what about all of the other black individuals who have overcome all different kinds of adversity that they may have been born into and made success of their lives?
Success starts with belief. Telling kids that they can achieve great things and be successful is the first step to them being successful. I don't mean paint a fairy tale of unrealistic expectations but be positive. Anyone can educate themselves and read books, access the internet etc... We are not living in nazi germany. But it takes some encouragement and people valuing education and achievement.
If they are told the world is against they for one of the very few things they can never change then they have been disadvantaged right there before they've even started. If people who do try to reach out and achieve things are kicked down by their own people for "being too white" then what hope is there and what chance do they have?
I used to wonder at the mentality of people like MB who chose to attack the police but I understand it having seen the coverage - you see little kids being indoctrinated with the message that cops are looking for any excuse to kill them. If you grow up with that belief then you may well chose to strike first if you don't wise up to the reality of the lies beforehand.
It's sad and ironic. I was watching the images of looters and they look like something off a zombie movie smashing through the windows and running randomly around in the parking lot. The original zombie movie was a commentary about racism with the black guy the first on-screen hereo fighting the mindless zombies. Now it seems like the roles have been reversed.
I honestly don't think most non-black people really care or have any interest about race other than in a historical context. People hapilly worship black icons in sport, in music and vote for black politicians and even presidents. Sure, there will always be a small segment of nuts in any population - no bad ideas can ever be extinguished completely (there are still nazis). But the racism today seems to exist more in the black commmunities than anywhere else going off the rhetoric we've been hearing.