(Can't help myself, so here goes.........

1. American Black people are mainly descendants of peoples who were taken from their homelands (mainly because their own people including tribal chiefs sold them or traded them) and enslaved for multiple generations over hundreds of years (just like other people in US that were enslaved through the centuries, like Irish and Scottish).

2. Systematic indoctrination and "dumbing down" made certain that the future of the cultures and peoples taken would never again be of great intellectual or socioeconomic significance (School is too hard and you won't let us get a diploma with a 60 average so you better lower your standards. / Not to mention all of the free monies for higher education that are available to black youth for several decades now ..... [link to scholarships.fatomei.com]

3. Institutionalized segregation from higher education opportunities and/or employment (again, see comments above )create incredible adversity for those of us who want so badly to change our predetermined poverty and perceived ignorance. (And yes, affirmative action helped but now reverse racism is just as bad)

4. Although there are many of us who have and will continue to make wonderful situations and opportunities of our lives, there are a vast many more who will never even know what it means to have conviction or determination, let alone even be able to spell the words> (Conviction and determination is a self driven human emotions, has nothing to do with lack of because of the need to find someone at fault for not having it)

5. American black people are due reparations no matter what has become of the completely beaten down group of peoples who were originally enslaved and stolen from their lands. (Uh, I think they died centuries ago along with the slave owners.)


and one final point.

6. Most of the people who make comments about the activities, decisions or actions of American Black people, commonly have no contact with black people or an educated and experience-driven opinion worth listening to.(Most of us have had plenty of contact, thus the reason for our statements).

In closing,
I have no need to call names or point fingers, you who have made racist comments have done plenty of that. We are one race of beings and really need to start realizing that those of us who are systematically kept in certain socioeconomic and cultural positions deserve a little more understanding.(Translation, you all keep giving us everything we want and then some, so we won't call Jackson or Sharpton on yo ass).