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re: Before all this woke stuff started several years ago, didn’t race relations seem good?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:32 am to Mike da Tigah
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:32 am to Mike da Tigah
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It’s an election year
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
Divide and conquer the lower and middle classes. The upper class is all working in unison......
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:35 am to PrimeTime Money
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Before all this woke stuff started several years ago, didn’t race relations seem good?
I graduated in the early 2000s from a public high school in the south. From my experiences there and at LSU I can easily say no to your question.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:35 am to The Spleen
quote:I don’t agree. I feel as if a narrative was created to rile people up. Nothing was simmering until activists and the media turned on the burner.
Maybe, but a lot of these problems have always been simmering under the surface.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:36 am to whatiknowsofar
Also good doesnt necessarily equal where it should be
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:37 am to whatiknowsofar
quote:Why do you say no? What’s your experience?
I graduated in the early 2000s from a public high school in the south. From my experiences there and at LSU I can easily say no to your question.
And did you go to public school in New Orleans?
I went to public school in the Houston suburbs.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:38 am to AHM21
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AHM21
Darth was discussing a piece of shite. You changed it to Darth hating black men. I reckon this makes you the racist. You were unable to see anything besides the color of the skin.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:38 am to PrimeTime Money
I wonder how many people in this thread posting they “didn't see any racism 10-15 years ago” or “racism is an illusion” are white?
I’d be curious to hear from minorities if they feel the same.
I’d be curious to hear from minorities if they feel the same.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:38 am to PrimeTime Money
Social media has given everyone a voice and you now are able to hear and see that voice constantly.
Ideas that were once isolated to small pockets are now spread openly and easily.
Basically, you have a time in history where we don't have any real problems, so people start looking and searching for problems because they need some cause to latch onto to feel some meaning in life.
Add the ease in which social media has allowed ideas to spread, and you get where we are today.
Ideas that were once isolated to small pockets are now spread openly and easily.
Basically, you have a time in history where we don't have any real problems, so people start looking and searching for problems because they need some cause to latch onto to feel some meaning in life.
Add the ease in which social media has allowed ideas to spread, and you get where we are today.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:39 am to PrimeTime Money
Somehow, electing a black guy President made it worse.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:40 am to PrimeTime Money
No, it’s been like this for a while. Main difference is social media and camera phones.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:41 am to AHM21
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"I'm not racist, but everything was fine until that damn black President"
Whoa, whoa, whoa! ...Obama is black?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:41 am to PrimeTime Money
race relations are still fine regardless of what the media wants you to think, it's pretty simple to just treat people how you want to be treated
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:41 am to PrimeTime Money
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Nothing was simmering until activists and the media turned on the burner.
It just wasnt as prevalent in the news cycle but there was plenty of fricked up shite happening before Barack Obama.
In 2007:
Sheriff's deputies gunned down by "Aryan" gangsters in Bastrop, La. Tax protesters with bombs arrested in New Hampshire. Gun-toting white supremacists marching in Jena, La. A police officer murdered in Salt Lake City. Nativist leaders demanding sniper teams and mines along the Mexican border. Calls for assassinating politicians, immigrants and Jews. Rapidly spreading racist conspiracy theories.
FBI stats showed a 35% increase in hate crimes against Latinos from 2003 to 2006.
But yeah, when the black guy got elected is when things went to shite. He's still rustlin y'alls jimmies.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:41 am to PrimeTime Money
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I feel as if a narrative was created to rile people up. Nothing was simmering until activists and the media turned on the burner.
this kinda contradicts itself, no?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:42 am to PrimeTime Money
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I don’t agree.
That's fine, and I'm going to make a guess that you're white and middle to upper middle class and don't interact with many black people outside of your social class(that's not a criticism of you as most people don't). I've been working with local non-profits since before the Obama administration and can tell you a lot of the racial problems being expressed today have been there a LONG time.Recent events have given those frustrated people an avenue to express it.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:43 am to whatiknowsofar
I don’t think anyone claimed there were never any incidents of racism. I was simply saying that overall race relations seemed pretty good.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:44 am to PrimeTime Money
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I was simply saying that overall race relations seemed pretty good.
Overall they are still fine.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:45 am to PrimeTime Money
I still feel like race relations are good in real life overall (outside of protests or Twitter-type stuff), but as a white person, it's making me hate a decent amount of white people, so there's that.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:45 am to Salmon
They are. The internet, the vocal minority, and the subsequent mob are controlling the narrative and decision making.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 8:45 am to PrimeTime Money
It did, but, that's also from "our point of view."
Have had a conversation with one of my good black buddies, who plainly told me there were a lot of things they just didn't force the issue with - mainly, they are flat out terrified of the police. This dude is a super sharp, pretty fahkin' wealthy investment banker - and still says he gets shite from police officers in the southern parts of Georgia on family road trips to Florida to see family. Things like "where did you get this car?" type stuff.
I also got a history lesson on redlining, and how that's impacted black communities and the general wealth gap. Was also given some cold, hard facts about how home loans are given out these days - in 2020, a white person with the same credit profile as a black person is virtually certain to get a better interest rate than their black counterpart, particularly with regional banks.
The way some stuff has gone down has been uncomfortable, however, after hearing some of the stuff that they go through on a daily basis, I can at least understand and appreciate the ongoing plight of inequality.
Have had a conversation with one of my good black buddies, who plainly told me there were a lot of things they just didn't force the issue with - mainly, they are flat out terrified of the police. This dude is a super sharp, pretty fahkin' wealthy investment banker - and still says he gets shite from police officers in the southern parts of Georgia on family road trips to Florida to see family. Things like "where did you get this car?" type stuff.
I also got a history lesson on redlining, and how that's impacted black communities and the general wealth gap. Was also given some cold, hard facts about how home loans are given out these days - in 2020, a white person with the same credit profile as a black person is virtually certain to get a better interest rate than their black counterpart, particularly with regional banks.
The way some stuff has gone down has been uncomfortable, however, after hearing some of the stuff that they go through on a daily basis, I can at least understand and appreciate the ongoing plight of inequality.
This post was edited on 7/1/20 at 8:47 am
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