| You People is an Electronic Bulletin Board Forum to discuss current and past events as they relate to African Americans, or as I prefer, as it relates to Blacks. I believe that the deplorable conditions that still exist in many of our communities are the direct result of past injustices. But I also believe that in many ways we are own worst enemy. I believe it's time that we stop looking outside of our communities for help and start cleaning up our own act. I believe people who appointed themselves leaders of the Black community and run around looking for every little racial incident they can find are doing us all an injustice. Al Sharpton comes to mind. I believe they should utilize their time more productively, like fighting black on black crime. On the other end of the spectrum, there are also quite a few so-called Black Conservatives cropping up lately. While I often agree with some of what Black Conservatives have to say, the attitudes of many of them towards their own people would make the KKK proud. To hear some of the Black Conservatives speak, you would believe they zoomed in from another planet. They basically deny that racism and discrimination still play a major role in the difficulty of blacks getting ahead |
