Republican Party leaders in central Illinois are calling on their own candidate for state senate to step down following racist remarks he made at a candidate’s forum last week.
Al Reynolds, who is considered the Tea Party’s candidate in Illinois’ 52nd District, has been out of the spotlight since saying that African-American men preferred dealing drugs than going to college, because it is “easier.”
“I’ve been in the city and the dichotomy of the women and the men in the minorities, there is a difference in the fact that most minority women, either the single parent or coming from a poor neighborhood, are motivated more so than the minority men,” Reynolds said.
“And it’s a pretty good reason. Most of the women who are single parents have to find work to support their family. The minority men find it more lucrative to be able to sell drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier.”
“We need to provide ways that are more incentive, other than just sports avenues, for the men, for the minorities to want to go to college and get an education and better themselves before the women have to support them all.”
The crazy part about his statement is, Reynolds was speaking at an event sponsored by the NAACP.
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For years, I have read (in both the mainstream media & conservative media) how many non opportunities are afforded black men – causing a spiral decline in unemployment, drug arrests, and so forth.
What amazes me is that this candidate makes a relevant statement and what needs to be done about it, he is criticized for telling a truth: “We need to provide ways that are more incentive, other than just sports avenues, for the men for the minorities to want to go to college and get an education and better themselves before the women have to support them all.”
Why is it so objectionable to point out an actual truth and do something about it???
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Typical Tea Party Racist MTHERFER!!!!!.
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the same ignorant azzes who think all Muslims are terrorists,
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Not all of them are willing to express it out loud because they fear the backlash. But this attitude is MUCH more prevalent among right wingers than they show outwardly. Particularly the Tea Partiers.
How else can one explain the continued presence of bigoted signs and t-shirts at Tea Party rallies?
These people are not shouted down by supposedly more tolerant attendees at the rallies. They are not escorted away from the rallies by security personnel.
They are allowed to remain at the rallies because most of the people there subscribe to the bigotry, but don’t have the nerve to say it aloud.
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More Black men in prison than in college. But saying that makes somebody “racist”.
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Saying that there are more black men in prison than college is a fact. Saying that black men prefer to sell drugs rather than go to college is an opinion.
You need to learn the fucking difference.
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The fact is, there is more black men in jail than in college. It’s unfortunate but a fact.
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@Man, that might be a fact but we ain’t all selling drugs. I take my black azz to work erday, so al reynolds can kiss my hard working black azz!!!
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LOL @ BBallen, I know that’s right!!!
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Angel-hair, you are one of the most ignorant bitches on this thread/blog.
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More Whites Use Drugs, More Blacks Imprisoned
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00.n771.a03.html
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This guy is saying the same thing Bill Cosby said. When did reality become offensive?
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I just read the story and link. You should, too.
Cosby didn’t say the same thing at all.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec04/cosby_7-15.html
Get ya shit straight b4 you post it!
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Just because Mr. Renyolds buys his drugs from a black man does not mean that all drug dealers are black.
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@Starr, he didn’t say that.
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@Angel-hair., Oh no he didn’t say that??? StupidAzz.
He said “they find drug dealing more lucrative than getting an education.”
Or do you think the higher drop out rates in minority schools are because minorities just choose to not be educated?
Dumb azz!!!! Didn’t I tell you yesterday not to come for me???? That means DON’T TALK TO ME VIA MY COMMENTS. YA GOT THAT!!!
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GOT Damn!!!! LMAO @ Starr…shit!!!! Tell ER!
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@Angel-hair, look at you always posting ya bullshit opposite on this thread co-signing what this dumbazz said while simultaneously making it blatantly obvious they you don’t actually know any black people let alone ever been to college. GTFOH!!!
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These black kids selling drugs look like the smart ones to me. They chose a recession proof industry. My wife has a phd in chemistry from columbia and cant find a job. It was tough as nails getting my job with the same degree.
FYI you racist, we’re black.
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“The statement really wasn’t rasist [sic], it was his percieved [sic] truth.”
Uh huh. The difference being…?
