This is a disgusting post from someone who doesn’t understand what is going on in the real world at all, but has their television set to FOX news and I would guess is a Trump supporter. This is a hate article. Absolutely ashamed for the Hawkeye staff, how does this make it to the paper? Your views are completely dillusional and when you live with “white privilege” it’s impossible for you to understand what is going on. Terrible read, made me cringe inside.

Propaganda works and this coward proves it.

I love Black People to death and if this person doesn’t love the Brown American agenda then he should leave our country.

Yes YOU should leave the country and go back to where your ancestors came from.

Neanderthal

This is sad. Shame on the university for allowing this article to be published.

I am an African American mother and head of my household by choice. My income is more than most 2 parent households. So, I am not speaking from an impoverished standpoint. My children are well-mannered and educated. My oldest will be a college graduate in December 2016 and my youngest is moving right along in junior high school. I am not and nor are they products of the system. It’s evident that you weren’t taught much in your home based on your level of simplicity in which you write. Let’s start there. There isn’t a parent walking the face of this Earth that can honestly say that they have watched their child 24/7. No one has been with anyone every moment of their life. So, please utilize another reason for children sometimes choosing the wrong path in life. As parents, all we can do is guide and pray for our children. The choices they make are theirs to make. What we are asking, is for a fair and impartial justice system and to not be enslaved by this supremacist society. You nor I are infallible, only the Mighty God that we serve is… if indeed you are a believer. Privileged Americans do not have the right to denounce another race. If a race-bait is what you’re seeking young person, stand behind your words by first acknowledging your so poorly written essay. Impeccably, you chose to rehash this at such an inopportune time, the week that an HBCU is an opponent at ULM. Well Anonymous one, I feel compelled to let you know that Black Lives will always Matter.

I recently graduated from ULM & I am so tired of this take on BLM. Not only is it inaccurate but it’s very close minded. I have respected police all of my life because that is the way I was raised & because my uncle has been a Dallas police officer for over 20 years. The concept of BLM is to raise awareness to the fact that there is an injustice happening against African-Americans primarily by the police. Not all police are bad. However, there are a few that have suspicious agendas. As a black woman, all of my encounters with the police have been fine. They have treated me with respect & kindness. Unfortunately, this is not the case with every African-American’s encounter with the police. As a race, we are upset, saddened, and angry that we could get potentially killed by a police officer & have nothing be done about it. Should we riot, loot, and vandalize our cities to show that we are mad? Absolutely not. That is what will make us look like how we are depicted in the media. Should we follow in the steps of Dr. King & John Lewis who participated in sit-ins and expressed repeatedly that love & acceptance of each other is the only way justice will be obtained? Absolutely. A few days ago marked 53 years since the I Have A Dream speech & I think that if Dr. King were alive right now, he’d be heartbroken how African-Americans are killing each other in Chicago, being killed by police, & tearing each other down when we should be lifting each other up. I am proud to be black but as a race, we can do better.

To the author,
I hope you are fresh out of highschool and are simply ignorant. If not, you are seriously wasting an education. This is completely biased RACIST garbage. Do better. Take a sociology class at least.

How could ULM allow this to be posted? This is INSULTING.

Do not pretend to know about a community you are not a part of please.

ITT: Ill-informed emotional appeal that, for the most part, tries to combat an argument that was never made by the article. Facts are facts, and unfortunately calling them closed-minded doesn’t make it less true. There’s no denying that there is racism and prejudice in America, but the root of the problem is a self-perpetuatuing culture that praises criminal behavioue and a lack of education. That’s an oversimplification, but it’s the bare root of the problem. We should be paying more attention to the black (as well as other races) people who have made something of themselves, than the ones who have devolved BLM into what it is today, and garnered a victim-complex big enough to hold the entire state of texas.

Blacks have been OPPRESSED for centuries. And for someone to tell blacks that it starts at home. No it started when we were enslaved, treated like trash, and oppressed for years! Abortions poverty and single families homes were apart of the OPPRESSION of blacks. How dare you downplay what happened to MY race. You don’t even understand the black lives matter movement because if you did you wouldn’t post such less than medicore article.

