[QUOTE=JasminDelights;106222878 6......... I won't see a certain age group of African-American males I do not rule the whole race altogether.........
But I can understand how your fear of seeing those men.....
I am saying that there are some fairly respectable AA gentleman in the hobby community that you may consider enjoying a nice dinner with before considering having them as company.[/QUOTE]
"ESPECIALLY during this time ( referencesing the INTENSE racial divide in our country)"
My freshmen year of college I had an asian guy who lived in the same dorm. as me: he was a total asshole, closed minded, and stupid. Up to that point in life, every asian person I had met had been a great person to be around.
The point: every race has it's share of ass holes. Starting the 8th grade, which was in the same building was the 4 high school grades, it was the first year after Brown vs. the board of education: so we has a number of black students enter the high school. I had never met a black child before, and all of the black students seems like everyone else. Until years later, I realized that the best students wanted to enroll in the white high school.
The point: there is a difference in what an individual desires, and has goals for. What an individual wants to work for makes the difference, not the race.
Then on to college: Years later I realized that there were very few black students in the science classes I took: the only ones who were black were the the few from Africa - not Americans. Why? because those classes were too tough for them to want to take. The easy classes had them present because they could get an easy degree.
Harsh, but true. There were very many Asian students in the science courses; but, no black American students. What the hell, we all wondered.
Since then I have seen black students who desire to accomplish something being criticized by others in their own race for caring a book or reading. Why?
I don't know all of the reasons for this. I have to move on with with own life. But, in the latter part of my live, I have become a part of a Chinese family, and I have seen a lot of Asian families from my trip to Nam. Their attitude is differently different from other races: compared to white people the asians just work harder.
Just observations: I don't think anyone really has any answers for this. When I comes to the blacks, the one real problem is the plain fact that they get cheated out of a decent education in the inner city schools. Those schools have problems and are a result of the control by the Democrats Party who hold power over the education of blacks by close association with the local school boards, and the teachers union.
It is unfair and needs to change. I favor, and support with my own contributions, the new charter schools that offers a better chance for the children of the inner cities.
We all see the cause of the problems, but that doesn't mean anyone is racist. It also doesn't solve the problem.