My wish for black america

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The assertion that blacks are commonly unfit to reside in a First World environment, due to mentality, is simply at odds with the evidence provided by every day life in this country. Most blacks are part of the middle class in the U.S. and navigate their way through home loans, Blackberrys, mall food courts, tax returns, credit card applications, workplace politics and rush hour traffic jams far too commonly to be described as possessed of a "jungle mentality." Again, African-Americans are mostly middle-class. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Besides the statistics (which are overwhelming), in Southern California, the evidence is everywhere around you. Blacks are your fellow shoppers in malls during the holiday season, they are your co-workers at the office and they attend college classes and study the same subjects as your children. They deliver your mail, they produce entertainment available 24/7 on television, they are your fellow vacationers in Las Vegas and Orlando, and they are a lot of the people who can be found working in hospitals providing attention and care to the ill and feeble.

The above is the rule, not the exception, in American life. The guy with the red bandana and red shoe laces who sells crack on the street corner, is the exception. No one wants to be standing at the ATM at 11:30 at night with the large teenage black kid behind him in a somewhat isolated area. But the black guy who's going to rip you off and take your crap is the minority. Is a black man with a felony criminal record (i.e. Najee Ali) a strange aberration or an endangered species? Hardly, but that person is the minority in the African-American community. Most blacks haven't been convicted of Robbery, Burglary or Drug Sales.

The contention that black folks largely can't function in civilized, modern society is simply contradicted by the modern American experience.

I agree with your assessment of the enormous disservice that the Democratic Party has done blacks, as a whole, in this country. Our liberal friends often treat them like retarded children who are never to be actually held as equals. The genuine bigotry that remains in this country, toward people of color, undoubtedly comes from the Left. The worst thing that can be said about white folks, as an entire group in America, is that a lot of us will not hold Latinos and blacks to the same standards we would hold ourselves (Larry Elder writes about this in one of his books. It's a chapter about white condascencion, and I think he's dead right). But undoubtedly, that is a product of "progressives" rather than conservatives. Equal means "equal" with GOP thinking types.

However, the assertion in your first few sentences is just unsupported by the facts. Are there neighborhoods I don't want to go into? Yeah. Is the majority of the African-American experience defined by Florence and Normandie eruptions and the prison population in Texas? Hardly. In fact, it's not even close.