A big dude walking away from me that i followed in my truck? Terribly weary. No, there's plenty wrong with it and there are states that have laws against it.
Because remember folks.....you can't be a racist while screwing african women. This means that European-American males were never racist because they sure as hell spent a lot of time "sleeping" with our mothers.
I question how much you know about the legendary Dr. King then. There was far more to the man than the little blurbs you got in elementary school. I think MLK would have not only agreed with Obama's last statement on the matter, but he would have been pushing Obama to do more from when he was first elected. MLK was a human's right activist to be sure....but his love for black people was very deep. It was this love, that lead to his investigation by the FBI via CONTERINTELPRO and ultimately his murder.
SURELY you're not foolish enough to suggest that "black culture" encourages welfare and gangs. If you are, I have some basic questions for you.
I never said that. That's your inference and self-perception. I said that each person chooses his or her own culture. For example, Ben Carson didn't choose to be "underprivileged" or allow self-pity to prevent him from achieving his dreams.
Of course you did It's very obvious you were referring to young black people and their "culture" whatever you define that as.
So a black man who does not want to be discriminated against needs to dress like a white man? Is that what you are saying?
With Amaru I expect those leaps of illogic. But, from you, that is much more difficult to understand. Please re-read: The stereotypes often are self-created. If your culture is welfare and gangs, the culture engenders fear and disdain. If your culture is hard work and generosity, the culture engenders warmth and kinship. A person, regardless of race, creed, sex, etc., at some point chooses his or her own culture.
Your culture is tied to you by your skin color and the way you dress. People perceive "your culture" not on how hard you work, how generous you are, how dangerous you actually are - it's on the way you look.
That perception is no longer true unless you want it to be true. Since skin color is so charged in this discourse, let's look at tattoos and the message they send. My niece recently went to a mass interview for teachers in a large, well-paying school district. She looked around and all the younger teachers were sporting giant bandages on their arms, legs and necks because tattoos are not allowed in this particular ISD's classrooms. She got the job. However, in fairness, she has experience and a masters degree. Tattoos, regardless of background and qualifications, put you in a certain culture ... and you have chosen that culture. In the same way, you choose your culture by the way you choose to dress, communicate, comport yourself, etc. I agree that certain distinctions such as skin color cannot be changed, but that is why laws were passed years and years ago to outlaw race, creed, color, sex and age as discriminatory factors. Today, most people don't even give those differences a second thought. Yes, there are some actual bigots but they are relatively few in number. However, and again I state, there is a sector of people who use racism to keep power and generate federal dollars. Its like the Louisiana farmer that can't develop his land because it could be habitat for a frog that hasn't been seen in more than 50 years. Similarly, to maintain its existence the racism lobby must keep focus on its habitat for a problem that no longer exists.
I didn't even mention Trayvon, I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with profiling. If you think this world is filled with nothing but good people, go ahead.
that is a pretty ****ty thing you just said. What does dressing like a white man mean and what does a white man dress like? I have seen more and more black men dressing what you would call white men attire around my area. Are these guys cornballs to you? Do black guys have to dress with sagging pants, hoodies, and jordans to be black? What does dressing nice have anything to do with being white? you are putting words into his mouth. he didn't even mention race or anything.
At the very least, and I say that as an African-American. If only because it's the easiest way to offset the visual cues that a racist would initially rely on. But also because your end goal is equal outcomes, which would imply similar experiences, which means at some point in some form or fashion you're going to have to emulate the majority. I also think contemporary black culture is a phantom coping mechanism for historical exclusion and isolation that isn't as prevalent or worth accounting for nowadays, and that adopting it actually self-segregates blacks socially, economically and academically, while also validating passive discrimination by non-blacks.
Go back to luxury cap tax exception deadline waivers or whatever they garble on about in the inter-seasonal sports threads.
Being underprivileged isn't a choice. Dr. Carson was born into poverty and he found his way out. Contrary to popular believe, so called "African-Americans" are among the richest people on the planet.
See....this is why I always tell people not to speak on things they don't understand. Now you just made yourself look like a fool.