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His perception is inherently racist. Painting all black men as lazy criminals. WHite conservatives get into trouble when they reveal their racism and this ignorant azz statement is no different!
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What a bigot!
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Yet there is nothing racist about the Tea Party, right? *eyesroll*
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Did he forget where he was? Did he think he was having a drink with his KKK hommies?? At least he said how he felt in his heart. It’s just so sad that his heart is in such a dark place.
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He shoulda said this ignant shit at the new black party meeting, they woulda walked up and whooped his azz right there on the spot.
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Yeah he had some real balls saying dis shit. wow. esp. when all my homies hold down JOBS all of em.
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YES!!!! @Ace…..Some of us actually work for a living.
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This is simply the most damaging thing that TEA BAG party has done. They are no better than the KKK
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And last time I checked..I kinda preferred school.
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This is an absolute INSULT to the majority of black men (who have their flaws) but are out doing the right thing. A college educated, black male with 2 jobs (my roommate/cousin does the same), I am not surprised that this stereotype still exists among white supremacists.
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@CEODawg,.,I know almost as many White drug dealers as nonwhite (including Asians)
btw, How about doing something about the > 50% unemployment rate among black men 18-25 in the hood?? Or is that a non issue??
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And white men prefer to steal money from other people instead of getting honest jobs.
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Good one @ Nicole and TRUE!!!!
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Perhaps Al Reynolds should consider drug dealing because it appears he is not very educated himself.
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The really sad part about the comments by this individual is that he actually thinks that he is making sense. Sort of ironic that he makes statements about the lack of education for minority men and it’s obvious that he has not taken the time to educate himself on the issues.
I am amazed that individuals like this believe that they have leadership ability. GTFOH!!!
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If ur a black republican and you don’t blatantly see the racism in your own party you need to slap yourself!! Wake up!!
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For those of you who think the democratic party has always been a friend to african americans, go back and read as much as you can about the democratic party! Blacks belonged to the republican party for a long time. We only migrated to the democratic party after the voting rights act was signed. The reason Condoleeza Rice is a republican is because blacks weren’t allowed to join the democratic party. Her father wasn’t allowed to become a democrat, so he joined the republican party. They’ve come a long way and there are times that I feel that they take the african american vote for granted, but if I ever decide to leave the democratic party, I will become an independent.
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nice try @UncleEd (must be the talkin horse)…but that’s not even the issue here…stay focused
and it would be wise to refrain from using Condoleezza Rice as an expert reference regarding racial issues…you’ll recall that she is the same learned republican African American standard bearer who also said that although she grew up in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama (and even claimed to know the four little girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing) that she had NEVER SEEN OR BEEN THE VICTIM OF ANY RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.
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@UncleEd, this fool only talked about pimping or drugs???
Generalizations like that IS PURE RACISM.
What point are you trying to make?
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Is there more black men selling drugs or in college?
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@UncleEd, depends on the college. In mostly white colleges I’d put my money on rich white kids.
LMAO@ Man (must be the talkin horse) 🙂
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@Ebony, I co-sign!!!!
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Psh. More non-blacks sell drugs at any random college in the US than blacks do in ‘da hood.’ GTFOH Lmao.
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I don’t see why so many people agree with this man. It’s not like he’s saying anything that black people were not already aware of. The part that is offensive is that he just peels off maybe one layer of the problem and acts as though he’s solved everything. I don’t know how many people would say “I sold drugs because it was easy!” No, they sell drugs for the money and because they feel like they have know other option. Then he acts like socioeconomics play no role what so ever in the fact that more black men aren’t going to college. Since the tax bracket you live in determines the kind of education your going to get, why is he shocked that poor blacks aren’t going to college. If he really cared about this problem he would have looked deeper into it than just demeaning the entire situation into black men are too lazy.
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I beg to differ! I know a lot of black men who have CHOSEN to persue the street life when other more challenging and equally rewarding options were avaiable to them.
Black folk can’t handle the truth. If used the same amount of energy that we put into playing the race card and reinvested it into ourselves we’e be much better off. But no, we choose to stay stuck going in circles and blaming everybody else when in reality we need to take responsibility for our shortcomings and deal with them head on.
