Hate to say I told you so but....

[Tropicana]

....sometimes I wish I wasn't right.

When I first came on here, I used to speak openly and honestly about racism. A lot of people didn't like it, especially White women who were rooksin Black men and Black Jamaican women in denial. I caught a lot of flack for it.

I was told over and over that things are different in the USA, I was imagining things, and NO ONE else was having issues. I cautioned that while parents who were immigrants could afford to bury their head in the sand, there was another generation coming up and, if we didn't address these issues, there would be repercussions.

Very few supported me. Some set out to make my time on the board a living hell. Well, I am still here, most of them are gone.

Fast forward about 14 years and we have:

- Donald Trump
- a generation that things slackness is culture...and this mentality is spreading
- rampant police killings of unarmed Black men (and a few women) - here are their names from 2015 alone
Police killed more than 100 unarmed black people in 2015
- protests in cities across the USA including the Baltimore riots
- anger among black youth that has reached a boiling point.
This is what brought me in here:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37292306

but there have also been horrible headlines like:

2006:Solving Toronto's Gun Crime: Cut Immigration From Jamaica.
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/ontario/42449-solving-torontos-gun-crime-cut.html


2012: You Can't Stop Crime if You Can't Say Who Is Doing it
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/peter-worthington/toronto-shooting_b_1683102.html


Need I say more?

I think a few people owe me an apology. I know it won't be forthcoming.

[Tuff Gong]

....sometimes I wish I wasn't right.

When I first came on here, I used to speak openly and honestly about racism. A lot of people didn't like it, especially White women who were rooksin Black men and Black Jamaican women in denial. I caught a lot of flack for it.

There are over 300 million folks in the USA, no doubt there is widespread racism of some form or other, but it a stretch to say the USA is a racist country.
The Police Forces in USA is not one homogeneous body, worse they are not under Federal control. No doubt all or most of the killings are based on the Race, Class and/or Zip Codes. Many of those Black Males would have been shot to death in similar circumstances in Jamaica.

When you first came here, many of the objections to your arguments was on the basis, that you painted the whole with a broad brush and failed to try to understand the nuances involved. These objections were not made only by the above categories of members you named in the OP.
Not only that you refused, even actively try to block and personally go after members who posted, so-called bad things about Jamaica.

That you may have dropped the latter, you seem to have held onto the same failed arguments in the former?

[Tropicana]

So where is my apology?

A simple "I am so sorry. You were right I was wrong. I shouldn't have given you such a hard time on the board" will do.

[Tuff Gong]

So where is my apology?.

For?