White America has perfected the "blame game" so good that they have succeeded in convincing many Blacks that we, as a whole, are the cause of our current problems. Starting from the top of the Uncle Tom pile, of course, articles, studies, and speeches pour out of the media about how Blacks can blame no one but themselves for the situations we are in.

Never mind that white America had a 400-year head start into the American dream, and that it was only 50 years ago that Blacks even gained the right to participate in this dismal political system. And never mind that there are hundreds of thousands of pockets of racial resistance in America that go unreported in the media or brought up in social policy meetings.

Despite all the above deliberate hindrances to Black advancement, we as Black people are suppose to take it on the chin and accept everything as a result of our own, what…self-oppression? We are expected to swallow any forms of racism we confront during our lives and believe that we are the cause of that racism and the result of how it effects our lives.

Black America is supposed to believe that there are no hindrances before us and that white America has completely accepted us into their world. That we are considered as equal to the white being and that they believe, without a doubt, that we are just as capable as making it as they are, even despite our color difference? Yeah right. Tell that to the publishers of Bible characters.

We are supposed to believe that the banking, education, business, health, and other social institutions in America are fair and honest organizations that have not based their policy making and marketing decisions on demographics, race being a top determinant.

Like a man and woman who have a child, deprive that child of the needful food, clothing, and financial means to survive in the immediate society; send that child to a poorly funded school, then spend mediocre monies at the local community college as an excuse for an education. Not to mention, throughout that child's childhood, beat, embarrass, humiliate, and undermine that child to the point the child has no self-esteem.

Eventually, the child will rebel toward the parents and refuse to abide by any rules, regulations, and policies and procedures the parents lay down. They are scared for life as it pertains to succeeding in anything they believe in and must follow the direction of the parents. Then, send that child into society unprepared and expect that child to compete with other children who had adequate upbringing, educated at highly-funded schools and colleges, and then handed a bank loan the day of their graduation.

What is more obnoxious, is for the parents to turn and look at that child 30 years into its life and tell that child that whatever position they have found themselves in is a result of their own doing. However, this is how white America has succeeded in convincing many gullible Blacks that we are the cause of our own problems.

To this day, they write reports of how we [Blacks] have brought trouble on ourselves, such as the article below. They have gone as far as to reach back into the history of the 1960s riots as a cause of the economic conditions we face today.

Putting a Price on the 1960's Race Riots
Analysis of today's diversity news from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Miami Herald, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist and more:

Between 1964 and 1971, 228 people died and 12,741 were injured in more than 750 riots that ravaged many of the country's inner cities. Now, four decades later, economists are studying the financial impact.

Research has found that in cities with major riots, the median black family income dropped approximately 9 percent between 1960 and 1970, compared with similar cities without severe riots. Between 1960 and 1980, male employment dropped four to seven percentage points in the most affected cities.

Property values took the biggest hit. In cities with severe riots, the median value of black-owned homes plunged 14 percent to 20 percent, compared with cities with little or no rioting.

The findings of this research explain in part the continued wealth gap between blacks and whites in America.

"Wealth reflects history as well as current economics," writes The New York Times. "And while there are many reasons for the wealth gap, it certainly does not help that the 1960's riots destroyed mush of the accumulated wealth of many of the prosperous African-Americans, those who had left the South for greater economic opportunities of industrial cities."

Source from: http://www.diversityinc.com/public/11163.cfm

White America had contributed our current economic problems to the riots of the 60s and many Blacks believe this because they have been convinced in the past that whites are innocent in racism and that they are better behaved than once past. They have convinced many Blacks that it is not white America or the American system that Blacks are fighting against, but our own incompetence and lack of self-control and responsibility.

This is deceptive and no Black should ever allow the blame for the problems of Black America to be place wholly on Black America. Many of our problems are the residue of hundreds of years of racial discrimination and prejudice and it has yet to be wiped clean. The guilt of whites have blinded them to believe this themselves but it will not fly with certain Blacks, who can see through this façade of lies and deceit.

Stay strong Black America and know that the psychological shackles of slavery exist and we should know what they are. Such studies as these and any suggestion that we are our own problem and the cause of them is crazy. Individually, many people make mistakes, but as a whole, for a group of people to be blamed for their condition, is called racism.

© 2005 by Cartel Q