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Old 07-04-2017, 02:52 PM
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Why not skip the faux patriotism and just go straight to the racism denial?
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Old 07-04-2017, 02:58 PM
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Why not skip the faux patriotism and just go straight to the racism denial?
Give it a break. You sound like a racist. That's getting really old. Not to mention, false.
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Old 07-04-2017, 03:11 PM
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Give it a break. You sound like a racist. That's getting really old. Not to mention, false.
Well, the entire opening post was, in fact, nothing more than the denial of racism wrapped up in a thin veneer of phony patriotism.

Did you even read the title of the thread?
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Old 07-04-2017, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Why not skip the faux patriotism and just go straight to the racism denial?
Why not skip the effete aspersions and go straight to the racist labeling?
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Old 07-04-2017, 03:48 PM
 
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if you're not privileged that start paying back some reparations to blacks and show us how easy it is to just "work hard" and build wealth honestly. Don't just make these platitude declarations about privilege, show us how it's done. I'd love to see whites pay reparations, start at zero, and attempt to just "work hard" out of poverty. What a joke thread. lol
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Old 07-04-2017, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Austin
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if you're not privileged that start paying back some reparations to blacks and show us how easy it is to just "work hard" and build wealth honestly. Don't just make these platitude declarations about privilege, show us how it's done. I'd love to see whites pay reparations, start at zero, and attempt to just "work hard" out of poverty. What a joke thread. lol
If you are black and you truly feel that you deserve reparations then I will pay you $50k. Just you. There is one caveat though. You only get it if the American experience has been an utter and total dead loss for you. If you truly feel that having slavery in your American ancestry is responsible for ruining your life and that this country has provided you with no opportunities and being American has been nothing but pain then you get the $$ but you also gtfo. If you hate being American and it's been of no value then you don't need to be here anymore. $50k seems a reasonable price to see your dust. It'll be win/win for both of us.
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Old 07-04-2017, 04:08 PM
 
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Why do you think that we are privileged just because we are Americans?
America is the most prosperous country on the planet. Even America's poor are among the richest in the world. Americans enjoy the highest level of freedoms of any country. Most people who enjoy complaining about America are spoiled and truly don't understand what it's like to not have the privileges that they enjoy daily.
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Old 07-04-2017, 04:14 PM
 
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If you are black and you truly feel that you deserve reparations then I will pay you $50k. Just you. There is one caveat though. You only get it if the American experience has been an utter and total dead loss for you. If you truly feel that having slavery in your American ancestry is responsible for ruining your life and that this country has provided you with no opportunities and being American has been nothing but pain then you get the $$ but you also gtfo. If you hate being American and it's been of no value then you don't need to be here anymore. $50k seems a reasonable price to see your dust. It'll be win/win for both of us.
You'd be surprised at how many blacks want to leave this country. Reparations have been talked about at length on here, but yeah, if reparations were paid, you definitely wouldn't be making demands about what i did with my money. That little attitude where you feel like you can just tell blacks what to do would be squashed real fast once that power in the form of wealth was properly transferred (all hypothetical). But yeah, i see you think you would still have some form of power base behind you...lmao. Reparations would involve alot of wealth being transferred and what comes with that is alot of blacks would attain alot more power. So no more philando castilles. No more "oops we put the black kid in prison for 20 years because...well look at him". Lol it's funny that you even tried to have these little demands.
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Old 07-04-2017, 04:17 PM
 
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As a White Female, Senior one at that, YES you are privileged even in 2017.
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Old 07-04-2017, 04:32 PM
 
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if you're not privileged that start paying back some reparations to blacks and show us how easy it is to just "work hard" and build wealth honestly. Don't just make these platitude declarations about privilege, show us how it's done. I'd love to see whites pay reparations, start at zero, and attempt to just "work hard" out of poverty. What a joke thread. lol
When did you start thinking we didn't start at zero? I worked two part-time jobs even in high school and studied enough that I still graduated in the top five percent of my class of a thousand graduating seniors. I was completely self-supporting at age 18. I got a $5,000 Pell grant--you don't have to be white to get a Pell grant--then continued working two jobs after getting an associate degree and went to school at night to finish a four year degree. I worked two jobs until the age of 52, when I went down to one job. I went three years one stretch without one single day off. How is just handing blacks or anyone else money going to show anything about working hard? I'll tell you one thing: it's a lot easier to climb out of poverty when you aren't toting a huge chip on your shoulder everywhere you go.
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