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Maybe some of them just become shooters after they realized all that reading and schooling and hard work still doesn't get them the white card they so desired.
There have been at least eight shooters of Asian heritage. Not to mention White Privilege probably is what helps to radicalized disenfranchised Muslim in America.
Regarding Latino shooters, Alvaro Castillo’s parents were from Spain and El Salvador. Castillo committed an attack in Hillsborough, North Carolina in 2006. Wellington de Oliveira was a Brazilian who committed his attack in Brazil in 2011. There are two other shooters who might have had Latino heritage, judging by last names. Jason Hoffman shot people at his school in El Cajon, California in 2001. Hoffman’s mother was Denise Marquez, whose name suggests Latino descent though I have not seen this confirmed. Similarly, Robert Flores, who killed three professors at the University of Arizona in 2002, may have been at least partly Latino.
Three school shooters have had Native American heritage: Jeffrey Weise (Red Lake, Minnesota, 2005), Seth Trickey (Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, 1999), and Evan Ramsey (Bethel, Alaska, 1997), whose mother was a native Alaskan.
Maybe some of them just become shooters after they realized all that reading and schooling and hard work still doesn't get them the white card they so desired.
Because they want to find someone to blame for their own life failures.
Like what the white racists (Colonists and slave owners included) have been doing for years? Sure, Jan.
People like you only wish to look at just a section instead of the full spectrum. Don't put your historical ills on us.
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BS!!!
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That is because white privilege does not exist. Blacks have been taught to complain if they do not get what they want and yell racism every time they do not succeed. Its a load of BS.
Or maybe because you two are too busy enjoying said privilege to know that Black people are furious with the powers that be trying to usurp our heritage, culture and values, and then throw us under the bus.
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i don't know why some people are bothered by blacks speaking out about the power structures in this country.
They don't want to admit to getting over on Black people. At least that's what I've thought.
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I think they just want to keep blacks silent. And these people be the same ones complaining about political correctness.
Catch-22, pretty much. We're damned for speaking/taking action against the power structure, and we're damned for not speaking/taking action against it.
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Every culture is dif. Arabs will fight you to the death if they feel oppressed. Africans more likely to turn the other cheek like Christianity teaches us.
Another brainwashing tactic to strip us of our will to fight back.
Why is it that Arabs, Latinos, Indians, or Asians don't believe in white privelege or use it as an excuse for anything? Why is it only blacks? And if whites are racist, why would they only be racist against blacks, but no other races use racism to explain their inequities to whites? Why don't blacks ever compare themselves to other races? Only to whites.
Uh; Arabs and some "Hispanics" ARE "white". Too; if discussing skin color; many darker anglo white people of German and so on family "could" claim that "people of color" scam.
Black people: their kind who came to the US as "free" are the most successful group of any race or ethnicity, even ahead of Asians.
Uh; Arabs and some "Hispanics" ARE "white". Too; if discussing skin color; many darker anglo white people of German and so on family "could" claim that "people of color" scam.
Black people: their kind who came to the US as "free" are the most successful group of any race or ethnicity, even ahead of Asians.
I know generalization is not even for the birds, but no German wants to claim that people of color scam.
You can't change something that is always going to be there... it's like saying the sun is too bright... what purpose does it serve to complain about the sun? White privilege is the same way, its always going to be there but it doesn't mean you can't beat it... You can't control the way people think, don't listen to the Liberal rhetoric, they only promote lying and deception to get your vote... The liberals would say "Come vote for us, we aren't racists!" Nowhere on this planet are liberals not racist... They are in it for themselves, they just want to use you for their vote...
This is how I would define all of this. This is how I see "White Privilege"
1) A Black colleague of mine from years back mentioned that the police had pulled him over a few times out of "suspicion". This happened where he lives. This is in an area that is about 6% Black and 70% White. I do feel that if he was White, the police wouldn't have been likely to pull him over. I've been to that area. It isn't some drug infested area. It is actually a nice area. The same stuff has happened to my father. I've been in the car with him when it happened.
You "feel that is he was white" but you have nothing to show us other than your feelings on it.
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2) Maybe this is where I lived. However, no non-Black women I've met has ever been told "don't bring home a White guy". But even a Haitian-American woman was told by her mother "no African-American males".
A Haitian American (if she's a citizen, she's American, period) was told by her mother no "African American males"....and that somehow is whites' fault? And did the mom literally mean any guy who actually emigrated from Africa, or did she mean black men who were not from Haiti at one time? Because I happen to know an African American male. He was my friend.
He was white.
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3) Of the racially motivated threads on city-data, at least 60% of them are those dedicated to complaining about Blacks. How many are dedicated to complaining about Whites.
Things like wealth, education, that can be built up. I can handle that myself. Personal responsibility is personal responsibility. I am speaking of things that can't be helped.
Are you pulling these numbers out of thin air or have you kept a running tally of how many threads are started talking about how oppressed black people are and how all white people need to be held accountable for that? I think it would be interesting to see just how many threads have indeed been started, the percentage of posts on those threads blaming white people for everything, and how many posts are telling black people it's their own fault. Maybe when you have some free time, you can do that instead of guessing.
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Thing about these threads is that the majority of posts simply reinforce the societal hatred of black Americans collectively no matter what we do or what we accomplish. We are hated.
As individuals, we as black Americans will continue to work hard, pay our taxes, save and invest our money, educate our children, love our families but we will always understand that our mere presence garners pure hatred for our existence....yet still we rise. Still we survive. I LOVE the beauty, strength and resilience of black people. We are still standing after everything hateful thing that is done to us.
The hatred spewed against us makes us more defiant.
You think that they do because they don't fall lock step with your desire to make whitey pay for you being black. Again, that little tag line that you have..you really do not deserve to wear it. You don't follow it at all.
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