First of all check your facts, please check your facts! DO YOUR RESEARCH! your statistics are horrible. You sat there and said black lives won’t matter until a few stop representing the whole population, but throughout the WHOLE entire post you generalized all of us blacks as a freaking whole! for you to say that countless statistics show that people who are raised in single parent households are almost certain to become criminals, or however you decided to phrase it, is completely inaccurate! did you know that most people who grow up in single parent households end up being more successful than people who grow up in a household with both parents. please come again! stop filling your small head with television because for you to think all blacks have tattoos on their face, criminal records, pictures with guns pointed at the camera, etc etc. is very idiotic and makes you look very dumb! you don’t even understand that the prison system was set up for blacks! EVERYTHING WAS SET UP FOR BLACKS TO FAIL! your ancestors came over into Africa, evaded our space, uprooted us from our homes and brought us back to this hell hole to work for y’all! y’all stripped everything from us! all of our history, where we came from, who we are, everything just gone! YOU WILL NEVER EVER UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES BLACK PEOPLE FACE UNTIL YOU ARE BLACK! yes black on black crime is wrong but y’all have nothing to say when the whites go and shoot up schools, churches, and movie theatres. y’all only wanna come out and say something because y’all want to remain superior. then y’all bring up stereotypes like you said because y’all are to ignorant to believe that there are actually intelligent people out there. I could go on and on telling you about this but you obviously don’t care to do the research and see it from the other side.

There are a few points that I want to make on rediculous post. Black people feeling as though they do not have a voice starts before we look at the AMERICAN home because WE were stolen from our homes where we originally resided by white people. We were also raped, beated, soled, forced to have large amounts of children to help bring money that a lot of white people are still living off of. So how can you say that black people feeling like they don’t matter isn’t a result of white people and what they have done. Let’s fast forward some years to when WE were attacked by dogs and sprayed with high powered water by white people only because we did not want to eat in the back with the cooks or because we felt that we should do simple things like vote and sit down on a bus without someone coming and taking our seat because they were superior to us. Or what about being hung for loving someone outside of our race. When a white boys goes into a church and shoots everyone in the church he is look at as someone who must be sick and does not need to be in prison but needs therapy, but let a black boy shoot one person out of self defense, he is looked at as a thug and a murderer! The double standard is sickening to me. The problem for a lot of people is not that the Black Lives Matter Movement promotes violence and is furthering many stereotypes, but that the movement is actually getting things done! Of course it would be intimidating to white people to see black people finally getting fed up with all the injustice in this country! It intimidates a lot of white people to see black people finding there worth and realizing that the main reason white have historically hated black people is because they are envious. They knew then and they know now that black people were the first to be created, which means that we are God’s most prized possession.
To deny the role that white people have played in the oppression of black people is beyond ignorant and just shows that you only research half of the facts. But I cannot fully blame you because schools do not teach about African history nor fully educate on how this nation was built and how we got to where we are now.
Reading your post really made my blood boil because you are trying to be an advocate for black people while at the same time demeaning the entire race.
Next point.
Someone’s criminal history is not a basis for killing them. If they are innocent in the situation that they were killed in, then they were wrongfully killed. They paid their debt to society, therefore what they did in the past has nothing to do with them being shot now.
Point three.
Abortion has nothing to do with the killing of innocent black children and adults because legally it is not murder until the baby takes its first breathe.
As an educated black woman this post bothers me many try to say that black men do nothing but blame others and do not take responsibility for their part in why they are living the lives that they are, meanwhile white people are still not owning up to all the disgusting and monsterous things they have done.
The problem starts with the mentality of all the people in this country!

Wow to say the least someone should do more research and point out the true reason blacks have a higher percentage rate in the prison systems, why most homes are single parents because the male is incarcerated forcing the young male to man up at a early age taking on influences outside of his family usually in the streets selling drugs because they are to young to work a regular job which will only pay minimum wage enough to continue a slavery process because it will never be enough to actually save money off. And its impossible for a single mother to watch every move that child makes when she’s working two jobs to make ends meet and still not doing that. For you to say the problem is at home you should look at the reasons the homes are the way they are in the black community, we have no planes to get drugs into the country, officials get paid to let them in then monitor where they go so that they get paid all around. We get a small area to live in projects which really get their name from a government project that started with mice in a small box first the mice breed in this small area, then they get overpopulated because they have no where else to go after that comes the violence because of food and space the same goes for humans but when drugs are added it gets ten times worse. I could get deeper but you don’t wanna hear the truth of how things really are and I don’t have the time to get any deeper into the many problems that caused things to be the way they are in the black community