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@SueWee, And who’s raising these young men?
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First of all if you can’t face the truth, it’s a lost cause. Stero-types?_ wth do you think we got waka floka & soulja boy etc for…thats where the depiction of a black man come from. So don’t blame him. Second he is an illinois representive can you say chicago so of course he need an agenda to better serve chicago and it’s problems. You all are always sounding like fools. Now this white man is the reason for division? When will we take responsibilities for ourselves and stop blaming others. You can’t offer soultions to a problem if you won’t even face the truth !
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What he said was wrong @SueWee! How does he know what every black man in America prefers to do? In his position the comment was racist and it was meant to be! Its stereotypical bullsh*t thinking of many white men who have not had or even know the struggle of the black man. His statement reinforces the blatant racism that has been running rampant since the election of Obama! These crakkkas are on a verbal lynch mob and only barrel crabs from the black race cosigns with these idiots!
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Well I guess I will step out on the limb and say I agree with him. What did he say that was so wrong. Especially coming from illinois. He was pretty much on point when it came to minority women. What he said about the men was pretty much on point. Maybe it’s a case of don’t shoot the messenger. If a black person would have stated the obvious truth, we would have acted like he found a cure for cancer. I didn’t find his statement rasict. More like the sad truth !
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I have to agree with you. The double standard in the AA community amazes me. He just stated facts. People should deal with it and do better.
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@malika, whenever someone has something negative to say about black men, yall bitter azz females co-sign like ya credit score is 850 n shit, let him say something stereotypical about the black women, shit would hit the fuckin fan here.
P.S. if you attract drug dealers and low lifes that says more about you than it does black men and according to the census ther are about the same amount of black men in college as there are in prison so in theory if you are ONLY meeting the ones from prison, maybe, just maybe you the type of woman who falls for that image, fake men only have hold up the image, a real man has the image because he has done the work to get there, think about that.
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Whenever someone has something negative to say about black men, yall bitter females co-sign like yo credit score 850, let him would have say something stereotypical about black women, shat would have hit the roof
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@ANTHONYB
LMAO!!!!!!!
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Anthony B: and there is a very very small population that have a credit scroe of 850.. Most whites don’t even have a credit score of 850!! Maybe the black man needs to focus on his own credit score and not those of women he is trying to use… Get your own crdit scores up and stop worrying about others. Maybe then you can have your own instead of living off a woman as this white man proposes right here…
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@ANTHONY-B……thank you, thank you thank you my brother. i am never going to allow the white media to make me go against my brothers, because there are tooooooooo many good black men for out here!!!
Some of yall hoes I swear give me a sharp pain in my ovaries with your crock of shyt. You complain about there are no good blk men, when you know damn well you don’t want nothing but the bling bling of a drug dealer or rapper shining in your eye balls.
WHen you see the intlligent brother who is not rocking the Jordans, you put that skeeza hand up to his face and tell him to bounce. And when he gets that degree, and six digit salary, and only white women were there checking for him, then you wanna call him a sell out. Make up ya damn minds. And for all you wanna be coat tail riders, get with it. White people NEVER say anything about black people for ANY REASON OTHER THAN to make us look bad. PERIOD.
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I dont agree with him or the statement because if you know about the drug game, it is not an easy thing to do. Picking up a book is much easier, the minority men who do it, do it because it is an avenue for quick money and that is all they know. Selling drugs is not an easy thing to do because it is a hustle within itself. There is too much money in the drug game and that is why minorities do it because of the millions of dollars you can make from the hustle of drugs. It becomes a hustle that pays very well and an avenue for thousands of dollars.
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No, read the statement again. Selling drugs is a very hard thing to do. Picking up a book is easier than drug dealing, not the other way around. The drug game is a very lucrative business that has college educated men smuggling drugs because they can make millions of dollars from the trade.
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@random, and who’s making the drugs available in our communities. Pooky buying that shit from somebody higher trust. the drug business is lucrative indeed but not just for the homies in my hood but the trail lead right back to a much higher supplier is all i’m sayin.
