The problem here is way too much
generalization. Not to mention THESE alarming statements:
No one likes Zaac charging at "white people" and making them all "guilty" of the entire history of racism in the country, but statements like the above is exactly the same thing. People complain of "the race card" being played on them, when they're still putting it in the deck to begin with!
(And as conservative Christians, people are forgetting all the criticism of society
as a whole for slacking off on morality/respect, etc. in raising kids. Now, it's all suddenly become 'split' off onto just one group).
And like charging all whites with racism, it's a ridiculous generalization. Especially the oft insisted “blacks just want free money and don’t want to work”, which is what it always comes back to.
The shooter was obviously operating off of beliefs like that, but then of all the people agreeing with that and spouting it off themselves, no one wants to own the premise behind his actions. (e.g. What else should be done with these "problem people" who just refuse to come up to "par" with "the rest of us", won't work, just want and are getting all our money for free, filling the nation with poverty and violence/crime etc.; either themselves, or from not teaching their kids right)?
Here's an article on this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/18/charleston-church-shootin_n_7613540.html
Doesn't this sound SO familiar???
Notice, (in all of this) no distinction is made between the people as a
whole, and the
individuals who are either committing the crimes, abusing assistance (which again, is way overrated) or not raising their children properly.
People seem to want some sort of en-masse scolding, correcting, teaching, etc. of an entire “people”. It’s like you’ve caught a bad child doing something wrong, and aim to take him to the woodshed to "fix" him, but that’s ONE person. We’re talking about
millions of individuals, all
different, and making separate sorts of choices. But it's like they're not people; they're just a bad singular entity (like some sort of zombie race or something with a single soul) we just wish were corralled. And isn't that a kind of "superior/inferior" relationship? "Good, 'exceptional' US, and bad, 'pathological' THEM"?
So to say “they just need to...” is not going to do anything. You already have families working raising their children as best as they can. What do you expect them to do, (since it’s the whole “community”)?
In these sweeping generalizations, the most we get, eventually, is "well, I have some black friends, and
they aren't like that... But the
rest of them..."
This is what's been called "good ones". You berate the whole community, but then make a few exceptions, the "good ones", to claim the issue is "character and not race", but then once the good ones are set aside, then you go back to upbraiding the rest of the group, which is obviously "bad" . Now people began seeing through that a long time ago, so it's not helping either.
