blacks themselves have to want to change. you can't reform anyone that doesn't want to be reformed. as a conservative black that was once a democrat, i understand many of the problems. one, black media enforces the stereotypes within the black community. jet magazine, black enterprise, blackplanet online, ebony and black enterprise are all just mindless dribble that encourages racism towards anyone that is non black.
black radio talk shows do the same thing. they all imply that the "white man is still holding black people down, while at the same time glorifying black millionaire athletes and entertainers. how did i get out, by being an objective thinker, by being stubborn and hard-headed towards those that try to "sell" me on anything. at a very young age, i realized that if someone was trying to convince me of something...it was probably going to benefit them more than it would me. also, the things i heard and read in these black news outlets wasn't matching up to what was going on in my life.
i never had a group of white people holding me back. if anything they tried to help me whenever possible. of course, i had the occasional racist confront me with some b.s., but that's what i saw it as, an ignorant individual or two that were full of b.s.. as i said, the more i achieved personally through my efforts, the less i believed what i was hearing and reading from black media outlets. then i started questioning why they spent so much energy on this type of negativity when no one was doing the things they claimed to me or anyone i knew.
sure, growing up in the projects..i saw bad things happen to some of my friends, but those bad things were the result of my friends doing bad things. their consequences were the result of their own actions...not someone holding them back. the more i questioned the more apparent it became that those intrusted with informing us were misleading us for their own financial gain.
