re: New civil rights museum set to open in Jackson, MS tomorrow. Will you visit?

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What's true is that you're conveniently ignoring the context. Don't think like a pea-brained Democrat or how your parents, your preacher, your community organizer, or whomever else tells you to think.

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What context would that be? Please, insightful and wise white man, tell me how to think.

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my mom can't stop talking about how she misses going into the doctor's office to a waiting room that didn't have someone's cell phone blaring on speaker. My dad also misses being able to go to a movie & be able to not have people screaming & acting like wild animals

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Tell your mom not to go to free clinics and your dad to go to nice theaters.

But getting to the point, you assume all black people act the same, think the same, have the same values, etc. Then you get upset when black people assume most white people are racist, or at best prejudiced towards them. Yet folks like yourself prove time and again that is the case.

I’m not a democrat, not a Christian, and my community doesn’t have organizers. Black people in America are incredibly more diverse than you give them credit for, yet you wouldn’t know because you choose to stereotype and prejudge and lump us all into one box. Blacks know that, and that is why they, often wrongly imo, tend to vote democrat. And generally speaking it is annoying and frustrating, but I can understand why they do. Because of mother frickers like you.

David Duke, when did you join TigerDroppings?

I'm to busy using my white privilege.

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Kraut Dawg

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I’ll admit that in many cases, black people are the masters of their own struggles. But you fail to recognize the very real aspect of reaction to stimuli.

I’d like to tell you a story - fewer than 20 years ago, a now close friend and I planned to go to prom together. She, head cheerleader with a full academic scholarship to UT. Me, multi sport athlete with a full ride to a&m, among offers both academic and athletic from many other schools. My mom and her dad worked together for several years, he knew I come from good, educated people and the type of respectful young man I was. Did any of that matter? No. She corners me at school the next day sobbing her eyes out because her dad won’t allow her to accompany me to prom. Have you been in a position where no matter how intelligent, successful, or educated you are matters not one iota?

That didn’t stop me from accomplishing my goals or anything, but an experience like that has a lasting impact. So many stories like these you fail to recognize matter, they matter in the way people choose to act towards whites, what they tell their children, friends, family about whites, and so on. Many stories, much worse than mine you ignore have an impact as much as anything else, and contribute as much if not more to the feeling of helplessness and victimization.

You’re looking at a multi dimensional problem one dimensionally.

I agree with you on pretty much all fronts. I’m glad we’ve corresponded and now I see where you’re coming from when you said what you did earlier. I understand what you meant to convey.

I personally believe the only way to break the cycle entirely is to remove people from dependent status waiting on govt checks. This would require huge welfare reform and deincentivizing giving birth.

You’re absolutely right re parenting. I was in the parking lot at Walmart recently and heard a 20 something mom cursing and berating her little boy who couldn’t have been older than 10. The mom is injecting a sense of fear and insecurity into that child, but more importantly a sense that even the person who is supposed to love him and protect him is someone he fears and doesn’t fully trust.

I do try to change the narrative when I have the opportunity- last year I was laid off and sub taught at a mostly black ISD near me. I didn’t grow up in a situation like them, so until then I didn’t have first hand experience of that lifestyle. It woke me up, and I do need to do more if I want things to change.

That said, most of the successful and well Edicated blacks still vote dem, and I think conservatives have a big opportunity to really turn the tables if they would make the effort on a large scale. Bush made big strides in that regard, but Katrina negated that progress and I haven’t seen any since.

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