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“He basically said, “Get that little [n-word] up off the floor,’” a witness told KCTV5.
Alllll the people saying there is no racism because black people can vote now, rejoice!
A 3 year old boy.
This article has so many things wrong or half-true. It is a race-baiting piece of trash. I would hope that any one that reads this has the mental acuity to see through it.
For starters, this happened in a Hooters. Not exactly a family friendly venue of morally upright citizenry. It draws some real scumbags. Apparently, this man's family (and grandchild) found one.
The police and Hooters both agreed that the firefighter was a scumbag.
NOW...
For the rest of the linked stories in it. Most have been discussed here on this board and none of them have born out to be implicit racism. There were extenuating circumstance in all of them.
The Applebee's incident: Her voice has duper's delight in it. I would love for someone to do an analysis of where her phone was on the night in question of the original dine and dash.
The two guys in Starbuck's chose to not leave and were arrested upon refusal. They were not arrested for being black and doing nothing as this article implies.
The young man who was asking for directions: the woman at the door was a black woman and the person who shot at him was a white man who was married to the black woman. You will have a hard time convincing me that a white man who is married to a black woman is racist against black people.
That other young man who was shot in his grandmother's backyard was fleeing police after being witnessed attempting to break into the neighbor's house. He wasn't shot because he was black, he was shot as a result of his failure to comply with police commands and then running away from the police into his grandmother's backyard and doubling back onto the police.
No doubt though, someone out there will find some reason to blame the kid and justify this fireman's actions. There's always got to be that one person.
What does the spitter’s profession have to do with this incident?
He tried to use his professional position as leverage to get away with it. He was sure that being a fireman that the police would side with him. I know people who got away with speeding and destruction of public property because they were Statesville Correctional Center guards. The police gave them a verbal warning as a professional courtesy.
Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy Sickening, who attacks a 3 year old boy?
No doubt though, someone out there will find some reason to blame the kid and justify this fireman's actions. There's always got to be that one person.
By definittion of racism, there can't be racist black people. I don't know why it's so hard to understand.
On discrimination based on one’s colour, I can only concur that blacks can be prejudicial towards whites - but not racist. What do I mean? Before I attempt to give an explanation of my argument, I first have to define words that serve as the premises: prejudice and racism. Prejudice refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived group membership. Racism on the other hand refers to social actions, practices or beliefs or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other. Furthermore, racism is socio-economic, with systemic structures which promote one race’s powers over another. Socio-economic being the operative word, I am certain you will agree that black people do not have the resources to impose such oppressive structures which enforce their superiority. White people on the other hand have, and had imposed them on blacks for over four centuries of slavery and colonialism. Black people can be prejudiced, but not racist.
Maybe not in general, but certainly Barack Obama (not saying he did it, just using him as an example) had the capability to be racist. Could he not have refused to appoint judges, cabinet members, etc., based on their race? By your logic, not all white people have the capability to be racist either. A white factory worker making $10 an hour somewhere in Iowa would have a hard time being racist by your definition.
I get the idea; racism requires power. Not all white people are powerful. Not all black people lack power. It is only when you try to refer to the racism of groups, rather than individuals, that it makes sense to say black people can't be racist. Individual black people certainly can, depending on circumstances.
But yes, the people I knew who went to Hooters I would classify as scumbags. It's not the food they were there for and they were definitely not morally upright individuals.
The article is written to incite racial tension and is not complete in it's presentation of the facts of the other cases.
If in doubt, start yourself a poll: Is Hooters targeted at families?
What are you talking about?
What does "families" have to do with
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Originally Posted by CtrlEsc
morally upright citizenry [and] scumbags
Is this more of that "mental acuity" you were talking about earlier?
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