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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Honest question - do you actually realise how insulting and patronising this attitude is?
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in re-reading it, yes, i do... and i apologize and phrase it another way.
*White folks.
for the most part. are generally viewed by a lot of people as wanting to hold the black populace down for some reason - that couldn't be further from the truth. Yes, there are whites who do not want any part of black success in America, some of whom would go out of their way seeking positions of power for the sole purpose of preventing it probably. but i have to tell you... of the hundreds of white males i socialize with, do business with etc, i cannot name one that feels that way.
is that a less insulting and patronizing way to make the point?
because i certainly didn't mean to indicate that
all blacks are ghetto trash that we need to make into something better. I see how my post could be construed as such. what i was implying was that whites have this reputation of not wanting to see black success and - at least in the educated classes - that simply is not the case.