and ur a jackassQuote:
Originally Posted by Paladin
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and ur a jackassQuote:
Originally Posted by Paladin
I guess it's a white privilege that I get stopped by the fucking cops once a week when I work late and I drive through homey-ville on the way to the highway entrance ramp.
Yea, no shit.... I suffer from DWW.
Driving While White. Cry me a fucking river.
Slavery wasn't racism. It was commerce. Black people sold other black people to anyone who had the cash. The 13th Amendment ended that practice in America way back in 1865. Why is this still an issue 143 years later?
Slavery wasn’t racism everywhere in the world. But in the US and the Western Hemisphere racism became the most crucial component. Other ethnicities were used in those types of practices but it was race that enabled the system to survive and prosper here. The reason why it is still important is there are still leftovers from the practice, where Blacks and Whites are judged by different standards, or treated differently. An example would be the right to vote. After a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing Blacks the right to vote in 1869, ways were found to get around the measure. So in 1965 a new voting rights bill was passed to try and guarantee Blacks equal access to the right to vote. Now over 40 years later we still have elements trying to disenfranchise Black voters (Ohio 2004). But then that is only 139 years after the Constitutional Amendment, so I guess these things take time to implement.Quote:
Originally Posted by guyone
That there may have been a couple of Black slave owners, or Blacks in Africa who found a way to get rid of their prisoners of war, is not really that important. What is more important is the system of practice and thought, which kept the whole system in place for over 100 years. It used the support of poorer Whites who were not slave owners to help keep the situation in place. This also included religious leadership of the day, who helped to justify the mistreatment of Blacks, (the sons of Ham Biblical story).
But the main point missed in the speech of the original thread, is that poor Whites, (and these days middleclass Whites) were exploited by the institution of slavery and also by today’s power elites. He says racism among Whites is a tool by the power elites to keep themselves in power and wealth. I agree, as a Sociologist, who has been trained to look at the society at-large.
So when I say this, I am half joking but half serious: It is time for you Guyone, to stop the oppression of our poorer White brothers and sisters, and to seek a more just world. And I’m prepared to defend my case.
I dunno. Why did Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' work?Quote:
Originally Posted by guyone
"From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats." - Kevin Philips, Nixon strategist, in 1970 NYT interview
Don't forget Florida in 2000, my friend - Katherine Harris and Choicepoint, Inc.Quote:
Originally Posted by yodajazz
You hit the nail on the head about racism, along with crap like guns, religion, abortion, sexual preference and now fear of terrorists, being used by the powerful to divide the masses. They sure as hell don't want us to stop tearing at each other long enough to look up and see the real enemy.