White Ignorance at the Core of Racial Tensions

[MrPots]

The constitution is a big fuckin lie Zeke, all mean are not created equal.

[ZeroJunk]

In the meantime why don't some of you explain to me how the riots and demonstrations are going to help blacks rather than call me names for saying that it won't.

Explain to me how crying racism is going to help the inner city kids get out of the hole they are in instead of demonizing me for saying that it won't.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Zeke

The root cause of most individual minority frustration is the desire to be given success due to misdeeds that didn't personally happen to them. Entitlement. Codified by a validation of generational trauma through white guilt, nurtured in the fields of "it's not my fault."

BULLSHIT.



I'm entitled (1A US Constitution) to point out how stupid that is, yes.

In truth the whole document is a pipe dream.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

In the meantime why don't some of you explain to me how the riots and demonstrations are going to help blacks rather than call me names for saying that it won't.
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What else would you suggest? Peaceful demonstrations are routinely ignored and mocked, and the government is owned b corporate America and they certainly don't care so "going through the proper channels" is a fools errand.

Peaceful demonstrations didn't work in the 60's they won't work now.

The only thing that seems to work is hitting them in the pocketbook.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

But, I will tell you what I have been telling you. If blacks don't figure out a way to fix some of the destructive behavior expecting anybody else to fix the inner cities is a dream.

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

If white America doesn't figure out how to stop being racist assholes they're dreaming that demonstrations like we're having all over this fucking country will ever end.

There's obvious truth to both statements. And if both the white and black communities don't realize (and act upon) the fact that both have contributed (and continue to contribute) to the problems in our inner cities, we'll have to remain satisfied with the status quo. Blaming the other guy exclusively will get us nowhere. It just builds resentment and a sense of moral superiority to the other guy.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by finnbow

There's obvious truth to both statements. And if both the white and black communities don't realize (and act upon) the fact that both have contributed (and continue to contribute) to the problems in our inner cities, we'll have to remain satisfied with the status quo. Blaming the other guy exclusively will get us nowhere. It just builds resentment and a sense of moral superiority to the other guy.

Agreed, but each side is waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by ZeroJunk

In the meantime why don't some of you explain to me how the riots and demonstrations are going to help blacks rather than call me names for saying that it won't.

Explain to me how crying racism is going to help the inner city kids get out of the hole they are in instead of demonizing me for saying that it won't.

Sez the dude who likes to call other people on this board "moron" and "loser" at the drop of a hat.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Agreed, but each side is waiting for the other shoe to drop.

...or the other side to admit that it's all their fault.

One can argue that a lot has been done since Johnson's Great Society initiatives in the 1960's (something I learned a lot about at the LBJ Library in Austin a couple of weeks ago). What was also interesting at the Library was listening to a number of conversations LBJ taped with leaders and public figures of the day. One of many conversations I listened to was between LBJ and MLK after passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He basically said, "Martin, I busted my ass getting this done for you and your people. Now it's time for you to get your people to do their part by registering and voting."

In other words, LBJ said that we can help you to the extent that you're also willing to help yourself.

[ZeroJunk]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Sez the dude who likes to call other people on this board "moron" and "loser" at the drop of a hat.

So, you don't know either.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Final paragraph:

"The "real problem" with Ferguson, New York, Cleveland or any other city where the police have executed black males is not "an attitude of victimhood." No, the real problem is the group who sit in their ivory tower doling out sage advice to people they clearly don't understand about a situation they have no experience with that does nothing but increase the ever widening gap in race relations. Because pretending to know what it's like to be black in America isn't even remotely close to actually being black in America."

Dale Hansen (author) is WHITE. He eradicates his own white guilt points.

The only "execution" in Ferguson was of a good cop's career.

That cop has made enough money since the shooting to RETIRE. One interview alone brought him half a million. People have been sending him money......Just to be doing it, I guess?

Don't worry about Darren Wilson, he's gonna be fine.

There are more than enough people who see him as some sort of hero. Starting with the Klan..................

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5691519.html

Dave