Popovich - "we live in a racist country that hasn’t figured it out yet”

Are you that offended that Pop called a country that elected a man who was labeling the previous president Kenyian born and started his camaign walking down a magic escalator stating how most undocumented Mexican immigrants are rapists to the highest office in the land racist?

 

100% wrong. Of course it has bearing on your life. You lack basic fundamental understanding of how human behaviors are shaped and values are ingrained in people. 9/10 times those values come from parents.

When it comes to the black community, white America over multiple generations eroded, degraded, and stripped the value of hard-work from black folks. Why would you work hard when you'll never get a job anyway due to the color of your skin? Why study hard in school when you will still be denied admission into the most prestigious institutions this country has to offer? Society was geared towards holding black people down for generations.

So yes, when my parents couldn't be rewarded for being good in school or hard-working due to no fault of their own, it's going to affect my life and the values that they bestow on me. As a result of this, I will not have the values in place to teach my children the same thing.

 

Your point would make sense if this was an outsider calling America racist.

In order for your spouse analogy to work, it would require Pop to not be a former Naval officer for the United States. Try your analogy with the husband criticizing himself.

You being so offended by this is just hilarous. It's obvious that Pop is frustrated that this nation is represented by a head of state that started his political career by calling the previous president not American and riding down a magic escalator stating that most undocumented Mexicans are rapists while tweeting false inforgraphic about black crime created by self-labeled white supremacists.

 

Which is what you are doing. Pulling your opinion out of the same orifice, with all due respect. You have irony oozing from every pore. Why? Because you are, and have been for a very long time, one of the most absolutist people here. You think you're right about everything, making sweeping generalizations at the drop of a hat. Here's an example of you being just like those you are accusing:

'it really sucks to be poor in this country because at best you can go from poor to middle class but no higher."

That's a sweeping generalization, ipaman, and it simply isn't true. I'll have to tell one of my best friends who made it to the "upper classes" and grew up with every disadvantage except one, his color (which shouldn't matter, right? Because we aren't a racist country!), to hand it all back to society, because according to you, he doesn't fit the meme. The horse's ass is you, dude. Again, with all due respect. When it comes to sweeping generalizations I think I'll go with Pop's, not yours.

 

Man you are mad. We don’t have enough time in the world to be mad my good sir. The gym is a good place I go to to release anger

 

He's judging those who were very offended by that statement... Rightfully so.

 

Oh so you've met every Mexican national?

 

Nice point about "missing entertainment outliers," except that I never mentioned entertainment. My buddy went from being a machinist at Hughes Tool, quite a step up for him, to graduating from UT in 3 years and then getting an MBA from Harvard. The only help he got was from my significant other, who helped edit his applications. How did he do that? By busting his ass and because he was pissed off. You should be able to relate to being pissed off. His bosses at Hughes told him to quit trying to move up. That he had learned how to operate everything they had an interest in him operating, to shut up, and simply to, "Do your job! Forget about promotions." His response? "**** you. I quit." That's when he went to college, maxing out credit cards and living with us in Austin part of the time in order to do it, then getting into Harvard, which surprised the two of us, but not him. Today he's the CFO of a major corporation. Crazy.

 

He's not. It doesn't matter. Pop's right. There's still widespread racism in this country, and a lot of people look the other way, or simply don't believe it. This is after decades of slow progress, but progress, nevertheless. A racist was "elected" president in 2016. Ignore the proof if you like, but you're foolish to disrespect those who disagree with you, in my humble opinion.

 

You are debating relativism while Pop is talking about self reflection.

Did Pop suggest that the United States is the worst racist country on the planet?

 

Regardless of how much racism there is

Middle class and up blacks have to take more responsibility in helping blacks in poor black communities.

The government can't fix broken homes. That's not to say the government shouldn't make an effort. We have civil rights.

We also have to stop making a big deal of issues like blacks in Hollywood. We have black directors. If we have any big money support, Hollywood is like the biggest supporter of our plight.

On Trump winning, he won the electoral college by flipping the white Reagan Democrat vote in the upper Midwest. Those people voted for Obama.