Dems are better at brainwashing than Repubs. The media makes sure of that.

You go right ahead and vote for 4 more years of nothing. Romney might not be much better, but I'd rather have a change in the WH than 4 more years of shit from Obama.

And lol @ anyone who tried to defend black america as a whole. Many other people have come to this country from a foreign land and I don't see them overpopulating projects or prisons. There was amazing prejudice against Japanese-Americans as well as internment camps in the last century and they have no problem finding great success in this land.

As for "the bombs", Obama still has plenty of armed forces in the Middle East. Dems go to war just as easily as Republicans, so I see no value in that statement.

Anyways, Obama sucks, but he'll probably get 4 more years. Here's to hoping he does better the second go around. The first 4 years pretty much sucked.

lol it's not surprising, but still hilarious, how much of a cranky racist you are.

Lol @ racist. I'm making a simple racial generalization. There's plenty of white failures and plenty of black successes. It's just statistical that blacks have less success than whites AND other minorities and it has very little to do with racism.

oh yeah? please go on, with what does it have to do?

A great many things. The deification of hip-hop culture for one. The coolness of being "hard" or a "thug". I could go on with more examples, but you'll just lol and call me racist.

No other minority has issues succeeding like African-Americans, and it mainly cultural.

I paid for my own college. I found my own job and started in the warehouse at the ground level. My wife did the same with an amazingly broken home which I wont go in to on a public forum. We made no excuses for getting it done on our own and neither should anyone else.

Now go ahead and call me a racist again...

you're ignoring the sociological impact of hundreds of years of slavery followed by a complete disenfranchisement by the majority culture. none of that had any affect on any other minority group.

that's really swell that you've worked so hard - but if you think our society isn't still battling against the consequences of our forefathers, then you're naive.

but yeah, it's probably just rap music's fault.

Segregation ended 3 generations ago and slavery ended about 7 generations ago. You can make excuses though. I'm quite used to that.

Just because segregation ended, doesn't actually mean that communities are desegregated. I can point out which schools in Knoxville are lower achieving schools, and they correspond with lower income communities. Unfortunately this is where the predominance of the African American community lives, not because they're a lazy person group, but rather they actually were the unfortunate by products of social engineering to try and keep African Americans down.

Can you make it out of the dire straits? Sure, but that is the exception rather than the rule because the schools in these areas turn over teachers very fast. Tennessee uses standardized tests to evaluate and give performance raises to teachers, so teachers in certain schools do much better time and time again while teachers in lower income schools show under performance and thus lower to no raises. So teachers turn over a high rate from these under performing schools to goto higher performing schools just so they can get raises, and the underperforming schools are left with trying to train a new crop of new teachers on a year in, year out basis.

The more effluent areas have a leg up on these lower income areas, they have the money to send their kids to preschool programs, tutoring, or any other means to help them excel in school. Unfortunately the same advantages aren't there for lower income communities. Do I think this is because we as a country are still trying to hold a race down? No, but I don't think that everyone is given the same chance to succeed that I am. I don't know how to over come a lot of this, but to say socio-economics don't play into your chances at success is short-sighted.

Excuses? Your head's in the sand, man. Everything seems fair in your little corner of existence - welp that must be the way it is.

You're making excuses for why you can avoid any critical analysis on the subject - why? I don't know, maybe because it's convenient with your party-line opinion.