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I agree w/ you two- to me he didn’t say anything out the way… I’m so damn sick of black folks always blaming someone else. We’re never as a people gonna move forward if we don’t take responsibility & keep evading the truth.
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I don’t see it as black folk blaming someone else @Random, I see it as the root of the problem talking about the cause and effect of the problem. drugs are being supplied by a much higher sorce, someone is making the business more appealing to our black men period. either way it’s a twisted TRAP that has been set by those in power and the white man is always behind the come up of such destruction.
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*PREACH ASHANTI*!!!!!
Dumb black women cosigning this idiots rant. Minorities sell drugs because they can make alot of money from drug dealing. Picking up a book is fine but a drug dealer can make about 50 million dollars in one day from smuggling drugs. Drugs are a lucrative business and drug dealers are not stupid men, many drug smugglers are college educated men. White men are the biggest drug runners and weapons dealers in the world. Its not blacks who began the crack and cocaine epidemic in America, it was white men, like CIA operative Oliver North who pushed drugs into the inner cities and they did it because they could make lots of money. Drug dealing and drug smuggling is not an easy job to do, it is a very dangerous activity and you have to be very smart in order to evade the FBI.
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LOL!!!! @ BBallen
It’s true…so true!!!!
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“The minority men find it more lucrative to be able to do drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier.”
I don’t think that its racist to state his opinion. This guy like many other white men are simply ignorant to the communities that are outside of their safe havens. I think it’s reaching to say that ALL minority men find it easier peddling drugs than picking up a book because thats just untrue. Look at the circumstances surrounding the young men of a poverty stricken neighborhood. There is no motivation or positive influence to instill the benefits of education. The lure of making a quick buck slinging dope would entice Mother Theresa if she were placed in this environment, so its quite likely that impressionable young men would also be drawn in.
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” The minority men find it more lucritive to be able to do drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier ” Fact
He even offered a soultion- “We need to provide more ways that are more incentive, other than just sport avenues for the men for the minorities to want to go to college, to get an education to better themselves”?
We wouldn’t want blacks to step their game up now would we ?
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I’m not sure, so do most black men deal drugs rather than go to college then? Or is he talking about young men from the hood? If so plz clarify. The reason some smart black people think this is racist is because he is making a broad statement about a community that is often denigrated but never praised in public. Just because most drug dealers are black does not mean that most black people are drug dealers.
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The black male spirit is broken and the black female spirit has harden..
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Smh…so sad but it’s true…
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I agree with him…sorry! It’s true! and I’m a black female.
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your an idiot!! I bet you’re the first one to grab your ankles for them dopeboys!! your politicians give these dopeboys the avenue to do this and they make millions with no consequences! you have no substance in cosigning this fool!
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@BigBelly, just because he didn’t mention that “white people do it too” doesn’t make what he said any less true! How come when anyone critcizes the black male, everyone gets bent out of shape. Well It’s not just white people thinking you need to step your game up. Everyone of all races around the world thinks so, including your own kind!
I’m not surprised or shocked he said what he said because it is just TRUE! Most black men don’t have anyone to look up to besides rappers, athletes, or the local kingpin. If people would stop being so defensive and really listen to what these people are saying about us, then we would do something about it!
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What he said was wrong! How does he know what every black man in America prefers to do? In his position the comment was racist and it was meant to be! Its stereotypical bullshit thinking of many white men who have not had or even know the struggle of the black man. His statement reinforces the blatant racism that has been running rampant since the election of Obama! These crakkkas are on a verbal lynch mob and only barrel crabs from the black race cosigns with these mtherefers @Shawnia!
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I understand @ Shawni, why you are saying he isn’t being racist, but do you also not see the danger in what he is saying, when he makes a broad statement like that. What do you think it says to the hundreds of thousands of black scholars and men who have never touched drugs in their lives. He should have said some black men and some white men. It should never be about race when you are talking about negativity, unless you are being inclusive. And I have a question for all of the people who are saying he is telling the truth, what do you think would be happening to the majority of young white men, if they had to go through racism and mistreatment the way black men have had to go through for years. Even the law abiding black men. Please answer that question for me.
