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originally posted by: Edumakated
If anyone was to ask me why I am conservative, it is because I see the destruction that progressive and liberal policies have caused in the black community.
originally posted by: Spider879
originally posted by: Edumakated
If anyone was to ask me why I am conservative, it is because I see the destruction that progressive and liberal policies have caused in the black community.
And I can admit while some policies turned out to be disastrous, gains were made after LBJ.
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: Spider879
originally posted by: Edumakated
If anyone was to ask me why I am conservative, it is because I see the destruction that progressive and liberal policies have caused in the black community.
And I can admit while some policies turned out to be disastrous, gains were made after LBJ.
I'd say gains were made in spite of LBJ. The black community has come along way, but I believe we are no where near as far as we would have been had the social and cultural fabric of the black community not been destroyed by progressive/liberal policies.
originally posted by: Spider879
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: Spider879
originally posted by: Edumakated
If anyone was to ask me why I am conservative, it is because I see the destruction that progressive and liberal policies have caused in the black community.
And I can admit while some policies turned out to be disastrous, gains were made after LBJ.
I'd say gains were made in spite of LBJ. The black community has come along way, but I believe we are no where near as far as we would have been had the social and cultural fabric of the black community not been destroyed by progressive/liberal policies.
I thought it was the massive introduction of drugs that sent a lot of Black communities spiraling downwards .
originally posted by: AnonymousMoose
There's a couple of these videos where they ask liberal white people if certain laws are racist, another good one was the one asking if black people should receive free internet and all the white liberals say yes because the black people are poor and may not know how to get a phone on their own....sooo they think they're all stupid? The same logic is seen in this vid.
A message to Charlottesville about Lee Park from your local Black farmer: I know some folks are really feeling themselves about this whole Love Trumps Hate counter-rally to Richard Spencer's punch-worthy shenanigans in Lee Park. I'd like to appreciate it, but frankly I just don't. I've lived in several cities and visited many more before Charlottesville. I like this town for its natural beauty, it's small size, the friendliness of its people, and its food. But folks, here's something else: Charlottesville is by far the most aggressively segregated place I've ever lived in or visited. And that seems a strange thing to have to say about a town that hosts a public university. I say "aggressively" for two reasons. One, because of how assertive police (and the citizens who summon them) are here with racial profiling. It got so bad in 2014 - 2015 that I stopped renting farmland on estates where I could be easily seen from the road, and I stopped making food deliveries into wealthier neighborhoods because of how often police would "happen by" and sometimes even question me five or ten minutes after I got a strange look from a passerby (usually someone jogging, but occasionally someone in a car). I'm not a paranoid kinda guy, but this happened way too often to be a coincidence. It isn't Richard Spencer calling the cops on me for farming while Black. It's nervous White women in yoga pants with "I'm with Her" and "Coexist" stickers on their German SUVs. Second is the sheer degree of cultural appropriation going on with businesses in the city proper. It's little things - e.g. shops and other businesses incorporating wide swaths of hiphop culture into their branding while having not a single Black owner, partner, employee, or vendor. And those businesses are KILLING IT here. This is a town where Blackness advances White-owned brands and subjects Black-owned businesses to inspection by law enforcement. Do you really think that problem comes from people like Richard Spencer? Check out C'Ville Weekly's Instagram feed when you get a moment, and try not to notice that the few depictions of Black people are limited to sports, singing, criminal justice, or single parenthood. White people, meanwhile, are represented as political activists, chefs, cogs in the gig economy, musicians, dancers, people who get married, visual artists, songwriters, architects, landscapers, thespians, artistic directors, wedge-heel-wearing rugby players, dog lovers, farmers, firefighters, and people who play with their kids in cul de sacs. Richard Spencer is not the editor of C'Ville Weekly. Truth is, as a Black dude, I'm far less bothered by the flag wavers in this picture than this town's progressives assuming its race problem has nothing to do with them. The former is a visual inconvenience. The latter could leave my daughters without a father. So please, put down the candles and instead ask yourself: why is my city like this? Why is life like this for Black people in my wonderful city? The answer is a lot closer to home than Richard Spencer or Lee Park.
It isn't Richard Spencer calling the cops on me for farming while Black. It's nervous White women in yoga pants with "I'm with Her" and "Coexist" stickers on their German SUVs.