Ferguson police execute an unarmed 17 yr old boy (Update: Ferguson police chief to resign 3/19)

[Momentum]

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And you called what I wrote horrible and dumb. The majority of whites wont confront or even acknowledge institutional racism because... THEY DON'T HAVE TO.

...and that's the privilege, exactly.

 

[Momentum]

When Whites Just Don’t Get It
After Ferguson, Race Deserves More Attention, Not Less
AUG. 30, 2014
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MANY white Americans say they are fed up with the coverage of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A plurality of whites in a recent Pew survey said that the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves.

Bill O’Reilly of Fox News reflected that weariness, saying: “All you hear is grievance, grievance, grievance, money, money, money.”

Indeed, a 2011 study by scholars at Harvard and Tufts found that whites, on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.

Yes, you read that right!

So let me push back at what I see as smug white delusion. Here are a few reasons race relations deserve more attention, not less:

• The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid. (Whites in America on average own almost 18 times as much as blacks; in South Africa in 1970, the ratio was about 15 times.)

• The black-white income gap is roughly 40 percent greater today than it was in 1967.

• A black boy born today in the United States has a life expectancy five years shorter than that of a white boy.

• Black students are significantly less likely to attend schools offering advanced math and science courses than white students. They are three times as likely to be suspended and expelled, setting them up for educational failure.

• Because of the catastrophic experiment in mass incarceration, black men in their 20s without a high school diploma are more likely to be incarcerated today than employed,according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Nearly 70 percent of middle-aged black men who never graduated from high school have been imprisoned.

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[Poitier]

You can't be serious...so the people who were ruling from across the pond didn't have more resources and funding than the people they were ruling

The founding fathers were rich, armed, living in their own territory and fighting CONTRACTED soldiers from the British government..just stop.

 

[NatiboyB]

The founding fathers were rich, armed, living in their own territory and fighting CONTRACTED soldiers from the British government..just stop.

You have just thrown all logic to the wind in attempts to act as if the history of the US isn't full of inherently evil shyt.

 

[Poitier]

You have just thrown all logic to the wind in attempts to act as if the history of the US isn't full of inherently evil shyt.

 

[Woodwerkz]

That isn't what you said. You proposed ISIS style cells that carry out terrorist attacks to invoke fear in Cacs

Either way, it would give them justification for a final solution against all of us.

No it wouldn't, they would just kill us all

Not to mention a decentralized network isn't even possible in America

America wouldn't kill all Black people even if they wanted to. The whole world is watching now and if it saw the USA killing its on citizens based off of race alone it would lose its clout. America can get away with corrupt policy at lower levels but globally it is suicide at that point. The propaganda they pushed abroad for years would crumble and all in all it would leave them isolated and viewed as weak.

Back when they gathered the Asian American people up it was during an attack on Pearl Harbor by another country during a world war. It was deemed justifiable during that time.

 

[Poitier]

America wouldn't kill all Black people even if they wanted to. The whole world is watching now and if it saw the USA killing its on citizens based off of race alone it would lose its clout.

Not if Blacks were carrying out acts of terrorism

 

[NatiboyB]

Not if Blacks were carrying out acts of terrorism

Just go head and admit you don't want to change the status quo and are content with what is going on today.

 

[Poitier]

Just go head and admit you don't want to change the status quo and are content with what is going on today.

just admit you are pulling shyt out of your ass.

 

[NatiboyB]

just admit you are pulling shyt out of your ass.

How am I pulling shyt when it's pretty much the story of your forefathers. Your denial is on some next level shyt...anyone who knows what an insurgency or counter insurgency, genocide, terrorist act and so on pretty much couldn't even deny what I'm saying...

What about using blankets filled with smallpox and so on...

 

[Poitier]

How am I pulling shyt when it's pretty much the story of your forefathers. Your denial is on some next level shyt...anyone who knows what an insurgency or counter insurgency, genocide, terrorist act and so on pretty much couldn't even deny what I'm saying...

What about using blankets filled with smallpox and so on...

What does this have to do with anything? Can you make a coherent argument?

 

[NatiboyB]

What does this have to do with anything? Can you make a coherent argument?

Why are you using deflection...The argument is that America was built upon the ideals of insurgency and terrorism...I don't know what you aren't getting.

The history of the Us is #inherentlyevil

 

[Poitier]

Why are you using deflection...The argument is that America was built upon the ideals of insurgency and terrorism...I don't know what you aren't getting.

The history of the Us is #inherentlyevil

You skipped from talking about the colonist vs the British to colonist vs natives

 

[NatiboyB]

You skipped from talking about the colonist vs the British to colonist vs natives

Maybe because The Brits and colonist are inherently evil Breh.

 

[Poitier]

Maybe because The Brits and colonist are inherently evil Breh.

Agreed but you aren't making any kind of coherent argument