You had me at "Lonely Teardrops" :)

thanks! I'm still adding movies as I think of ones I like, its hard to just sit down and type them all up without thinking to myself an hour later "Oh man I forgot that one!" what is your all time favorite movie?

yeah i do agree with you. like i said i have been privileged enough to travel to other countries. So i have seen what their perspective on black people are to a certain extent. What i have found is that this problems lies more within whites,asians, and indians who have grown up or been exposed to american culture. While american culture is great in many regards it at times can do some f'uped things to people. Once you get away from that and go to other countries you do not see the racism of black as much. Its really interesting stuff.

Now i am not gangsta by any meaning nor am i carlton-esque (despite the kickass cardigan). what i am is a average person.  I am pretty respectable (or at least i try to be) but even still i am met with resistance in one way or another by asians, indians and whites.  I know you don't speak for every non black person out there but it is something interesting to look at. Even when blacks have all the characteristics you described it is not enough.

Personally i have learned to let these thing roll of my back. I figured if mandela can spend 20+ years in jail for nothing and forgive those who put him there then i can dismiss the comment or actions of non-black people who will never like me because of my race.

my question then to you is do you hold every race to those same standards or is only for black people? i only ask because i wonder if you would say the same thing about seeing a group of hillbillies or rednecks that you said about gangsta dressed blacks having a college education.