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When did race trump personal responsibility? I'm white, so I'm responsible for my actions, and I'm responsible for all the actions of my ancestors, who did own slaves? This is the world's biggest cop-out. "I'm forced into a life of crime by the white person". The fact that they'd rather lay around and collect welfare and hit the crack pipe has nothing to do with their criminal activities? As I said before, unless someone can show me a white person holding a gun on them and forcing them to commit these crimes, responsibility for the changes has to come from them, whether that be black people here in the States, or Aboriginals in Australia. I refuse to be held accountable for the actions of a criminal when I am not involved with the crime. Face it, white people are not the reason why there are so many black people in prison. From reading this, if I were from anywhere else but here, I would get the impression that there are no black judges, lawyers, doctors, etc. I know this to be false, since I live here. Some how, some way, these people managed to scrape themselves out from underneath all these years of "Whitey Oppression" to make something out of themselves. Could it be that effort = results is a true formula? "I don't want to do that, because it's too hard. It's much easier to sell crack to the lazy people that want it". The lazy people that have to rob people, and break into businesses and homes to pay for their habit. If they put 1/4 the effort into an education, and finding work that they put into getting "high", they could break out of the cycle. However, to blame that on racial oppression isn't true. Afterall, there are just as many black crack pushers, if not more, in my area anyway, so is it racial oppression by people of their own race? People that are more than ready to cop out to "Whitey made me do it".
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