Constitutional libertarian wrote:
I think you are mistaken on the melting thing when you are talking most europeans. Their were many groups hostile to other groups back in the late 1800's and early 20th century that are completely gone today. I think many Asian cultures have blended into our form of capitalism quite well and today have very little problems with bigotry or racism.
There is still a fair bit with some of the newer immigrants like
Somalians even within the Muslim community because their culture is so radically different from the majority of Americans. But they too will eventually become apart of the larger American way of life.
But the biggest question is that of African Americans. We all came here to give our children a better future including native Americans to a certain extent. But that is not the case for most African Americans. Have they made huge strides absolutely even to a point of some reverse discrimination. It's much easier getting certain jobs if your a black woman than a white male. I'm not saying this is good or bad just fact. So why ??? Why do blacks have so much higher unemployment or much lower high school graduation rates.
Go on there is an answer and a cause that must be openly addressed without fear of being called a racist.
The government has taken socially engineered a culture devoid of personal responsibility for family, children and community. The basic human structure has broken down and until the damage is repaired there will be in equalities between most other family centric groups and those that no longer are.
This goes for whites as well if we continue down this self destructive path.
I think you are mistaken on the melting thing when... (
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There's a reason why the issue of former black slaves was called "White Man's Burden." Africans were brought he in chains, not as humans, but as property. Their diets were fatty and protein poor. they were bred like horses or other animals rather than allowed to choose their own spouses and live with their families. Black women were routinely raped by White owners. They had their names, cultural identity and languages taken from them.
African Americans were essential to the building of what America is today-they were the labor in the growing of cotton, sugar cane (in the Islands) and tobacco crops, the three commodities that made the America's rich. Although African Americans were "freed" after the Civil War, they lived in virtual slavery (at least in the Deep South ) until 40 or 50 years ago.
Many of the problems that plague African Americans are now-community-based-problems of black on black crime, the "gansta" ethos that gives a social stigma, at least among his peers, for an African American male to achieve scholastically.
Instead of giving African Americans an equal chance, most were bought of by Great Society programs that offered a pittance of financial support rather than an even chance to achieve a steady job, education, etc.
Worst of all, desegregation allowed the Upper and Middle Class African Americans to leave their communities, resulting in ghettos of lower class African Americans that now populate many inner-city neighborhoods.
The answer-I have no idea. But African Americans are a special group that has given us much of our culture, including jazz, the blues, rock and roll, all that have been exported to Britain and Europe for cultural consumption. As Sonny Boy Williamson, a Black bluesman who moved to England in the 1960s, said: "these British boys want to play the blues so badly...and they do." The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and a host of other British rock legends owe a measure of their success to American bluesmen who never saw a fraction of the financial rewards that Mick and the boys received. It seems to be a re-ocurring theme in the history of African Americans.