snopes......lmao that is like a conservative listening to Rush Limbaugh
Because you said you think society is sucking off the teat of government and you are prepared for rioting with ammo?
What's not paranoid and angry about that? Scroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooge. LOL
when 47% of the population is paying no taxes....how would you describe that...if it is not sucking off the govt teat? and since when is preparing for a worst case scenario paranoia?
Help me with your thinking process.Are you implying that 47% of the population does not work? Are retired people part of that number? Are military people part of that number? Are you implying that people who work full time plus and do not make enough money to pay taxes should?
Do you need your weapons to protect yourself so that when the 47% becomes 85% and revolt that they can't take yours?
Henrin said:How are any of those injustices? Perhaps I just don't accept how you are using the word
Henrin said:but it would seem to me people have a right to hire who they want
Henrin said:access to education is largely up to the people involved and where they live or decide to place their children
Henrin said:incarceration rates have to do with crime rates
Henrin said:and healthcare access mostly deals with the people in play and nothing to do with race.
Napoleon said:It takes more backbone to take ownership of your own failings than to fabricate a lie about racial considerations.
Napoleon said:Actually, the result of a disregard for education. Blacks are more likely to drop out of high school and less likely to pursue a higher education and will therefore earn less.
Napoleon said:Really? Where? Affirmative Action solved that problem and you're entitled to the education you earn.
Napoleon said:Because they commit more crimes.
Napoleon said:There is no racially motivated healthcare inequality. All of these things boil down to education.
Rocketman said:And they should because why, have they been here as long?
Nearly as long. But by that logic, American Indians ought to be running the show.
OscarB63 said:and yet, unlike blacks...you don't see us bitching and crying and blaming "whitey" for all our problems. I wonder why that is
Actually, I see that about as often between Native American and African American groups, especially if you account for the relative proportion each group makes up of our overall population.
and yet, unlike blacks...you don't see us bitching and crying and blaming "whitey" for all our problems. I wonder why that is :shrug:
odd, I am half native american and I have never heard any of my relatives blame whitey for their problems :shrug:
odd, I am half native american and I have never heard any of my relatives blame whitey for their problems :shrug:
Meh, when was the last time you saw a movie with a black leading man? Not a comedy or a popcorn action flick starring will smith. A serious movie with a chance to win awards, that also doesn't revolve it's plot around the blackness of the character?
Nothing racist in what he said.
I saw "Flight" last week.
Then you don't want to see it is all I can figure.
Which of your parents is 100% native American?
or maybe I just don't hang out with the sorry ass indians
Because they gave native Americans land, you get to set your own rules and lets not go into casino's and high interest loans. Native Americans were also not taken from there continent of origin after being sold into slavery by there own. They did not have to deal with Jim crow, slavery or the stigma of being a black male.
Native Americans did not have it easy, but there is no comparison.
I spent 27 years in the Army and your description is very accurate. Skin color is not a deterrent, not really in civilian society either. I have now been retired almost 25 years (come Feb) and in the south I see successful blacks as well. One of the biggest problems I have seen in the success of black men is the chip they seem to wear on their shoulder. Of course in the urban areas of the large northern cities that may not be true. I am sure the situation is exaggerated on TV, at least I hope it is. Otherwise it is time for them to come home to the south where the social climate is better.yeah, there is no comparison between slavery and wholesale genocide.
as for the stigma of being a black male....most of those so stigmatized these days bring it on themselves. maybe my perspective is skewed because I've spent most of my adult life in the military where the color of your skin is not a determining factor. My current Brigade CO (O6 Colonel) is a black man, our current HQ first sgt (master sgt) is a black man and I could give you a laundry list of senior NCOs and Officers in our brigade who are black men. none of them allowed being black to handicap them and keep them in the ghettos.
blaming a lack of success in today's society on the color of your skin is a cop-out.
I've posted links earlier in this thread to studies which demonstrate pretty convincingly that people who are in a position to hire will disproportionately make negative judgements about black candidates and prefer white candidates, even when both have exactly the same resume.
Pretty much everywhere. Affirmative action solved no such problem; inner city schools are terrible, and do not have the funds the hire good teachers, with the result that even the students who graduate from them don't have the necessary foundation to even attend a regional college, much less an institution in the top three tiers or so.
Also untrue. Black people have much higher conviction rates than white people. So it cannot be merely that they commit more crimes.
The Denzel is the exception to all rules. He is like the black Chuck Norris, lol.
The Denzel is the exception to all rules. He is like the black Chuck Norris, lol.
Education is, by and large, what the student makes of it and to claim that no student of an inner city school is qualified for higher education is patently false. If a black woman in the early 20th century could become a self-made millionairess then there is no legitimate reason why blacks can't go to school instead of dropping out or squandering the educational opportunities they do have.
I spent 27 years in the Army and your description is very accurate. Skin color is not a deterrent, not really in civilian society either. I have now been retired almost 25 years (come Feb) and in the south I see successful blacks as well. One of the biggest problems I have seen in the success of black men is the chip they seem to wear on their shoulder. Of course in the urban areas of the large northern cities that may not be true. I am sure the situation is exaggerated on TV, at least I hope it is. Otherwise it is time for them to come home to the south where the social climate is better.