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It just amazes me that how some white people profess to know everything about the hood and black person. But they probably never been to the hood, let alone even talk to a black individual or even know one. These people think they are so high and mighty that they can look down on others. Nobody wants to live in the hood or sell drugs but their are a lot of people out here that don’t have many options. And I bet you Al Reynolds will be the first to say I am a Christian this and that. And these are the people running America. I be damned!
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African American males deal drugs as oppose to going to college because most of them come from single parent homes where college and education aren’t being enforced. It’s not about race it’s about socio-economic and poverty status. Poor whites do the same exact thing when faced with the same conditions, what about the meth labs operating in the trailor parks being ran by white men. If he want to talk about drug dealing and low education talk about the poor white trash selling drugs too.
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I co sign Civil..it;s true.
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MOST OF THE BLACK BOYS WHO WENT TO SCHOOL WITH ME GRADUATED COLLEGE. (IM THE ONE WHO QUIT, THINKING I WAS CUTE) PLUS SOME OF THE DRUG DEALERS ARE BETTER PEOPLE THAN SOME OF THE COPS. SAD BUT TRUE. NOT ALL DEALERS ARE BAD PEOPLE. SO BYE!
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The problem with his statements is this: it may have some very strong truths to it, Lord knows I look at some of our young black men and wonder how on earth they missed the memo that having an education is the key to a successful future not ridden with criminal records and jail time…however, people fail to understand exactly WHY so many black men turn to this lifestyle. Yes, I agree that there needs to be a desire to LEARN instead of just ‘playing ball’. But what has society done in the past 50 years or so to break the black man’s spirit? The issue is a lot deeper than what meets the eye…
Case and point.., young black college male gunned down last week by cop. and the cops trying to justify that shit. so if they are not finding one way to kill our black males, they’re finding another.
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Awwwww the men are offended. I see them bringing up every thing from ”the white man put the drugs in the community, girls like ballers ( me & my man are college educated btw), some of us have education, he has never been to the hood blah, blah blah” why do he need to go to the hoood when the paper work land on his desk; 100 thou drop out, 100 tho single mothers, 100 thou in jail…and so forth. When you can read data you don’t have to go to the hood!P.S I have to be honest if he said the honest to God about black women I would have been upset, but he didn’t so I will stick to the script. Get it together black men, stop supporting coons like Rick R, waka floka, soulja boy..giving black men a bad rep globaly, and the black entertainers with good reps, they dress them like girls, and the other ones with good reps they turn them into weaklings running from their race and portray them with white women. So start taking responsibility and stop letting the white man portray who you are, stop supporting coon artist, stopp dressing in sagging pants. Take the G off of sagging and what does it spell backwards. Stop falling for the o-ke-doke and get back to being strong black men. Stop running from your responsibility, your children, stop running from your black women, your race, cut that closet crap out and get back to being the strong black men yoou use to be!
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He needs to take a trip to the hood to get insight as to why this is happening. If you are a college educated young lady you should know that data doesn’t give you a full picture, as it doesn’t take into account very important variables, such as socioeconomic status, and outside influence, and opportunities.
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@LadyRose: I Made the move from dopeboy to college graduate
Had a lot girls while I was in the streets
went to college, puzzy rate dropped thru the floor, its wasnt easy, but I got that little piece of paper that gets me that legit paper, and honestly it seems like now that Im a stable man, it turns off a lot of the ladies, asked one of my homeboys about it (worked his whole life) and he said the worst thing you could do was to let certain women know you had stable employment because the ones who have jobs arent going to want you unless you make more than them or are their boss and the ones without jobs want you because them need a source of income
so basically the dopeboys get the women working men want and the babymommas get the working men
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LadyRose, it’s not so much what he said that is racist, it’s who it’s coming from and how he said it. It’s like he’s saying it in a way to degenerate and stigmatize all black men without looking at the factors. I bet his white supremacist a-z-z wouldn’t help create a lliteracy or job program to help keep these black men from selling drugs so S-T-F-U-!
Why is he talking about the black neighborhood anyway when in reality he doesn’t give a phuck.
