A Different Way to Think

As a black Libertarian I am no stranger to the flawed backwards looking thought process of black people in America.  I have had to debate the merits of forward thinking and big picture thinking and seeing us as Americans and not as a separatist culture of pseudo-Americans.  If you dig deep enough you’ll hit that point at which any black person exposes their own prejudice and racism.  The problem is that they have been raised to think that their separate African America is the better culture and that the rest of the world is racist and only moments from re-instating racism.  All the shortcomings of black people are the result of others.  Anything a white person says that doesn’t agree with black culture is racist, yet black people can’t be racist.  I’m here to introduce a new, truly progressive way to view black people.  We are not the seperate group of people who are special because we look the same.  We are Americans who happen to have brown skin.  Our equality will not come through the actions of others but through our actions.  There is a reason there are some people who are extraordinary and successful, but most black people are not.  Because the successful look to the future and work on securing it instead of living in the past.  But I have strayed beyond the point.  The point is that there are plenty of Shirley Sherrod’s in the real world who are not being taken out of context from a dated speech.  They say the things we thought Sherrod did in today’s world.  Here’s a chat transcript from a friendly debate I had with one.