The famous Fox News commentator, Bill O’Reilly, recently offered his views on our troubled African American community, and basically, he placed the full share of blame on said community for all of its current troubles.
Yes, it is true that the African American Community has to work hard to engage in the troubles that lead to so much despair among so many in its community. But Mr. O’Reilly left out, in his critique, another important reason for the troubles overwhelming the African American community. He left out the factor of our long term history of American racism fathered by white Americans, a racism which led to 300 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation and decades up to the present of refusing to sit down, examine the problem and come up with solutions that might eventually repair the African American community. Yes, a solution will probably cost America a significant amount of funding, but our America owes its black community this effort, and Mr. O’Reilly would do well to recognize the greater complexity of the problem he sought to solve with an easy pointing of the finger at the very victims of our American policies that led to today’s challenges.
Yes, it is true that the African American Community has to work hard to engage in the troubles that lead to so much despair among so many in its community. But Mr. O’Reilly left out, in his critique, another important reason for the troubles overwhelming the African American community. He left out the factor of our long term history of American racism fathered by white Americans, a racism which led to 300 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation and decades up to the present of refusing to sit down, examine the problem and come up with solutions that might eventually repair the African American community. Yes, a solution will probably cost America a significant amount of funding, but our America owes its black community this effort, and Mr. O’Reilly would do well to recognize the greater complexity of the problem he sought to solve with an easy pointing of the finger at the very victims of our American policies that led to today’s challenges.
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