Racist or Not...This is Dumb

So it has been quite a while since I posted and to think that my first post from my hiatus will be about an ignorant, at least in my opinion, blog I had the opportunity to read is a little depressing. The problem is I felt so moved by what I read I couldn't think of anything but taking fingertips to keyboard and pounding out my thoughts. Those that have the privilege or misfortune of knowing me know that I believe every one is entitled to his/her feelings, beliefs and opinions. I hate when someone tells another person how to think or feel because there is a reason that individual drew the conclusions they did and those experiences and feelings should not be undermined. This, however, does not mean that the feelings and beliefs of others don't anger me because if that were true you wouldn't be reading this post. So, below is the link to the upsetting blog that prompted my need to post.

http://dailykenn.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-manage-black-communities.html

The first few sentences sum up the gist of the blog:

• The best way to manage black people is through family planning.
•  The objective isn't to control blacks, but to create a black community that is self sufficient, relatively crime free, and not dependent on white people.
• Aside from our national neurosis that compels us to embrace denial as a high moral attribute when applied to America's black culture, the obvious fact is that black Americans, as a whole, have a difficult time taking care of themselves.

This person honestly believes that we can fix the black community by limiting their reproduction to only the "intelligent". I won't even comment on the list of black people provided as examples of intelligent people that should be allowed to reproduce. Now, to this person's merit I did note that the post was ended by saying this can be applied to other races.

What I find most upsetting is I know this person's thoughts are shared by many and that is disheartening. The black community is not full of thugs, low lives, and degenerates like the media and it's champions like Neal Boortz would have you think. To address the community as one that needs to be treated like you would treat a rodent or pest infestation is abhorrent. My second problem is this individual would reply to me and say' "I wasn't speaking of you because you are obviously one of the intelligent ones". Dependency on government resources and aid (not dependency on white people as stated by this person) is a poverty and education problem. Not only a black community problem. I won't delve into statistics, trends, and studies. I will say that the problem is multi-layered and must be addressed on various levels, starting with education. To me everything stems from education. You know better so you do better. When you do better you feel better. When you feel better you produce better. To do this every child needs access to a quality education. I can assure you there are huge disparities between schools even in the same educational system.

Now, I am both too "intelligent" and insightful to associate this person's beliefs with every non-black person. I attended "predominately white schools" and shared experiences with people that I know in my heart looked to me as a peer and friend and cared nothing about the color of my skin. My community was so nice that I actually grew up thinking racism was a thing of the past and that the few ignorant people that were out there were few in number and some radical crazy group. When I read posts like this one it shows me that we are further from being a unified people than I thought. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr had a dream that one day little white girls and little black girls will walk hand in hand and play together. I have a dream that one day little girls will play with little girls and all these descriptors that we place on each other-- White, Black, Latino, Muslim, Catholic, Baptist-- will disappear. We use these titles to identify ourselves but the only thing they seem to do is divide us. People commit crime; not races or religions or sexual orientation. Find solutions to fix poverty, crime, hatred, and disease and stop worrying about fixing "the black community".

 Lastly, since when did intelligent people stop killing and committing crimes?