"never taught in the hood telling me I'm a racist. But, anybody who has actually taught inner city black kids will agree with me 100%. You have to be one tough MF to teach these kids"
If you realize that this is more a condition of life in the hood and not just blacks in the hood, I don't think you are racist.
Please insert "all" between of and black
Critical point.
Most of the seemingly bad attitudes of Blacks come from the fact that slavery and its legacy so dehumanized us that we feel the need to be defensive always. We're so used to being treated unfairly, that even when others' intentions are good, they are still viewed with suspicion and hostility.
I agree, but I think it goes far beyond this. In many areas African Americans were treated worse after the Civil War than before it. This pretty much continued until Dr King and others forced white America to finally deal with this disgusting legacy. African Americans have a lot of catching up to do. Most American's don't realize that almost every, if not every Southern Town had laws on the books under the guise of "Vagrancy" and other clever names that made it essentially illegal to be African American. Proof of employment was required if one was challenged. How does a (often illerate) black sharecropper prove he's employed? Arrest for this was a "Go to Jail" card, no passing go. Life in one of many forced labor camp was punishment for this imaginary vagrancy.
Laws that made it illegal to quit your current employment unless you had written approval from your "boss" were common as well. Bet that made for some great working conditions.
Most of the dirty. dangerous jobs in the South and some in the North were manned by "vagrant" black workers who treated worse than slaves. After all this was "free" labor, these workers didn't cost anything to "buy". One dropped dead from the heat, malnutrition or disease...let the local sheffif know you needed another worker and he'd go out hunting for another vagrant. Historians are just starting to dig into this, but the data is there. Most towns still have records of it. The evidence is being slowly dug out of town hall records and old newspapers.
I'm not trying to be harsh on the "South" here. The "Civil War" was probably the worst possible way to have brought an end to slavery. It was pretty close to lose-lose, except for the carpet baggers of course.
I think the point I'm trying to make is that any group of people treated this way are going to travel a long hard road before they fully recover.
I didn't mean to hijack the thread, I actually had an on topic comment to make. My most recent x girlfriend had 3 young kids that were very poorly behaved. I've never seen kids as poorly behaved as hers before or since. The way my causasian gf treated them sounds pretty much like the "ghetto" treatment described in this thread. I was shocked time and again. At times I would take one aside give them a hug, and tell them that she didn't really mean what she had said. The way I interacted with her kids was completely different. My gf had a rough childhood, mine was as close to perfect as I can imagine. I usually attributed the difference in our parenting skills to that, how we had been raised.
I tend to put verbal abuse and physical abuse in the same category. Neither is acceptable. The funny thing is she was constantly asking her kids why they behaved me so much better than they did her. One actually told her once, because he's nicer to us than you are.
