How about we stop just mindlessly absorbing whatever is in the papers/Internet and assuming, and start thinking for ourselves. Cycle of hate ends. Done.

A tiger will eat what there is to eat if it's hungry. That is their nature. They are not considerate of our laws and culture

In rare instances because tigers don't roam free in the United States

This is so backwards. It's like, we should be scared or suspicious of every white male in their mid twenties in schools and cinemas because they are the shown to be the guilty of public shootings in those areas all too often

1) Excuses as in neuroscience?

2)Ok, maybe you don't. But if someone is smelly, is wearing raggedy clothes, and is sticking his dirty hand out for money, I am assuming he is homeless I'm not going to ask or wonder whether he just chooses to be this way as an individual

3)Your life isn't endangered though Trayvon Martin is one in 300 Million Americans yes, there are people who might shoot you because you're black, but those numbers are extremely extremely tiny. Just look at homicide: black on black homicide is 93% of the total black homicide rate. What the real problem with perception is has nothing to do with safety, but with perpetuation of poverty and joblessness. And that, I agree, is incredibly wrong and stupid. And that's what Don Lemon is addressing. You won't get a job on Wall Street (unless you want to be a janitor) with grills and dressed in baggy shorts.

I agree. That's the solution. But do you honestly think we'll ever stop I mean, we absorb every form of pop culture here, and know every beyonce hairflip or Keri Hilson disstrack. Most people are addicted in the same way to the News.

Only minorities as a group get blamed for the action of individuals.

1) Ok...I'm just giving an example. You can insert Shark in there if you want.

2) Again, insert Shark and beach.


3) Some people are though You didn't listen to the discussions about why all the shooters were White Young Men? And all the back and forth about gun control, etc? I know that when I went to see the Dark Knight Rises after the shooting, people looked suspiciously at my backpack...

You are also not willing to acknowledge the primary sources that explain what is wrong with black culture today. In your posts you paint a picture of blacks voluntarily starting detrimental cycles that will harm their race as if white people had nothing to do with it. The fact that you comparing blacks to asians as if they had to experience the same oppression in America just shows how shallow you are. You are not willing to look deeper.

The point is not if we will stop, it's that we should stop. And liking pop culture is not an excuse for make judgments about a group of people. You're addicted to the news? Fine. But don't be ignant and just assume. Discuss, look deeper into things. Think for yourself. On ATRL we dont just absorb, we discuss, so I dont see how that connects at all.

I'll go through this point by point :
1) You didn't ask me for the root sources. If you want root sources? Fine: slavery. End of story. but it's too late to turn back the clock, so the immediate problems are the ones I listed.
2)I'm not saying blacks voluntarily enter the cycle. I'm saying many are trapped by it. But, there are exceptions. Look at Chris Gardner, who went from Homeless son-of-single-mother to multi-millionaire entrepreneur.
2) Asians, while not going through the exact same things, were pretty oppressed in their own right. They were the first and only minority/ethnicity to EVER be banned from the continental United States at the turn of the 20th/late-19th century, amongst other things.
3)We can look as deep as we want, but the deepest root cause is greedy stupid white people dragging black folk from Africa and whipping them into slaves, and then breeding only the big and dumb ones, while eliminating the smart ones. but that's the past. You can't change it.

Lol, double negative. Education is key sis so learn proper grammar.

how many racists have murdered black people recently Now look at how many black people are murdered by black people in one weekend

But this discussion isn't even about murder. It's about the cycle of stereotypes, and Don Lemon's suggestions for escaping that cycle

I agree with what Don Lemon said. Although he did too much with Trayvon Martin. A hoodie is a common article of clothing worn by all races. He was a teenager, that's normal clothing.

But Clark, they are associated with US because majority of US are fulfilling those characteristics. It just plain and simple. I want to sit here and type otherwise TRUST me. But we have to look at the facts and the truth. Understanding the problem exists is step one. Those issues plague the black community and distracts the masses of the accomplishments blacks have made.

I was just making a comparison People are never going to stop stereotyping so long as the news media continues showing disproportionate numbers of black people committing awful crimes and dancing with hoochie mamas in music videos

When will you realize that by comparing black people to animals, you are inadvertently saying that blacks are inherently amoral and uncivil, as are animals? That is racist.

I have never heard of young white men being stereotyped as terrorists, nor have I ever heard of anyone acting on those imaginary stereotypes.

1) I also compared Asians in my first post I used it as a point. Just as I compared it to cookies, flowers, and sharks

2)Muslims are certainly stereotyped as terrorists or do you not follow that racism because it doesn't have to do with black people

You're right. Some Black people need to change themselves, but others should not be generalizing us anyway.

It needs to work both ways tbh.