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Safi
9/28/09

Trivia: In 2003, the New York Times reported that the Pentagon screened this film for officers and civilian experts who were discussing the challenges faced by the US military forces in Iraq. The flier inviting guests to the screening read: “How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas”.

In home country when migrants (people from other parts of the country) come and take jobs and hard times set in people take to the streets, torch cars, and yes dead bodies do start to show up.

America is letting immigrants come here for a better life, they are paid wages 9 to 30 times higher then in home country for unskilled work, they can use this wealth to buy capital and technical expertise (and America will subsidize their education if they go for it too), yet they don’t.

Can a McDonald’s worker afford a $10,000 car payment and a 500 square foot apartment in Mexico? In America they can …

Black America operates the same as immigrants, with a victimization mentality.

Were past wrongs dealt to African Americans, yes their were, but you know what wrongs are dealt to everyone, even at the individual level. Instead of creating helpless and depressed communities that look at the police as the enemy, why don’t you encourage your youth to achieve things.

God does not change the fate of a people who does not change the fate of themselves.

I think with President Obama’s election this mentality will die out, and minorities will start to integrate rather then embrace the racist multicultural policies of the left.

Re: incarceration stats for US prisons: “What this should signal to those who are paying attention is that the U.S. doesn’t have a clue when it comes to creating racial equality.”

So if the percentage by race of the general population was equivalent to that of the prison population, you would be happy with that? Would we have equality then? This kind of thinking illustrates the absurdity of “equality” in the sense you use it. Equal opportunity–OK. Treat others as equals until they give you reason not to– I’m all for that. But to demand that society itself “create” equality of result, that is delusional.

What seems to bother you is that people of all colors are generally held accountable for their behavior: productive and harmonious behavior merits reward, while destructive behavior merits punishment. I don’t doubt that to some extent blacks– because of their race– get unfair treatment in the U.S. by law enforcement. But that appears to be the less significant part of the problem. Just looking at stories in this periodical it is clear that wanton violence is readily given justification in the black community when it serves as a balm to social wounds both real and imagined. When non-blacks believe that there is a very real and threatening “culture of violence” among urban American blacks, there is a mountain of blood-soaked evidence to support that view.

As the previous commenter asks, What is it that you want? Not– what do you want from society or from non-blacks– but what do you want from yourselves? What do you demand of yourself that will take you to a higher level? Whatever it is you will have to generate it for yourselves. It cannot be obtained from or given to you by any outside (human) source.

Edgar A Martinez
Mesa, AZ