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Q&A: Professor discovers rising suicide rate for African-American youth

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Rheeda Walker, who has studied racial discrimination and risks for African-Americans and suicide, said “the most important thing I like to talk about is being nonjudgmental.” | Courtesy of UH Department of Psychology.

While earning her PhD at Florida State University, associate professor of psychology Rheeda Walker discovered that the suicide rate for African-Americans was rising.

In her most recent study, “A Longitudinal Study of Racial Discrimination and Risk for Death Ideation in African American Youth,” Walker interviewed a group of African-American children at age 10, and again at age 12, as part of a longer study that began in the 1990s.

Walker found that one-third of the children thought about death and many of them had experienced discrimination.

A 2015 study in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics found the suicide rate among black boys under 11 years of age doubled from 1993 to 2012.

The Cougar sat down with Walker, who also established the Culture, Risk, and Resilience Lab, to discuss the difficulties of her research and what changes are needed to prevent suicides.

The Cougar: Could you summarize the findings of your study?

Rheeda Walker: Generally, we found that over the course of time, after controlling for a number of different stressors, age and other key variables, experiencing discrimination was related to thinking about death in pre-adolescent African-American youth.

 TC: What led you into this area of psychology research, and why is it important?

RW: That’s an interesting question. It’s been a good number of years now, actually a couple decades. I was interested in mental health more broadly for African-Americans because my thinking was that there were some risk and protective factors at play that weren’t previously being investigated in a lot of the mainstream studies. I wasn’t interested in suicide at the time—I was interested in depression, but there wasn’t anyone who was engaged in depression research. So I thought, “depression, suicide, that’s related, sure.” As we’re supposed to do, I looked at the literature to see what the literature looked like for African-Americans. What I found was that the suicide rate was increasing exponentially, but no one was looking at any of the risk factors or protective factors.

TC: What are some unique risk and protective factors for African-Americans?

RW: One of the things I’ve hypothesized and found evidence for that’s pretty consistent is ethnic identity. If someone has a positive sense of who they are as African-Americans, and also I’ve found for Hispanic-Americans and other marginalized persons, having a positive sense of who they are as a member of that group can be protective. In one of my interesting studies some years ago, we found similar levels of depression and anxiety for white, non-Hispanic and black university students. Similar levels of depression and anxiety, but only for African-Americans did that positive ethnic identity buffer the effects of stress on anxiety and depression.

TC: If you had interviewed older children or young adults, how do you think the findings would have been different or similar?

RW: I wonder if we would have had more suicide disclosure if the children were older. They were 10 years old in the first wave and 12 years old in the second wave. We imagine that 10– and 12–year-olds aren’t necessarily thinking so much about their own death or killing themselves even though the suicide rate is going up in that age group. About a third of the sample had thought about death. One percent of the sample had thought about suicide. I think that if we interviewed 15– or 16–year-olds, or 18-year-olds, we would have seen significantly more suicide ideation.

TC: Did anything about your research surprise you?

RW: Usually, there is something. I think this data probably saddened me more than anything. Even though I had my typical research questions, I tend to work with adults. I focus on emerging adults–college-age students up to working age adults. This was my first time looking at data for younger African-Americans. This research was more saddening than surprising because I have actually found associations between perceived discrimination and suicide ideation.

Getting resources for the children will be important for them at some point. If a third of the sample of 12-year-olds is thinking about death, there must be something going on. Even if they don’t attempt suicide, some of their schoolwork and relationships with family and friends will be affected. It’s worth following up to ask explicit questions about how they’re doing.

One thing that has always concerned me is I’ve heard African-American adolescents say, “Oh, black people don’t kill themselves.” Then they become even more marginalized if they’re feeling suicidal, but don’t think they can talk to anyone because that’s not something they’re supposed to do. And that’s unfortunate.

TC: What would you suggest to people who are in the position to implement those kinds of resources?

