“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
― Booker T. Washington

If y'all don't know who Booker T. Washington is, look him up. His insight into the minds of the Jacksons, the Sharptons, BLM, the S.J. Lees, etc, was RIGHT on... even over a hundred years ago!

BLM doesn't care about facts. They care about their agenda. How dare anyone challenge them with facts!

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
I grew up with blacks in the old neighborhood of Grand Crossing Park, Chicago. I am jaded by history.

I hope your experiences are not like mine.

Pathetic excuse. Racism is purely ignorance and hate. I cannot imagine living a life where I waste my happiness on hate.

It may be a quote from a man with more pigment in his skin than you, but you should really think about it.

“[Judge] people on the content of their character, not the color of their skin”.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
I grew up with blacks in the old neighborhood of Grand Crossing Park, Chicago. I am jaded by history.

I hope your experiences are not like mine.

Pathetic excuse. Racism is purely ignorance and hate. I cannot imagine living a life where I waste my happiness on hate.

It may be a quote from a man with more pigment in his skin than you, but you should really think about it.

“[Judge] people on the content of their character, not the color of their skin”.

Not a nice way to interact. Start by belittling. You know the anti-gunner types would say the same thing of your experience with guns and gun culture. You think they are wrong so you too are pathetic in their eye. Same experience.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
I grew up with blacks in the old neighborhood of Grand Crossing Park, Chicago. I am jaded by history.

I hope your experiences are not like mine.

Pathetic excuse.

No, it isn't.

One's thoughts, opinions, and stereotypes are formed by experience. As an example, during my time in the Army and for several years after getting out, I used to say that, "I wasn't a racist when I went into the Army. They turned me into one."

I could regale you with stories that would back up my feelings at the time.

Nowadays, I don't condone judging people by their skin color, but stereotypes exist for a reason.

*ahem*

GDC grifters #BLM & Ben Crump got a public beatdown. A shaming in front of God and everybody.

We're happy about that, right? A battle in the war won, yes? A significant victory in the struggle to preserve Truth, Justice and the American Way?

I can think of only one good thing about political correctness, and that is that jokes of the '50s and '60s about Pollacks, and Jews and wops became suddenly un-cool. Whereas in earlier times such a joke might get a good laugh at a party, tell it now and it will elicit embarrassment.

In the '50s and '60s, I grew up in a bad neighborhood-- Federal Hill, in Providence, for those of you who may know. In 8th grade guidance counsellors recommended that I transfer to a city high school with high academic standards, attended by mostly upper middle class kids and rich kids.

In September there was an afternoon dance in the gym to which boys invited girls. I invited a girl I had talked with a few times and she accepted. Then a few days before the dance her friend came up to me and said that Jill could not go to the dance with me. "Her mother would never let her go out with a boy from Federal Hill."

So I ripped her belly open with my stiletto.

There was nothing I could say. "I'm not Mafia. I'm not stupid. I'm not violent.' All I could do was swallow a bitter mouthful of anger. And shame.

Don't talk to me about reasons stereotypes exist.