Comments on Sylvester Brown Jr.: America's Racial Plight: The New York Times' "New"...

Finally someone said it. In my opinion, the same ...

2006-03-31T12:15:00.000-08:00

Finally someone said it. In my opinion, the same goes for Limbaugh, Coulter and the rest as well. It's a waste of time and energy to, in the words of Jane Austen, "pay [them] the compliment of rational opposition." Your post reminds me of the guy in Spike Lee's documentary, "Four Little Girls", who said that he used to be afraid of Bull Connor until he realized he was crazy. Great, great film, by the way.

Finally someone said it. In my opinion, the same ...

2006-03-31T12:14:00.000-08:00

Forget the governments help, Lets stand up and be ...

2006-03-31T07:05:00.000-08:00

Forget the governments help, Lets stand up and be MEN, I dont need no government MAMA telling me how to live, what I can have and what I cant have. Check these facts out: Pruitt Igoe, A lot of factors when into why this place got as bad as it did but one thing I would like to point out is that while there were over 10,500 people living their only 280 were fathers or men living in a household with a women and kids, the rest were women and kids, we all know what that ends up looking like. The biggest problem is not the system its the parents lack of involvment in the childs life, everybody is trying to get rich, working overtime and on off days trying to kick it or kick back, mostly without the kids, stick the kids infront of the tv while the parent hangs out with friends. I talk to these guys out here around me and if you live in the hood, ask some this same question, how much did you parents play as a role model in your life? and who would be someone you would consider the model man, WATCH WHAT YOU HEAR. We are our own problem, how is it that a white man can kill one black every 30 years and blacks will hate whites for a generation, but the black guys down the street killing blacks every night and aint no body saying nothing, What is wrong with that picture, but in the end in our minds we look at life like the white man is mostly at fault, Here are some more facts: I have never had or know any blacks to have this happen to them: The white man has never: stole my car, broke into my house, sold my mom some crack, jumped my brother, raped and pimped my sister, etc. but the black man has done all this and guess what, most blacks would say its "the white mans fault" or "the government or republicans" Forget that, lets stand up and be men, Im making a difference in my neighborhood, I got the guys who droped out of highschool out here making kids they see out of school go back to school. they dont want them to end up in the same place.

Again, your penetrating insight regarding the med...

2006-03-30T21:12:00.000-08:00

Again, your penetrating insight regarding the media's failure to correctly frame the issue as the result of criminal neglect is on target.

As always what sould be seen clearly as an indictment of the system si more often presented in a way that blames the victim. Let us concede for a moment that we could do a better job in the transferring of values and ethics to younger generations.

Let us further concede that we possess a collective responsibility to do all that we can to proactively change our condition with and without the government's help.

That said, we cannot absolve the overall society from its' continued role in the maintenance of the debilitating pathology that is gripping our neighborhoods and stifling our initiative.

Put the blame where it belongs, but no one wants t...

2006-03-30T21:08:00.000-08:00

Put the blame where it belongs, but no one wants to hear where it really belongs, That stupid rap music. Girl's now adays want to be a hoe! Just look outside, I live in the "hood" and everybody around me wants to be thugged out, it wasnt like that ten years ago around here only maybe 35% of young black males were like that, and women had more respect for themselves, sylvester I bet you cant find women hardly of the caliber that they were back in your day, its just life, it all goes down hill, its like that. All this stuff they doing in the schools to make it better, just watch if it works, so what it looks like it my be working now, thats hype, lets see some long term results. Most youth around me have roll models like Ya Boy the "Snow Man" most women trying to pop it like its hot. Becomming a Hoe is in stlye, becomming a thug is in style, it will fade out one day like the bloods and crips but its messed up its like that. I dont blame whites or the system, blacks didnt always have it bad to make them end up in this spot, you got kids in the county with parents that have good jobs and live in nice areas trying to be hard... there trying to be the "Snow Man" so lock them up, Most people I know on the streets just say its something to make you look tuffer. When you get locked up and you got tats and white tee's you hard. Now thats real, forget all this poor old black man stuff, Like I said I live in the hood and some of these cats living around me I would love to see locked up and if you lived over here you would too.

No one is listening. It is sad.

2006-03-30T20:18:00.000-08:00

No one is listening. It is sad.

It's too good of an idea what you are saying. I ca...

2006-03-30T04:51:00.000-08:00

It's too good of an idea what you are saying. I can't see the poli-chickens or the misguided liberal activists going for it. It's easier to blame rap and then attempt to censor it. Even though the Irish mob was never put into a fit of violent rage by hearing bagpipes appearantly some believe black youths are remotely controlled by hip-hop beats. Funny how nobody blames bar room sing alongs for the Nazi's atrocities. It probably doesn't make sense to some people how the Rwandan genocide happened even though none of the angry hatchet-weilding Hutus ever played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.