Black Lives Matter is an honorable movement and is in no way racist

Unlikely.

 

So why are they projected to fall through 2050? You can ask God, I'll wait.

 

No, I taught my kids that we are all created equal and you get out of life what you put into it. If you work hard good things will happen. It is the same thing my parents taught me and their parents taught them. I also taught them not to judge people by skin color, gender, etc....

 

i think something else also happened in 2008... did bush project that also?

sheeesh that graph OBVIOUSLY coincides with the UR% nosediving also. does that not make sense to you? it's simple to the point that a 11 or 12 year old should understand the conversation you two were having and the graph that was posted and then your response is

"lol it went down faster then bush's projections...gotcha sweet lou 4 u"

so unbelievably frustrating when you actually really put it like that. are some of you people so entrenched on your sides of the fence that you can really make nonsensical arguments like this, and pretend it's logical.

 

So you're white, got it, and you learned all your simplistic pollyanna slogans about life from your parents. Alright.

 

What I have learned in this thread.

Black people are apparently not really people. They are either gullible rubes that are systematic victims at all turns by the oppressive white devil or they are manipulative monsters that have no desire to work hard and would rather live like slobs for $25,000 a year in government benefits that the noble white "producers" pay for.

Further apparently there is a clear black culture complete with secret handshakes and a special booklet on how to have babies out of wedlock and have ****ty yard maintenance skills. On the other hand there is no similarities amongst black Americans, each is there own special snowflake and anything a black person does that is frowned up is a result of white oppression or poverty, there is no free will.

Also a shout out to my anti-Christian brotha CML that gleefully accepts rapture and the earth being a few thousand years old without any proof but will not accept other sources on "the blacks" without vetting the matter like it is a Supreme Court nominee.

Comets you are crazy as ever, Jay Google you seem like a good dude but the founders of BLM are loons and BobbyTheGreek; keep doing your thing in this thread so you leave the Texans forum... You gave that forum eye herpes last year.

 

Please, the people who did that largely aren't around anymore because of how bad their projections were. I was a refreshing bit of sanity last season in the Texans forum and my projections largely hit.

 

So you are saying that people who suffer injustice should just shut up and take it right? A woman gets raped - hey stop playing the victim card! Guy gets robbed - stop playing the victim card. Someone gets cancer - too bad, it's your place in life to take personal responsibility and not play the victim card. Ridiculous. Black people don't play the victim card. They don't have any cards to play. They get treated worse and have to take it. And when they protest about it, people like you tell them that they are playing card games while you sit there on your high little privileged perch. So disgusting. Yuck.

Yes - the world is a perfect place and in America white people don't ever judge anyone unfairly. Raising the next generation to diminish the struggles of people against racism. We are not created equal. Some people get born into better situations than others. To say that those in lesser situations have the same opportunities as those in privileged situations is just naive and wishful thinking.

I think it's a form of brainwashing. It's like when people first said the earth revolved around the run - didn't matter there was data to back it up, you would get hung for it. Probably by CML's ancestors.

 

Nice summary.
Thankfully, the internet is a safe place to debate even when the disagreements seem to have no compromise in sight. The D&D is an interesting place to see some of the personalities that don't show up around the GARM, where the common bond is our beloved Rockets, even if we disagree on game-related issues. In here, it's like watching a horror movie on any given day.

I think we all have learned that racism is still prevalent, but the game of hiding it through language and political conviction is a constantly-changing animal. All lives matter, but it's okay to acknowledge sociological discrepancies and the mistreatment of groups and individuals. The delusions of some are troubling, but I guess learning isn't a priority if someone has chosen to believe misinformation and live life accordingly. We all have choices.

I think we all are grateful that we don't have to wake up and actually know certain posters as people in our daily lives. I mean, how miserable can someone possibly be? I can only imagine their family and friends having to fake smiles. It sounds exhausting.

The NBA season can't come soon enough.

 

You didn't make the ratio. But I have no ****ing idea what point you're trying to make with that ratio. So instead of asking stupid rhetorical questions can you just state your point?

Because here's your initial post on the matter in response to some other clown.

-that pic gives no idea of the type of sampling they did or whether that's actually data on the entire population.
-in 1938 the difference between blacks and whites was only 8%
-today it's 43%
-the ratio was and still is ~ 3x
-what's more important, a ratio or the raw difference? I don't have a good answer to that and neither do you. Especially since we have no idea what type of sampling this is extrapolated from. So let's stop pretending the ratio is such an important factor like you keep claiming. That's what I mean by lack of context.

State what point you have. I want to know. Because I genuinely have had no clue what you are saying due to not having that much knowledge on this topic. Unlike some of you though I'm willing to acknowledge that I haven't spent years of my life analyzing race relations in America and we are all more than likely researching this stuff on the fly based on "empirical" (lol more like personal experience) evidence. You were definitely using data incorrectly though and bmd had you on that one.

 

You are a worthless human being.

 

FWIW, I'd like to hear what you have to say about this piece I wrote back in '02...

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=63243

 

I moved way to the right on gun rights.

 

I wonder how they feel about Hakeem, Harden, Andre Johnson, etc etc
.

 

The 3x gap has maintained itself for over a hundred years so pointing at a problem that's always existed as if it's some new thing is really just nonsense. Question is why it's always existed. bmd was trying to cite black culture, ie rap music and bling and swag. Since these are rather modern terms, they're obviously not the cause. Now there's no doubt that having 50% is much more serious than 10% but the gap has always existed. So there are some societal issues that have caused a rise for all races over time and yet there are some issues that have caused that gap to start at 3x and maintain itself at 3x that are unique to black people. The gap for poverty is also quite similar between whites and blacks. There's always been a large gap. Question is why.

 

If you're truly trying to evoke change and bring about what you think equality looks like, these types of self-loathing hateful bottom of the barrel garbage filled posts ain't helping the cause. Neither is rallying around every opportunity to cry wolf, facts be damned. There are racists of every size, shape and color even outside of Texas, this type of post lands you right in the middle of what you claim to detest.

You have a lot of hate in your heart, sir.

 

Self-loating? hateful? Sorry - you must be projecting again.

 

That's a little too much of a "big government" solution for my taste in that it would require a fairly huge bureaucracy to run it. Personally I'd be for somewhat simpler solutions like outright legalization of a lot of drugs. The way I see government is that I think they have a responsibility to let their citizens do pretty much whatever they like to do so long as there is a responsible way of doing it and I believe there is a responsible way of buying and using recreational drugs. Hell just legitimizing the trade would take most of the danger out of them from a criminal standpoint and from a quality standpoint.

Obviously there are drawbacks and side effects, but I err on the side of personal liberty when given a choice.

 

Like I said, you're not interested in changing anything because your paranoid mind has you thinking an entire race of people and figures of authority are out to get you. You are doing nothing but passing out crutches. No one says racism doesn't exist, your stereotypical babble aimed at people from Texas is a prime example of racism.

It's gonna take change on all sides to make further progress not faux outrage like hands up don't shoot or the Bland arrest / suicide.

 

No one is out to get me, I do fairly well for myself. I don't have a black sounding name on my resume so I get job interviews. See that's the problem with you. You're a racist and hide it under code language.

"It's ok not to hire people with funny sounding African names" or "It's not that they are black it's that they stared at me, so that was suspicious". Or..."they wear a hoodie so that looks like a criminal" and so on and so on.

The truth is you guys here who excuse maltreatment of blacks and see nothing wrong with blacks getting worse treatment as whites in the same situations - that makes you a racist.

So you can cry and get defensive and all that. But I am just stating what is obvious. I am not passing our crutches, I am call you out for your racist views.

Deal with it.