How to Make Angry Americans!

[KhaOZ]

Originally Posted by Sc0rPi0n

As an education critic, I know just how few role models black kids have. All of their non-white role models are sports stars, so having a black president they may pay more attention to politics and try and immolate him instead of someone like Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, Latrell Sprewell, et cetera. When suddenly it becomes cool to go to school and get an education and still be as bad ass as Obama, these kids may get some motivation outside drugs and gangs. America needs somebody like Obama as president right now!

In reply to your last paragraph, sort of like the old days? Back when black people had strong leaders like Martin Luther King.

The big difference is, those people fought and lead as black people, for black people. Obama could be the first black person to be in a position to lead for EVERYONE.

[Sc0rPi0n]

Baby steps. One day maybe the word "black" won't be attached to everything. I know its all just racism, I mean, America has had its fair share of racism apart from blacks if you think about it with the Immigrants coming through Ellis Island.

In class today the teacher was talking about incorporating multicultural education and to include minorities into the curriculum. The whole time I am thinking "why, I never thought about whether the teacher should incorporate Germans when I was growing up". But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense; there IS a division between blacks, hispanics, and "white" people. Today it doesn't matter if you are Irish or w/e as long as you are white. So when you see all these white people doing great things and your ancestors didn't do shit, it creates a self-defeating prophecy so to speak. Atleast I as a German can look at guys like Hitler...

I mean, we are getting there; we aren't that bad today. Jesse Jackson and the people who are the head of these organizations will make it out to be that way because they are getting money, but honestly we have gotten to the point that labeling somebody as "black", whether it be for multicultural purposes, celebrating history, or whatever, is just going to keep things the same. 50 years from now, if things continue the way they are, how are we to progress? Nobody cares about race anymore so why bring it up? I know a lot of black kids that play video games, and act like normal white kids. I don't view those kids as black, I view them as normal people.

Obama becoming president won't just make things better for black kids, but white people who generalize black people. He is proof that given the right environment, "black people" can be no different than white people in both attitude and intelligence.