Please answer my question about BLACKS and RESPECT?
I know NOT ALL blacks are like this, but notice the issue of respect is brought up more black culture,specifically in their music. REPEAT: I know NOT ALL blacks are like this but...They rap about trying to get respect, giving respect, being disrespected etc.I'd like to know their definition of RESPECT. Im referring to ghetto blacks who dont value education. Also the ones who throw food wrappings on their streets(breeding more rats and bugs in their neighborhoods which are already a mess), The ones that get into fights over menial things(stepping on someone's sneaker by accident.) They have babies w/ different mothers& fathers & dont get married. They dont take care of their kids, yet they demand respect from others. **I know THERE ARE white trash, hispanics and asians who are just as bad** but AGAIN, it's ghetto blacks that are always bringing up the topic of respect. For ghetto blacks: If you dont respect yourselves , your kids, your environment, y should anyone else respect you?
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too right
respect is a two way street, you have to give it to get it.
You clearly know nothing about blacks. Might I suggest you read "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin, just to get your feet wet.
You're giving me a "thumbs down" for attempting to educate you? Nice.
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"Black Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961 (it was made into a film in 1964). The book describes Griffin's (a white native of Mansfield, Texas) six-week experience travelling throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia passing as a black man. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles.
Griffin kept a journal of his experiences; the 188-page diary was the genesis of the book.
In 1959, at the time of the book's writing, race relations were particularly strained in North America; Griffin's aim was to explain the difficulties facing black people in certain areas. To expedite this, under the care of a doctor, Griffin artificially darkened his skin to pass as a black man."
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To Debbie: Sweetie, this book is about a white man's experiences while living life as a black man, and is as valid today as it was when written.
Yes, I get the point you're attempting to make, but it's irrelevent in the context of what the book offers.
The asker of the question is wholly unaware of the history and traditions of blacks in this country. This book will get his feet wet, like I suggested.
And as for "segregation and prejudice" being "legal and accepted then and it's not now" I have to vehemently disagree with that statement.
Racial hatred is alive and well.
Are you aware that a black man was dragged from a chain attached to a truck in Texas (until dead) less than two years ago?
Just blunders and slip-ups with human errors in counting themselves short with self prides and self discrimination to our creator's universal gifts of life vital for their own survival and advancement of themselves.
No one discriminate them.
Just kick their own butts with self lack of knowledge in making a mess in own backyards.
Our creator's universal gifts of life is for the good of mankind.
It's vital for the survival and advancement of each and every living human kind on planet earth.
Look at the mess with living examples in Iraq with self prides and self discriminaton as people of different races of self racism living in misery in own backyards in kicking the butts of our creator of heaven and earth without being aware of the mess created in own backyards.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors with ghostly stories from the graveyards of ghostly ancestor's custom.
Luke 9.60
I think the issue is that they feel that they are not taken seriously by the establishment in anything they try to do. There are still people who will simply not go to black doctors or dentists. Some who would mortgage their homes rather than accept a black court appointed lawyer. That's a basic disrespect. Would you have your family member's remains handled by a black mortician of funeral home? Rap music is the cross over media for this generation to spread their angst to as wide an audience as possible. I have my white friends who argue against getting an education but I don't consider them trash, just stupid. They would rather get high than go to school. Well, I don't let them drag me down. I don't hang out with them anymore. I know some black people who are freaking phenomenal. I respect them and they respect me. I do my best to give respect where it is due. Those who can't respect me because of my age or for any reason get from me the respect they show to me.
I wouldn't have given blueridgeliving a thumbs down for simply suggesting reading material but that book is from a time when segregation was still legal and racism was still out in the open and socially accepted.
You can't compare then and now. I would agree that to get respect you have to give it.
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