Debra_Law wrote:I read through the first three pages . . . and I got tired. Whew.
First. Everyone has to pay taxes. We cannot give people a tax exemption based on the color of their skin.
Second. This is the land of opportunity. The opportunites for obtaining an education and making something of yourself are there -- you just need to grasp those opportunities. If you don't take advantage of the opportunities available, you're engaging in self-repression / oppression.
Third. Your attitude is pathetic and self-defeating. Woe is me. I'm disadvantaged by the color of my skin and 300 years of oppression! Why should I bother to better myself? Why should I work to get an education? Why should I aspire to developing a work ethic?
Society gives you all the opportunties you could possibly need to be successful (to get an education and to make a decent living) if you work at being successful. No one can do the work for you. No one is going to hand you success. You have to earn it. You have to achieve that on your own regardless of your skin color. Get off your pity pot and get to work.
Fourth: You don't grasp the concept of personal responsibility. Government handouts to the poor, the sick, and the needy only go so far. If you are an able-bodied human being capable of learning and working, you cannot expect the Government to give you everything you want simply because of your skin color.
Fifth: The government has done everything it can possibly do to put an end to racial discrimination and to integrate the descendants of the former slaves into society. If you insist on differentiating yourself and segregating yourself from the rest of society based on the color of your own skin, there is nothing more that society can do.
The best helping hand you will ever find is the one at the end of your own wrist. You are not entitled to a free ride and government hand-outs because your ancestors were repressed.
First, to suggest that everyone must pay taxes ignores the fact that not everyone had to be slaves and thus not everyone is descendants of slaves. True, it is the law that everyone must pay taxes; however, it was also the law that people (black people) could be held as slaves, while others were free. Secondly, it is OUR money
the black taxpayers that would go into a fund for black peoples. That does not mean that we would not be taxed, but that our tax dollars would be collected and pulled into a fund for black reparations.
Secondly, opportunity in America is determined by the economic laws of supply and demand. People do not control their fate in the system, but rather, their fate is dependant upon opportunities the system is supplying. For example, recessions or contractions in the economy lead to people losing jobs and income, despite them being educated or not. When a large number of white folks are out of work, it is attributed to the economy not supplying enough opportunities. When large numbers of blacks are out of work, it is not attributed to the economy, but laziness and the unwillingness to grasp opportunity. The fact of the matter is that there has been massive divestment from black communities, eroding the tax base, education and job opportunities due to "white flight"
Thirdly, what are the lies that I have spoken? how can speaking the truth be considered an attitude? If it can be considered an attitude, then that attitude is called HONESTY. If honesty is self defeating, then I am not looking for success from the virtues of dishonesty. Maybe that is black peoples problem
we are not WICKED enough to get ahead and compete in a wicked world. I guess the summation of your premise is that nice guys finish last.
Fourthly, personal responsibility extends to the government as well. If the government breaks something, it should be held responsible for fixing it. You cannot have a government of credibility that walks west while talking east. In other words, the government cannot preach responsibility, accountability and consequence for actions while not being responsible, accountable or facing any consequences for its legalizing the oppression of black people, which resulted in the socio and economic gaps that exists between blacks and white today.
Fifthly, this is a government of the people, for the people and by the peoples. Who are the pluralities of those people? White peoples, that's who. Thus, when you talk about the government in this representative republic, you are talking about white people. Hence, the suggestion that white people have done all they can to integrate those that it oppressed back into society is laughable. We were already integral to the society
because much of its foundation was built of our oppression. It is not you who have given us anything, but us who have provided a place for European people's ancestors to come to in their attempts to escape the tyranny and oppression of all white Europe at the time.
Lastly, If someone starts rapping someone else, then stops, the action of stopping does not negate the starting. If you are raped, gods forbid, does the person stopping what they started make things even and whole? Of course not. To suggest that just because the government eventually put a legal end to what it legally promoted for centuries
as making things correct
is asinine and insulting.
