Mr. Brown, Do you really think the columns you write are helpful? You can’t possibly believe that by accepting no accountability, making false accusations and threatening the white population you are “having a conversation about race”. Honestly I can’t figure out if you are just naive or trying to keep your job, or both. You don’t get through to anyone with your writing, you only further the devide, can’t you see that?

Sorry, “Further the divide”

Everything resides in the conversation. We are for each other the words we use, no more, no less.

Count me in!

ok then here we go. If whites will no longer be the majority and POC have to support white social security in the future, then too bad. We all know the rules, the young pay for the old (aren’t old people some kind of protected minority as well?). Right now, our taxes are spent on the welfare and health care of illegal immigrants and plenty of legal ones as well. Not really a big issue. As for having Obama president ending race issues…of course not. However, anytime I hear from a race that their race is unfairly kept from economic and social gains, I will show them a picture of Obama and stop arguing.

Do any of you ever get the feeling that, rather than solving the problem, the media is (however inadvertently) feeding racism? Something about picking at scabs comes to mind.

“The U.S. Census notes that the United States will no longer have a white majority by 2050. Social Security payments for an aging white population will have to be paid by an increasingly brown and black work force, which may resent such support.”

Well, welcome to the club. You want equality? Soon you will have it.

Since the 1960’s the United States Government has taken over five trillion dollars from people who work and given it to people who, in large measure, do not work despite being fully capable of doing so.

Has it eliminated poverty? Depends upon whom you ask. In the eyes of those who receive those payments, despite their air conditioning, multiple color TV’s and telephones (a luxury when I grew up in the 1960’s), they are still poor. In the eyes of the rest of the world, who can only laugh when they hear the biggest health problem our “poor” face is obesity and its consequences, our so-called “poor” live better than do the middle class in many of their countries.

What the Great Society and its descendants has done is promoted a culture of entitlement where recipients are not only ungrateful, but resent that they have not been given more.

How does this factor into the racial discussion? Among the ranks of those receiving such benefits, African-Americans are disproportionately represented. While but 15% of the population, African-Americans typically comprise 40% or more of those receiving public assistance.

To those working at low-wage jobs and struggling to see their children receive a quality education, it is an affront to see so much of their money go to people that have been so vocally ungrateful, and to be denied equal opportunity to advance their economic state because, despite not being well-off or well-connected themselves, they happen to be white.

These people have since the 1960’s chafed at funding government payments largely directed to others. By the 2050’s cited above, they will have done that for nearly a century, which is longer than the United States of America allowed slavery. Where, Mr. Brown, are their reparations for enduring a century of economic and social injustice?

7dez7,

It is very sad when one cannot see their own sick state. So many such as you are victims of lies that they have accepted as truth. By the way, why don’t you give us your thinking concerning why so many Blacks are so disportionately represented in numbers concerning most ills of our society.

You state:
“… In the eyes of those who receive those payments, despite their air conditioning, multiple color TV’s and telephones (a luxury when I grew up in the 1960’s), they are still poor. In the eyes of the rest of the world, who can only laugh when they hear the biggest health problem our “poor” face is obesity and its consequences, our so-called “poor” live better than do the middle class in many of their countries”.

It would help you to learn what is true and accept it instead of the lies that you are so bent on believing. Most poor people and people on welfare do not have all these luxuries that you speak of and the ones who do have color TV’s you are unknowingly judging how they may have come by these items. You will be surprised at the people out there in our world who do help the poor with nice clothing, furniture etc. and just about any other items that your mind can conjure up. How many Black people do you even personally know who are on welfare? By the way, most poor people Black or White cannot afford to run their air conditioning in the summer. Do you know how many of these poor people on welfare do not even have electricity because they cannot afford to pay their electric bill? Furthermore, you should not begrudge poor people in America the use of air conditioning because people in this country are conditioned to need air. Virtually everywhere that one goes in America they are exposed to air conditioning unlike third world countries where the body is more able to adapt to not needing air conditioning. It is a life or death necessity for most in America during extreme hot weather conditions.