Expert: LM - 7/15/2005

Question
How do you view Blacks today, are we moving forward. I am a career counselor for adults and I have worked with teens in the past and currently I am in the development stage of my not-for-profit, which will assist teens in every aspect if possible.

Answer
Not necessarily in a good light. And because I am so tired of being around *dumb-assed* black people, I'm actually planning my next move out of the United States. (You know the types. Gold teeth in their mouths. Du-rags on their heads. Pants down past their assholes.)

This is too long of a topic for me to get into properly, so I'll give you one example and then give you two very easy to read books that will give you an idea of what I mean.

One is called: "Losing the Race. Self Sabotage in Black America," by John McWhorter. Self evident topics.

Another is called: "Give me a Break" by John Stossel. Lots of discussion about how social programs for this and that actually perpetuate poverty.

The example that I want to detail is ADC (commonly known as "welfare"). If you notice,  people who are at the bottom ends of the socioeconomic ladder are the ones who have the most children. And this doesn't depend on location. Even poorer countries have much higher birthrates than rich ones, who are often sent scrambling to find enough people to fill up the jobs there. You will read a statistic here or there about "50% of black children are born into poverty" blah blah blah. Which means that poor people are having the most babies. I believe that because there were a few more blacks at the lower ends of the income spectrum before ADC, those people are going to account for most of our population growth over the longer term as they do now. So, high quality black people are not being produced in large numbers because lower class black people outnumber them owing to higher reproductive numbers.

If you play with some numbers, the outcome for blacks is not looking good in the future. In the very best case, there will be a fairly wide gap between the haves and the havenots.

I'm sorry that I couldn't answer your question in some more detail, but it really is too long to get into properly.

Lemas Mitchell