RW: The most important thing I like to talk about is being nonjudgmental. If someone hears someone else say they’re thinking about suicide, their first thought is to say, “Oh, no you’re not,” and minimize it, or “It’s not that big of a deal, your difficulties are just whatever.” Instead, say, “Wow, tell me what’s going on,” and try to offer support and problem-solve.

When people are overwhelmed, one of the most difficult things to do is problem-solve. It helps to have someone who is there to listen and say, “I can understand how you might be thinking about harming yourself or killing yourself, just tell me what’s going on and let’s see if we can work this out together.” Be a good listener, be supportive and understanding, and don’t be dismissive at all.

Maybe even ask: “Did you have a plan?” If they say, “Yeah, I was going to take some pills,” ask if they have them and where they are so you can remove those things and remove those means. When someone is in crisis, they’re not problem-solving. They’re not thinking about the future. It helps to have someone who cares who can intervene on their behalf, even if they think it’ll make the person mad.

TC: Most of your research focuses on young African-American adults. Do you think that if you spoke with other minorities that face discrimination, the results would be similar?

RW: We’ve actually begun to collect that data. We’re just in the preliminary stages of analyzing that. One of the reasons I focus on African-Americans was almost out of necessity, being in places where there wasn’t as much ethnic diversity. Since I’ve been in Houston, and we know the suicide attempt rate is relatively high for Latinas, but not necessarily Asian-American men and women, we wanted to look at different groups.

Do I expect to see similar things? I’m not sure. I don’t expect the impact of discrimination to be similar across the groups, because I do think there are some groups that experience difficulties the others don’t experience. I do still expect the experience of being marginalized to have adverse consequences.

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  • Seven years into Barack Obama’s Administration and we get this … Black youth suicide rates rising.

    It is quite stunning how Obama has failed the Black Community … they were promised government riches … which is impossible by the way … and now the are killing themselves in record numbers via Black on Black murders on the streets and now with suicide. Margaret Sanger couldn’t have planned it better herself.

    • Okay here is the deal…. You can’t blame EVERYTHING on Obama. The government is three branches which means it is a lot harder than you think to get things passed. Whether you agree with what he has done in the past 7 years or not, what we can agree on is he has brought hope to many young black men and women who never thought they would amount to anything in life.

      Also, Obama is one man and can’t be everywhere. As citizens we need to bring resources to our communities and programs that keep our youth off the streets. So, don’t talk about gang violence and black on black crime if you have never tried to prevent it Let’s talk about the real issue of suicide in young black youth…being black in America is difficult!

      How can black youth feel good about themselves when the media tells them to hate themselves, to bleach their skin, and not to mention that every other month we have to sit and watch a young black men being killed by a police officer. I can have a stacked resume, a 4.0 GPA, and recommendations from every top official in the white house and you would still say I got into college because of affirmative action.

      So before you blame Obama for everything or even speak on the topic of suicide in black youth, think about what (if anything) you have done to help the problem on a local level or really if you even care.

      • Tiffy … what has Obama done for you? Guess you haven’t received your promised kitchen makeover. Just kidding.

        But really, has Obama actually helped the Black Community? Black teen unemployment is over 50%. Black unemployment as a whole is 10% or more. I don’t see Black public figures seriously preaching about preparing oneself for life’s adventure. I mean, what does an independent minded self sufficient Black man or woman need with the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, or SJ Lee. They are the ones that would lose their jobs if all Blacks were self sufficient.

        Obama has been successful in reducing police patrols in Black Communities but that has given thugs more opportunities to kill their fellow Brothers.

        If you ask me, SocDems have really have taken advantage of Blacks. They’ve replaced fatherhood with a welfare check. And every election SocDems go back to their constituents saying the same ‘ol things, but nothing really changes does it? The hood is style as crappy as it was before; and there is no real evidence of community pride … yards are unkempt, houses need painting, local infrastructure if falling apart, drug dealers and users are everywhere, etc..

