It’s getting to the point where a black man can’t even break into his own home late at night and give the responding officers crap without being inconvenienced.

First things first — every nation has their time in the sun. Spain’s moment is OVER. Portugal’s moment is OVER. The Persians moment is OVER. The Romans moment is OVER. Same for Ghana and Benin and Sokoto and Monomotapa and Axum and the Elamites of Susa and the Nubians and Sabeans of Arabia and the Almoravids and the Almohades and the Zanj of Basra. The sun sets on everyone. Africans have had some very long runs in many places around the world — but perfection is elusive.

As much as America likes to toot its own horn, they’ve been the world’s preeminent power since 1945 — and yet, they’ve “lost” in Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, Iraq?, Afghanistan? and Somalia. And everyone from Silicon Valley to Wall Street is worried about China cranking out 200,000 engineers a year. How much time is left as the Top Dog??

As for “racism,” if Europeans were not imbued with the disease of “white supremacy” our condition could be considerably better — but we’d still be here. I think the root cause of our condition is that people have never figured out really great ways to deal with scarcity and greed.

Different nations have used forced labor (slaves, serfs, prisoners, etc.) for millenia as a path to power. The Fon used in it Benin. The Akan used it in Ghana. The Romans used it in Italy. At the same time that millions of Africans were being brought West, millions of Europeans were shackled and dragged south and East to Tunisia, Algiers, Cairo and elsewhere. The famed British navy could do very little to stop this. Entire towns were snatched up at once. They, however, were put to different uses. Forced labor was the Nazis angle in Africa and with the European Jews. It’s the game in China and India right now.

The real issue, it seems, is one of coordination. It took Europeans several centuries to impose their will on Africa. We’ve been taught they just showed up with guns and took it over. Not so. They fought against one another, but often fought in concert when they recognized a threat. The Africans, it seems, were not as vigilant about coordinated fighting and seemed to take the enemy at his word. They also seemed to fail to recognize the concept of a Long War.

Some fights are intergenerational. So-called “tribal” fights are long-standing and so is this one. But the ultimate solution requires coordinated fighting and coordinated support to alleviate the sytemic poverty and desperation that causes people to do things like sell their children or conspire with the enemy.

Koreans have sold their children en masse for generations. The tide is only recent slowing down. It’s not a “Black” thing. It’s a human thing.

Temple3: What is the root cause of our present condition? Not saying racism is or a predisposed behavior based its effects…just interested in your opinion bruh.

Oh, and damn right we do!

I agree 100% — http://thestartingfive.net/2009/07/23/thursday-morning-starting-five-the-cambridge-pd-acted-stupidly-and-the-black-in-america-edition/#comment-28264

Mizzo:

I would simply say that racism is not the ROOT CAUSE of our present condition, nor is curing “whites” of the delusion of white supremacy (as an ideology) the solution.

We have bigger fish to fry.

You do realize that they are fighting tooth and nail to squash this don’t you. As Mizzo said, you may have a point, but let’s not fool yourself, do or don’t he’ll be made to bootlick and bow down for trying to reform (?) healthcare.

Hey Mizzo, what happened to my comment on the other post? Seems a couple of trolls came out of the toilet, but my comment fell in.

I mean really what??????

The freaking media asked him the question. They would have flipped this anyway, no matter what Obama said.

And one of the reasons that the media (IMO) is trying to make this a big deal is to put the Big Ben issue on the back burner.

Most media on TV haven’t even discussed the issue.

Plus who gives a flip what the media says……….F them whores.

They got on Obama for Rev. Wright. They got on him for Rev. Pfleger. They got on him for what Michelle said about America. They got on him because they thought he threw his white grandmother under the bus when he was making his speech on race.

Screw the media.

If Obama called out black folks there would be a standing ovation from the white media.

The media is going to move this into different channels for the purpose of dehumanizing his words and creating this Black vs. White dynamic.

Now the police force are victims?!?

Whatever. As soon as dude knew Gates lived there, the police should have left like they’ve done many times across the nation in the same type of neighborhoods.

Wow. Amen to that.

I’m sorry but there is really no other way to look at this than what it is – an absurd abuse of power. So now on top of being paranoid in my car I have to be paranoid of looking “suspicious” while trying to get into my own home?

Truth is, if you say anything even remotely involving race, there will be backlash. So I say, oh well, might as well just say what you have to say without sugar coating it.