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Have white people embraced what is "right"?

Have white people embraced what is "right"?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 45.0%
  • No

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • other opinion

    Votes: 9 45.0%

  • Total voters
    20
I'm not sure I fully understand the question?



Well that one guy (Rev. Joseph Lowery) said "when white people will embrace what is right", and I thought it would be a good debate to see what people think of that statement. So I ask if you think white people have in fact embraced what is right or if they haven't.
 
Well that one guy (Rev. Joseph Lowery) said "when white people will embrace what is right", and I thought it would be a good debate to see what people think of that statement. So I ask if you think white people have in fact embraced what is right or if they haven't.

I heard his speech. I thought it was racist as hell. Scuze my language.
 
Embracing Weakness

"Embracing Weakness"
Yes or no, why or why not.
Maybe whites can finally embrace right, by give away any accumulated affluence or wealth, and extinguishing their race by either not breeding or completely whoring their daughters out for mixed race babies.
 
Is this the same preacher that Obama distanced himself from during the race?
 
Is this the same preacher that Obama distanced himself from during the race?

No, that was Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The guy he said that he would no sooner abandon than his own grandma and then later abandoned. Sucks to be Obama's grandmother.
 
No, that was Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The guy he said that he would no sooner abandon than his own grandma and then later abandoned. Sucks to be Obama's grandmother.

Theres 2 reverands for you..... Lowery and Wright.... :roll:
 
I'm aware of the context of this quote but I still don't fully understand what he means, so I'm having a hard time w/ the poll. do you think it's just about not being racist? aside from slavery, what else are only white people guilty of?
 
No, I'm still pretty much the same scheming blackguard as I was the day before yesterday.
 
To be fair- white people are not the only race on earth that have ever owned slaves. Many, many cultures in the past have had slaves.

yes, oops. well I meant whites in the US, since the slave-owners here were of that variety. I'm thinking his whole comment, though he probably didn't put much thought into it, was probably just implying that racism is dormant in all whites--we may have stopped actively abusing and terrorizing blacks, for the most part, because that is what's popular now, but in our hearts we still think of them as inferior. and I think that is a pretty nasty implication for this guy to make.

some whites will always be racist and some whites never were. just like some yellows have always been mellow and some just can't seem to unwind. :roll:
 
Depends on one's perspective. I have always embraced what *I* think is "right".
 
aside from slavery, what else are only white people guilty of?

Jim Crow laws and discrimination against black voters. There are still people alive who fought for civil rights during that period. Wonder if I beat Hatuey to the punch on this one?

Not that I really care about any of that since I wasn't alive, but those things were pretty bad too.
 
Jim Crow laws and discrimination against black voters. There are still people alive who fought for civil rights during that period. Wonder if I beat Hatuey to the punch on this one?

Not that I really care about any of that since I wasn't alive, but those things were pretty bad too.

I had overlooked those because I figured that all groups in america had been racist towards other groups at some point, not just whites, but you're right in that it was actually legislated discrimination.
 
I'm aware of the context of this quote but I still don't fully understand what he means, so I'm having a hard time w/ the poll. do you think it's just about not being racist? aside from slavery, what else are only white people guilty of?

Jim Crow. Wait that never happened though.

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It's a line he's been giving for decades apparently. It's outdated and racist for the most part in today's world.
 
Jim Crow. Wait that never happened though.

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It's a line he's been giving for decades apparently. It's outdated and racist for the most part in today's world.

I had overlooked those because I figured that all groups in america had been racist towards other groups at some point, not just whites, but you're right in that it was actually legislated discrimination.
 
Egocentrism

"Egocentrism"
Depends on one's perspective. I have always embraced what *I* think is "right".
Except for the deluded notion that the chirality of "right" is a synonym for virtue; brilliant.
 
I had overlooked those because I figured that all groups in america had been racist towards other groups at some point, not just whites, but you're right in that it was actually legislated discrimination.

Not really.

Every other group has had cake.

Let me explain :

When the Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews, Polish etc etc were coming off boats they were given bread and hot soup. EVERY single group that came to America was greeted and told that this was their country and that opportunities were theirs even if they were discriminated against later and attacked for their heritage. None of them came to this country through the doggy door. All of them were told to keep their heads high when they were brought in by the boatload.

Blacks, even though they had been here working(slavery) and bleeding for America(Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WII, Korea AND Vietnam) since the days of the founding fathers and before, were told they did not have the same rights as the Irish, Italians, Germans, Jews etc etc up until somewhere in the last 50 years.

But hey. I hear German kids had it really bad because they got called Nazis.
 
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