this is why I have to remember to not talk shit to random peoples.

[MisterV]

I wish the underlying basis for my above post did not exist; the notion that all people are equal is appealing yet currently not a reality.

Whites look down their noses at blacks for a variety of reasons: the biggest is probably the fairly recent history of slavery with the "master/slave" relationship still firmly rooted in all of our minds.

Another reason is the abject failure of blacks in America to improve both their lot and their neighborhoods.

I grew up in Plainfield, NJ, a bedroom community of NYC; as a kid it was mostly white, middle and upper middle class with a "black section," i.e. small ghetto of shitty homes.

Black rioters ran amuck in the sixties, leading to basically all the whites in Plainfield saying "Fuck this shit, I'm outs here" and then fleeing.

Today Plainfield is majority black, black run, and has become, quite predictably, a festering sore, a shit hole.

I wish it weren't so, but to deny reality is delusional.

For a bit I lived in south Jersey, in a nice white town a few towns away from one of if not the worst city in America, Camden NJ.

see:

"Staggering poverty surrounded by staggering wealth."

I wish it weren't so.

This past year has seen the "black lives matter" movement gain traction; but given what I see happening I can only conclude it is bullshit because many blacks don't treat their own lives as having value, so why should anyone else feel differently?