Just had a chance to look at the top 400 . . . not one black person that I saw. Out of the millions of black people not one has achieved Fortune top wealthiest Americans. And the idea is to blame it on the black people for this? Isn't it possible, that our society still favors white males. Couldn't that explain why a disproportionate amount of the top positions are held by white males . . . or maybe white males are just so much smarter and harder working than all other people. I'm not saying in today's age that black people can't achieve their personal dream. I believe they can. I am also not saying that white people don't have barriers, they do. I just think it is harder for black people to achieve that high level of success, especially when the system seems overloaded with white people in the power positions (near impossible to be top 100 in wealth). But things are slowly changing( very slowly). What I find funny is those that claim white kids are at a disadvantage to black kids and how unfair it is.
Well in the words of Louis CK "Being a white man is thoroughly good, If I could I'd sign up for this shit again." Being serious though in 50 years I bet this will change. As America becomes more interracial there will be more mixed race rich people. Blacks have it rough in certain areas but the well educated, family oriented, and hard working black people in this country will succeed.
QT Maxie "Bottom line: Culture matters. And until black culture places the same emphasis on education and family as other segments of society, they'll continue to lag behind. Crying racism is a crutch. " I was thinking along those lines earlier. Has all of the "help" in social engeneering really done any good? Or has it been that main reason for the blight that is rampent within the balck community. contend that a lot of the things done with the right intentions have become the very things that foster conditions allowing a people to fester and rot culturaly. Seven of ten children born of single mothers, generational wellfare and on ond on..if the do gooders want to blame and point fingers on how down trodden the black community is, how unfair things are...I say look in the mirror.
So hundreds of thousands of white guys dying to end slavery doesn't mean anything? Would the slaves have been better off if those guys just stayed out of it because they couldn't change the mindset of the entire nation with their actions? Go Blazers
Wars ranked by total number of US military deaths[edit source | editbeta]Rank War Years Deaths Deaths per Day US Population in First Year of War Deaths per Population 1 American Civil War 1861–1865 625,000 599 31,443,000 1.988% (1860) 2 World War II 1941–1945 405,399 416 133,402,000 0.307% (1940) 3 World War I 1917–1918 116,516 279 103,268,000 0.110% (1920) 4 Vietnam War 1961–1975 58,209 11 179,323,175 (1960) 0.030% (1970) 5 Korean War 1950–1953 36,516 45 151,325,000 0.020% (1950) 6 American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 25,000 11 2,500,000 0.899% (1780) 7 War of 1812 1812–1815 15,000 15 8,000,000 0.207% (1810) 8 Mexican–American War 1846–1848 13,283 29 21,406,000 0.057% (1850) 9 War on Terror 2001–present 6,717 1.57 294,043,000 0.002% (2010) 10 Philippine–American War 1899–1902 4,196 3.8 72,129,000 0.006% (1900) "Deaths per day" is the total number of US military killed, divided by the number of days between the dates of the commencement and end of hostilities. "Deaths per population" is the total number of US military deaths, divided by the US population of the year indicated.
Here is one to ponder. https://sites.google.com/site/maraz...6/pictures-interior/The cell phone salute.jpg
julius! What makes your heart pump bull shit forever? Grandfather came to this country 101 years ago. He by passed the East coast as soon as he cleared Elis Island, came straight on to Oregon. I doubt he had the advantage on anyone but he did have skills, he was a Stone Mason. You can see his work today through out Clackamas county; the entrance to the Elks Club, the County Court house in Oregon City and stone guard rail all around Willamette falls and stone bridges though out the county. I don't think he got a head start on any black man in his day, there were damn few black peiople in Oregon prior to World War II. So what is all this shit you spread? Where did this bleeding heart come from?
I don't know how to find info on the Tri County area, so I just went through the top 200 on the Forbes 500 list. I saw 11 women. When I was looking up whether a particular names to see if the CEO was a man or women, I saw one black guy and one black lady. I only looked up a handful of names, so I'm guessing there are more. I don't exactly know how to tell if a person is black by their names. If only 11 out of 200 CEOs were women, it seems like a stretch to say that the low number of blacks is all about racism. If all was equal but race, wouldn't there be about 100 women CEOs? There would seem to be something else at work. Go Blazers
No win for the police. Using NYC for example, 96% of shooting victims are black and latino people. 97% of all shooting suspects are black or latino. The cops can stop and search the population that is doing all of the very worst violent crimes, from whom people of all colors want to be protected, and be assholes for profiling. Or, they can make sure they search white people (who aren't committing these crimes) 50% of the stops, and not protect the people who need protection. Actually, I wonder if blacks and latinos in NYC, given a chance to vote, would support stop and search. They are the ones being killed by these guys. Being a white guy, I can't speak for them about whether more safety is worth more searches of innocent minorities. I would guess that younger people would say no, and older folks would feel better about more protection. The problem, imo, is less about the police (though they have their piece of it) and more about a small percentage of asshole black and latino people fucking things up for their own races. I get it that it's easy for me to say submit to profiling, given that I'm not the one that is being harrassed. I just don't see it as such a black and white answer. Go Blazers
Actually I don't get it what all the fuss is about in Chicago. If you want to live where you can play war continually, then you stay where the action is. If you have better things to do with your life then you can move the hell out a there, any place will be better. NYC with its' stop and search is another matter, to me it is a gross violation of the 2nd amendment no matter what race is targeted. Another very good reason to move the hell outa there.
What seems lost in the Chicago fuss is that they already have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation. Yet, bad shit happens. Giving up your guns doesn't keep bad shit from happening. Go Blazers
No it means that that war you talked about had nothing to do with those deaths, since blacks were already free when put to death.
Ok, to be clear, the Union soldiers died ending slavery, not racism. That doesn't take away from the fact that a lot of the race that enslaved black people died ending that deplorable practice. Go Blazers
Frankly, in America, men know more about being rape victims than women do. Why wouldn't you be interested in their opinion? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/21/us-more-men-raped-than-women Is the US the only country where more men are raped than women? In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women. http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate
I've never met anyone who complained about their lot in life except those who really have nothing to complain about. My father's father fled Yugoslavia at age 18 to escape some horrific ethnic cleansing being performed there. Never saw what was left of his family again. He loved America, loved being a Real American, and never spoke of his childhood terror and certainly never used it as a crutch. The past is past, especially for those born after it has already passed. Lazy, self-pitying losers dwell in the past, but usually not in their own past since it's so much like the past of all their peers and nothing to pity. If someone wants to throw a pity party, don't invite me. Meanwhile, RIGHT NOW IN OUR DAILY LIVES (not yet in our history books) young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. Overall, blacks commit murder at 9 times the white rate. When do WE get a website chronicling these heinous, racially-motivated atrocities? http://topconservativenews.com/2013...y-14-times-the-rate-young-whites-did-in-2010/ http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6227a1.htm?s_cid=mm6227a1_w
I don't know how this applies to this thread, but I don't see it any different at all. Sometimes I think a boy being raped by a man is pretty fucking traumatic. Hell I was raped by my babysitter when I was 8.
