Your comment is an important one, because it points out succinctly that there’s a subset of blacks that are ghetto blacks. But we need to remember that there are plenty who fall outside that subset.
In my office in Southern California I have some black coworkers and they’re definitely not the grievance-based and hate-based types that we see in inner cities. They’re good people who work just as hard as anyone else in the office and definitely don’t deserve to be lumped in with the “ghetto” subset.
The problem isn’t in the melanin content of the individuals, but in the content of their minds. Hateful thoughts - whether truthful or not - will manifest in a pervasive unhappiness that’ll consume everything else and turn that life to anger, resentment and bitterness, which will be passed on to subsequent generations, thereby perpetuating the cycle that we’re seeing. It can only be fixed from within. External forces cannot repair the problem, but external forces can remove or eliminate the problem. It remains to be seen how this plays out and Ferguson may be the jumping off point for the larger issue.
Yeah, I worked w/ one that was just 'one of us', treated exactly the same, socially also.
Boy was I surprised when the OJ verdict was announced and his true inner feelings rolled out.
Changed my entire prespective on race reltions.