A Different Way to Think

I ask myself all the time now, what is the main thing that separates us blacks from Americans.  I have come to the following realizations, thanks to Obama.

• Laziness – We are not willing to sacrifice a little enjoyment and suffer a little now, in order to prosper later.  A co-worker couldn’t believe that I did not like Barrack Obama.  She told me that he gives us hope for the future.  She talked about how her dad had to quite school because his parents didn’t think it was important, and he had to suffer to provide for his family.  My answer was to call shenanigans.  For every example of someone who didn’t have the chances to get ahead, there is the story of someone who took risks and made their own opportunity.
• Ambition – The majority of black people just do not have ambition.  We get in school and it gets tough and we give up and decide that a job in the local mill or shipyard is good enough for us.  So what happens when the mill goes out of business.  We have no education and no job and complain that the system is designed to keep us from getting ahead.  As far as I am concerned, the government will front you the money to go to any college if you are poor.  There is no excuse to settle for a blue collar job.  We should all be seeking higher education and looking to do whatever we can to earn more money.
• Racism – We complain about racism, when we are more racist than most white people.  We sit at home and joke about white people.  We chastise family members who date or hang out with white people.  We establish majority black schools, neighborhoods and churches to avoid white people.  The average white person in the suburbs is far less concerned about us than we are about them.  We turn on Nascar races and see 200,000 racist rednecks, when truth is, the people at the race would give the shirt off their backs for you.  Its just that black people don’t follow the sport and thus when you go to the race, you see plenty of black people, just not in the stands.  They are working…cleaning, serving food, punching tickets, etc, because they are low income jobs that we love so much.
• Self destructive beliefs – White people tell their kids, you can do whatever you want when you grow up.  Black people tell their kids, we can’t do anything because of the white man.  We start with the negative and have to work through it, whereas white people start with the positive and move forward.  Our families encourage us to take so called good jobs at warehouses or mills, rather than telling us to strive for more.  We encourage our kids to go to minority institutes simply because of tradition, when the same state, or even city, may have a traditional school that offers a world class education in your discipline.  We use racism as a crutch rather than a motivation. 
• Politics – We follow Democrats en mass, following a party that believes in making it easy to underachieve, and stay in the middle class.  The party that freed us and believes in the American dream of starting with nothing and becoming rich, we shrug them off as elitists and racists. 
• Inability to forgive and forget – Black people are a very religious bunch, yet when it comes to the Christian practice of forgiving, we digress.  We don’t understand that in order to get over the past we have to move forward to the future.  Nothing constructive comes from talking about slavery and segregation.  I am lucky enough to grow up in a generation where racism isn’t as bad, and a black man can actualy give up on black women and find a white wife.  If we’re lucky and we stop perpertuating stereotypes, the next generation should be over it.  I see no need personally to condemn a fellow man for something someone did 50-400 years earlier.  My one true racist encounter involved me on a date with a white girl.  Someone from her neighborhood hollered out “What you doing bringing that nigger around here?” to which I replied “Whats up my nigga” and reached out and gave him five.  We can’t get to the future if we continue to live in the past, and we can’t have hope i a black man who was raised and educated as a white man to somehow magically elevate a whole race.  That man has lobbyists, constituents and donors to satisfy or his political lynching won’t come from his enemies, but from those who helped get him elected…with no experience…and no real ideals.

These points were already prevalent before president obama was elected, but they were magnified by his election.  People with no understanding of politics who had never voted went out and voted for someone who offered change and hope…Two issues that have no real meaning.  Obviously, we have the best government, so changing it is a damning act towards America, and hope in this case makes no sense.  Obama inspires hope in people who have no drive to try to improve themselves, so the hope is useless.  Now our true racism is shown every time a television show mentions Obama, and then puts the first lack person they have available on camera to talk about him as if they were a political science major (I have studied poli sci by the way).  Our ignorance is shown by the fact that we turned one of the more amazing events in the world (a presidential inauguration and the peaceful transfer of power) into a massive ghetto block party in DC.�
My people shame me a lot these days, but just as there’s no way to escape being governed by a person who was dishonorable enough to talk trash about our president for a year to get elected, I can’t escape the millions of people earning this man more money by buying obama paraphernalia.  It’s a sad situation, that requires staying out of black areas as much as possible, and avoiding most network tv programming for the next 3 11/12 years.  Oh yes, I’m counting it down.