        You know nothing pleases me more than seeing a Black Nuclear Family, or a Black Father taking his kids out for a hamburger and ice cream cone. I really believe that the lack of Black fatherhood is a causal factor of gang formations.

        And Black teen suicide, which is really frustrating because suicide can be prevented. The warning signs are there if somebody would care to step forward. But teachers in Black Communities are overwhelmed as it is with unruly students and dealing with petty issues. On top of that Blacks that want to break out from the norm of the hood are called Uncle Thoms, all because they want to be self-sufficient and free from the chains of government dependency.

        Tiffany, I think you need to read Heather Mac Donald’s book “The War on Cops,” because the SocDem narrative being handed out is so far from the truth. Mike Brown never said “hands up, don’t shoot.” And you’d be surprised how RARE how situations like MB actually occur.

        In fact, I think the BLM movement is actually hurting the Black Race. What does stopping traffic, robbing and destroying stores during protests do for the BLMers. It makes them look even more childish than they are.

        I have to leave for dinner, but as far as the media goes. Do look for acceptance from them, that’s why we have so many wimpy Republican leaders who cower to them. You’ve seen what Trump does to the media, he doesn’t give them no mind. He doesn’t cower to the media.

        And when it comes to candidates for my company, I’m looking for character over color of skin. I look at social media, at how a candidate presents him or herself, how they talk, and how they phrase their sentences, etc. I don’t care if you are a Martian as long as you are qualified.

        But when it comes to Obama and other SocDems … it is about Race, or how much you have contributed to his campaign or the SocDem Party.

        I think you need to renumber your priorities … have you considered listening to Rush Limbaugh’s program. I’ve been listening to him since I was a kid, which is why is it so easy to counter and move a SocDem throws at me.

    • CRIME AMONG BLACK AMERICAN YOUTH HAS PLUMMETED

      Why the Gigantic, Decades-Long Drop in Black Youth Crime Threatens Major Interests

      Today’s young Black Americans display the lowest rates of crime and serious risk of any generation that can be reliably assessed.

      In the last 20 years in particular, the FBI reports, rates of crime among Black American youth have plummeted: All offenses (down 47%), drug offenses (down 50%), property offenses (down 51%), serious Part I offenses (down 53%), assault (down 59%), robbery (down 60%), all violent offenses (down 60%), rape (down 66%), and murder (down 82%).

      SOURCE:
      http://www.cjcj.org/news/6523

    • (HERE ARE THE FACTS)

      LESS THAN 1% OF BLACK AMERICANS COMMIT VIOLENT CRIME IN A GIVEN YEAR- FBI

      KNOW YOUR FACTS! AND BE INFORMED There are approximately 50 million Blacks in America. According to FBI stats, less than 1% of Blacks commit violent crime in a given year. PROVE ME WRONG!

      The fact is that the vast majority of Black Americans are decent, law abiding and hard working individuals. Since 2000, the disposable income of Black Americans has risen to an astounding $1.2 trillion dollars. (Just Research It).

      Black-on-Black homicides have decreased by 67% in 20 years, a sharper rate of decrease than white on white homicide. – FBI

      Among Black youth, rates of robbery and serious property offenses are the lowest in more than 40 years. – FBI

      * Only about 1 percent of African Americans — and no more than 2 percent of black males — will commit a violent crime in a given year; – FBI

      * Even though there are more black-on-white interracial crimes than white-on-black interracial crimes, this fact is not evidence of anti-white racial targeting by black offenders. Rather, it is completely explained by two factors having nothing to do with anti-white bias: namely, the general differences in rates of criminal offending, and the rates at which whites and blacks encounter one another (and thus, have the opportunity to victimize one another). Once these two factors are “controlled for” in social science terms, the actual rates of black-on-white crime are lower than random chance would predict;

      * No more than 0.7 percent (seven-tenths of one percent) of African Americans will commit a violent crime against a white person in a given year, and fewer than 0.3 (three-tenths of one percent) of whites will be victimized by a black person in a given year;

