Pardon my intrusion, but your argument seems to be sliding around. Earlier in this thread you objected to the suggestion that blacks being portrayed as equal to or superior to whites in intelligence or wealth on commercials was not innapropriate, given the only practical difference between the groups was economic and not soci-economic.
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Most whites in America - like most blacks - are working class folks who've neither benefited disproportionately, nor denied anyone oppurtunities as a result of discrimination. They'd like "equal access" too, and It doesn't help that most affirmative action policies continue to be based solely on race, rather than income... which is in itself an example of institutionalized racism.
Now you appear to be offering an explanation as to why they are (allegedly) inferior.
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What glorious utopian past has the African-American community deteriorated from? 300 years of institutionalized slavery, another hundred years of de facto slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, red-lining, and systematic discrimination that were only outlawed a generation ago? With not even 50 years of equal protection and opportunity under the law [ laws instituted by whites I hasten to add ], do you really think the disproportionately high levels of poverty and crime plaguing black communites are "largely self-inflicted" problems?
Go ahead with your liberal brow-beating over what everyone (even the house negro Tritone) knows to be true, just don't suck and blow at the same time.
In fact, it is more than just economic issues that "keep the black man down," it is cultural as well.
For example, you don't see poor asian (Vietnamese, Korean) kids picking on their friends for doing well in school. American Black Culture has developed into a perpetual underclass (with notable exceptions) because of an acceptance of failure as the norm. Other racial and cultural groups are able to rise out of poverty through hard work and community assistance the black folk in the US have not been able to do that. The reasons why are manifold, but they certainly are are largely due to the history of slavery (both actual and practical).
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