Mike, you once shared with us the economic hardships that you and your mother experienced when you were young. Despite your struggles, you were able to overcome economic obstacles and persevere. Below is a post from another board that echoes your sentiment about perseverance. After seeing all the burning and looting in Ferguson, I have to believe there will be a lot more Americans becoming sick and tired of the victimhood narrative coming from the left. Hopefully, we will begin to see more African-Americans speaking out against dependency and victimhood (see link).
What a hoot, we've got Lebron James and Spike Lee speaking out on behalf of Brown and the Ferguson community. How about putting your money in play, you two, and instead of stoking the fires how about telling all the looters and rioters and race pimps to stop. If the Auto Zone was owned by James or Lee, different story. What a bizarre and strange reaction, Wilson is exonerated, they don't like it, so they stir the pot. I can't stand the victimhood, the woe is me, the I came from the streets or grew up in a bad environment. As if non minorities all grew up with silver spoons in their mouths. I can remember Kevin Garnett doing a Nike Commercial about how he grew out of his sneakers when he was in Junior high and had to cut the ends off and then put cardboard in the insides. As if no one else on earth, except victimized blacks in America, could that possibly happen to. I wore my older brothers hand me down sneakers, that already had holes in the bottom and the tops slit, my entire stint in elementary school. Cardboard from trash heaps, tape from classrooms. My older brothers and I would get one pair of hand me down pants and one shirt, and that's what we wore to school for sometimes an entire year. My two older brothers would take a bath together, then myself and my 2 younger brothers would hop in the same dirty tub of water to take our baths, till I was 12, once a week if we were lucky. We had one working bathroom for 9 people in a 1200 square foot dump. 5 square miles of families just like that around us. One meal a day, if we were lucky, spam, bologna, tuna fish on a half slice of stale bread. We didn't steal or complain or riot or loot or consider ourselves victims, we got through it, survived, and then made our own fate. No victimhood, just opportunity to grasp. I'm sick of the victimhood and the excuses that I see all over the United States, sick of it. .
Blacks must reject dependency and victimhood
What a hoot, we've got Lebron James and Spike Lee speaking out on behalf of Brown and the Ferguson community. How about putting your money in play, you two, and instead of stoking the fires how about telling all the looters and rioters and race pimps to stop. If the Auto Zone was owned by James or Lee, different story. What a bizarre and strange reaction, Wilson is exonerated, they don't like it, so they stir the pot. I can't stand the victimhood, the woe is me, the I came from the streets or grew up in a bad environment. As if non minorities all grew up with silver spoons in their mouths. I can remember Kevin Garnett doing a Nike Commercial about how he grew out of his sneakers when he was in Junior high and had to cut the ends off and then put cardboard in the insides. As if no one else on earth, except victimized blacks in America, could that possibly happen to. I wore my older brothers hand me down sneakers, that already had holes in the bottom and the tops slit, my entire stint in elementary school. Cardboard from trash heaps, tape from classrooms. My older brothers and I would get one pair of hand me down pants and one shirt, and that's what we wore to school for sometimes an entire year. My two older brothers would take a bath together, then myself and my 2 younger brothers would hop in the same dirty tub of water to take our baths, till I was 12, once a week if we were lucky. We had one working bathroom for 9 people in a 1200 square foot dump. 5 square miles of families just like that around us. One meal a day, if we were lucky, spam, bologna, tuna fish on a half slice of stale bread. We didn't steal or complain or riot or loot or consider ourselves victims, we got through it, survived, and then made our own fate. No victimhood, just opportunity to grasp. I'm sick of the victimhood and the excuses that I see all over the United States, sick of it. .
Blacks must reject dependency and victimhood
