. Whether he was a drunk or not I couldn't tell ya but my bet would be crack. He was old too so that may be an excuse, but the younger gan'stas walk slowly into traffic and stare you down, almost daring you to hit them.
No man of any color in the ghetto wears well fitting trousers. "Baggy" doesn't describe it when the waist of the sweatpants (gettin' colder so now instead of jeans or shiny track pants, it's soiled sweatpants) is at mid-thigh. Boxer shorts still seem to be in fashion despite the weather. It's complete idiocy masquerading in what has been sold to the masses as masculinity.
Not for the feminine looking ghetto men though. There are only 2 or 3 that I've seen, no charades of masculinity whatsoever. No baggies either, they wear the skinny ankle jeans and studded belts.
Regularly I see two white guys with afro'ed hair (as best they could I suppose.. sorta "Halfro" I guess) pulled up into tight pony tails walking down the sidewalks during end of school day release. They're actually pretty comical (one looks like Carrot Top) so it ain't them that worries me about being around the kids as they walk home to their apartments after school... it's the 2 or 3 pit bulls that bother me. I still wonder who they're out to impress at an elementary school and why they choose that time of day to walk their little puppies.
As I said somewhere before on the BBS, the sane people I see in numbers in the ghetto are hispanic/latino/south american/mexican women. They're almost always at the bus stops, almost always in some sort of uniform. They don't look like addicts, they don't seem to have any aggressive attitude at all -- which definitely cannot be said for the black and white women I see walking around (or sometimes shuffling out of the bushes).
To date I have not seen any persons of Asian (any kind) people, male or female in the ghetto. Surprising is it not, in this land of whites oppressing all other people?
One of my main clients has an office near the Men's Shelter downtown. I pass by there a few times a week and it's even more interesting (and sad) than the ghetto.
At any rate, I'm getting out ASAP.