I've always wondered I think it's true.
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I don't feel most white people hate blacks.  If they did, blacks would not be in the positions many successful blacks find themselves in today.  Does racism exist - absolutely,  but that is a knife which cuts both ways.\n\nThe difficulty many blacks have achieving in this country I feel can be attributed to the following reasons:\n\n1) The small percentage of blacks, particularly young black males,  which are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of crime in the country (particularly violent crime).  I have heard but can not recall the sourse that attributes 75% of murder in the country to black youths.  If that is correct, that would mean that roughly 3% of the population is comitting 75% of the murders.  Reduce the murder rate attributed to young blacks in half and it is still an outrageous statistic.\n\n2) An extremely high percentage ( 60+ % ) rate of unwed females giving birth into a system which will perpetuate their children into almost certain poverty and dependence on an ever increasingly resentful society.\n\n3) A significant portion of the black culture which appears to be incapable of fully integrating into a system which has proven time and time again that its rewards are directly proportional to the effort put into achieving within the system.\n\n4) An apparent broad based inability to accept that not all actions taken against blacks are because of skin color.  Sandra McKinney is yet another recent prime example.  Had a white person, congressional member or not, struck a whitehouse cop in today's climate, that person would be under the jail, not appearing on 200 media outlets for a week playing the race card.  \n\nI have to admit, it was refreshing that not a single member of the Congressional Black Caucus participated in her defense in any manner.\n\n5) Hold on to your hats for this one - I feel the single biggest reason blacks aren't as succuessful as everyone would want them to be is an inabilty to move forward despite the tragedy of slavery.  There absolutely has to come a time when that era in their history is remembered but not used as a crutch or devisive tool.  \n\nThere IS NOT another single society on the planet that has not taken slaves or conversely has not been taken as slaves as a result, primarily, of war.  It does not make either one right or wrong.  It makes them a fact of history experienced by every single race, society, culture, and country that ever existed prior to 1900.\n\nMy ancestory is Irish.  I will not get into the well documneted torturous behavior the people living on what is now Ireland have endured since seemingly the beginning of mankind.  \n\nDo I fault, the Scandinavians, the Romans, the British.  Each of these groups have taken slaves, ruthlessly murdered men, women and children and looted everything of value they could manage to carry and some they couldn't like the land itself.  These are all well documented facts.  But most importantly to me is that they are facts which did not happen to me, my parents, or grandparents just as no black person living today can claim.  \n\nI accept this is how people of different origins treated each other during that period in history.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Just actions in the context of world history.\n\nThere must be some point in time when blacks living in the US accept their history in a similar fashion or they will never fully allow themselves to intergrate into the society. \n\nPick your magic number.  Whether its 150 years, 500 years, or 5,000 years, only you can decide.  \n\nJust as a point of reference, between 1841 and 1845 alone, the most widely accepted numbers of Irish deaths at the hands of the british are between 700,000 to 800,000 or put another way as much as 30% of the total population in many regions of the country.  2 million others were forced to flee Ireland or die as well.  These deaths are part of a long history of turmoil in Ireland which ended less than a decade ago and had been going
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Yes, I do.  I can't prove it, but I know it's true.  I just don't know what to do about it.
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i have never heard that so i dont think it is true
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I believe it is not true.
122018
I'd say finding out because you always will have the lingering thought of how much of it was true if it was true at all. If you have overheard it then you know exactly what went on and there is no self torment over it!
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I have heard that it did.
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I think it was called"Strange But True".
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Because the Bible tells me it true.\n\nK
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lol i think this theory is true ^_^
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I have never thought about it that way but i see your point
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I dont know but it is true.
189187
I believe it is a scientific matter...my opinion
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Good thing for me that I believe.  Or do I?
277471
I totally believe that.
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I am pretty sure all are True.
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You would think so, I'm not sure.
91212
yes. and yes it is true,