It pains me that most of the comment here
are “yeah but” comments. Like, yeah but White people kill each other too. They
throw trash on their sidewalks too. They use drugs too. Some of them don’t
study in school too. Some of them have children out of wedlock too. I ain’t
gonna’ do nothing to improve myself ‘cause some of them don’t improve
themselves either. Ever heard of multitasking? – Fix self and work on external problems.
Remember Nelson Mandela? It is past time to take positive steps to correct bad
behavior. TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!
FIX YOURSELF! Notice Hispanics.
They are rapidly moving upward past blacks. Why? Maybe they show up every day
for work and work hard. Now they are increasingly seen everywhere in the work
force. I am black. I certainly experienced racism in my life and I hated/hate it.
My father was an illegal alien hunted by immigration who was eventually caught.
Our family was on welfare at one time but my parents (FATHER AND MOTHER) worked
hard and got off of it. My mother scraped the meat off ham bones to make sandwich
spread for our school lunches. A Caucasian person cannot pull my pants down but
I can pull them up! A Caucasian person did not prevent me from listening in
class or studying hard or from reading books. Some of my black peers wondered
why I strived to follow my parents’ encouragement to speak proper English
instead of saying “not anuf” instead of not Enough “why you didn’t call me
man?” or “I be tired” or “y’all” or “50
cent” instead of 50 cents or “why she not comin’?” I learned to properly speak and write English
and so when I went on job interviews I was able to respond in proper English.
Consequently I became a radar technician, later a quality control manager and a
electronic engineer circuit designer. My father worked his way up from a
stowaway who ate from garbage cans to parts in movies and eventually as a guest
college lecturer and a book author. Our mother became a clerical office
manager. They later built an apartment
building. Japanese Americans suffered IMPRISONMENT, not internment, during
WWII. After their release, they were I am quite sure, very angry but they did
not sit down and complain about it. They got up, went to school and work and
despite many being highly educated yet not being hired because of racial
prejudice, humbly took menial jobs as gardeners and secretaries and clerks.
They did not lie down at home and complain about their plight and shoot one
another. They just got up and worked
hard until they broke through the barriers.

August 13, 2013

Have any of the commenters here said yes,
these are problems, Mr. Lemon makes some
good points, I will go do what little I can do to change what he describes as
problems OR did they completely ignore what is true and attack everything else
but the problems he described? Do they feel good now that they have said
nothing here about the problems and what they propose should be done about
them? And so the problems continue in the black community just as they always
were because Don Lemon is a homosexual, there is institutionalized racism,
white people throw trash on the streets in Boston, Don is trolling people, Don
wants to be a white guy, Don doesn’t support black men and black boys, Don is
out of touch thinks he’s a white woman. Apparently black men don’t sag their
pants, have many children out of wedlock, drop out of school, shoot each other
at alarming rates, demean one another by calling each other nigger.

DID
ANY ONE OF THESE COMMENTERS EVER SAY WE DO KILL EACH OTHER, WE DO DEMEAN EACH
OTHER WITH THE N’ WORD, WE DO THROW TRASH IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WE DO HAVE A LOT
OF CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK, WE DO GLORIFY LOW MORALS IN SOME OF OUR MUSIC,
DRESS AND SPEECH WE DO DROP OUT OF
SCHOOL AT HIGH RATES, SOME OF US DO SCAM THE WELFARE SYSTEM ( AND WE DO! I AM A
LANDLORD) SOME OF US DO FAIL TO SHOW INNER PERSONAL STRENGTH AND PRIDE – AND SO
BECAUSE WE ARE ASHAMED OF WHO WE ARE WE BLEACH OUR SKIN TO MAKE US LOOK MORE
LIKE WHO WE ARE NOT.

DID ANY OF THE COMMENTERS LOOK INWARD AND
SAY HMMM, THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY, MY OWN COMMUNITY
AND THAT PAINS ME, I AM GOING TO DO WHAT LITTLE I CAN TO CHANGE THINGS OR DID THEY LOOK OUTWARD AND CRITICIZE
SOMETHING OR SOMEONE ELSE, DON LEMON, WHITES, INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM ETC.,
AND GO AWAY HAPPY THAT THEY PUNCHED SOMEONE OR SOMETHNG ELSE, JUST NOT THE
PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY?

AND YES, I THE WRITER OF THIS PIECE AM
BLACK, AN AMERICAN BORN SON OF A NIGERIAN MAN AND FATHER AND I DO LIVE IN A
PREDOMINATELY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD. MY EYES SEE THE PROBLEMS MR. LEMON DESCRIBED,
EVERY DAY! IT BOTHERS ME, DOES IT BOTHER YOU?