Martin Luther King Day

abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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Canna Sylvan said:
I never liked mayo before going vegan. Try taking a table spoon of it plain and not gag. I love vegenaise though. It should be its own thing and not labeled vegan mayo. The only thing they share is color.
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Mayo on french fries, mayo on a sammich, maybe even mayo on pizza. DISGUSTING! I'll take fried chicken and watermelons over that shit any damn day.
 
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NoDrama

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heyYousGuys said:
I grew up in the South bro, and the whole "black people can't swim" thing was said by BLACK people in my school. It wasn't a white guy that came up with that. I didn't grow up in fucking Hollywood. I grew up in the jungle-level Southeast United States of this continent, and I can tell you, the only people that ever said that was black people. White people may say it, but they sure as fuck did not perpetuate that myth.

On that second myth, people don't jump out planes because of stupidity, they do it because they have more than one 'chute. And it's fun as fuck.
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When I went to Marine Corps boot camp you have to pass a basic swim test with all your gear on. My platoon had 5 white guys, 16 black guys and 14 Mexican guys. i.e. light green, dark green, medium green. Well anyway ALL the dark green Marines were scared shitless and all waited until the last minute to jump in the deep end of a pool from 10' up. Turns out than not a single one of them knew how to swim. Turns out that there aren't a whole lotta pools in the projects either. Course, some of them had country cousins that knew how to swim, but for a inner city child swimming is a waste of time.
 
GreenGurl

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I feel like I'm a sophomore in a cultural studies course or something, and two out of the only three white guys in the room can't get past the first tenet.

All you white dudes who think racism is a crock of shit... yeah you. Do every one of us on this planet all a favor and read the excerpt in green below. Then think about the last time you had an interaction where the term "racist" or "racism" was brought up. Try to see how maybe, IN FACT, you were being a little bit racist, whether it was unconscious or not. Or at the very least, be honest about how by admitting your white privilege, you stand to lose a significant advantage over others. Only then friends, only then will you be ready to continue a conversation about racism.

Audrey Smedley, in her outstanding book, Racism in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview, brings out the force of White privilege and its expression in institutional racism, in the following statement.
Race in the American mind was and is tantamount to a statement about profound and unbridgeable differences. In whatever context race comes to play, it conveys the meaning of nontranscendable social distance. This sense of difference is conditioned into most individuals early in their lives and becomes bonded to emotions nurtured in childhood. In the United States, it is expressed in all kinds of situations and encounters between peoples. It is structured into the social system through residential separation, differential education, training, and incomes, and informal restrictions against socializing, intermarriage, and common membership in various organizations, including, most visibly, the church. It is reflected in virtually all media representations of American society and in institutional aspects of culture such as music, the arts, scientific research, educational institutions, politics and political forums, businesses, the theater, television, music, and film industries, and recreational activities. It provides the unspoken guidelines for daily interaction among persons defined as of different races, especially black and white. It sets the standards and rules for conduct, even though individuals may not always be conscious of this fact.​
Such institutional expressions of privilege are not readily perceived by Whites as "privilege" but as the "normal" day-in and day-out opportunities of life, to which everyone has access. However, when, as a result of demographic and political changes, Whites see their status and the landscape of social power changing, this heretofore unseen privilege now becomes most visible. "We are probably never so aware of phenomena and objects as when we are about to gain or lose them. Conversely, we never take them so much for granted as when we are assured in their possession." When threatened, this previously unseen privileged status becomes something to be protected at all costs. Blacks tend to do the same when they sense Latinos and Asians encroaching on their hard-fought gains and privileges. This kind of exclusive behavior cuts across all race groups, not just Whites, and is correlated with a sense of a loss of power and privilege. Langdon Gilkey puts it this way. "When [people] give their ultimate devotion to their own welfare or to the welfare of their group, they are no longer free to be completely moral or rational when they find themselves under pressure. Whenever the security of the object of this commitment is threatened, they are driven by an intense anxiety to reinforce that security."

PS: I'm not white, I gave that shit up a while ago. Was not worth all the bullshit I kept getting from non-whites all the time!!! ;)
 
fenderburn84

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But why then are there more whites on food stamps and welfare? In todays age one can be what one wants. To say oh I can't do this because of my skin is a cop out.
 
GreenGurl

GreenGurl

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fenderburn84 said:
But why then are there more whites on food stamps and welfare? In todays age one can be what one wants. To say oh I can't do this because of my skin is a cop out.
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I'd argue that many are blind to what they want. I'm not saying racism is not largely internalized today, I'm saying that it still hurts people. If you want to care, please do. If you don't want to care, keep on keepin' on, and all of us who know better can continue suffering your ignorance. Such is life...
 
fenderburn84

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Huh? Lol. I'm not on the side of anyone I'm just saying if a group wants to pick themselves up from the ashes they can. There is no outside force saying if your black you must fail. It may be stacked against them but doesn't that just make it sweeter to rise above?
 
GreenGurl

GreenGurl

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Sounds like you care to me. ;) With the right attitude, one can overcome amazing obstacles. How do you say... "Comfort is the enemy of achievement."
 
fenderburn84

fenderburn84

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A lot of it is how one chooses to present ones self. If you can't make a proper sentance or dress yourself, a top tier managment position is probably not in the future.
 
abandonconflict

abandonconflict

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fenderburn84 said:
Huh? Lol. I'm not on the side of anyone I'm just saying if a group wants to pick themselves up from the ashes they can. There is no outside force saying if your black you must fail. It may be stacked against them but doesn't that just make it sweeter to rise above?
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You can't make someone else rise above. You just have to realise that and the sooner the better. I figured it out after the first response to my first comment in this thread. Just get over it yourself and stop feeding it your passion. If somebody else can't figure it out, that is their problem. It goes away one person at a time as long as it isn't growing at the same time. If you just can't let it be, resort to humor, laughter is amazing.
 
Harrekin

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fenderburn84 said:
Again with insults. Damn dude. I really do pity you. And if calling you for what you are makes me like whoever I guess its fine.
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If I'm a racist or anti-Semite report the post where I made a comment justifying you calling me such...if not I'm gonna report you for personal abuse.

And that is exactly the Dukeanthony tactic there, nothing even vaguely intelligible to respond to me with so you say I'm a racist or whatever...at least Dukeanthony only resorted to "shut the mc fuck up".

Now find where I said something vaguely racist? I havnt even mentioned any sort of stereotype unless you count me insulting my own country...is that racist?
 
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