      * Whites are 6 times as likely to be murdered by another white person as by a black person; and overall, the percentage of white Americans who will be murdered by a black offender in a given year is only 2/10,000ths of 1 percent (0.0002). This means that only 1 in every 500,000 white people will be murdered by a black person in a given year. Although the numbers of black-on-white homicides are higher than the reverse (447 to 218 in 2010), the 218 black victims of white murderers is actually a higher percentage of the black population interracially killed than the 447 white victims of black murderers as a percentage of the white population. In fact, any given black person is 2.75 times as likely to be murdered by a white person as any given white person is to be murdered by an African American. – Tim Wise

      Sources:

      Why the Gigantic, Decades-Long Drop in Black Youth Crime Threatens Major Interests

      http://www.cjcj.org/news/6523

      Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows

      http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/us/incarceration-rates-for-blacks-dropped-report-shows.html?_r=0

      FBI: Violent crime drops, reaches 1970s levels

      http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-violent-crime-1970s-level-20141110-story.html

      FBI: Violent crime is down, but police killing civilians is up

      http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/271907/speedreads-fbi-violent-crime-is-down-but-police-killing-civilians-is-up

      FBI Statistics Show Major Reduction in Violent Crime Rates

      http://www.wanttoknow.info/g/violent_crime_rates_reduction

      Race, Crime and Statistical Malpractice: How the Right Manipulates White Fear With Bogus Data by Tim Wise

      http://www.timwise.org/2013/08/race-crime-and-statistical-malpractice-how-the-right-manipulates-white-fear-with-bogus-data/

    • White males account for 31% of the overall population in the U.S., yet they comprise 76% of all suicide deaths.

      According to Suicide.Org the number of white male suicides has sky rocketed 68% in the last 8 years since Obama became president.

    • Being White is one of the most unfortunate things that can happen when one is conceived. No one likes White people around the world. People want to terrorize them and kill them. The White race, which comprises just 18% of the population of the world, has committed 85% of the most heinous atrocities against humanity and is the most violent race of them all. FACT! Whites feel inadequate and worthless and this is why they go on various websites and try to bash or belittle Blacks and other cultures to compensate for their inadequacies. The truth is they hate themselves. Many of them commit suicide because they feel guilty for raping their kids and their nephews. Also many of them feel guilty for plotting to kill their relatives to collect the life insurance money. 85% of these whites are on Prozac or anti-depression medication. Their lives are pathetic..

      The majority of the poor in America are White. Most Whites don’t live in a fancy house in a suburb. Many of them live in poor rural communities and trailer parks where the crime rate is high and the meth addiction is high.. The majority of people on Welfare are white. That’s a fact! 76% of all suicide deaths are white males. The exacting truth is that white Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by other whites. According to Justice Department statistics, 87 percent of white people killed every year are killed by other whites. According to the FBI, compared to Black males, White males are more likely to kill children, the elderly, family members, and their significant others. They commit more sex-related crimes, domestic violence related crimes, and are more likely to kill at their places of employment. According to the FBI, in the category of child sexual assault, white males made up nearly 75% of all offenders imprisoned for child sexual assault vs. 13% for blacks and 12% for other races. And please note that White males are just 31% of the U.S. Population.

      The culture of violence has permeated the White American psyche right from the very beginning. They butchered the Native Americans, Enslaved The Blacks and Then Built Churches on Stolen Land and proclaimed “In God We Trust.” America was built on violence. In just 500 years, Whites have brought the entire earth to the Brink of destruction. Over 2000 species of animal and plant life have become extinct, not due to natural extinction, but due to man made extinction under the White devil’s rulership. Whites dump toxic waste in the ocean daily. Whites destroyed the ozone layer and Amazon Rain forests. Whites created weapons of mass destruction. I could go on and on. The White man is the master of disaster. Every where he goes he brings death and destruction. Moreover, Whites are at a genetic disadvantage due to their sick, corpse looking pale skin.. Each year in the US, there are over 5.4 million new cases of skin cancer. When Black people go into the sun, we receive vitamin D from the sun. When Whites go into the sun, they catch skin cancer. Even the Sun is TERRORIZING these White devils.

