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FatherTed wrote:

Also, to what extent do you believe the "Black Man" has reached equality in todays America?

Black man is running for president and actually doing good.

Hundreds of ridiculously rich black sports/movie/entertainment etc.. stars

I'd say, looking from outside, it's pretty equal. Infact with all the "affirmative action" crap, it's easier for them....

Never seen the film.

It's been quite awhile since I've seen it.  Thought it was OK.

Most racist events I've personally encountered have been black on white. I'd say equality's good enough.

Braddock wrote:

The white man's invention (hip hop) has done quite well at keeping a lot them in the ghetto and making the ones who do make it bring the ghetto with them.

YGBMFSM. How the hell can a musical style (not invented by the white man, btw) keep anyone in the ghetto?

Apart from a few big black stars, i'd say blacks generally have a lower standard of living than whites. It also seems that there are 2 worlds in America: the well-off white world in the suburbs, and the inner city ghetto. Even when blacks and whites come together, like in school, they don't really socialize and the class hierarchy stays the same. Equality will only be reached when blacks start living in prosperous white neighborhoods, and when the groups start socializing together much more than they do now. With 2 very different cultures, it's very hard to assert that they are somehow equal. Separate is inherently unequal.

Right now I think we have to worry more about Black people getting treated better then whites....

argo4 wrote:

Apart from a few big black stars, i'd say blacks generally have a lower standard of living than whites. It also seems that there are 2 worlds in America: the well-off white world in the suburbs, and the inner city ghetto. Even when blacks and whites come together, like in school, they don't really socialize and the class hierarchy stays the same. Equality will only be reached when blacks start living in prosperous white neighborhoods, and when the groups start socializing together much more than they do now. With 2 very different cultures, it's very hard to assert that they are somehow equal. Separate is inherently unequal.

Now Im probably gonna be called a racist, but I must say, the Blacks in my school tend to shun away the White people then the other way around, and for example, one of my teachers got in a shitload of trouble for using the word "minority" to describe a few students, she was in no way talking about a specific race as the group in general was full of mixed races. Anyways, one of the kids pulled the race card, said she was discriminating, started making a lot of noise, and they all got out of trouble. Anyone who was in the class at the time could have told you that they kids were being idiots, hell, probably the nicest thing anyone did to that sub in our period was throw paper at her, she got spit on..

I saw the movie and I loved it. Another amazing one dealing with the similar subject is Heavens Fall.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425094/
It wont be easy to get your hand on it probably. Im ashamed to say I had to download it since I couldnt find it anywhere in Vienna.

Also I always find it funny how so many people think that in America the illegal immigrants have the easiest. Everything is free for them. Food, gas, healtcare etc... Than after them its the Black people with all their accumulated wealth and stuff. Than its the Asians and few other groups, and than its the toughest for white people.

pierro wrote:

They'll reach equality when people stop talking about the "black man" and the "white man" and just talk about people in general (I don't mean to fight ignorance with ignorance though). Although it hasn't happened yet, it will...the irish used to be a disdained ethnic group, now they aren't.

Agreed. It'll never happen though. You still get people talking about Ethnic groups, within an Ethnic group! (eg: Irish-American, German-American not just America it happens everywhere etc.).

I love the scene with the black guy and the paper cup, the enthuses he put on the word scrotum is amazing.

Before blacks came it was the Irish who were discriminated against.

blademaster wrote:

Before blacks came it was the Irish who were discriminated against.

Bloody Irish!