How Minorities Can Succeed and Quit Bitching About White People

[QuestionMan]

Nowadays it feels like everywhere on the news there's either a terrorist attack, a cop killed by another Black guy or Black Lives Matter spreading lies about unarmed Black men being shot by police.

So I decided that it is time for a Public Service Announcement.

Now before you shout "YOU'RE WHITE, YOU'RE WHITE, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT X GROUP HAD TO GO THROUGH BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THEM!!!"

Well I can't speak for group X but I can speak for the Jews. The Jews who were historically the MOST persecuted group on the planet, who happen to be White and are currently the most successful group of people.

Every disadvantaged group on the planet has smart people within it. These smart people realize one very important fact, if you're trying to succeed then you need to work harder than everyone else to prove your worth.

Now unlike in the video above very few people are lucky enough to have a teacher invest time and energy into their students being successful. Usually successful people must put in the extra effort themselves to get somewhere in life. It isn't easy but with hard work, education and a little luck anyone could be successful.

It doesn't help when the schools don't prepare people for the future anymore but as Mark Twain once said:

I believe it is important for every group of people to know the history of their people.

A while back there was a question on GAG asked by a Pink Anon (which I can't seem to find probably because it was deleted) about whether Black people have ever accomplished anything.

This really goes to show how bad the education system is since it completely ignores the accomplishments of an important demographic.

The current education system is racist towards Blacks because it paints them as simply victims of slavery, apartheid, and segregation while never focusing on the positive contributions made by Black people. This is the very idea behind Black History Month.

A bad education system leads to a stupider public but information isn't something that you can only get in a book at a school. The Internet is a massive resource of information of almost limitless potential.

It's easy to play the blame game to point your finger at someone that did you wrong and crawl up in a ball at any moment things don't go your way but you must understand that life is like a card game.

It all boils down to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

I know RESPONSIBILITY is a scary word but that's the way life is regardless of what your socialist professor or the mainstream media may tell you; most things in your life are under your control.

There is no evil boogeyman that wants to bring you down because you're Black or gay or Hispanic or a member of any other group.

How you play your cards is up to you.

[TayTay21]

Great take. I'm so, so tired of hearing black people whine about the unfairness of life when they won't take any personal responsibility for their own actions. Black people put forth the least effort in school, yet they're the first to whine about how schools are broken and standardized tests are racist. Everyone who's been through the American public school system knows that black students are more prone to fighting and acting out and less interested in excelling than any other group.

[rsstanford]

I'm going to correct you, you should say some black people. No need to generalize the entire race. As far as the school system it could be better. Just for kids in general, because it doesn't prepare them for the real world. They tell kids in order to be happy you have to have a degree. Make at least 60,000 a year. They don't tell you about the debt and once you graduate you won't get a job right away. You don't need a degree to be happy if you want to paint and that makes you happy that's ok. If you want to be a hippie and be in nature then that's fine. Public schools put expectations on kids. About how you should live your life.

[QuestionMan]

@rsstanford I thought it was common knowledge that you'd be in debt.
Plus if you want to go paint but can't pay the bills then you need a real job. A job that can allow you to have your basic needs met as well as some luxuries.
It's not always about being happy. Happyness is a bonus.

[rsstanford]

Most people on this earth seeks happiness. I know someone who has worked as a nurse for 20 years, and she is miserable. She thought being a nurse would make a lot of money. Now she hates going to work. It's about doing something you love and not this expectation people have of you. they tell you once you get a degree you can pay it back. But how I know people with two degrees and still hasn't got a job. No one will hire new graduates unless you know someone.

[QuestionMan]

@rsstanford Yes life is tough that is why me must work hard and persevere.
https://youtu.be/CVEuPmVAb8o

[rsstanford]

All that doesn't matter if companies won't hire you because you have no experience. How can you get experience if they won't hire you?

[QuestionMan]

@rsstanford That is the age old question I've been asking myself

[Azgeda]

Meanwhile , the Asian guys and gals would be grabbing their popcorn and hotdogs , raking in the dough and watch the drama unfolds.
"Look at the whites and blacks fighting again."
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[QuestionMan]

Yup no one ever looks at the Asians.
You guys suffered too and yet are earning more than White people.

[TayTay21]

LOL says the butthurt Asian guy.

[BigJake]

Most Asians are broke convenience-store workers who are just trying not to get shot on the night shift. No amount of money would induce single black or white man in America to trade places with an Asian man.

[Azgeda]

@TayTay21
I am?

