People like to blame guns, because it's easier then being realistic about race.
February 6, 2008
An Alternative Look at Slavery: Andrew says black slavery at the begining of our nation, isn't the great evil we sometimes portray it to be.
Analysis of the Southern Ideology on Slavery: A short paper discussing slavery and it's rationalization.
Another Essay on Tolerance: Exploring the meaning of true tolerance and what it means to accept deviance.
Average American: How stereotyping and prejudice hurts us all.
Blacks in Pickup Trucks: The trouble I have with seeing blacks driving trucks.
Civil Rights Act of 1965 Didn't End Hate.: Thoughs on Civil Rights Legislation, and the need for a steppast legistlation..
Considering the Silent Majority: A Label Playing Off Class Conflict for Political Gain: A short paper written for Introduction to Sociology on the silent majority, and use of this label for political gain.
Growth of White Power Music: Thoughts on growth of racist music, social alienation, and youth rebellion.
Is Feminism Dead?: The fate of feminism is tied to the Democratic Party.
Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King: Hillary’s remarks on President Johnson ring clear on this holiday.
Martin Luther King Day: Race as we remember MLK.
On Black Culture: And It's Advancement: A short essay recrying racism and our lack of solutions it.
Politizing Cultural Diversity: Andrew complains about the liberal-bias in the Cultural Diversity class he is taking.
Racism or Urbanism: Do we dislike blacks or just the culture they too often represent?
Racist Symbolism: How I still associate blacks with certain bad things.
Trent Lott and the Black Lobby: Andrew disagree's with some black's lynching of Trent Lott...
When Fairness Becomes Racist.: Discussing the need to treat all the same.
Albany does not a gun problem. It has a race problem. An simple analysis of gun crime shows that most gun violence happens in minority neighborhoods. Most gun violence victims are African American.
Why is this so? African Americans are widely discriminated against. Minority neighborhoods have inferior housing, schooling, and employment opportunities. Those who try to move to the suburbs find it difficult to afford housing with their limited education or criminal backgrounds.
Our solution to 'black problem' has been to build superhighways that go over their neighborhoods, and to reinforce the stereotype that all African Americans are gun toting drug dealers. We knocked down legal discrimination, and reinforced with informal discrimination.
There is a simple solution. Simply work to reintegrate African Americans back into our communities, and offer them the educational opportunities at an affordable cost to success. Work to rebuild their neighborhoods, and welcome people of diverse backgrounds to our communities.
If we all work together, we can do much to change our society. I believe that our violence in our society can be greatly reduced, when learn to love our neighbors, and to understand their problems. We have to fight for what is right.
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