Minority Celebrities Who Call Their Own Lazy For No Just Cause

Success in show business is a mixture of talent and luck. There are so many talented actors in Hollywood who have never had a break because they have not been at the right place at the right time. There are many endowed musicians in Nashville who have been singing karaoke songs in bars forever while doubling as a chef or bartenders, Uber driver, and what have you to survive. Why, because they have just not had that break. Truth be told, fewer people will become known among many talented actors, musicians, poets, writers, athletes, etc.

Sometimes, I wonder when some lucky minority celebrities like Denzel Washington, Ben Carson, Morgan Freeman, and Lil Wayne, tell ordinary brothers and sisters (African Americans) to pull up their pants. Lil Wayne once said he does not believe there is racism in America because "white" people love him, dance, and sing to his music (https://www.theguardian.com/.../lil-wayne-explains-why-he...). Majority of us are ordinary people with simple talents that cannot fetch money. These people have completely forgotten why everyone loves them - they have been lucky to be endowed with a gift that the majority do not have, they have been lucky to escape being destroyed before they reach their height - Ben Carson once talked about how violent he was as a teenager. If the police were called on him during one of his violent episodes, we would never have heard of him - he would have been thrown into the system. The point is that there has been a systemic effort to destroy the social structure in African American communities across the nation since Jim Crow failed. Can anyone tell me why there were fewer out-of-home fathers in black homes before the 1970s? Because they were no threat to the social structure of the majority... The moment Civil Rights became law and it opened up opportunities for African Americans (AA), the next weapon was to devise laws that would lead to the arrest of black people at a disproportional rate than their Caucasian counterparts - sometimes 7 to 9 times more.

 Hard drug was deliberately introduced to their community - many became drug dealers - for many reasons, chief of which is living in a country full of opportunity but right before their eyes they are denied access - from being denied loans for business or farming, being denied housing, being denied admission to top schools, they discriminate on mortgage loans, etc. The prison system was built bigger for the AA. One in every three AA will go to jail in their lifetime. Many who go to jail on felony charges will never be able to vote, take a loan, find a good job, or go to college. You can imagine when 33% of the eligible minority not being able to vote because of felony charges that often stem from lack of opportunity and the destruction of the family setting. Father is in prison, mom works three jobs, so, she is never around, and kids join bad gangs. The crack epidemic led to many AA being sent to prison for decades. When opioids started destroying mostly "white" lives, America called it a sickness and appropriated billions to stop it and called opioid addicts victims. There is no better judgment of the dark treatment of AA in a supposed land of the free... Those who blame the weak who cannot help themselves need to wake up. I can go on and on.... Many institutions like USDA have admitted discriminatory practices for decades in denying AA loans their caucasian counterparts get to support them. From slavery to Jim Crow - segregation now it is discrimination and deliberate prejudice......they are outsiders in their own country.

It is nauseating when these minority celebrities sit in their high seat and judge others. Let them lose every privilege that makes them who they are and try to walk their way up without that status or recognition. Denzel talk about absentee fathers... he did not check the statistics, there is little difference in the rate of absentee fathers in caucasian families and AA families, the only difference is where those fathers are - AA fathers are mostly in prison while their caucasian fathers left with another woman (divorce) .... All I hear these people suggest is to cut off the shrub instead of uprooting from the ground. The destruction of the social fabric in AA homes stems from a legal system that preclude them from opportunities, will amplify their mistake, send them to jail for a long time for minor offenses, and when they are out, set laws that will ensure they return to prison -- they lose voting right, right to obtain a loan, even housing, among basic needs....

No one should misunderstand me, there are ills that the AA need to address. If they are neglected, they need to bond together among themselves and not let the anger that stems from daily struggles of discrimination lead them on a path of destruction. However, this is a palliative solution, the enduring solution is to address the entrenched prejudice, implicit bias and systemic racism from every fabric of American society. Let the Americans of African descent feel like part of the country.

I am a highly educated African in America. I have every degree (from bachelors to Ph.D. and MBA) there is and went to some of the best schools in the world, yet I daily experience prejudice - being silenced, being ignored, being talked down at, being treated with disdain, expect that I subordinate them - are amazed at my confidence, being looked on as someone looking for handout, especially when people don't know my status. Even some who know me, in the moment, treat me like an idiot. This is a big problem. Statistics shows majority of Americans of African descent will experience some form of prejudice in their lifetime, including some of these celebrity - ask Oprah (the richest American of African descent), Tyler Perry, including Denzel and Freeman. But they can walk away with dignity because society has made them somebody, but majority are ordinary people who will go home hurt, wounded, demeaned, denigrated, and feeling abused...

Instead of these lucky privileged people who live in a glass house to lend their voice to fight injustice forced on their own, they join in berating and mocking a "sick" nation, asking them to stand up, otherwise, they are lazy. I have no iota of respect for anyone who takes this stand because they are so myopic in their reasoning.