from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39993685/ns/health-womens_health/ -- Interesting article that kind of made me mad and is an insult to Afican Americans everywhere.The article states that according to new government statistics, today, seventy-two percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers. The author of the article, AP’s Jesse Washington, goes on to state in the article:
Statistics show just what that fullness means. Children of unmarried mothers of any race are more likely to perform poorly in school, go to prison, use drugs, be poor as adults, and have their own children out of wedlock. There are simple arguments for why so many black women have children without marriage.
The legacy of segregation, the logic goes, means blacks are more likely to attend inferior schools. This creates a high proportion of blacks unprepared to compete for jobs in today's economy, where middle-class industrial work for unskilled laborers has largely disappeared. The drug epidemic sent disproportionate numbers of black men to prison, and crushed the job opportunities for those who served their time. Women don't want to marry men who can't provide for their families, and welfare laws created a financial incentive for poor mothers to stay single. If you remove these inequalities, some say, the 72 percent will decrease.
WTF?!?!?! How does segregation affect ANYBODY nowadays? So are we to believe that once again, evil whitey, once again, rears his ugly, rich, white head.
You know, it’s my opinion that white men in the past 25 years, have become the NEW “N” word. Add religious and heterosexual to the description and this poor individual who belongs in this group becomes more of a target for vile and disgust. It’s OK to treat whites as evil, to racially discriminated against, to verbally and in some instances physically abuse, tell them to step to the back of the bus (according to MY president, Barrack Obama in reference to Republicans –all of whom which are NOT white) because of the injustices to minorities in the past. It’s acceptable to racially profile white people; to make white jokes and not to provide equal judgment or opportunity to whites because they are white.
Racial crimes of the past here in the US are reprehensible and God knows, I wish I could go back and change things. I remember growing up in foster homes with blacks. I remember getting beat up because of associating with my black friends by both whites and blacks. I recall the stigma of not only being in “a home”, but growing up with Blacks and Hispanics.
I remember going to Columbia, SC when I was 11 to accept an award for writing a poem about Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech for an annual state writing competition named “Maggie’s Drawers”. I remember the applause I got when I was announced and how the applause quickly faded and the rumble of unintelligible conversation in the crowd when this pale fat kid stood up to acknowledge the award.
Things like the above sticks with a person. It’s widely acknowledged that political correctness has run amok. Yet, like the turnstile election and re-election of the same old ‘same old’ in Washington, it’s shrugged off and not dealt with. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. We have someone leading our country who is considered by most as “black”. We have specific laws and organizations for people who are not considered Caucasian or “white”. Corporations and businesses, schools, government operated entities hire people because they are not known as being “white” or “male”. Charities and the government provide money and other assistance to people because they are of a certain skin color that is not white or who are not considered Caucasian or male.
I had a situation here at work and without warning and unrelated at all to the situation, I had “the race card” played and brought up. Totally caught me off guard.
There’s no way I can understand the plight or the past crimes against a people because of the color of their skin (or sex). But try walking in a (flawed) christian, heterosexual male’s shoes the past 25 years. It’s like something from a nightmare constantly reading,, hearing, seeing in TV, movies, songs, having general media and hate gr about how evil I am because I’m white and as I got older the hassle of (trying to be) a Christian and heterosexual.
