As a white guy I'll tell you how I feel about this and what I see among other whites as well. The black community in the US has serious problems. They are problems that are a result of black American culture here, and only black Americans are going to be able to solve those problems. But there is also a very deeply ingrained victim mentality among blacks, and they tend to blame everyone else for their problems and refuse to take any ownership for them. Whites here are just sick and tired of being blamed for your issues. We didn't cause them and we can't solve them for you. Only you can solve them.
Yes, black men are given a pass by society. They commit violent crimes at rates far higher than the rest of the population. For example, black men, who account for roughly 7% of the US population, commit almost half of the murders in the US. As a result, they interact with police at much higher rates. They tend to resist arrest more than other and they end up getting hurt or killed by police more than others. But they are not held accountable for that behavior as a group because our liberal society sees them as victims of oppression. When a black man gets killed by police, people automatically assume he is a victim of racism and that he did nothing wrong. We see this sort of thing in the news almost every day.
I'll give you a real life example of why this is so frustrating to the rest of us. Growing up I had a friend who had a younger brother with health issues. Their parents were very overprotective of the younger brother and let him get away with sooo much more than they should have. He would do all kinds of things and never get in trouble for them. He would destroy his older brothers things, hit him, call him names and generally act like a spoiled little brat, but the only one who ever got in trouble was my friend, the older brother. The younger brother is now an adult and he has already spent time in jail and is constantly in trouble with the law because he never learned to be accountable for his actions and behavior.
I'm sharing all of this because black Americans are like the little brother, and American society, and especially liberal Americans, are like the parents in this story. Until black Americans stop being "victims" and blaming everyone else for their problems, and start being accountable for their behavior, they will never get the respect others get, because they haven't earned it. Only blacks can fix their culture, and that is what it will take to rise above the chronic issues blacks face today.
Unfortunately, black women are "guilty" by association, although they have their own problems and are part of the bigger problem black Americans have with their culture. But you are not seen as victims to the degree black men are because you're not out committing violent crimes and consequently being killed by police. You need to start holding your men accountable and stop having children with men who are not worthy and won't be good husbands and fathers. Only you can change that.
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Because Black women issues are just everyday woman issues.
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All I ever really see on news is angry, black women attacking other people. Climbing through the drive-they window to beat up an employee. Two angry black women robbed a store maybe about a week ago. Hit the clerk in the head w a brick.
Black women’s issues are pedestalized and fetishized by other groups of women who make more noise.
We have had black issues AND women's issues shoved down our throats while no one is willing to talk about the rest of the human populations issues. What could black women be facing that we haven't already spoken ad nauseum?
Black women’s issues are just as important as other coloured men’s issues.
Oh, so black women deal with the same problems that everyone else does? 😴
Insecure white men, Karens, thug life blacks, black women. Which victim group/negative stereotype have I forgotten?
You are asking this on the wrong site, full of people that won’t answer seriously
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