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True. That's what the new "civil rights" leaders and leftists have been doing for decades.

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For the last 54 years in American society, intellectuals and the political elite have used the propaganda outlined by Marx in Kapital to promote the idea of conflict between people of different classes, race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. They have generally used white men aged 30-65 as the face of tyranny and oppression, and blast anyone with dissenting views as a bigot, sexist, homophobe, or war-monger. They use this tactic among many others,(few less despicable) to force people to their side in efforts to secure more votes and more funding to protect their precious careers.

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FIFY

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For most of American history, it has been national policy to plunder the capital accumulated by black people—social or otherwise.

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plunder the social capital of black people? what the frick does that even mean?

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The amount of wealth stolen from blacks through slavery has been more than paid off through welfare benefits transferred to them since the 1960s.

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I'm not soo sure about that. I'd like to see some calculations based on the value of the labor, using fair interest and amoritization rates. Also, keep in mind that the robbery continued after slavery via Jim Crow. For example, not only did states spend less on education per pupil on Black kids, but Black teachers made less than their White counterparts. Also, there are many jobs that were systematically denied to Black folsk, both in the public and private sector, strictly because of the color of their skin.

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Is he accusing "us" of appropriating black cultural norms?

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That is not what I got out of it.

I scanned through it some more (I admit I didn't really pay that much attention, hence me thinking a girl wrote it) and I still don't know what he means by 'social capital.' He doesn't really expound on it meaningfully, imo. I don't disagree with a couple of his points, but other than name dropping some important black cultural figures he really doesn't make any strong argument at all on that particular matter.

Ok great, a definition of 'social capital.' How has black social capital been 'plundered' again?

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For most of American history, it has been national policy to plunder the capital accumulated by black people—social or otherwise.

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It would be more accurate to say its policy has been to prevent blacks from ever acquiring capital by siphoning off the fruits of their labor to others. Slavery is exactly that.

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They had something over me, and that something was a culture, which is to say a suite of practices so ingrained as to be ritualistic. The scholastic achievers knew how to quickly memorize a poem in a language they did not understand. They knew that recopying a handout a few days before an exam helped them digest the information. They knew to bring a pencil, not a pen, to that exam. They knew that you could (with the professor’s permission) record lectures and take pictures of the blackboard.

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He is blaming his own inability to learn French or do well in school on a vast historical conspiracy to steal the "social capital" of the black man. He might just as well say the white man put gris-gris on him, because that would make more sense.