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This has been an issue in the “minority” community for so long. Black women have been complaining about this issue in public forum to get support and attention. It was only a matter of time before it spilled over to the main stream and used as a political platform to further emasculate black men and continue to divide black men and women. In these conversations or debates institutional racism is never addressed. Or institutional animosity, where black men are less likely to matriculate into professional institutions dominated by white men, sexism, and nepotism.
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@OJ: This guy like many other white men are simply ignorant to the communities that are outside of their safe havens. I think it’s reaching to say that ALL minority men find it easier peddling drugs than picking up a book because thats just untrue. Look at the circumstances surrounding the young men of a poverty stricken neighborhood. There is no motivation or positive influence to instill the benefits of education. The lure of making a quick buck slinging dope would entice Mother Theresa if she were placed in this environment, so its quite likely that impressionable young men would also be drawn in.
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@Civil
Excellent Comment…true
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A white man acknowledging that black women are more motivated than black men?? This ought to piss the black man off..
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Yasha, actually if you listen, you would hear the facts, that black women are STARTING to outpace black men in terms of education, which means that before NOW black man were THE PRIMARY COLLEGE GRADUATES, the trend is changing now, BLACK WOMEN ARE STARTING TO OUTPACE BLACK MEN IN COLLEGE ENROLLMENT AND GRADUATION.
You act as if these statics have always been this way, they just changed recently, so using your logic black women were not motivated until recently.
see how dumb that sounds
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@Anthony, until now the black woman didn’t have a choice.
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@Anthony, “You act as these statics have always been this way, they just changed recently, so using your logic black women were not motivated until recently”
Where are you getting your facts?? It’s been “trending” this way for over a decade now.. As the black women grows the black man regresses. Probably because he spends so much time sitting around whining about the hand he’s been dealt while looking for a white woman to comfort him instead of beng a man and making his own way…
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The guy is a racist, period! His statement was very broad, he just put a whole community on blast without knowing the particular problems faced by that community as a whole. White folks made a lot of money off slavery, so they’re sitting pretty. Black folks are still suffering from it today, and that is typically seen in how we relate to one another, and who we look to as a people. Who do our children like? Eminem, 50 cent, Snoop, Diddy etc… Look at the behaviour and character of these guys! It is no wonder we are so messed up as a race. We need to help each other because white folks do not care about us, period. I think that is evident by their actions…
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It’s pathetic to see black people agreeing with this racist slug – it just shows the level of contempt all too many of us have for each other. Get real – america has always had an antiintellectual culture – otherwise sarah palin would never be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. Also, the majority of crack users are white (same with crystal meth) -what’s their excuse? Most people in this country dont read books or even newspapers – why else would so many newspapers be going broke?
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Yes, I do have alot of contempt for thuggish black men. Because when my cousin got shot to death it wasn’t a white man who did it, when my apartment was burgluarized, 3 times it wasn’t a white man who did it, when I was jumped for not being hood enough it wasn’t white men who did it, when my mother is scared to go in and out of her own building because of thugs who have set up shop in her lobby they weren’t white….shall I go on??
Something needs to be done! We can argue til we’re blue in the face about who and what is and is not racist. But the fact remains that black on black crime is a major issue and a lot of black men DO aspire to be a part of the thug life.
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I would usually defend black men but since black men never defend black women…F_CK THEM!!!!
besides a lot of what he is saying is true. A lot of black men rather “post up on the block” instead of posting up in college.
Black men idolize thug culture, all black men think about is
1. getting laid
2. grabbing their dyck
3. playing basketball
4. smoking weed
5. ways to abandon their children.
ladies stop defending black men, every time we defend them they spit in our faces and disrespect us.
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Sexy, you sound like you don’t like d!ck anyway!!!
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@slickrick:
Thx for proving my point.
See ladies, perfect example of the blatant disrespect black men dish out to black women.
What this man said is true.
I know black women that are single parents, yet they go to college, hold down a job, and take care of their family.
Black men can’t handle the same pressure.
While black women validate themselves off of their education, black men validate themselves on how many different races of women they can fuck before they catch an std.
Black men don’t have their priorities in order.
