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all of this is meant to filibuster and waste time. All of this has been covered plenty of times on and off this site. You are a perfect example of the "certain people" I talked about. Defensive. You can't even acknowledge basic things. "But calling out racism where it doesn't exist causes racism. It causes things like the Holocaust where Jews self identified as Jews before being dehumanized, before getting exterminated"...is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Jews identifying themselves caused the Holocaust????????????????
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You don't know what race I am, fake ass wannabe gangster. You ain't real. But I find it disrespectful when people call out members of my family without knowing them.
You don't know what race I am, fake ass wannabe gangster. You ain't real. But I find it disrespectful when people call out members of my family without knowing them.
how was anything I said "gangster". And believe me, I don't want to be a gangster. I don't know what you're even talking about now. And I see you're little passive aggressive racism. .
Now go ahead and play stupid with the "calling you 'gangster' has nothing to do with race, blah blah blah". Time waster.
Explain to us how Jews identifying themselves caused the Holocaust.
how was anything I said "gangster". And believe me, I don't want to be a gangster. I don't know what you're even talking about now. And I see you're little passive aggressive racism. .
Now go ahead and play stupid with the "calling you 'gangster' has nothing to do with race, blah blah blah". Time waster.
No. I'm a real ganster. You ain't real. I've been tazed by the police. I've been choked by the police. I've been in jail.
Doesn't sound like they're doing anything beyond wearing pins. As a person of color, I don't think about how my race, ethnicity, culture or ancestry affect my life, and certainly not everyday. I find this focus to be unhealthy. If you don't like me only based on how I look--that's on you. I have friends and colleagues from various backgrounds and walks of life, and we celebrate our differences. This doesn't mean I don't sympathize with people who are affected by racial issues, but I think life is challenging enough as it is without viewing everything through a racial lens.
In fact, I didn't respond to any of your posts in this thread...well...until now
Do you take issue with anything that I wrote?
No I don't.
However both you and the poster you responded to posted regarding people thinking they were "failures."
So I'd like to know who is the failures?
Your dad's story is similar to various other people's stories. It is not unique IMO. Most people work their way up in life. I did it, my mom did, my dad did, all my grandparents and great grandparents did.
Everyone does that. Only people who don't blame their failures in life on other people and it doesn't matter what ethnicity or skin color someone is and that discussion was not focused on the topic at hand. So it wasz odd that both you and the previous commenter spoke about "failures."
Who are the "failures" in life and who is blaming their "failures" on other people?
The white college students spoken about in the link? Or some ethnic European group? Puerto Ricans? Or black people in general?
Not sure why you shared the story when it is not relevant to the topic. That is all. FYI, I and all my relatives mentioned above are black. Raising ones self up from a lower to middle class is really not all that hard or that rare amongst any racial or ethnic group in America.
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