“your only focus is on denying white privilege and systemic racism so that you can go on living your life comfortably with blinders on.”
You see this is where you are wrong once again (On a few things). Like I said, your letting emotion and feeling get the better part of you. If you want to solve real problems you HAVE to find the core issue. However, everyone is afraid to talk about these things or they get too emotional.
You have to use facts and statistics to have a better observation and make a better judgement call. Each of the people you named have different scenarios of what happened. Eric Garner (which you are correct about) should’ve never happened. You mentioned Michael Brown in here.
That case was thoroughly investigated at every level at the time (Also by the US AG at the time which was Eric Holder). Investigated at the federal, state, and local level. You act as if every police officer has an agenda against the black community when that just simply isn’t true.
I can’t deny white privilege if it doesn’t exist. Did you even LISTEN to anything the guy in that video had to say??? You say I just want to deny everything. Isn’t that exactly what your doing right now???
Actually I DO have several black relatives and we’ve discussed these very issues. This is information from the Census Bureau “ While 74.3 percent of all White children below the age of 18 live with both parents, only 38.7 percent of African-American minors can say the same”.
This is from the US Department of Justice “ Blacks in the U.S. resident population (16.2%), regardless of their sex, are nearly twice as likely as Hispanics (9.4%) and 6 times more likely than whites (2.5%) to be admitted to prison during their lives”
This isn’t about going after the black community. Most people that are white just want to know what in the hell they can do to help the black community fix these issues. The problem is nobody wants to provide realistic solutions.
One of the many problems we see from our research is the structure of the family unit. It’s been proven over and over again that both parents in the household (Responsible and Accountable Ones) tend to have children that are less likely to go to prison, be involved with gangs, or have negative interactions with the police. This is also true with black family households where both parents are present in the family structure.
I didn’t tell anyone’s parents to have them and I also didn’t force any parents or their children into poverty. I’m not responsible for a single person’s actions and consequences. I’m just some middle class guy trying to survive in the world and take care of my family like anyone else. Just trying to maintain my own PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY.
You can call it systematic racism and oppression if you want. Some of the facts and statistics tell a different story. Denying and believing in a fallacy is exactly what halts any real progress. I’m agreeing with you on some things actually. You are just upset because I won’t agree with every single thing. That’s exactly the problem!!
Just because someone yells or screams the loudest doesn’t always make them correct. Everyone needs to stop being so freaking sensitive all the time. Just have a REAL conversation and solution about the problems. Nobody gets 100 percent of what they want. Not even me (The White Privileged Man).