More comment on that email

There was one part of it that really irked me...even more so than the fact that the entire body of it disturbed me a great deal due to its inaccuracies, untruthfulness, and outright racist undertones. Anyways, this part is what I choose to comment on today:

GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%)*. Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture wecare to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing. They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them "Status" or that they have achieved their Dream. They are fools!

Let me see if I have this right, 13% of the population controls 2.2% of the nations wealth and they should be content and consider themselves somehow rich and/or powerful. The author points out the very inequities which exist in the foundation of the system, the lack of economic equality, and then blames blacks for their misfortunes. The author should have verified the levels of black business investments, home ownership, etc with respect to their lack of economic wealth to see if it compares in any way to the levels of wealth in white America and the relevant levels of investment in business.

What the author seems to have overlooked is that it is a relatively recent event that blacks have been able to accumulate wealth. Generational wealth building had previously been denied to them through law, through legislation, through social construct; through a system designed to ensure a second class mentality and generations of second class citizens. While just about every other class of citizen was allowed to own property and pass it down to their children and grandchildren, those who were considered black were fighting just to be considered as people.

The civil rights act in the 60's was not a hundred years ago, or 75 years ago, and not even quite 50 years ago. It is really only since then that blacks have been allowed to start to accumulate wealth; and still not in an unfettered manner. Even after the civil rights acts, blacks have still had to endure against systematic attempts to establish outright racist policies. It has been barely 1 generation that those pressures have eased somewhat (The existence of the author of this email clearly points to the problems which still exist), allowing blacks to begin the process of accumulating wealth.

So thank you Mr or Mrs author of this vile piece of condescending hatred. Thank you for pointing out the inequities which still exist. Thank you for trying to blame the victims of these inequities. You may feel that racism is a thing of the past and that todays blacks should just get over it, but their lack of wealth- their lack of equal opportunity is a direct result of what was perpetrated against their mother, fathers, and grandparents. Blacks are reaching levels of success, blacks are starting to accumulate wealth, blacks are forging ahead in this new century...no thanks to you.

Now here are my predictions. As more blacks are able to accumulate wealth and move up the economic ladder, then there are a few things you will see emerging over the next 100 years:

more black doctors
more black lawyers
more black accountants
more black pharmacists
more black entrepreurs
more black millionaires
more black photographers
more black golfers
more black hockey players
more black tennis players
more black swimmers
more black translators
more black executives
more black PHDs

In essence, all the occupations and activities that are associated with the middle class, will still be associated with the middle class...but more blacks will be a part of the middle class. So these activities, these occupations are better not defined in terms of color, but in terms of economics. Whoever is 13% of a nations population but only 2.2% of the nations wealth, will not be experiencing these things in numbers proportional to their share of the population.