If barack obama is such a great leader....why are we always moving from one crisis to the next

I know it's hard to explain. Let alone try to live with.

I was in the army for 4 years, right around the beginning of the first Gulf War. I got to see different parts of the world (Germany, France, Korea—I'm still kicking myself for not hopping a C-140 to Japan while I was in Seoul, just to say I did it)...

...and never in any of those places did any of the people see me as anything other than American.

I'm more than embarassed to say that I didn't think of myself as one before that time. But I haven't thought of myself as anything else since.

So I have great confidence in assuming the massive responsibility of reconciling the terrible things about our society's past...and advocating for the things that will make a great future for everybody.

There's nothing to be ashamed of or angry about any more, for me.
So I can offer peace.

Doesn't mean anybody's gonna TAKE it...but I gotta try...

 

Atlanta itself isn't as large as Houston, but it's metro area is comparable.

If you want to see black wealth..take a trip to ATL. It's called the "Mecca of the South" for a reason.

 

Atlanta is the 9th largest MSA in the US, compared to Houston being 5th. I'm honestly shocked that an entrepreneur with the intellect of yourself would overlook that.

 

Yes its built by the guy making 30K a year. Who then makes 65K, who then makes 90, then 120K, then...

So its saying people at lower income need to be better in their ways. Need to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and have business principles. But then dont believe in country's mantra of upward mobility, its just a rigidly defined "ya got it or ya don't"

People that make 100k, theyre the ones with growth potential allowed to generate 500k. 65k and under, they're not even able to get further than that theyre just stuck. This is the logic here.

Capital and inheritance isnt like a persons height that is mostly fixed and stays unchanged. Income level is variable. There are easily people with talent in any demographic but they dont have the nurturing environment to enhance their skills and tactfulness.

 

Atlanta is 4th in the most Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the US. You should just stop while you are way, way, way, way behind. I mean seriously, your argument about black people being inferior is based on your Friday family gatherings as a child and episodes of the Real Housewives.

 

Amazing how that statement you made mixed in with American history answers why there are more African Americans in poverty relative to other races in this nation.

But I doubt you have the intelligence to put those two pieces together.

 

Except majority of indians are in poverty.....

O you are speaking of IMMIGRANTS!?! Well in that case African immigrants are doing quite well also....

Lesson here... Don't compare legal immigrants to the poor in the states. Immigrants tend to come to the States with greater motivation and aspirations than the average person here. African and Indian immigrants also come here mostly on student visas.

Now let's go back to your comment about how accomplished parents create accomplished children. I'm not sure if you ever have taken a U.S. history course but after slavery was ended there was an aditional ONE HUNDRED years of "black codes" and Jim Crow laws. One Hundred years of a race receiving on average 10% of the funding by state and local governments for public education that the other "superior" race received.... Remember eddie, Accomplished Parents create accomplished children.

 

Because of culture differences, both pressure to fit in AND in "selling out" innate human fear of unknown both real and irrational. Just, mutual awkwardness alone can keep things not coming together.

And assimilation is hard. Ask yourself this - do YOU know a big white crowd that WOULD WELCOME in a big incoming black crowd and embrace it? With NO NERVOUSNESS about it? Its all the talk about colorblind society but people will "gerrymander" themselves away from identfiable color threats and adjust boundaries accordingly.

That said, there are issues within black comminity. And I think what whites would "like" to hear is, that its not blamed on "the white man". (A big issue for instance, fatherless households). After a while it just doesnt matter WHOS fault it was, its you just gotta fix it
And in our country its supposed to come from "within"

(more on this later maybe...)

 

I'm going to find out who you are and expose you to this board. You've said too much.

 

I kinda feel like a stalker, but whatever. I didn't find you, but I'm pretty sure I found your business. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt many other independent ATM owners have a section about Obamacare on their websites and how they will not hire any employees until "the law is repealed or the business and personal mandates are removed permanently."

 

Crazy arguments and statements being made in here... but I think this one takes the cake. lol

 

My bad, then. Just a very funny coincidence.