I would NEVER try to bully you. I want you to post your opinion.
Sadly, the legacy of slavery is still with us. Of course, we are all responsible for our actions and behavior now. But, our histories stay with us. My son and I discuss the condition of Black people frequently. We both agree that some Blacks were fortunate enough to overcome their circumstances, while others were not. The Black men who walked away from their families just so they could get welfare benefits, were already beaten down by the system.
Most Black men remained with their families no matter what. The legacy of slavery couldn't destroy them.
Every one of us has some sort of history to overcome. Nobody gets to skate through life easily. It always looks like the other person has it easy while we have it hard. Some people do have harder lives than others, but I don't think it's a skin color thing. It's just how we're dealt the cards.
Yes. It is no doubt harder to rise to the top when we are dealt things that constitute negatives. I think the slavery legacy isn't as much about what everyone else thinks about black people as it is what they think of themselves. But, what we think of ourselves is a determining factor and it is a valid one.
I have known a number of black men who stayed with their families through the tough times and worked to keep the family unit together. I have known as many white men who walked out on their families when the going got rough.
And yes......I have known black men and white men who left their families so that the family could get welfare benefits. Government has never been a friend of the intact family.
It is too much to hope that some sense could be knocked into all our heads for us to realize it's the human condition we are at the mercy of. Throughout history people have been persecuted for having the wrong skin color. I can't think of any reason for persecuting a person that's dumber than doing it for unpopular skin coloring. Shallow doesn't even come close to touching the stupidity of that.
Yet....... it happens. Often. I was judged and had rocks thrown at me for my skin color as a child and you probably suffered from being judged for yours. There's no sense in that.
But ultimately, we are all responsible for our own actions. God won't listen to our excuses for those actions. We own them.