Smashing skulls at golden corral

I've had to shamefully take my grandparents to Golden Corral twice, after I couldn't afford a Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. If you've ever eaten at Denny's, it's a similar kind of culture/vibe in terms of the people who dine there. Mostly poor folk, a lot of redneck stereotypes, and old couples. These kinds of restaurants have all kinds of weird things going on.

At a Denny's next door to where I used to live, a man was arrested after killing a prostitute in one of the rooms at the hotel I lived at.

I also remember the woman burning to death, as I literally live in Jacksonville.

Epic place.

Man, nothing epic seems to happen wherever i go. I wish i could experience something neat occaisonally.

The first rule of Golden Corral Fight Club is you do not talk about Golden Corral Fight Club.

The second rule of Golden Corral Fight Club is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT GOLDEN CORRAL FIGHT CLUB!!

I see a lot of people are breaking the 1st and 2nd rules of Golden Corral Fight Club.

Poor people? Uneducated people? Underpriveliged people?

It's not actually about skin color at all, but I can see why you might be led to believe that.  It's about a certain culture.  I have traveled around the world.  I have been to England, Germany France, Belgium, The Netherlands, The Bahamas, Canada, Mexico, Russia, and others.  There are people of that same skin color in most of those places, if not all.  And I have interacted with those people and witnessed their culture.  There's a massive difference between black people residing in other countries and the majority of black people in America.  That tells me that the issue is cultural, not racial.  We can argue all day about why their culture has reached the point that it has, and it's obviously a very complicated, gray, nuanced issue with a huge number of variables and factors.  But the fact remains:  Black culture in the U.S. has been eroded and poisioned, and it's blatantly apparent.

You put a whole lot of weight on some wrongs that happened between 150 and 200 years ago (the period when slavery was abolished throughout the United States). Surely if the process (abolishing slavery) was flawed, there were plenty of opportunities to rectify it since. Keep in mind that the African slave trade had not been limited to the United States of America, so many countries had to deal with the same issues of integration when slavery was abolished.

Not being an American, I do not consider myself competent to pinpoint the reasons for this massive difference @vordakk refers to. There are a few other social aspects where I find the US to be strangely worse compared to many other Western nations, and I cannot find satisfactory explanations to them as well.

Of course, there are other aspects, in which the US, IMO, is better than other places. Overall, if I had to immigrate, the US would be pretty high on my list of possible destinations. Despite the brawls at Golden Corral. Hey, at least there is a Golden Corral chain there. 

I'm glad you said so. Cause you're right. It's not about skin colour. It's about communities.


Two weeks ago, I saw a toddler get kidnapped right outside my window.

I was sitting at my desk mapping for DBP44, when I heard people screaming outside. Fighting. Then I saw a guy get a kid from his screaming mother, while hitting the mother, and taking the kid to his car and driving off. Naturally, I immediately called the police, but when they arrive, the mother lied to the police about her son being kidnapped. That just baffles me.

They were all white by the way, but my point is: in many developed countries, there are entire communities of poor and underprivileged people who, for whatever reason, do not trust the government. They do not trust the police. They don't trust doctors, or schools. That means they themselves and their children don't have access to the same opportunities like education, healthcare, financial support, and community programmes. At their core, they belief they have to stick up for themselves. That's why they often turn to crime, and violence against themselves. Cause they don't believe outsiders can aid them in solving their problems - only they can. And that's what they're teaching their kids, too. The cycle repeats itself. 



I do belief in the US this feeling is strong in the urban African American communities, precisely for the reason mentioned: these people are poor, come from poor people, are lowly educated, and see everyone around them have run-ins with the police. 

The reasons why are countless - heritage, culture, systematic racism, even institutional and economic oppression (both criminal organizations and legit capitalistic business abuse these communities) but regardless, it's a difficult cycle to break, exactly because they are so opposed to outside mingling.