Originally posted by: lordjedi
The one person you left out of that list is Condoleeza Rice. In this case, she's just as guilty as the rest of them for saying that this reduces their accomplishments. It does nothing of the sort.

Yes, but it is a good excuse. It is the same thing as blaming public school teachers or bullies on the playground for your childrens failures in life. I was bulied, anybody here wasn't? We're doing okay right? We are not going around shooting people or blowing them up. I also played Doom a bit back in the day, and my dad owned a gun. Strangely I never took it to school and killed people. Fancy that. Oh, and there are countless movies I have not seen in the theater, and oddly this is not because I pirate them.

All these things are scape goats. Blame somebody else or something else for the probelms. We don't want to make good movies, but it is the pirates faults. My child is a phychotic killer, but that is id softwares fault, oh and the bullies at school are at fault for this too.

It is very sad that statistically African Americans accomplish less than cacasians. There are a lot of whites that don't go anywhere in life either. Success takes motivation. Motivated people succeed, unmotivated people fail. The parents have a massive amount of influence over their kids, I think it is their duty to motivate them and make sure they know what the world has to offer them, regardless of what others tell them. It is also the individuals responsibilty to push them selves to succeed. This should not be a color or a race issue, this should be a human issue. Going around saying it is the fault of white people that black children don't grow up and succeed as often and white kids do, is a fruitless accusation. You are only widening the gap between the two races. You would think by now that gap should be shrinking, but I think it is things like this recent radio incident is what keeps the wound from healing. It is like picking at the scab, reopening the wound and watching blood ooze out. If we tear down the barriers, things might get better (a little and slowly), but if it is not one side of the race it is the other who insists on keeping the wall fully erect. Of course, this is all totally the fault of white people, simply because they make a good scape goat.

It is ashame we all have to live down the sins of our fathers. I shall forever have to answer for the crusades because I am Christian, and for slavery because I am white, though I took part in and lived through neither.