So, coming to this thread as a black man, I’ve learned that I am a violent criminal with no employment, on welfare and quick to ask ol’ whitey for handouts.
I’ve personally never engaged in any of these things, but since someone somewhere else has, I must’ve too. Thanks whites for telling me who I am! You da bessss!
This new information does leave me confused about all the homeless and on welfare whites I’ve dealt with at my old job… not one black, but many many whites. Maybe they were albino?
Slavery reparations will never, ever work:
-Who gets the money? Do African immigrants who came after slavery (hell, after the 60s) get money? Do mixed-race individuals get a partial sum?
-Who pays for this? Everyone says “the government”, but that comes down to taxes. If everyone gets a tax increase, Asians and Hispanics are going to riot. There’s no fair way to have only white people pay for it.
-What happens afterward? Once we give out reparations, is racism over? Any time a black person talks about the oppression of their people, America will just say “we paid our debt, we’re even now” and ignore the issue. Worst of all, what will black people do with their reparations money? How many are actually going to invest in education or a better house? How many are just going to blow it on drugs/shoes/novelties and be no better off in the long run?
There needs to be focused investment in the education of underfunded black schools and reassessment of policies that disproportionately hurt African Americans for no good reason.
1.5% of Whites owned slaves.
28% of Free blacks owned slaves.
People engaged in slavery either as slave or master compromised less than 5% or so of the population at it’s height, meaning 95% of the population did not own a slave, nor was a slave so fixate on it a little more sounds legit.
It was a historical and statistical blip, people only think it’s important because they needed flowery propaganda to justify the civil war in which neither belligerent gave two shits about the slaves.
She hasn’t done a press conference in 250 some odd days. It is because she is in a severely diminished state of health, She has a serious biopsy mark on her tongue, the blood clot last year, falling down, coughing, blacking out, showing signs of dementia she is straight up out of it. A Secret service agent had to rush the stage last week to catch her from falling.
It’s really odd that I haven’t seen any Trump commercials at all. Granted I live in MD so Hillary is going to win pretty free here, has anyone who lives in a red and/or battleground state seen Trump commercials yet?
but that’s how non blacks, shit that’s how successful blacks see other blacks.
30 years of mainstream media manipulation and political machines did this. It doesn’t help that the most popular and prominent form of black pop culture reinforces and or promotes the “hood” mentality which only feeds the confirmation bias.
That model was also instrumental in shaping the american mindset on how it see’s Muslims. 10+ years of seeing pictures like these over several hours, on all mainstream news outlets every time the middle east came up
has created the image people have subconsciously when you mention muslims.
to think its irrational that people will label and judge you based on what they’ve been feed for decades is irrational because people are irrational to begin with.
Saying not all blacks are like that, isn’t enough to win the hearts and minds that you need to win in order to reach the critical mass ot shift mindsets. Blacks in the 60’s knew this
not really, but i’m not as cynical as you. even though I grew up in the midst of mexican, hispanic, black trash i still will try and give the benifit of the doubt on a individual level.
I have parents old enough to remember being integrated into schools and grandparents that remember when black people were getting drafted into WWII for a country that still had colored water fountains. Black people that come from 2nd and 3rd generation poverty from the Civil Rights era are perpetuating the same behavior. And yes, while all people have free will, they don’t particularly know anything else.(Economic conditions for most black people post Civil rights era has not imporoved despite there being more black professionals in the country)
Associating poverty with a skin color is unfair but there is unfortunate truth to the stereotype. The game is rigged against people of all colors that come from multigenerational poverty, but a family line of impoverished people is the most common in the black community. The game is rigged against the black community but here’s is my opinion for both sides. For people of all other races, other than changing your opinion on the black community, there is nothing else that you guys can do. The issues that are in black community are so complex, that they can only be dealt with from within. I’m not even sure if money could change the narrative on black people, even if all black people woke up tomorrow as millionaires. That’s one thing that I’m sure all the money in the world couldn’t fix. Which shows a natural bias against blacks, and it is the reason why they have a good reason to think “Why is it only us that are the problem?” Personally, I don’t know the answer to that either, but I don’t know where elimination of the bias starts. But just know that this particular bias is wrong even if it is grounded in some truth.
it ends over time. Say blacks did good from the beginning at the end of civil rights. 400 years of real racism isn’t going to be changed with 50+ years of good. Totallly unfair, but short of pointing a gun at people (which we kinda already do) can’t really do anything except work at it