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Posted by UWS Greg on Thu Apr 21 18:14:41 2005, in response to A honest cultural question..., posted by brooklynQB on Thu Apr 21 17:01:22 2005. Dear BrooklynQB,Five responses to your sincere post preceded mine. I politely and humbly ask you to ignore all of them. Your post was emotional-- rather than statistical-- in nature but the respondants knew only how to respond with data, ignoring -- or not able to-- sense what prompted you to write. Not only volumes of books but entire college level curricula have been amassed trying to come to grips with the problems you cite: guns, violence, drugs-- which exist everywhere, of course, but the black community is particularly hard-hit. The numbers are, well, almost numbing but there are also perceptual issues: blacks as they are portrayed in the media -- INCLUDING how many blacks, unfortunately, CHOOSE to portray themselves, as thugs, gangstas, womanizers with no soul, etc. My advice, my friend:: don't let anyone, black or white, define YOU. You need only be the terrific guy you are-- which I sense from your many posts here. And everything else will fall nicely into place for you. OK, buddy?? |
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