And I will not defend them anymore. Black men don’t even defend their own women so why should we continue to stand by them? fuck them.
I’m with a black man now but he respects me, and the moment he starts losing respect I will leave his azz.
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Damn when did this subject/topic turn into the black woman vs. the black man? ya’ll startin to lose focus. a statement was made and the truth of the matter is true or false, our society does have issues they are just being well visable and KNOWN more than other races. let’s see if this dude will be a problem solver instead of just having diarhea of the mouth in taring our black men as a whole down.
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@SexyChocolate
Don’t agree with everything that’s being said but what you’re saying is not true. I’m curious, what is your level of education? Why do you feel like black men aren’t defending you? Just because “you” haven’t been exposed to any professional black men, doesn’t mean we don’t exist.
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@zion
1.I Graduated from college with my BSN degree.
2.Black men don’t defend or respect black women anymore, look around and see for yourself. Black men don’t even approach me respectfully in the street. They usualy say: ”OH BABY YOU LOOKING DAMN FINE, LET ME HOLLA AT YOU SHORTY!!!”
WTF!!!! black men have no idea how to talk to a woman with respect. They are completely lost.
and I know educated black men exist but there are a small few.
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@SexyChocolate
Congratulations!!! Nurses are making really good money these days.
I know it’s bad out here and I do apologize. I’m not making excuses but I think it’s an issue of exposure. If there aren’t any positive black men where you are doesn’t mean there aren’t any positive black men anywhere. Admitting that the educated positive black men does in fact exist is a start.
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zion, men with their head on straight and a set of working eyes can SEE that the black woman is bitter and tired over the black man!!
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Zion, these are interesting debates but it always end in arguments and accusations. Black women want and need black men to do and be better, true. Black men need to create their own industry if not willing to work for someone else, true. Black men also need to create and support Africentric education systems if they’re not willing to matriculate into the Eurocentric education system, true. But, to say that “all” black men are uneducated and disrespectful is just not true. Those blanket statements are dangerous and doesn’t make the journey easy for the black men that are out here doing something with ourselves. I’m out, be safe.
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Bump all the “black love” BS.
Most black men have this mentality. Whether its easy to deal or to go to school is irrelevant!! The fact is plain and simple one path is illegal, while the other is not.
Black men need to make better choices, and black women need to make better choices when choosing partners!
I am like Tina “whats love got to do with it!”
Speaking the truth about our culture and its woes is what is going to get the AA community to heal, NOT demonizing someone who spoke the truth because they just happen to be white.
Go check out your stats on black women in college who graduate in comparison to black men! Hellloooo.
The man didn’t have to talk about any other race except the black one! The NAACP deals with blacks, not whites, latino’s etc. Niccas wake up!
Jus saying~ Yeah I am in College getting my masters and a black woman that wants a hard working, positive, legal black man!
What Up?
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SexyChocolate’s azz sound bitter that’s all.
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LOL!! @Slick, Bitter? You call me bitter but read what you just posted boy!
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she is bitter @slick, look at all her posts but i bet she’s the same heffer laying down with the same kinda men she is complaining about.. smh
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I didn’t find his statements all that racist. He didn’t say ALL black men or minorities. There was no blanket statement there. But he did make a sort of generalization. However I wasn’t insulted. He said what alot of people including blacks are thinking. And to a large degree, he’s right. Black men need to start picking up a book or three and learn to read more than a copy of Jet, XXL or The Source. You can’t even function in the world today without some kind of advanced degree. Is it any wonder everyone else in the world including Africans are prospering and benefiting from having a college degree. Indians are some of the poorest people in the world and they have enough sense to go to college and make more money than black americans who live only blocks away from the same universities.
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LOL @ some of the comments.
Multi-degreed Black man here. Aside from what is rather a broad generalization, this guy is absolutely correct. What is more important here is that it doesn’t matter whether he is right or wrong — but that this perception among all walks of ethnicities exists – and you won’t change the reality until you change their perception.
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I co sign and love it @ Zion!!!!! well said!!!!!
