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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“I’ve always been telling my sons, ‘We have to separate fault from responsibility,’” he said. “Whose fault it is that Black men are in this situation, whose fault it is doesn’t matter. It’s our responsibility to make it go right. It’s our responsibility. It’s a lot of people’s fault, systemic racism, and it’s a lot of people’s fault that the Black community is in the situation that we’re in, but it’s our responsibility to clean up the mess.”

If there was systemic racism in America, he would not have become a top box-office star. Who's holding you back???

13 posted on 02/24/2015 2:26:23 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

It really is beyond rational debate that there was institutional racism here. Governmentally it ended in the 50s and 60s. In peoples minds, mostly a while later.
He isn’t exactly being a radical to say that.
He is telling his kids that when they encounter things that still might not be right, accept personal responsibility to make it right.

Not a thing wrong with that. And a damn sight better than the race pimp point of view.


35 posted on 02/24/2015 3:00:16 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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