LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT NIGGERS, the oppressed minority withinour minority. Always down. Always out. Always complaining that theycan't catch a break. Notoriously poor about doing for themselves. Constantly in need of a leader but unable to follow in any directionthat's navigated by hard work, self-reliance. And though they spliffand drink and procreate their way onto welfare doles and WIC lines, niggers will tell you their state of being is no fault of their own.
They are not responsible for their nearly 5 percent incarceration rateand their 9.2 percent unemployment rate. Not responsible for the 11.8percent rate at which they drop out of high school. For the 68.5percent of births they create out of wedlock.
Now, let me tell you something about my generation of blackAmericans.
We are the inheritors of "the Deal" forced upon the entrenched whitesocial, political, and legal establishment when my parents' generationwon the struggle for civil rights. The Deal: We (blacks) take what is rightfully ours and you (the afore-described establishment) getcitizens who will invest the same energy and dedication into raisingfamilies and working hard and being all around good people as was invested in snapping the neck of Jim Crow.
In the forty years since the Deal was brokered, since the VotingRights Act was signed, there have been successes for blacks. Butthere are still many blacks in prison, too many kids aggrandizing the thuglife, and way too many African-Americans doing far too little with theopportunities others earned for them.
If we as a race could win the centuries-long war against institutionalized racism, why is it that so many of us cannot securethe advantage after decades of freedom?
That which retards us is the worst of "us," those who disdainactualascendancy gained by way of intellectual expansion and physical toil-who instead value the posture of an "urban", a "street," a "real"existence, no matter that such a culture threatens to render them extinct.
"Them" being niggers.
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