[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]FrozenNinja wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
A black person is more likely to be discriminated against is NORMAL SOCIAL SITUATIONS.
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This is where you are wrong. Being a minority in this country is a huge advantage. You get preferential treatment everywhere. You are acting like people are still going around hanging blacks from trees when for every Trayvon Martin murdered by a racist there are thousands and thousands of black people who get accepted to college, granted loans or given jobs over equally qualified white people simply because they were born with dark skin.
White people are sick of it, and we are sick of the victim mentality. We are sick of paying for mistakes that our great great great great grandfathers might have made, and we are sick of black people being compensated for crimes they themselves were never a victim of. The vast majority of educated, decent white people don’t have a single racist bone in their body. The percentage of truly racist people is a tiny, tiny fraction of white people as a whole. Quit acting like this is some epidemic when it’s not, it’s a very rare isolated case.
I didn’t even know what racism was until I was 8 or 9 years old. We played in the Texas state youth basketball tournament and an all black team called me a “white devil” and a “honkey”. Petty racism goes both ways buddy.
Google “critical race theory”, and then google its criticisms. I’m not going to hash it out here, but it is clear this is what you believe. Racism is a social construct created entirely in our minds, and by teaching black kids to go into situations expecting prejudice does nothing except perpetuate the ideas.
Also, acting like someone following you around a jewelry store is some huge racist injustice is a joke and Harriet Tubman would probably laugh in your face.
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Slow your roll friend. I get where you’re coming from and yes things have changed to help balance job/college fairness, but you will never be able to tell me that racism is only the small 1% of people in America. When I was growing up in New York my brother and I had to hide from a KKK member who was walking around looking for trouble…hood over his head and an axe. More recently I’vee been spit at at a gas station in Florida. I’ve experienced racial injustice more than your “racist people are only a small minority” arguement suggests. Have I simply been that unfortunate to run into every racially charged person in America? I think not.
I agree with you that some people can take entitlement of benefits and such too far because of civil rights history but that is NOT the majority. If there was no affirmitive action type of law in businesses and schools employment and enrollment would still be prodominately white by a landslide. 100% truth.[/quote]
Your anecdotal story could just be countered by any other person’s anecdotal story.
I think your second paragraph isn’t as true as you’d like it to be either. Plenty of fields of society have shown us that left to their own tendencies, performance rules, and people will employ or admit that which serves them best.[/quote]
Deep Sigh I’m sorry but I have to disagree. Maybe…MAYBE…but it wouldve taken a hella of a long time…like 100 years…I’m not even kidding![/quote]
As red said, I’ve got stories too. The difference is I understand that the handful of racist blacks I’ve met are not indicative of the thousands of black people I’ve interacted with in my lifetime.
I never said racism was extinct, either.
Also, those jobs SHOULD BE predominantly white. Black people account for something like 10% of the population, yet they feel they are entitled to 50/50 representation. Obviously there are more than two races in the world, but you get my point.[/quote]
My Key sentence was “Prodominantly White by a LANDSLIDE” I’m not an idiot. I know there are way more whites in the population than blacks. (In America)
