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Angry much? So much irony...OP was trying to distance himself from the African-American community, and then you post this. lolol. Wow, ok. Free entertainment.
The person who I quoted and was addressing wasn't the OP.....
As a black male, I am somewhat offended by that title. What the hell IS this "African American Community?"
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et all DO NOT speak for me, nor do they represent what I stand for.
Am I alone in having an issue with this nonsensical generalization?
No you are not, but that will not stop the liberal media from framing it that way. They always turn to the liberal groups, or in this case the race merchants for comment because the media knows they will stir the pot.
Additionally I object the politically correct term of hyphenated-American. If you are an American citizen, you are American, period. You may have ethnic heritage going back to the Caribbean, an African country, or some place else. But you are not an African if you are American.
Maybe you should ask them since they're the ones who have appointed themselves leaders of the "african american community".
This is finally something white people have nothing to do with and is strictly a disparagement within the black race itself. If you people don't like it, start opening up about it and letting it be known they speak for only the low hanging fruit of african americans and don't speak for the intelligent ones out there who actually understand what is happening in the real world.
Perhaps the KKK, Neo Nazis, and Westboro Church feel they speak for you. Is it your responsibility to go around proving to the world that they don't represent all white people? Or should the world be intelligent enough to figure that out based on sheer common sense? Why is it that black people should always have something to prove to whites? We should be able to just live our lives without always fighting generalizations, same as you do.
Perhaps the KKK, Neo Nazis, and Westboro Church feel they speak for you. Is it your responsibility to go around proving to the world that they don't represent all white people? Or should the world be intelligent enough to figure that out based on sheer common sense? Why is it that black people should always have something to prove to whites? We should be able to just live our lives without always fighting generalizations, same as you do.
You don't. We don't care. In fact the average white person is perfectly happy going through their day just worrying about paying their bills and putting food on their kids table. We don't go around thinking about black people or what they have to prove. Its when were told we are privileged and racist that skin color enters our mind.
You don't. We don't care. In fact the average white person is perfectly happy going through their day just worrying about paying their bills and putting food on their kids table. We don't go around thinking about black people or what they have to prove. Its when were told we are privileged and racist that skin color enters our mind.
In fact the average white person is perfectly happy going through their day just worrying about paying their bills and putting food on their kids table. . . . Its when were told we are privileged and racist that skin color enters our mind.
That's pretty much the definition of white privilege.
That's pretty much the definition of white privilege.
How do you get white privilege out of that? The point is doing the right thing paying bills , keeping food on the table..doing right. How is that a white privilege?
I'm also not that fond of the "gay community". It's not like I share the same mindset with the most of us.
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