I think your mentality is what's wrong with the World
@mgrand15, not mine.
Not a personal shot at you but real talk I feel your mentality is detrimental to society.
Who cares how someone else had something you didn't. Worry about what you can change going forward so that your kids don't have to go without
this is what I don't get about people with your mentality. This mentality is pretty much saying yea i know that we aren't evenly represented or given adequate chances in the political system, school system, law system.... but that's Okay because if you work hard enough you will overcome that. you are talking about excuses and using this as a "crutch" rather then opening your voice up and Demanding to be treated and given the same opportunity as your white counterparts in the land of the "Free". I'm tired of this Bs mindset acting as if blacks are asking too much to be treated FAIRLY in a country we inhabit.
You speak on changing things we have control of... well us wanting equality in these pivotal systems is something that we can change, however the discrepancies in these systems that are OVERWHELMING when viewed have got to be challenged and highlighted. Keeping your mouth shut, and working "harder" isn't helping your kids future. Because regardless of how hard you work, and how much resources you invest into your child, they will still be a minority.... they will still be vilified by some cops, they will still be guilty until proven innocent in the law system, they will still be undervalued at their jobs, they will still be judged on a different moral base than caucasions will. So if you want to sit idle in a world that is clearly hampering minorities cool, but don't act as if you are magically going to stop your kids from going through those consequences because you wanted to be the good ol boi.
I had this same convo with a doctor a few days ago, and he went on to explain to me how he worked all these hours, & he 100's of thousands in debt between his schooling & his childrens schooling etc etc. I then asked him his opinion on minorities & people who live in poor neighborhoods and he goes on to tell me they aren't hard enough workers or their just lazy because they haven't done something that 80% of the other people in their neighborhoods haven't done. People get success and seem to look down on those who are going through the same struggle they did because they "Made it out".
Imo that's a suckas role, these are the first people to quote MLK, but where would we be now if he had that mindset and said "Welp i made it out, the rest of yall ****** better watch me and make it through all these impossible odds that most fail at if you wanna live like me". MLK accomplished things most humans will never accomplish but he knew that his path wasn't something that was gonna be commonly duplicated, in order for those to even have a chance he knew that he would have to fight for equality & try his best to make the playing field even, a battle that has barely budged since the end of civil rights.
I HATE ppl who look down on other people. Can't have anybody around me like that
