I look at this "blacks always being the victims" and shake my head.
My own personal story is illustrative. I grew up in a mixed, lower-middle class and below neighborhood on the west coast.
When I was a kid in the 70's. The blacks in the neighborhood generally hung out, didn't work and made trouble. All of the black kids were basically bullies.
There were Mexican, Laotian, Filipino, Korean and several other ethnicities in the neighborhood.
The Chinese opened small restaurants and cleaner business', the Laotians opened restaurants and ran small markets. The Vietnamese opened restaurants and nail places. The Mexicans opened restaurants, auto repair places etc. The Koreans opened stores and handled the insurance business and on and on down the line. They helped each other when someone new arrived.
If they couldn't find a job they didn't bitch and moan like the blacks in the neighborhood. The Mexicans would sell oranges, walnuts, opened fruit stands, shoe shines anything to make a living. The Asian groups would do the same and always kept their areas impeccably clean. These immigrant groups created their own jobs instead of waiting for handouts.
Hardly any of those groups are there now. They've all moved up and moved off to better safer neighborhoods away from blacks. It took most of them less than a generation to do what blacks haven't done in 100s of years. And don't tell me these groups don't face racism, too. Because they do.
The neighborhood went downhill as the non-black minorities moved out, but is pulsing back to life with hard working immigrants from Central America and Cambodia. The blacks still there. Still bitching. Still causing trouble.
My own personal story is illustrative. I grew up in a mixed, lower-middle class and below neighborhood on the west coast.
When I was a kid in the 70's. The blacks in the neighborhood generally hung out, didn't work and made trouble. All of the black kids were basically bullies.
There were Mexican, Laotian, Filipino, Korean and several other ethnicities in the neighborhood.
The Chinese opened small restaurants and cleaner business', the Laotians opened restaurants and ran small markets. The Vietnamese opened restaurants and nail places. The Mexicans opened restaurants, auto repair places etc. The Koreans opened stores and handled the insurance business and on and on down the line. They helped each other when someone new arrived.
If they couldn't find a job they didn't bitch and moan like the blacks in the neighborhood. The Mexicans would sell oranges, walnuts, opened fruit stands, shoe shines anything to make a living. The Asian groups would do the same and always kept their areas impeccably clean. These immigrant groups created their own jobs instead of waiting for handouts.
Hardly any of those groups are there now. They've all moved up and moved off to better safer neighborhoods away from blacks. It took most of them less than a generation to do what blacks haven't done in 100s of years. And don't tell me these groups don't face racism, too. Because they do.
The neighborhood went downhill as the non-black minorities moved out, but is pulsing back to life with hard working immigrants from Central America and Cambodia. The blacks still there. Still bitching. Still causing trouble.