re: Racist or Not Racist?

Ok. Then answer the question at hand, please.

To me, posting things like this shows that yes, there is a problem in this community. What it is, I honestly do not know. Note that in no way am I excusing their behavior.

What it also shows me is an incredibly myopic view, or better yet a lack thereof, of American history. My great grandfather, about whom a book is written, was the sherrif in Ft. Bend county TX in the 30's. He had a gang of whites on horse back with hoods threaten to come to his house and kill his family because he dared to pull a gun on a group of white men who were terrorizing a black polling station.

This kind of shite happened on a daily basis to blacks for nearly a century POST slavery. But a few whites, and I am by no means saying what those people did is right, get beat up and some beers thrown at them and you act like its the God damned apocalypse. Please educate your ignorance and stop being foolish. You're the one sensationalizing.

Black Americans in the 50s and 60s just wanted to assimilate and have the rights to be like all other Americans. Many people(black and white) fought and died to change things.
Now there's a culture in black america that wants to separate from everyone else. It's a "look at me I'm so persecuted" "I deserve more than what I'm getting" attitude. Fact is, they don't know anything like what their ancestors went through and many of those ancestors would be embarrassed by what's currently going on in the black community.

You're painting with a very broad brush.

Anyone who is raised in an affluent home to parents of any race have a better chance at success. White people aren't the only ones that can be affluent.

Education isn't valued because of the shitty school systems in majority black neighborhoods which carries over to the homes. Black parents aren't out here teaching us about slavery and how we need reparations at a majority. Two parent homes are down in every race. All children who succeed are mocked. Kids suck. Mocking is what they do.

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Black Americans in the 50s and 60s just wanted to assimilate and have the rights to be like all other Americans. Many people(black and white) fought and died to change things.
Now there's a culture in black america that wants to separate from everyone else. It's a "look at me I'm so persecuted" "I deserve more than what I'm getting" attitude. Fact is, they don't know anything like what their ancestors went through and many of those ancestors would be embarrassed by what's currently going on in the black community.

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This is largely due to how they were maligned and disenfranchised when they were not allowed to assimilate. After a certain point, you say "frick it" and give up. Consequently, the children of these people wanted to be as far from white as they could possibly be because they experienced the way their parents were treated. Obviously this thinking backfired on them in the long run, and two generations later it has only slowly begun to be rectified.

The point I'm trying to make is there is always an explanation. That doesn't make it morally right, but that doesn't make it an excuse, either.

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This is largely due to how they were maligned and disenfranchised when they were not allowed to assimilate. After a certain point, you say "frick it" and give up. Consequently, the children of these people wanted to be as far from white as they could possibly be because they experienced the way their parents were treated. Obviously this thinking backfired on them in the long run, and two generations later it has only slowly begun to be rectified.

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This makes a lot of sense.

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Would you mind expanding on which parts are stupid?

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Sure.

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For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.

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No they haven't. 100 years ago white Irish were treated worse than blacks. Black Americans assimilated across different parts of America in different ways. To say that the post-Reconstruction South means anything as a frame of reference for anything outside of it is ridiculous. 50 years ago in his country 4% of people were okay with interracial marriage. 4%. To act like a social experiment is going on is nothing more than pigeon holing a belief that you don't like modern black/urban culture.

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Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?

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Um. I'm assuming that the peoples of Africa never went anywhere other than the antebellum South, otherwise we wouldn't have separate continents with massive influxes of African DNA in to the genomes of that region with absolutely none of the issues to be reflected upon later in this article.

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The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization.

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I don't know what this means but America is awesome I guess.

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The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements.

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Cool. Different parts of the human species evolved with different stressors to the environment.

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Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.

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The USA isn't the only place where xenophobia has existed, which is the biggest problem with this whole article.

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Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up.

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None of this statement is based in reality.

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They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted.

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This is gibberish. The free market and politics were in charge of the blacks, just like every other social group.

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They created the Freedman’s Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball. Their new laws intruded into people’s lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable.

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This is so racist and ignorant it's almost indefensible.

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They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration.

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Good. Only racist pricks think that black people aren't smart enough to go to lowly arse schools like Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss.

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Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice versa.

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OMG. This is so racist I don't know how anyone takes this seriously.

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They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to “Celebrate Diversity!” and “Say No To Racism.” Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.

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How is anyone still reading this.

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Some thought that what W.E.B. Du Bois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing. Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them.

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There is no factual basis for this. The percentage of black people under the poverty line has decreased every single year that statistic has existed. This entire premise is ridiculous.

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Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and majority-black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment. Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away.

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Just listen to what this is saying. This is saying Detroit is bankrupt because of black people, and somehow they collectively don't take responsibility for their failures. This is just asinine.













frick the rest of it is just too racist to continue. It disgusts me how many people in this thread agree with this premise. It's just insane.

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Nobody alive today suffered from the effects of slavery.

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Jews are still suffering from the slavery which may or may not have happened thousands of years ago in Egypt.

Russia is REALLY racist if you haven't figured that out yet

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Native american indian say HELLO.



Dude, blacks were literally treated like frocking animals.

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Well, if you believe what your 1st grade teacher taught you, so were the Indians. I personally don't buy the bullshite of 15th century biological warfare, but that's just me.