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When you are told your whole life that you failures are not your fault or that your skin tone or economic status will prevent you from ever achieving, its easy to look for scapegoats at every turn. Think about it, its much easier to blame others for your shortcomings than to accept responsibility for your deadbeat dad status, drug use, infidelity, and babymaking, underachievement and lack of academic success. Unfortunately, we have been both spoiled and conditioned by the civil rights movement to take offense and expect government redress. That was great in its time and can still be useful, but Black America needs to grow up. In a sense it has. Maybe its apathy, but the old guard is being tuned out more and more. People are more skeptical of our so called "leaders".
Its really time for us to grow up as a people. Every joke is not racist and if it were, so what? If its not meant to intimidate or producing a hostile atmosphere, move on. Not because it is not wrong, but because we, as a people, have bigger fish to fry than worrying about some drunk college kids sophmoric hijinks.
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