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TKDRL
reply to post by ketsuko
Middle class america has just started to get a taste of what "ghetto trash" and "trailer trash" have been dealing with forever. And they don't seem to be very happy about it either. They aren't happy the police are treating them like animals now, they aren't happy being marginalized and used by employers for crap pay, I can go on and on. Now that the middle class is being eliminated, the ex-middle class gets to experience what it has been like for the poor people all along. They get to see what they have been brushing off, marginalizing and ignoring for decades if not longer.edit on Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:13:12 -0500 by TKDRL because: (no reason given)
I'm not religous at all but AMEN brother!
TKDRL
reply to post by ketsuko
Middle class america has just started to get a taste of what "ghetto trash" and "trailer trash" have been dealing with forever. And they don't seem to be very happy about it either. They aren't happy the police are treating them like animals now, they aren't happy being marginalized and used by employers for crap pay, I can go on and on. Now that the middle class is being eliminated, the ex-middle class gets to experience what it has been like for the poor people all along. They get to see what they have been brushing off, marginalizing and ignoring for decades if not longer.edit on Mon, 07 Apr 2014 15:13:12 -0500 by TKDRL because: (no reason given)
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
But my grandmother has a portrait of Jesus hanging in her living room, and he's white. If everything is so peachy and colorless, why is that? I know, but do you?
FlyersFan
reply to post by scientist
"worship a white God' ... oh stop it. God is pure spirit and colorless.
These people worship a race - the black man - as God. Everyone else is lesser. That's RACISM.
Sorry good sir. I don't fit any ''black'' stereotypes, and me personally, I get treated very well.
ketsuko
reply to post by poloblack
Act like what they treat you as and it is what you become. You have to act the part you want to be in order to begin to realize that change.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
and it's okay to prop up this guy by buying his music?
DirtyD
reply to post by scientist
I'm assuming by your name "Scientist", your avatar picture, and your defense of the 5%'ers, that you espouse their beliefs. If so, then please explain how an ideology that teaches that "white is the devil" is not racist. It's an honest question.
Cry me a river. Those so-called 5%ers can't affect you in any meaningful way. They have no economic power whatsoever and they are nothing. On the other hand, some racist manager, supervisor, or ceo could make life very difficult economically for someone of the wrong color. Black people hold no economic power of any significance and it is what is.And you're whining because those asshats said white devils? Suit up in my uniform chief and white devil would be a compliment. According to the 5%ers white counterparts, I'm just a monkey.
DirtyD
reply to post by scientist
I'm assuming by your name "Scientist", your avatar picture, and your defense of the 5%'ers, that you espouse their beliefs. If so, then please explain how an ideology that teaches that "white is the devil" is not racist. It's an honest question.
It's a racist word that white people invented and black people flipped it. And maybe you should put down your drumsticks and look up the difference between racist and prejudice. BIIIIG difference. And no offense, but you probably still wont get it
DrumsRfun
reply to post by FlyersFan
and it's okay to prop up this guy by buying his music?
Rap music likes to use the nigga word instead of the real "n" word,for that reason I see them as racist morons and don't bother with rap or hip hop.
Its still a dumb racist word...I don't care what explanation people have for it,it perpetuates more racism.
The problem with racism is that nobody is allowed to REALLY talk about it.
People will talk Al Sharpton but nobody wants to address the amount of ghettos that perpetuate the racism....or else we would be called racist if we said what was really going on.
Jay Z...never heard a single note by him,I avoid those guys like the mental plagues they are.
My first rap album was run dmc who weren't anything like what rap has become....after that,I never bothered again and never looked back and watched rap get more idiotic as time went on...I made the right decision and hopefully others do too instead of making racist people rich and giving their idiocy more power.
Ok rant over.
Seems most people don't get or don't want to get the fact that RACISM is SYSTEMATIC, not the mere fact that you don't like someone of another color. THAT is called being prejudiced. Star for you Kali.
Kali74
reply to post by FlyersFan
Of course it matters, if true. Racism isn't acceptable when turned into action. Has he turned it into action?
This should provide an opportunity for discussion instead of what I've seen so far which is white people whining that they aren't allowed to be racist when the bottom line is racism shouldn't be acceptable from any 'race'. It only leads to disruption, anger and hatred... I think everyone on the planet can do with a little less of all those, don't you?edit on 4/7/2014 by Kali74 because: (no reason given)
maybe you should put down your drumsticks
First of all, you need to learn the difference between RACISM and being PREJUDICED. Second of all, it's not Jay Z's or any other entertainer to set examples or serve as role models for other people's kids. That's the job of the parents, not some friggin celeb that couldn't care less about other people's kids. My dad was my role model, I didn't look up to any dumdazz fake azz celebrities. I looked up to the old man.
Willtell
People have to understand that there appears to be a double standard only because the whites are the most powerful people in the country and have had the reins of power since the beginning. They can stand a little racism towards them but the minorities without power in this country are the truly vulnerable people. I DON’T MEAN TO JUSTIFY RACISM JUST TO REMIND PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE…IT ISN'T WHITE PEOPLE!
That said, there shouldn’t be a double standard… black folks, being at the brunt of racism towards them since the beginning of this country, should be sensitive to others more than most in fact.
To JZ there is no excuse, since he should set an example for the youths of the country.
I wasn't defending anything, squirrelly. Don't get your little nuts in a bunch. And another thing, one never knows what to expect of me and you damn sure don't. Where did the high horse crap come from? Quit whining.
DrumsRfun
reply to post by poloblack
maybe you should put down your drumsticks
I don't have to do anything you suggest.....maybe YOU should get off your high horse.
Your response was one I EXPECTED.
I don't want to hear EITHER word and EXPECTED someone to defend it....didn't think it would be so quick though,how typical.
I GET it...some people want to justify using racial slurs...get real.
edit on 7-4-2014 by DrumsRfun because: (no reason given)
Specimen
A seven tipped star...Symbol of Ultimate evil(for seaman I think..Don't believe me, look at the history of Pinyotas)...Hell, the kids loved hitting that thing.