    • MESSAGE TO THE WHITE MAN:

      Only 1% of you white devils run anything and that 1% is Jewish and Gay. The rest of you white devils are just Goyim or White Trash or Tax Slaves. Most of you Pig Skin White Retards are still indentured servants.

      ATTENTION WHITE MEN: Put down the Meth pipe, get off of welfare, stop molesting little boys, stop being serial killers, quit beating your wives and girlfriends, stop killing relatives to collect the insurance money, quit creating ponzi schemes, stop looking for prostitutes on Craigs List, stop committing incest, quit joining the police force and shooting down unarmed Black men, stop jacking off to pictures of OJ in handcuffs, stop getting sun tans and penis enlargements, put down the Prozac & Zoloft, stop stealing other people’s cultures and land, quit starting wars to rob nations of their gold, diamonds and oil, stop committing suicide, quit blaming Obama, Blacks and immigrants for your failures in life, stop shooting up churches, schools and movie theaters and stop sodomizing the family dog.

    • THE WHITE MAN’S CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AND RAPE: AMERICA HAS ALWAYS PROMOTED THUGS AND GANGSTERS

      The culture of violence has permeated the American psyche right from the very beginning.

      They butchered the Native Americans, Enslaved The Blacks and Then Built Churches on Stolen Land and proclaimed “In God We Trust.” Sadly, America was built on violence. America’s foundation is violence. America glorifies gangsterism and gangsters like Jesse James, John Gotti, Ma Barker, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dutch Shultz, Bugsy Siegel, John Dillenger, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Baby Face Nelson, Billy the Kid, Machine Gun Kelly, Lucky Luciano, Sam Giancana, Albert Anastasia, Charles Manson, etc, The end result are men like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, James Holmes, The Son of Sam and many more. But America degrades Gangsta Rap. That’s hypocritical. Even the Kennedy’s made their fortune from Bootlegging and violence. And some of the other Robber Barons did as well. Sadly some Blacks try to mimic the American mindset of gangsterism and violence.

    • WHAT GOES ON IN WHITE HOUSEHOLDS?:

      WHITE MEN ARE TERRIBLE HUSBANDS AND FATHERS

      If white men are such great family men, as some of the posters have alluded to, then Why are White women divorcing white men at an alarming 67% divorce rate? Why do White men commit 87% of all documented cases of child molestation and incest? Why do so many white kids use drugs and commit suicide? Why are so many White kids plotting to kill their parents? Why are so many White women killing their spouses as is documented on The Oxygen Network’s critically acclaimed show called “Snapped” which chronicles real life situations of white women who snapped and killed their husbands?

      INCEST AND CHILD MOLESTATION ARE VERY COMMON AMONG WHITES

      (According to all credible sources 87% of all documented cases of child molestation and incest occurs in the White population – it is an epidemic)

      In her book, “High on Arrival” MacKenzie Phillips details how she was raped by her own father and how this was a common thing among her white peers..

      Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s first marriage was to his second cousin, Regina Peruggi. Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin as well. Incest is common among white folks.

      On the critically acclaimed reality news program DateLine NBC’s “To catch a Predator” 97 % of the pedophiles caught in the stings are White..Fact!

      The Oxygen Network’s critically acclaimed show called “Snapped” chronicles real life situations of women who snapped and killed their husbands…97% of the women on this program are White…Fact!

    • HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY SO MANY WHITE KIDS KILL THEIR PARENTS, COMMIT SUICIDE, COMMIT CRIME, TAKE DRUGS OR ARE IN THERAPY?

