Quote:
Originally Posted by Zulithe
(Post 1889971)
Even as a left-leaning individual, I don't engage where my voice has no value. I think white people should focus on problems our own communities are suffering from, like the opioid addiction crisis and the large number of white males who have opted out of both higher education and the workforce (this is a huge, massively under-acknowledged problem.) Other groups are focusing on their problems, but we don't come together and work on ours. And if we don't, who will. Nobody, that's who.
|
I think we should be coming together to solve problems, but the whole thing is a mess of personal calculus across society.
For example, you have
a portion of the black population out in society who endlessly claim that "black problems" are caused by anything other than their personal behavior. That's not something you "solve" - it's something that most of us mature out of.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm Eagle
(Post 1889982)
I'm black, and I think this is a bit much.
|
And I'm very sure that you aren't the only black person who thinks that. These topics, opinions and examples are
never about the normally-operating-people in society, man. You are also probably not the kind of person who pre-empts every interaction with a qualifier either - "as a black man...", "black communities....".
Isn't it amazing how just as a normal guy living his life that it's suddenly easy to have diverse friends? Or how just being a "person" interacting normally (like you do), and suddenly so much of that alleged social $#!( just melts away? Meanwhile the part of the community who wear this $#!( like a badge are out rioting and blaming everyone else for their problems or hanging up signs with special rules for "white folk". :roll:
Quote:
Originally Posted by frank_one
(Post 1889989)
In the past white people have given "special" orders to black people for decades so I think it's fair.
|
And Romans enslaved a global population, people with Irish heritage were given special orders & trod upon when we came to the country, African caste systems are
currently enslaving other Africans
to this day, and the Egyptians built a nation on slave labor even more than the U.S. ever did. But your singular perspective about American racism, that was by-and-large a true social issue more than 50 years ago now, paints you as a victim in your mind's eye; or as a distributor of justice in your mind. And so, your head-math has come to equal an eye-for-an-eye mentality from algebra that is removed from both the current and decades-old reality.
But if you think you know what "equity" is, then be aware of it in your own life. Because your mentality is not only part of the problem, but it's also of the easiest to come back around and hem your ass up for whatever slights you've pulled on people in your life somewhere. And more importantly - you can't hide behind it now - your statement is there for everyone to see - you are a
real racist.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sumac
(Post 1890001)
Justifying racism (as any other prejudice and crimes) by something bad that had happened in the past is retarded.
Do you also support revenge based murders?
|
Man I can't tell you the level of patience it took me to reply to Frank One's comment the way I did above as opposed to something closer to what you said here. I can't even tell you. And where are the forum leftists to call him a racist now? You know why they don't? Because they don't care about that - they are liars. They are angry about the lives they f'd up themselves (whether black or white, doesn't matter) and the "racist" flinging was simply a way to hurt people.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew NDB
(Post 1889991)
My biggest question is: why are we suddenly focused and directed to see color now, these past 2-3 years?
|
There's a lot of people out there man who have chosen to have their entire lives be identified by "raaasssssss-cism!!". They wear it as the struggle of their lives the way that you and I wear t-shirts - like it's nothing but a part of what you do. But look at your successful friends who are black. Did you notice they don't pull that ****? Mine don't. See there's true sensitivity and conversation to be had about these topics. But the people who by and large have been out in the streets aren't the well adjusted, normally operating part of black society. We aren't talking about tolerance for "black culture" here. The real truth is that there are black people all over the country who maybe even have similar feelings to the rioters, yet they aren't out there rioting. They are too busy living their lives and have found that it's actually possible.
And so consider this. Given that there are black people in society who are simply living good lives like I've described above, then what does that say then about the people who aren't doing that, but instead have traded a real existence to drive around the hood, screaming out of a car "Kill the white folk!" during a riot where people get hit in the back of the head with bottles? The regular Technodrome forum members will consider that, while of course the leftie members or the problematic people will ignore that point because their simple head math will say that my whole post is "raassssss-cism!".
I want f'n heads, man.