Okay to start off, I’m not an american, I’m a black portuguese guy, an outsider, so take my observations with a grain of salt. But I have been closely watching the situation over there (how can’t we? America’s everywhere in the media these days), and both countries share the same social/racial issues and both countries have a shameful past (slavery and the like). Now, i’m not a black/white/whatsoever conservative, take me as a human conservative if anything regarding this matter.
While I do agree with some points written here, namely about how some black people found a way to be superstars and the crime rate number, I tend to disagree with the rest.
Let’s be frank here, your essay is very concentrated in media/entertainment life. How about the other blacks who wish to have other decent laudable and actually strive for it studying hard? It’s easy to say that blacks have permeated the modern society with entertainment superstars like Rihanna, Oprah, 50 Cent, Chris Rock, etc. But no one mentions about the forgotten hard working men and women those who applied for jobs with good qualifications but are never employed because they’re black. You didn’t mention in your essay, how many journalists, economists, biologists, physicians, medics you know that are black. At least that would give much more credibility. I know 60 years ago, blacks didn’t have the same opportunities as whites to go to college or university but that’s long gone. No one gives them the opportunity and when they do say journalists they generally do background work. I’m yet to see a black anchor man.
About the music, that’s a very subjective matter. Rap and R&B is still a very trendy music as it where in the 80’s or 90’s. But you fail to realise how punk was on the spotlight too in the 70’s and 80's. How much white kids grew up listening to pro-white music back in the day and a quite a significant number still does today. Don’t generalize social behaviour with music trends. I know a lot of people, some are my “pseudo-friends”. They enjoy listening, collect albums of Beyoncé, Wiz Khalifa, Drake, and our own black artists too, but in the next minute they behave in a very racist way with casual blacks they find in the street.
About the criminal rate.. it’s a very complex subject. I know all about parallel economy and black markets, but if guns weren’t sold so freely in some american states, as we do in our country, maybe that would help to diminish the crime rate (even within the black community). Oddly enough, the majority of Trump supporters who want guns to be sold freely across the states again like it was 60-years ago are whites.
You see humans can be very paradoxically stupid sometimes. But I insist, racism is still alive and fresh like it were 60 years ago. It’s just that it’s more subtle these days.