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How come you people (you people meaning you of the black / african american community) aren't offended by affirmative action? It's basically implying that you can't do it on your own.. you need to be awarded trophies or given employment because of skin color and not because of the honest merits of your accomplishments.
Is this really what you want? Is this what BLM wants? To be recognized solely because of skin color and not because of your hard work?
No kidding. AA basically is a spit in the face. No matter how great a minority is, she or he would always be considered inferior and getting here because of AA.
You know that Chris Rock? He was chosen by the Academy because of AA not because of he being a great performer. Now see how that feels like.
Did they call it racially motivated, burn down their neighborhoods, fire at the police during the protests and started a racist White Lives Matter movement?
Nor did they start any investigations, call for prosecutions, or go to the media.
Young black men were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by police officers in 2015, according to the findings of a Guardian study that recorded a final tally of 1,134 deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers this year.
You were probably being to biased to notice, but there were not 1,134 black riots in 2015. Blacks did not riot over police deaths more than a thousand times more often than whites did not riot.
I know this post is a waste of time but I am going to post it anyway.
1. Saying black lives matter doesn't imply that no one else's does
2. Growing up as a black American, whose ancestors were slaves, I am well aware of all the times my relatives didn't count as actual people, or were counted as 3/5 of a person.
3. There is a myriad of evidence that "black" contributions are discounted and ignored throughout human history.
4. My personal experience shows I need to work harder and be way better than my non black peers to get the same stuff.
So yeah I am a little sick of people trying to say that for 5 minutes or 5 years it is not ok for me to reaffirm I matter. Even if is just an affirmation for myself and the world shows me they don't believe it. All this deflection just confirms that this statement is essential.
"Black Lives Matter" is a racist slogan. For one, it presupposes that somehow whites and others think that the lives of African Americans don't matter to begin with. Well how dare you. ...
How dare they? Perhaps they read City-Data forums.
If news stories showed incident after incident of cops shooting as many white people as black people, it may have been "All Lives Matter". But that isn't reality, so the point was valid.
Their real problem is they weren't clearly organized, didn't properly spread their message, were all over the board with what their complaints were, and thought they'd win sympathy by being disruptive. They were wrong.
It's too bad, too, they've got a legitimate complaint, but their execution on this was terrible.
Well stated.
Their biggest problem is that they continuously pick the wrong "poster boys".
Yet you are still not against AA even white women benefits the most according to you? That's kind of stupid if you ask me.
I really don't care. Actually, research has shown that white women benefit the most. It's not according me.
Well, you weren't asked because your opinion is neither here nor there. I find it stupid to obsess over it. White women get it because obviously they need it. Further, it doesn't apply to me since I live in a territory. If anyone receives it here, it's whites...and no one cares.
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