What hope do i have as a black person in this world

Most people don’t buy this “woe is me” and “I’m a victim” crap. Quit making excuses and act like the person you want to be.

I guess I imagined 8 years of Obama.

The key to being a successful black person is simple: quit identifying with being black. Do you think any white person identifies with being white? No. Identify with being a writer, or being a programmer or whatever it is you do.

Race and gender are the lowest and most basic forms of identification. Building an identity around either of those two will leave you hollow and small. Define yourself by much greater terms.

Well you could always move to Africa. Then you will have no excuse for being a failure but yourself and your empty excuses.

Move to a part of the country with fewer idiots.

Hmmm, lemme think of some successful and relatively well respected black people, Barack Obama, OJ Simpson (bad example but fuck it), Jay Z, Oprah Winfrey, Kevin Hart, Jacob Lawrence, Nelson Mandela

Notice how i picked very different people from many different industries and jobs

This is some kind of weird race-bait trolling. The "mayor or president" line is what gives it away. Just a touch too silly.

Just go through your life normally like everyone else, trying to be the best person you can be.

Also, were you not paying attention to the fact that Obama was president of one of the greatest countries in the world for 8 years?

The other day I was thinking about how I'd like to be doing better, making more, working less.
Then I asked myself if I'd rather be me.
or someone just like me from Guatemala walking across mexico.
Hoping to not get shot at the border.
You have opportunities, it's up to you to take advantage of them.

In England, black people aren't looked down on as dumb. They aren't looked down on as lazy either. In England, we're colour blind. We have no guns and we don't percieve skin colour as a weakness. Come over here. By the way did I mention we have no guns? I repeat, we have ZERO guns.

This is even crappier than the Trump post.

If you're looking for some outrage entertainment I would recommend a site that has more than 20 members. This place is a ghost town

I am black too and it saddens me read this post because I am trying hard in my everyday life, in my job, with my friends everywhere to try to uplift other black people. Yes we have a difficult past which still affect us economically and psychologically. We as black people have to study story to know why we are here today. It's not because of laziness and not because we are more stupid. It's because for years we have been abused and exploited and when slavery was abolished we were left with nothing and had to start all over while the white people were already rich (we made them so), had access to education etc.. In Africa they colonised, divided and enslaved the black people. Forced christianity upon them and forced their capitalist culture. Not much has changed. But we as black people are not the one who should feel ashame for this past. We are victims. Yes, in many places we are seen as the lowest but do you feel as the lowest? You know your potential, you know that you are not what many claim that you are just because you are black. Walk with your head high. It won't feel natural first but pretend until it becomes natural. Embrace your blackness. If our ancestors have made it through all that shit we can too.

Suck it up, buttercup! Ain't nobody gonna fall for this load of poop!

All ancient and confined to the history books.

Yes, life is harder for you as a black person. You'll always have to work harder and behave better than a white person in the same situation. Yes, that's extremely unfair.

But the thing is, it gets better. It's not getting better as fast as it should, and that sucks, but it's still getting better. A lot of white people love to point out how much worse it was for previous generations as a way of dismissing or diminishing what you experience today, and I'm not doing that at all...but things are better today than they were yesterday. And, more importantly, they'll be better tomorrow than they are today.

That's why your parents had you, because they knew your life would be better than theirs. And if you have children, their life will be better than yours. That's why black people have children. And you, personally, can help make sure life is better for them. That's the hope you have as a black person.

Rubbish.

Ok I can agree that black people are at the bottom at certain things but not everything.

It's not about treatment it's about how the world views blacks.

Every race has their own problems you giving up ain't solving any case of this post. Black people were treated way worst then they are now I am not saying things you are saying are false. Their are ups and downs in everyone race I am not saying everything it's exactly equal. Don't just say all white people because there are white people that reconized this case that hears what you are saying.

Na dude its those goddamn canadians. Yeah folks I'm racist to Canadians. I never was till I worked security and had to deal with them and let me tell ya when a Canadian drives up you hate it. It's like when your in a straight bar but that one gay guy keeps hitting on you

For one, you have a better chance at landing a good looking white woman than the average needle-dick beta white males who are inadequate.

That's right straight white men - your own women have no desire for your scraggly-ass little wingly wang excuse for a cock.

No, don't think of yourself like that! There's good, and bad in every race, and ethnicity. God has given you freewill, and you can choose how to conduct yourself. Of course neither you, nor I, or anyone else have control over how others choose to see us. Some people are going to judge others fairly, and others are not, but we all get to choose how we conduct ourselves.