- Joined
- May 6, 2019
If I pull myself away from the laughability of the jogging... its actually kind of depressing. A lot of these young black people have been failed by forces outside their control. They were failed by their parents, the government, their culture, and in the end how can someone who has been failed by everything succeed? I find the more I delved into it, the more I questioned where the line of personal responsibility ended and societal responsibility begins.
There is a lot more beneath that, two sided, animosity than might meet the eye. Blacks are separated between "Those who left" and "Those who stayed". The general failings of society and themselves breeds animosity towards Those Who Left because its just one more group who chose to abandon them rather than help. For Those Who Left... they often don't see any way TO help, or actively want to cauterize that part of their history because its so ugly. They reject Those Who Stayed..
The animosity is two sided, not just one sided. And is just... depressing.
Welfare, pushes towards career choices and goals that were unrealistic and unobtainable, economic hardships -gutting- the core jobs of working class blacks around the 80s-90s. A push to "Be More White" from their communities and society at large leading to both failing to do so and backlash against the idea.
The U.S. Melting Pot has always worked best when people were allowed to keep their individual cultural identity and to slowly integrate into larger society. Its how we have American pizza, Cajun Cooking, thai restaurants everywhere, and every possible combination of European foods. But blacks were prevented from integration through segregation... and then when that ended they were suddenly expected to skip past the decades of slow integration and just skip right to "Be integrated entirely".
Just... American Blacks are a case study for "how not to do it" from every conceivable angle. The government, society, and themselves all failing at once one after another.