[VictoriousSausage]

Unfortunately Xenophobia is an issue that we still deal with today, and the political acts recently committed by some countries aren't helping, China's persecution of religious minorities for Organ harvesting purposes and Britain stating to leave the EU has ramped up racism, and at the moment the world is trying to hold together everything. also, i appreciate your attempt to make the achievements of black people more well known around the world, when i read this article i thought you might be stating why white people are superior to black people or wanting people to stop being racist to white people, but i share your belief that all people should celebrate their achievements and remember their downfalls. plus i think the reason many of the things taught about the persecution of black people is because they were devastating to those minorities and many people in the home countries of those states committing the acts didn't know what was happening.

[QuestionMan]

I believe that persecution of a group should be mentioned but more focus should be put on the achievements of the group.
Brexit is an incredibly naive desire (which I wrote a myTake on). I understand the desire to limit immigration but the problem with the right wing is that when someone speaks up it makes the Nazis feel like their views are acceptable and chant them the loudest.
China is a country that we need to have a whole conversation about as a society. They're the Saudi Arabia of East Asia.

[VictoriousSausage]

i know right? we've had so many racist attacks here, recently I've been fearing about a girl i like because she's from Poland and lives in a city 14 miles away, which recently suffered an attack when some assholes tried to burn down a families shed, luckily she isn't in the country at the moment, but it's really concerning how bad this is getting. and china, sheesh, china is awful at the moment, they keep committing acts of violence, using it as a way to "promote the regime" and asserting themselves over other nations because they think the more democratic nations won't fight it, even in the international ruling against them they completely ignored it (about the south china sea). it's a really worrying time, especially with the rise of trump too.

[QuestionMan]

When it comes to Trump I would much rather he get elected because he will address the key issues of Radical Islamic terrorism, corruption, political correctness, putting sanctions on the Saudis, trying to get better trade deals especially with China, and I like his tax plan and his idea of removing state lines to increase competition for health insurance companies.
However, he has A LOT of bad baggage. His stupid wall, his far right supporters who feel that their hatred of non-Whites is justified, his plan to give nuclear weapons to Japan and South Korea, his like for Putin and complete abandonment of Ukraine, his constant flip flopping on social issues and I'm sure there's much more.

Although Gary Johnson seems like a decent alternative I doubt he'll get many votes and I would hate it if Hillary got elected.

[VictoriousSausage]

i agree on the baggage, i really don't see the point of racism, but regardless, i don't think you guys should have independent health companies and privately owned hospitals, you need that shizzle state run and well funded, because it really helps in the long run, in the UK, before the conservatives re-took power, our NHS was one of the best healthcare systems in the world, you could go in, ask for major surgery, and in 5-10 minutes, get it, utterly fantastic. and i agree, Hilary is a crap choice, she'd probably try and instigate some form of oligarchical system to keep her in power, but i worry trump would try and create a dictatorship, by removing state lines and states all together and making him the sole ruler of America (enter free American empire) or at the very least, instigate so much violence and hatred, that hate crimes start to soar. i really worry for you america, because this will be a trying time for you, the next four years will test both you and me (UK)

[QuestionMan]

Well I'm from Canada and we have tax payer funded health care and I'd like to see some privatization. Hospitals can't handle this many people and doctors and patients are leaving the country. It's a growing problem. I'd like to see tax funded health care compete with privately funded health care in order to give people the best service.

[QuestionMan]

I'm not sure how you guys can get service in 5-10 minutes. Here it's a minimum of 8 hours and you have to wait 3 months for surgery. People die but the main stream media doesn't report it.

[VictoriousSausage]

that's awful, but that's usually to do with under funding or under staffing, you guys recently got a new prime minister too didn't you? i think he's pro NHS too, but i can understand why you'd think privatization helps, but if you look that the US, they charge an awful lot for medical procedures, and if you're a member of a family having to shed out $14,000 is a real shock

[QuestionMan]

That's why I support a mixed system of public vs private giving people choice.
Monopolies are always heavily flawed because no one can challenge them.

[VictoriousSausage]

i agree, and maybe you're right here, it'd be an interesting system to see working, do you know any countries where this is implemented?

[QuestionMan]

Sadly no.
I've only heard of fully private or fully public.
There are some areas in Canada with private clinics but it's not the same as having private hospitals.
How much does NHS cover? In Canada our health care system doesn't cover dental, eye care (check ups are included though), massage therapy and anything that is not deemed necessary.

