Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated - they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. , to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them.
To address this point by point (and you can all yell at me later):
Farrakhan says horrible things. I work in the inner-city and it feels just lovely to see people distributing
The Monitor (I think that's the name) which preaches Farrakhan's doctrine: hate the evil white race. I'm sorry,
but I work with young black men who I care for deeply. I've spent many sleepless nights worrying about them;
I've spent more than I've made some shifts to buy them things; I've cried many tears. But does it help for them
to read articles that pour out hatred of "the evil white man"? Hate is hate, whatever group or individual it's directed towards.
The difference is if you choose to hate an individual's actions, that's based on choices that individual made and how you've
chosen to react to such. But to hate a whole racial/ethnic group is just stupidity, unless you believe every person in that
group fully supports the behavior of every other individual in that group (and if you believe that I don't have any idea how to help you).
Next, what I saw in the Astrodome:
Beautiful, amazing people working their a**es off, two men who came to me needing transportation to the job interview they'd
arranged. They'd done so by researching via the internet available jobs, calling the guy from a phone in the Astrodome, then
realizing that the bus wouldn't take them to the interview location. They didn't actually own a change of clothes but already
had interviews that were basically a sure thing. Btw, the jobs they were getting sucked: hard, manual labor. Stuff that would
turn most of us into whiny infants before two hours were through. So the bs garbage about blacks lacking in morality is just that.
What else I saw: people who weren't leaving the Astrodome till the gvmnt handed them an apartment and monthly checks.
They'd lived this way for a long time and were choosing to continue this. A white guy (one of the few I saw) who stole a credit
card etc. from the home of the family who opened up their home to him. A young man who yelled at me b/c I asked him to fill
out a form (the form consisted of four lines of info) b/c he was a victim of the hurricane and I'd better give him what he deserved and NOW.
What else: A black preacher from Washington DC who came down to help with a passion unlike any I've seen.
The stupidity in all of this is that you just can't start grouping ppl and judging them that way! There are wonderful/horrible people of every race.
Btw, sorry if the anger in this is obvious. But I've been called a white-trash f** b** by kids I work with (and at 7 you didn't think up those words
on your own) and at the same time been loved and adored by them. A white kid I work with told me "well you know how Mexicans are." And
the worst part is I don't have a solution, hence the frustration just grows and grows.
