@ GilloD:
you seem to suggest that embedded racialization doesn't exist. Explicit racism is largely gone [but not totally gone: see West Virginia, Tobey Keith, etc etc], but unspoken racism is strong as ever.
You seem to talk like a typical conservative: the reason blacks often head into gangsta, thuggery, become drug dealing pimps who are uneducated and speak funny, are because not only do they CHOSE to be so, but because their parents CHOSE to be so, their forefathers CHOSE to be so, and basically the whole general black community CHOSE to speak unintelligent dialect, become thugs, and become unintelligent and unwilling to lift themselves up like many hardworking, oft prosperous white [or whatever] people have done.
In short, you seem to think and act like Keith and Glenn Beck.
My challenge to you is: have you ever spent a certain amouint of time either living in such community, knowing people very well who lived in such situations, or done proper research into such communities? Where's the fucking proof that blacks are in their situation because thei're lazy? How bout you back them up?
Now, i'm not saying it's all th MAN's fault or the white man's fault [here's a stupid comic for you]...
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I simply prefer to be open minded to be th epossibility that it is both lack of individual motivation and iimbedded racialization/legacy of past, both reinforcing the other sometimes.