[VictoriousSausage]

at the moment due to cuts and attempted privatization by the government, the NHS is struggling to cover all the bases of health, like it used to, you'd be allowed any service for free accept from prescriptions, which don't cost much anyway, but since the cuts they've had to let some things go. all the expenses of the NHS are figured through taxes to accommodate it, and this was fine when Labour was in power because the higher taxes they used to support the social welfare systems helped keep it in balance, but every since the Tories (conservatives) took power they've been slowly unraveling it to work more in their sort of model of privatized services owned by large businesses and an economic system called "trickle down economics" (i can explain that if you like), basically the NHS is in sort of a semi-privatized limboland where it doesn't have the funding to cover all it's services and the government has been firing and cutting jobs of people like junior doctors (and no funding from bu-

[VictoriousSausage]

-sinesses)

[QuestionMan]

I'm very familiar with trickle down economics and see some merit to it but it only works if you have a lot and I mean a lot of competition. Only then do you lower taxes as low as possible to increase competition. If you have oligopolies running the show, lowering taxes only makes the rich richer.
Oligopolies are a big problem in Canada. They control the entire telecommunication industry (phones and internet) leaving prices to be higher than in the US for less service than in the US.

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the NHS employ a lot of EU nurses and doctors? When I was in London someone told me that there's a problem with getting English speakers into medicine so they take anyone they can.

The Tories here also love cutting costs, so much so they took money out of Veteran Affairs.

[VictoriousSausage]

you are right there, and actually i don't really agree with trickle down economics, because i've never really seen it benefit everyone, but no, i meant you were right about the EU and the NHS, that person isn't actually correct, since anyone wanting to work for the NHS needs to be able to speak English, luckily most Europeans can, (they learn loads of languages pver there, it's a shame we don't in the UK but hey), and yeah, no one really likes the tories any more, their membership has gone down so far right now that Labour has actually started stealing some of their members, (i believe they're around 140,000, where labout has somewhere around 700,000 (lots of the smaller parties also have had a huge spike in membership particularly the lib-dems, greens, and SNP)). i think our NHS is great here, and with some support and a little re-working when the Tories leave, it could be fantastic again.

[LiveFreeorDieHard]

Ok all of this progressive or black lives matter or black achievements is bs. When a white guys or black guy invent or do something good, it's an individual achievement. Not a every one with the same color as me gets this achievement also bullshit. There is no Jewish or black race. Only the human race. Skin color is just like hair or eye color. It's just a freaking feature, get over it. It doesn't mean your smart if your Asian, athletic if torn lack, or successful at everything you do if your white. I've met ugly white chicks who thought they were the shot just because they were white. Same thing, your pretty if your pretty, not because of your skin tone.

[QuestionMan]

The human race is divided into a categories for a reason. There are innate differences between Whites, Blacks, Asians and etc.

[LiveFreeorDieHard]

All of which are superficial. Race has no base in biology.

[QuestionMan]

Lol are you kidding me?
Race is purely a biological division.
Go learn something about cladistics and phylogenetics.
Or at least read this article
time.com/.../

[somebodysaycheese]

No, the jews aren't white my friend. Read the bible and see exactly where the Israelites came and its not from not Europe.

[QuestionMan]

Askenazi are White.

[somebodysaycheese]

Right, but doesn't make the jewish people white at all.

[QuestionMan]

I guess not all Jews are White but most are.

[somebodysaycheese]

The ones in Europe yea. but you have those in the middle east and northern africa.

[TayTay21]

Jews are white, and European ancestry is *not* related to Caucasian ethnicity. Turks, Armenians, and Persians are white, and they all originate in Asia.

[somebodysaycheese]

@TayTay21 ... from the comment it tells me you sont know where the jews come from and what does the amernians have to do with it?

[TayTay21]

Well, your assertion that Jews aren't white because they're not from Europe tells me that you don't understand the origins of the Caucasian race.

[somebodysaycheese]

@TayTay21 caucasian... isn't even a real thing. You do know science has debunked race a trillion timea right... erc silly goose the jews dcame from northern africa

[TayTay21]

Race isn't a real thing? You're funny. Here's what science knows about race: organ transplants are many times more likely to succeed when the donor is the same race as the recipient. Race is empirically observable in genomic data through the presence of genetic markers. That's how genomic analysts determine that person X is 57% European, 22% North African, etc. etc.

[QuestionMan]

@TayTay21 She probably thinks it's a social construct lol.
But she is right that not all Jews are White because Ethiopian Jews are Black and many are Arab.

[somebodysaycheese]

@TayTay21 its not race.. bright star its ethnicity. Literally race was a term created to support the enslavements of Africans. Look it up before decide to argue with me

[somebodysaycheese]

Because it is... lol y'all are stuck in 1950.

[TayTay21]

Oh honey, I've already embarrassed you in this little discussion. Go back and learn something about genomics before you try to lecture me with the propaganda you picked up in your ethnic studies program.

