I only ran with trying to expand on your excellent post #43. No criticism was intended if that is how it was taken Brother.Thus my statement:
When people have discussions regarding the present day climate surrounding black people, i hope that most people can appreciate that the condition of black people is no accident. Our condition is not self-inflicted. I don't get it, if everyone has a solution and reason why black people are in the condition we are in, if reversal of this condition is so easy why hasn't it happen? (rhetorical question).
People are not the problem, the problem is the problem. Of course people can solve problems but what happens when the monkey wrench appears? (again rhetorical)
We continue to thrive under adverse conditions and great conditions as well. We are the strength of our ancestors.
As long as there are great black people like people on this site and great black people around the world, our greatness will shine regardless of what we are confronted with.
Peace to the brothers and sisters.
But I can see I've badly misplayed a finesse you deftly turned with no problem. Gotta learn that trick some day........
That being said I guess I may as well go on with saying straight why I found Al's couple of 'boot strap' posts so 'white' instead of just slamming him hoping it would result in some self reflection on his part.
Those couple of 'boot strap' posts are so incredibly reductionist in content they could have been and has been spoken by numbers I could count down from our very own uncle Clearence Thomas and uncle Ben Carson to Lee Atwater's speeches written for Nixon and all the many in-betweens. But obviously AL thinks reductionism is the way forward.
From now on I'll just refer him to your post #43 if I respond to him on anything.
"My final prayer,
O my body,
make of me always a man who questions!"
from "Black Skin, White Masks" by Frantz Fanon