The Attitudes of White and Black people today...Of course this does not apply to every individual.

You're a racist. I'm not saying that to be funny or as an ad hominem. I'm just making a statement of fact. The fact is, you don't see it, and can't see it because it doesn't happen to you. You don't have to worry about not getting a job because of the color of your skin nor do you need to worry about the police officers targeting you. You claim you are against ignorance. Well, as it says on the front of the Temple of Apollo: Know thyself. You are first and foremost an American. And though that is respectable, you don't understand that's it's also a luxury. You are considered by society to be the norm by which others need to adapt. The real line is that between the poor and the not-so-poor. Poor whites commit as much crime as poor blacks. And due to racism poor blacks remain poor. And though rising out of the slums would certainly be a goal to find worthy, it becomes measurably more difficult when they don't have the same opportunity as their white counterparts. It isn't as overt as a burning cross in somebody's front yard now it's more missing a promotion or not being called back from a job. And not always even for conscious reasons. "That guy struck me as a little bit off." The kids in the inner-city do commit harsher crimes, they do get pregnant, there are violence crimes and gang-violence. It isn't ridiculous though, it's expected. With no opportunity and no place to go except the inner cities its hard to fit into your expected little box. The families were torn up during slavery and given no opportunity, they were then torn up by direct racism enforced by the state, they were then torn up by direct racism not enforced by the state, they are now torn up by indirect silent racism. The upward mobility in this country is a travesty. The upward mobility in this country for blacks is a joke. Education is pretty well the silver bullet as far as moving up in the world. And though, now more black kids are going to college than ever before, it certainly is no where as easy as it was for me to attend college. I simply went. My mother wrote several checks as she could afford to do so as she worked as a teacher. She worked as a teacher because she went to college and got her degree in biology. She was given the opportunity to go to college because she attended a private school (which paid for her college) funded by an organization which her father was a member before he died. The school at the time was white only. -- I went to college because my grandfather was given an opportunity, which gave my mother an opportunity, which gave me an opportunity; because he was white, because she was white, because I am white. I get to walk around and not expect any harsh treatment at all because I am white, nobody looks away, walks on the other side of the street, nobody clenches their purse a little bit tighter. I could expect to be evaluated on my merits by any job I walk into. And, my merits are quite respectable because my opportunities were respectable. The whites weren't segregated too. That's just stupid. You could drink from the colored fountain, but why would you? Nobody was actually keeping you out of the black bathrooms, they just weren't quite as good. To hear somebody endorsing the idea that separate and equal was less than a racist farce is fairly amusing. The white police officers would have looked at you as if you were stupid, but never arrest you. You could go to the worse poorly funded schools and receive an education. Though, that education would not result in a more opportunities. The idea that segregation was equal or okay because whites were segregated too is unfathomable. "Hey, Whitey get in the front of the bus!" You wonder why people have an attitude? You wonder why people denied opportunity might complain. Why when you get to fit into society so well that they would just be ignorant and refuse to fit in? It's easy for you it must be easy for everybody. It's the "young blacks... that you hate." You "hatae[sic] ignorance". Why would they ever have such an attitude? Frederick Douglass (note two 's's) was told by his master that when slaves get education they are no good as slaves any more. So Douglass educated himself and became a leader in the abolitionist movement. Education is the silver bullet. Condoleezza Rice (note two 'e's) said she needed to be "twice as good as minorities" and earned herself a PhD in political science. But, without these opportunities the opportunity of have a mother who taught and a father who was a guidance councilor and minister she could would not have done so well. Had she been killed like her classmate had been by a bomb planted by white supremacists in her church she wouldn't have had the opportunities we have. In fact, we have the opportunity to not need to fear being blown up during Sunday school or needing our fathers to stand vigil against the Klan. To say that overt racism doesn't lead to a lack of opportunity is silly. To think that just because the racism is below the surface that it doesn't exist anymore is even more silly. Thinking that a separate school with less money and crumbling infrastructure is going to give a child equal opportunities is as ignorant as the belief that with less money and crumbling infrastructure a school in the inner city where minorities attend is going to give a child equal opportunities. I doubt you've heard anything of the sort about Frederick Douglass. I don't think anybody considered him a sell out for running away from his master. Dr. Rice, I could perhaps see as everybody who stays with this administration is could be seen as a sell out for real reasons. As for the specific story of the white police officers shooting and killing a black teenager who had a knife able to stab through a bullet proof vest with several other officers around; I couldn't find the story. I did find several half a dozen in fact, of unarmed black teenagers getting shot, one kid brandishing an iron, another with a BB gun. Several posts about why the hell are these white cops shooting all these kids. But that specific story couldn't be found. Care to post a link to a specific? Or cite a source? The idea of specifically damning black people, in general, but not in general with exceptions for the exceptions; that's the definition of a stereotype. All blacks are clearly ignorant drug-using hooligans ready to stab and kill police officers with children and scoff at the opportunities you, as a white person, enjoy... except of course for those who aren't. Anybody who wasn't ignorant (it is ignorance you hate, after all) like black youths would jump at the opportunities you've been given. Why don't they jump at the opportunities you've been given! They must be stupid! That's why you run into those "attitudes", because there's still racism and it's a little below the surface but clear as day if you look for it... or suffer through it.