[QuestionMan]

There is a biological basis for race
time.com/.../

[somebodysaycheese]

@TayTay21 oh honey? Lol, your very ignorant.. lol. and proud of it which is sad. Lol its 2016, propaganda? I truly and i mean truly think you need to pick up a book made in the last 5 years. Smh.. anyway, i can't further talk to someone who is adamant on bejng wrong

[TayTay21]

You're a dupe who's been indoctrinated with liberal fantasies. Go learn something about cladistics and phylogenetics before you run your proverbial mouth these topics. @QuestionMan yeah, I think it's pretty clear that she's a social justice warrior who believes that race is just a construct made up by bad people or something.

[Emberremembers]

It depends on where you live too. I'm Chinese and people don't pick on me for being Chinese where I live but if you go to some ghetto places everybody just hates everybody whose not part of their group

[QuestionMan]

Asians have done really well in America even though they faced a lot of discrimination.
Just another example of a group that worked hard and became successful.

[hereiam___]

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[Emberremembers]

@hereiam___ thanks😊

[hereiam___]

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[Emberremembers]

@hereiam___sure it's a free country😄

Well at least where I am it is, don't know where you're from.

[hereiam___]

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[UncagedAgent]

Very interesting Take, I'm glad to see you made this more about how these opinions spread and steps to counteract them than just branding people as reverse racism.

[QuestionMan]

Thanks :)

[BigJake]

Personal responsibility is fading from American life. No one wants to be accountable for anything any more, and no one is worse about this than minorities and the hucksters in academia and the media who make a living off of their self-pity.

[Anonymous]

The first and most important thing they can do is to stop making everything about race. They say we shouldn't see color but bring it up every chance they get.

[QuestionMan]

Actually they want you to see colour now.
They see it as racist to expect the same thing from the as with White people without accounting for their struggles.

[Anonymous]

funny thing, i wonder why people are repeatedly persecuted by every single culture they try to fuck with?

[Anonymous]

Sure, but note that some minorities are also white.

[Anonymous]

They are the real racists, and what was the other thing? Aha yes black shit matters.

[TheButterfly]

So many things wrong with this take

[QuestionMan]

Please list them

[TheButterfly]

Things do boil down into personal responsibilty, but what happens if you dad walked out and your mom is on drug and you have to take care of your siblings? A lot of people aren't dealt fair cards

[QuestionMan]

There are many people with these types of situations that find a way.
It isn't easy but if there is a will there's a way.

[TheButterfly]

Thats true, but a lot of the time sucessful people have at least one person supporting them or caring for them. It's easy to say that there is always a way when you yourself have not lived through it

[QuestionMan]

My father came to Canada with nothing and now owns a business.
He worked any job he could even payed to work at one point at an accounting company to learn to be an accountant.
He later was able to bring my family to Canada.

[TheButterfly]

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I have lower grades (A- GPA) than my friends because I have to worry about bills and whether or not my mom is going to overdose again. I worked 5-6 days a week for six months while taking college classes in the mornings and going to high school in the afternoons and working nights. My GPA dropped significantly from this. Sometimes it is almost impossible to think about the future when your e trying to survive day to day

[QuestionMan]

Has your mom been to rehab?

[TheButterfly]

Its not a rehab situation. I love her to death but she is bipolar which causes her to make stupid descions sometimes. She has overdosed 3 times from prescriptions due to depression and making poor choices. I'm not trying to be an asshole to you, I just wanted to say that it can be very hard a lot of the time to pull your self out of the dirt

[QuestionMan]

I understand that it is a mental health issue. Have you tried reaching out to your local church or any organization that could help your mother?
I'm not trying to be an asshole either, I just want to get you thinking to see if you can improve your life and that of your family.

[TheButterfly]

I've just worked with her myself, there isn't really anyone to reach out to. And I am working to improve my life, hence why I'm taking college classes

[QuestionMan]

That's good to hear :)
I wish you the best of luck.
I think there may be someone you can reach out to. There are plenty of non-profits and government organizations that people just ignore. I can't exactly tell you which one to look into since I don't know what general area you live in.

[Relentless_Hippie]

Ew wtf was that one girl's behavior? xD

[Relentless_Hippie]

Also that card game video was awesome!!

[QuestionMan]

Typical SJW

[frecklejuice]

I think Asians are doing quite well, no?

[QuestionMan]

Yes they are :)
That's because they work hard.

[OrdinaryGentleman]

I liked the ending video describes cali perfectly

[unpleasentruth]

Minorities are the real racists

[alor1an]

Thank you!