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1619 – 2015 = 396 years 100%
1619 – 1865 = 246 years of slavery 62%
1865 – 1964 = 99 years of apartheid. 25%
1619 – 1964 = 345 years of legal oppression of blacks. 87%
1964 – 1990 = white racism remained entrenched, but illegal. 4%
1619 – 1990 = 361 years of overt racism and discrimination against blacks. 91%
1990 – 2008 = increased integration and racial tolerance.
2008 – 2015 = election of first black president racial tension increase.
Over 90% of African Americans are descendants of the enslaved in America.
All actions have REACTIONS. An approximately 400 year period where 91% of that period was characterized by the actions of overt racial oppression against black people, followed by a small tapering off period of racism. Why are we having debates? Why are we agreeing to disagree? The only thing, besides the lack of intelligence, that would keep any sort of debate alive, concerning why the black community as a whole is the way it is and does what it does, is the continuation of that 400 years of racism. The fact that there is debate means that racism is alive and well because there is not a damn thing to debate given the evidence and facts.
We live in a period in which racism is simply feeding off the consequences of past racism. Again, every action creates reactions. A people spending 91% of their existence, out of a 400 years period in a land under overt racial oppression, can and has created racial damage to those people. Current racist then use that damage to caste aspersion and give reason to justify their current racism. It's an evil cycle of self-perpetuating racism in which they must first discredit the idea that the dysfunction that manifest has something to do with past racist actions (spending 91% of 400 years under overt racial oppression). Who would subscribe to such reasoning but a racist and or an idiot?
The bottom line is that racism and racist are alive and well, of the white variety. They don’t deny that these things occurred, because that would quickly discredit them. What they are really arguing is that those things occurred, but that they don’t account for black dysfunction relative to whites. However, because they are cowards dealing in subterfuge, they will not say what does account for the dysfunction, which they see as “organic” to the nature of black people, because to do so would expose them. In other words, if racism is known by arguing that “A” = “C” then those cowards will instead argue that A = B and that B = C….thus avoiding saying directly that A = C. It’s a game of asymmetrical racism characterized by camouflage and subterfuge.
It’s like the guy walking down the street and all of a sudden starts waving his arms wildly and swinging and attacking the air. You, from a distance, cannot see that he has walked into a swarm of small gnats and he is trying to keep them out of his face. If someone wants to narrate that his is mentally unstable, then they would show the video of his behavior but leave out the action that was creating his reaction. They would show him acting “crazy” for no reason to further their agenda. That is what racist attempt to do for blacks. They need to try suppress what our behavior is a reaction to (that 400 years) and just show us behaving badly so that it fits their “organic” narrative. SMH.
America has not OWNED its wrong doings. Instead, America wants to blame the consequences of its wrong doings on the people it wronged.
blah blah blah... never ending excuses for violence...blah blah blah...unintelligible metaphors....blah blah blah....reverse racism....blah blah blah... no agency...blah blah blah....give us stuff.
I don't think it'll come to that since rioting, wars and so on are a young dude's thing and, the "Black" population here in the US is aging because of low birthrates and, many young dudes taking each other out.
uh - bull****. This is like blaming the jews for hitlers wrath.
I don't think what Hitler is doing is right, but damn, those Jews were taking over everything and I'm not surprised.
Then maybe the Jews ARE the "master race" since there are only what; about, 20 million of their kind in the whole world out of 7 billion people. The way most of them roll would be a good way for all people to live like as in being sober, saving money, living in their means, NOT starting fights over stupid crap, working together, education and so on.
242 years ago a group of demonstrators staged a protest in Boston as part of a persistent plan of agitation and disruption, and we celebrate their efforts every July.
I view with great skepticism the patriotism of any American who is against our hard earned right to peaceably protest.
Nobody is against protesting, so you can stow your faux patriotism.
But people do object to protestors that agitate for street violence and the murder of police officers.
It's incredible that these simple concepts must be explained to you.
blah blah blah... never ending excuses for violence...blah blah blah...unintelligible metaphors....blah blah blah....reverse racism....blah blah blah... no agency...blah blah blah....give us stuff.
It's only excuses for those who NEVER have held respect for black people. Thus, any reason short of saying that we are genetically predisposed to be violent....will be seen as an excuse and as more Blah blah blah.
It's only excuses for those who NEVER have held respect for black people. Thus, any reason short of saying that we are genetically predisposed to be violent....will be seen as an excuse and as more Blah blah blah.
According to people like the poster I was responding to, all White people are mingled into this group. Or all White people that don't agree with every rent seeking concession that is the ultimate point of the BLM and similar protests.
Then stop making "reasons" and excuses, and stop harassing the police for doing their jobs in reducing crime.
According to people like the poster I was responding to, all White people are mingled into this group. Or all White people that don't agree with every rent seeking concession that is the ultimate point of the BLM and similar protests.
Then stop making "reasons" and excuses, and stop harassing the police for doing their jobs in reducing crime.
All white people? That is a common straw man. When one cannot refute a general claim....one paraphrases the claim as being ubiquitous....then attempts to discredit the claim by arguing that it is not ubiquitous.
If there was truly a race war in the USA, it would last 1 day, and then Whites, Hispanics, Asians would then go about their business the next day.
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