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For example, Tiger Woods just recently bought a 54 million dollar home. Technically, he can buy whatever he wants because he has the money to do so, but just because you can does not mean you should. He is a single man now, and a nice condo what have suited him just fine. He could have taken that money and started in his old n.hood first and started making changes. Most black n.hoods do not have libraries. P. Diddy build one. You have to hire people to run the library, guess what you just created jobs. Black n.hoods do not have health grocery stores, Chad Ochocinco, build some. Stop chasing women and build some. Giving money to charities is find, but like 2PAC said, we all know that money does not make it to the ghetto. Actually, going into the n.hoods will make more of a difference. Following the plan I just laid out will start to make a difference. Put private school curriculum into public schools for blacks. Dont pay everyones rent in the projects like “Baby” did, build homes for the less fortunate and give them the opportunity to become educated to maintain the home you have just built for them. This is how we can make changes and not have to worry about racist whites and their shallow comments.
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I absolutely understand what you are saying, to whom much is given much is expected/required. I am not a fan of Tiger Woods, but He does give a way hundreds of millions of dollars a year. He has his own foundation that gives grants ages 8-18 and he also has a learning center for children etc. I personally see nothing wrong with him living in whatever type of house he chooses when he is a giver of his fortune just like Diddy. I have heard very little about Beyonce and Jay Z’s charity work. I do agree with you though, many celebs should help instead of bragging about their fortunes.
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I heard that joke before “if you want to hide something from a black man put it in a book” I tell my daughter what white people think so she knows 2read everything…. check out how to make a slave……It says the same thing.
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Who says you have to go to college to make something out of yourself. I followed that path, but I know quite a lot of black men who didn’t and still have lucrative careers. They are truck drivers, plumbers, electricians, computer tecks, whom I have met and they make 6 figures.I know a 38 yr old black man who started at the bottom of his company and learned everything and is now one of it’s top managers, he is currently going to school simply to prove to people that he always had what it takes. Learning a trade could be just as lucrative for those who aren’t into college.
This (al reynolds) man was asked a question, he answered it with some facts, but no solutions.
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IT IS EASIER TO SELL DRUGS THAN TO GET IN COLLEGE BECAUSE COLLEGE IS SO FUKKEN EXPENSIVE!!!
BUT HE IS IGNORANT AND RACIST FOR STEREOTYPING THE AFRICAN AMERICANS BECAUSE THERE ARE MEN, WOMEN , WHITES, BLACKS,MEXICANS,AND ASIANS GETTING BUSTED EVERYDAY FOR THIS MESS
THIS NOT AN ISSUE OF RACE IT’S AN ISSUE OF THE WAR ON DRUGS, WHEN THE ECONOMY GOES DOWN THE CRIME GOES UP!
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True dat! The average college graduate will be $100,000 in debt before enterin’ the work force…And considerin’ this long term recession and its’ adverse effect on the employment market, most college students will be hard pressed to find suitable employment to pay back said debt.
WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL!
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Black bitter female brigade talking a whole lot of mess. No black man is pissed at anything but the hypocrisy of America. America is built on the all mighty dollar. Drugs are just another part of our system. What this guy fails to tell you is that America looks the other way with Afghanistan in its Opium trade. Afghanistan ships tons of cocaine to Europe and America looks the other way. In America they privatize prisons for slave workfare. Banks sell you Sub prime loans to cheat you out of money. This guy is missing the point. This is the problem with white men, they are myopic. Kids need other avenues for real opportunities, not everyone is built for college so their needs to be low income jobs for the labor force. There needs to be more opportunities for these kids outside of their box. recreational and academic In many black schools they don’t even have enough text books for the kids to read or write with. Also parents need to get involved because black boys on the block have a mother or father who doesn’t care about them. This isnt a black men problem this is a community and culture problem because these boys are your kids. It would only be dumb ignorant black women getting angry at black men on these boards who have jobs and have homes. Its your kids and sons that are failing but some of you idiots don’t see that, you only see it as black men. Sadly this is the problem.
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He’s racist!!! fuck all the rhetoric!!! He’s racist
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I CANNOT wait to vote on Nov. 2 to shut these idiots up! The Tea Party is a joke and we are going to show them on NOV 2nd!!!
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