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originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: schuyler
You poor, poor bastards.
q13fox.com...
This is what you get to choose from for mayor of the 4th largest west coast city in the nation. This list is garbage all the way around.
originally posted by: grainofsand
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Sounds a #ing nightmare in the US, the black white thing is not mirrored in my experience in the UK.
Crim's/gangs here are mainly colour blind and doing business for profit.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Not just ebonics, but also the reality that black culture as a whole doesn't value reading like white culture tends to. They've done studies that show that from poor to even very wealthy black families, there will be less reading material around the house and parents are less inclined to read to their children by contrast with white where from very poor to very wealthy, there are almost always at least *some* books in the house and parents place far more value on literacy activities like reading to their children.
It has an impact, that difference in cultural value.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
It's not that they don't read so much as it is that culturally, there is less emphasis on it so you will find less books and magazines.
I remember that study because the ones who came to that realization concluded that the way to ensure equality was to make sure that white families stopped reading to their children and that early childhood education start much sooner so that access to literature of all children of all races could be precisely controlled and equalized by the state.
originally posted by: Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Uhhh, yeah, this is the same Ed Murray who just got outed as a pedophile. Who, apparently, had a fetish for preying on young black boys.
I think he's gonna be having bigger things to worry about in the coming days than diet soda. The sooner he goes, the better.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Oh for goodness sakes. KC is just far more open about it. They put initiative on the ballot to tax all of us to pay for the inner city for whatever programs they wanted. It passed.
Why can't Seattle just be honest about it?
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: Bluntone22
I have zero white guilt though. Zero.
In fact when I do realize some form of white privilege happening, or any privilege that I'm in line with for that matter, I take full advantage of it if it's an option. Who wouldn't???
I am by no means feeling guilty about who I am and had no choice in being.
I'm not deluded enough to think that it doesn't happen though either. I know it does and don't deny it. But it is what it is.
That's why assuming I fit in some classification where you know me and what I feel about something is so stupid IMO. She doesn't want to debate it because she knows she might be proven incorrect and she would then have to rethink her nice safe solid belief which makes the world make sense for her and she doesn't have to question it.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Oh for goodness sakes. KC is just far more open about it. They put initiative on the ballot to tax all of us to pay for the inner city for whatever programs they wanted. It passed.
Why can't Seattle just be honest about it?
Coming from a small town, i find it reprehensible that we tax everyone to benefit a few.
That said, our local City Council has crapped all over the black community for years. Some things they've done have made me fighting mad, actually. One instance, the entire north side of town is "black community" and it has run down crappy parks. Some of the local people decided to fix up one derelict park and reopen its swimming pool. The city told them they could not operate a pool on their land, and filled it with sand one Sunday afternoon so they would stop working on it.
I was ready to whoop some ass over that one. It was just abrasive and purposefully rude. I love my hometown, but crap like that has made me happy to move from it.
originally posted by: RedDragon
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Oh for goodness sakes. KC is just far more open about it. They put initiative on the ballot to tax all of us to pay for the inner city for whatever programs they wanted. It passed.
Why can't Seattle just be honest about it?
Coming from a small town, i find it reprehensible that we tax everyone to benefit a few.
That said, our local City Council has crapped all over the black community for years. Some things they've done have made me fighting mad, actually. One instance, the entire north side of town is "black community" and it has run down crappy parks. Some of the local people decided to fix up one derelict park and reopen its swimming pool. The city told them they could not operate a pool on their land, and filled it with sand one Sunday afternoon so they would stop working on it.
I was ready to whoop some ass over that one. It was just abrasive and purposefully rude. I love my hometown, but crap like that has made me happy to move from it.
If the city actually put money into the parks though, how long until the entire park gets vandalized, metal stolen for scrap metal for drug money, and graffitid to hell? ~ a day, right? How much extra $$ and general headache will the city have to put into policing them and cleaning up urine/ feces/ trash/IV needles/ broken 40 oz glass from drug addicts and low-lives? How long until ambulance chasers go after the county for that pool on their land? This is why people with a degenerate culture and broken family units can't have nice things.
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: ketsuko
It's not a myth. It exists. But how obvious it is depends on different factors too. It's really nothing more than a side effect of both culture and a dominate racial bias of whoever is in power.
Go to any country which is majority of a race that you're not and the same will happen there too. Because you're different there will be a certain degree of privilege for the dominate race of which you don't belong.
It's subtle sometimes, sometimes not, but by being white in the US you are usually just not f*cked with as much. Just being able to recognize it exists and admit it doesn't mean you have to feel guilty about it though. I don't. It just is what it is and it's not nearly as bad as it was in the past. As each generation continues it smooths out more and more.