      (THIS IS WHAT WHITE PARENTS DO THEIR CHILDREN)

      SAVAGE WHITE FATHER JACK KELLY FACES 100 COUNTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE FOR MOLESTING HIS 7-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER FOR YEARS

      Source: http://www.wptv.com/news/state/jack-kelly-man-faces-100-counts-of-sexual-abuse-of-7-year-old-daughter-in-broward-county

      15 WEEK OLD BABY DIES AFTER HER WHITE FATHER STEVEN DEUMAN RAPES HER TO DEATH

      Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289197/Steven-Deuman-Father-baby-daughter-died-orally-raped-handed-life-sentences.html

      STEVEN SMITH, WHITE OHIO MAN RAPES 6 MONTH OLD BABY TO DEATH

      Source: //http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/steve-smith-execution_n_3191783.html

      MARRIED WHITE COUPLE COLIN AND ANNGELA BOYLE ARE CHARGED WITH USING THEIR OWN CHILDREN IN CHILD P0RNOGRAPHY:

      Source: 2http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/47515795-story

      WHITE MAN ROBERT H RICHARDS WHO IS A DUPONT HEIR CONFESSES TO RAPING HIS 3 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER BUT GETS NO JAIL TIME

      Source: //http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/30/robert-richards-rape_n_5060386.html

      SAVAGE WHITE MONSTER AUSTIN HERRIN BREAKS BABY’S LEG BECAUSE OF DIRTY DIAPER

      http://www.kait8.com/story/30642386/police-man-angry-about-a-dirty-diaper-broke-babys-leg

      SAVAGE WHITE COUPLE LEAVE THEIR 4 MONTH OLD BABY BRAIN DEAD AFTER GIVING HIM METH TO STOP CRYING

      Source http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/slovak-couple-meth-baby-cops-article-1.1952020

      A PURE EVIL WHITE OHIO STEPMOM ANNA RITCHIE KILLED HER 4 YEAR OLD STEPSON BY STICKING HIM IN A BATH OF SCALDING WATER

      Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/pure-evil-ohio-stepmom-charged-murder-4-year-old-article-1.2606753

    • WHITE PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS COMPLAINING AND PLAYING VICTIM

      White Christians are always complaining about white Jewish people controlling everything. Whites scream that Jewish people control the media. Whites scream that Jewish people control the banks. Whites scream that Jewish people have a plan to control the world. They blame Jewish people for their failures in life. The majority of the poor in America are whites. They are always whining that it is the Jews’ fault. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and do better white people. Quit complaining all of the time. Stop playing “the victim…”

      WHITE PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS COMPLAINING.

      White folks have been complaining for 300 years. After the emancipation proclamation Whites were complaining that Blacks were taking all of the jobs. They made this complaint all the way up to the 1970;s. After 1970 Whites started complaining that Blacks are getting all types of special preferential treatment. And then beginning in the year 2000, whites started crying and complaining that Blacks are always complaining about equal rights and police brutality. SMH.

      WHITES COMPLAIN AND BLAME OBAMA, BLACKS, MEXICANS, IMMIGRANTS AND DEMOCRATS EVERY DAY FOR THEIR FAILURES IN LIFE

      THE TRUTH ABOUT WHITE RACISTS..

      Racist whites feel inadequate and worthless and this is why they go on various websites and try to bash or belittle Blacks and other cultures to compensate for their inadequacies. The truth is they hate themselves. Many of them commit suicide because they feel guilty for raping their kids and their nephews. Also many of them feel guilty for plotting to kill their relatives to collect the life insurance money. 85% of these whites are on Prozac or anti-depression medication. Their lives are pathetic. .

      According to all reports, the average White student in America is just a “C” student just like former President George W. Bush.. Prove me wrong.

      The majority of the poor in America are White. Most Whites don’t live in a fancy house in a suburb. Many of them live in poor rural communities and trailer parks where the crime rate is high and the meth addiction is high.. The majority of people on Welfare are white. That’s a fact!

