The point is - why should this justify murder? Why keep looking for excuses to justify murder and drugs instead of outright condemning it and drawing a hardline? It's pretty disingenuous to pretend like the majority of crimes in the US aren't committed by African American's... until that changes, they'll be pulled over more.
A hardline. The kind that exists in poor asian and european communities - violence is not "the only way out". Gun play is not the "only way to gain power and improve your situation". When Jay Z, Colin K and LeBron actually go on record and state this - they resonate with the youth more than Barack, instead of well the white man put us in a position to use weapons and drugs... that's when progress will be made. You and I both know that is the behind the scenes narrative. Cops will lose the edge they're on and opportunities will open up.
And I'm not a nazi. But instead of using reason and logic, you found it easier to hurl a racist and baseless insult at anyone who shows you facts that don't suit your narrative. You're way of thinking is holding back progress.
Because he doesn't want to discuss racial issues in this country. This is usually what happens when any race issue is brought up, these guys bring up crime stats and will talk about nothing else. It's funny how he ignored my whole post and links too. He's just doing his best to push this narrative that black people are criminals and deserve to be treated as such.
What's there to derail? She's not an intelligent or profound person worth talking about - she's media fluff who says what she needs to for ratings. She said something for ratings, got fired, and I couldn't care less about bottom fodder either way. If you're an intelligent person who sticks to the facts or doesn't instigate, you won't get ratings. Do you think black people sit around discussing what flava flav or kanye has to say instead of just rolling their eyes? This thread really isn't worth discussing, but jaygoogle would much rather discuss blackface than violent crime because it lets him get angry at the white man.
You don't think the narrative is that well... we have to rely on guns and violence and drugs because white men put us in this situation. There's alot of crime, but it's not our fault.
First of all, there aren't really people making that claim. Secondly, people are talking about erasing racism as ways to help solve the problem. I would continue but you're trolling here.
I tried to discuss violent crime with you my dude, you ignored my post and the links in it. Also, as a black person, I can tell you that yes. Plenty of us discuss Kanye West lol. We everyday people. At a barbershop you can talk about Kanye West, whether Jordan was better than Lebron, and politics all in one day. What kind of boring person has an attention span so low that all he can talk about is one thing?
I don't think you understand what goes on in minority communities. This narrative that guns is the only way to gain power and violence is the only way is simply false. And many of these people you mention already ARE sending that message to these communities and do a ton of work. Obama created the My Brothers Keeper campaign to help steer young black kids towards education. I just think you have no clue as to what goes on and why people have the attitudes they do.
Blackface isnt something for general history class. It was stupid but not like segregation. That being said if you showed an old minstrel cartoon to Meagan Kelley im sure she would know its offensive. And that being said NBC found a reason to ax her overpaid arse
NBC lucked on Matt Lauer's and now Kelley's contract Itll be interesting to see if they keep handing them out. Without researching i would suspect the Today Show is hands down the top network morning show. Hell i watch Kathie Lee and Hoda if im home
25 students currently attending Bethlehem Central High School in New York have written an NBC News op-ed taking issue with Megyn Kelly's comment, "Back when I was a kid, that (Blackface) was okay just as long as you were dressing as a character." Blackface was part of a broad and sordid tradition of masking racism--mocking / stereotyping people specifically of African descent---through the “humor” of minstrelsy. On Tuesday, she referenced our shared hometown when she said, “You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was OK just as long as you were dressing as a character.” Her comments definitely do not speak to who we are in Bethlehem or at Bethlehem Central High School, from which she graduated in 1988. In the recollection of many of our parents who grew up around here, it was not acceptable even in the 1980s. . https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...ur-high-school-no-blackface-wasn-t-ncna925101
White chicks, was literally making fun of preppy white chicks. There are many white face costumes go look it up. If it has no racial intent then it should be fine. We need pure equality, dwindling on the past for the PC crowd is pathetic. To dawn in the past you can find anything offensive If your using black face to be racist then yes it’s unacceptable but as a true costume of no racist intent then it should be fine
specifically targeting preppy white chicks ur back-pedaling amounts to an agreement w FB that "There is no history of whiteface being used to stereotype, degrade and generalize people." ur shown to be ill-informed on this. read up on "blackface", like what the 25 high schoolers at M Kelly's high school had done, so that u'd not be so ill-informed
