Reply #123: Haha.

[Evoman]

My friend, let me tell you about myself. I grew up in a ghetto...in fact, I grew up in what a Canadian magazine called the worst neighbourhood in Canada. I grew up in a single parent household. We were a number of Latino families in the middle of a Native American neighbourhood. My mom made under 10, 000 a year. You think I have problems? Fuck that, I graduated at the top of my high school, went to university, and finished at the top of my class there too. I KNOW poverty, I KNOW helplessness, and I KNOW powerlessness. I'm not some asshole who has never lived in anything but I nice neighbourhood waxing philosophical about the problems with others' cultures.

I climbed out of the gutter, where others didn't. I was lucky. Nobody ever gave me anything, including the people who "wanted my culture to get better". Its fucking bullshit...you can't know what it's like until you've had people trying to knock you off the ladder. That's what minorities face.

Taking control of ones life is essential. I did it. I'm not making excuses. But when you live in shitty neighbourhoods, with shitty schools and the only people who work hard barely making enough to scrape by, you realize that it's all a fucking farce. You want to know why they glorify rappers, gangsters and hustlers? Because they are the only ones who have any sort of success. You see your uncle working as a janitor making shit all, you see your educated cousin not being hired by white business because of his name, so you think...fuck it....I'll hustle like my brother.

"And I take offense that you label only "white" culture as a culture that puts value on education, stable family life and hard work. I think THAT'S racist to say such a thing. American/World/Human culture puts a value on such things, not just whites. That's a lousy attitude"

Strawman bullshit. I never said that. What I did was say that white culture is a culture of corruption, greed, and putting money in front of your family. It's a culture of exploitation and injustice. It's a culture of "get mine first" and acting like your shit don't stink.

But I didn't even really mean that....and I'm suprised that nobody took the bait. I was hoping to be called a racist, so that I could show that it's never alright when we say things like that about white people, but it is when we denigrate "black" culture.

Self-enlightment can get INDIVIDUALS out of a bad situation. I did it. But most people, including a lot of the rich fucks on wallstreet, aren't self enlightened. And you can't make them be by denigrating them, generalizing their culture, and then pissing on them when push comes to shove. Keep cutting welfare, keep cutting funding to their schools, and then tell them you care about them.