    • The foundation of American White supremacy sits tenuously on a rickety base of lies and deceptions about how Whites gained their wealth and status. A century and a half after slavery the median wealth of White families is $100,000; for Black families, it’s $25,000. The belief that Whites achieved this 4 to 1 wealth advantage by HARD WORK is an absurd and a historical fantasy.

      Nonetheless, the airwaves are filled with the self-righteous pronouncements of Caucasian commentators anxious to “advise” Blacks to “work hard” and to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” if they want to succeed in America. Not only do they seek to invent a fraudulent fairy tale that whitewashes a very bloody legacy, but they also aim to reaffirm the notion that “non-Whites” are naturally inferior and lazy and are thus responsible for having comparatively nothing. The truth is a whole lot nastier than that.

      THE US GOVERNMENT CREATED THE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE WHITE SUBURBS AFTER WWII VIA WELFARE, HANDOUTS, GRANTS, ETC (RACIAL SOCIALISM)

      (I AM WAITING FOR ONE WHITE DEVIL TO REFUTE THESE FACTS)

      You White maggots did not work hard for crap. The government gave you pigskin white devils land, grants, handouts, welfare, low interest loans, social security, subsidies, bail outs, etc. They call it nation building.. The US Government gave over $1 Trillion dollars in welfare, grants and low interest loans to Whites after WWII to create the White middle class. The US Government gave whites free handouts to buy homes. The US government created the White suburbs and blocked out blacks via a tactic known as RED LINING.. ALL FACTS. (AND THIS WAS JUST A GENERATION AGO) It had nothing to do with education, hard work or merit.

      Trillions of dollars of wealth was poured into the hands of average white citizens after WWII with the creation of the White Middle Class and the White Suburbs by the US government. Remember, prior to WWII, there was a Great Depression in America and the majority of whites in America were living under the poverty line at that time.

      (WHITE AUTHOR TIM WISE ADMITS THAT WHITES IN AMERICA HAVE BEEN RECEIVING WELFARE, GOVERNMENT HANDOUTS & GRANTS FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FROM DAY ONE. AMERICAN RACIAL SOCIALISM)

      TIM WISE BREAKS DOWN HOW THE U.S GOVERNMENT CREATED THE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS AND WHITE SUBURBS VIA TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF HANDOUTS TO WHITES AT THE EXPENSE OF BLACKS AND OTHERS.

      WATCH THIS VIDEO:.

      TIM WISE – 400 YEARS HEAD START AND ADVANTAGES FOR WHITES

      • Cutting and Pasting Alex J. Colvin … never garners respect among readers. And shows your pettiness.

      • Look, Jones may be most of those things, but hating an entire race of people because of the actions of a few makes you as much of a racist as the actual racists you’re so clearly frustrated with.

        All I can hope for is that this copypasta rant of yours helped you blow off enough steam to not go out and senselessly murder people too.

  • Okay here is the deal…. You can’t blame EVERYTHING on Obama. The government is three branches which means it is a lot harder than you think to get things passed. Whether you agree with what he has done in the past 7 years or not, what we can agree on is he has brought hope to many young black men and women who never thought they would amount to anything in life.

    Also, Obama is one man and can’t be everywhere. As citizens we need to bring resources to our communities and programs that keep our youth off the streets. So, don’t talk about gang violence and black on black crime if you have never tried to prevent it Let’s talk about the real issue of suicide in young black youth…being black in America is difficult!

    How can black youth feel good about themselves when the media tells them to hate themselves, to bleach their skin, and not to mention that every other month we have to sit and watch a young black men being killed by a police officer. I can have a stacked resume, a 4.0 GPA, and recommendations from every top official in the white house and you would still say I got into college because of affirmative action.

    So before you blame Obama for everything or even speak on the topic of suicide in black youth, think about what (if anything) you have done to help the problem on a local level or really if you even care.

  • the single contributing factor here: BROKEN FAMILIES. No fathers, no support systems, no real male guidance. What do expect to happen. This will all end when the family structure is rebuilt and glorified. Not like it is now, praising single mothers, disgusting.

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