Remember when real numbers meant nothing and percentages meant everything? Blacks make up 12% of the population. That's 37 million out of 300 million. Do you realize how hard it is for anyone to live in Chris Rock's neighborhood?
Look at the workplace, I usually see at least 12% of my co-workers being black. That includes upper management. On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How would a white person understand a non-white's day to day reality? > > A list of successful blacks is actually indicative that the problems caused > by prejudice and racism have not been solved to the point where they can now > be ignored. > > As Chris Rock says, the guy living next to him is a Doctor. Not a great > Doctor, but a good Doctor. There's another guy that's a banker.Similarly, > he's not one of the top investment bankers in his firm either. > Chris Rock says he's the only Black person on his street, and he had to be > one of the best comediennes in the world to get there. > > He also mentioned the Neighborhood that Jay Z lives in and went onto a few > other stars. All this to illustrate that yes there are successful black > people, because of Prejudice and racism they all have to excel and be the > very best to achieve and obtain what a good white individual is able to. > > And have you seen Tiger Wood's stats? He is a mega success, and is still the > best athlete in the world because of those stats. > His private life and the mistakes he made have zero bearing on what he has > accomplished thus far. > > Unless of course if you found out Bach was a wife-beater, he would no longer > be one of the greatest composers in the world. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323437 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
