Running racism in America thread

Every. Fucking. Thing. The reckoning, in full force, full throat, will be really fucking ugly. It's comin.

 

Explain why your children and grandchildren are racist and deserve a backseat

 

No ambition is worth camping out on Favre's lawn. That's just me.

"I'm not going to spend my life being a color."
-M. Jackson

Can't argue with that. Nor am I.

 

Speaking of people who make EVERYTHING about race …

Tensions Flare as White Supremacists March in Front of Philly City Hall

 

IMHO that’s what’s the problem, everything is being evaluated at the very margin; sometimes you have to sacrifice a bit.

I saw it in the 90’s with affirmative action. Giving one set of people some consideration means automatically someone else got supposedly screwed. I disagree with that. You have to look at the bigger picture.

I did that; I went through standard admissions both for college and law school because I thought I had a good situation and wanted to save admissions spots for those more in need. That eliminated me from the upper most tiered schools but that’s okay.

 

Was talking to my boy today about this division between peoples and he reminded me the concept of “race” only came about to justify diminished “value” of slaves. There is no genetic difference beyond skin color. So I’m doing my best to avoid using that word any more.

Let’s talk about our differing cultural backgrounds and

 

You sacrificed voluntarily. A choice. But mandated, one becomes the sacrifice, the lamb upon the alter. There was affirmative action, as you said, starting at least 30 years ago. To some positive affect. A generation of powerless Americans have been subjected to race based admissions, government contracts, diversity goals of employers. Now that has been deemed wholly insufficient. If the runners can’t catch up, then slow the leaders down. Diluting AP classes, honors classes and what used to be called gifted and talented. It’s easier to dumb everyone down, then boost others up. And then there’s the issue of who gets sacrificed? Like the Irish who emigrated during the civil war, they were drafted to fight a war they had no hand in creating or received any benefit. Everyone who isn’t black, become the sheep herded to the alter. Well not everyone. The wealthy avoid it. And in their place recent immigrants who are deemed nonblack and therefore subject to retaliation for their alleged privilege. And there are plenty, millions and millions of Americans for whom privilege is a joke. Within 100 miles in either direction of the Appalachian Mountains are generations of poor whites, for whom privilege never existed, but is now imputed. Hispanic and Asians will suffer disproportionately and wrongly. Nonblack women will fall further behind. Generations of middle class Americans who have dutifully paid federal state local property and sales taxes will again e called on to sacrifice 1/3 to half their earnings to support programs which they are not beneficiaries.

the more you coerce people into paying to solve a problem they didn’t create or perceive they benefited from, the worse it will get.and the more they perceive they are paying but being de ied equal opportunities and benefits, the worse it will get. the trumpsters, not the business conservatives, but the social conservatives and middle class conservatives, will get angrier. They’ve already decided to sacrifice democracy, and they were only 8 million votes short.

you can’t solve the discrimination problem by punishing people who aren’t guilty. And, we need an honest, brutally honest, accounting of America. From the horrors of bigotry and violence against blacks to a culture of victimization born of distrust of society. Neither side is self-aware enough to find fault with themselves, to any degree.

 

At least Mendelsohn didn’t say...

“Perhaps you’re right but Maria Taylor is an absolute smoke show. Our research shows 13% of the audience will watch her with the sound off.

We’re in the eyeballs business. That’s why she’s going to host.”

 

Jimmy "Dyn-O-Mite" Walker, Esther Rolle, John Amos and Norman Lear would like a word.

 

Different class of black family is what I assume he meant.