re: Shaq wades into the Kaepernick debate

Good lord baw. I'm about to become your new favorite poster.

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Black Americans make up 2% of the US population

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Incorrect.

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are 9 times more likely to die from a police officer than any other demographic.

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My demographic also commits a disproportionate amount of crime. Sad but true.

Also, my demographic doesn't get shot at a higher rate than others. That's a false narrative.

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America has a disgustingly dark and racist past.

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So does every other country on this planet. Most decidedly more sordid than ours.

Also, name me another country that has done as abrupt an 180 on prevailing race relations in so short a time. You can't.

America isn't perfect, and we can and should always strive to be better than we are now, but some folks are forgetting just how privileged we are because we're so intent on dredging up our dark past, holding onto grudges, and turning it into current strife.

I reject the narrative that I'm oppressed in 2016 because of the color of my skin. I reject the propensity for some to paint law enforcement with a broad brush as racists when I see countless examples to the contrary every day, not to mention know how unfair it is to brand an entire profession as ne'er-do-wells.

That's the same thing Americans did to Vietnam vets. It was wrong with regard to soldiers then, it's wrong with regard to cops now.

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Meant 13%

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No you didn't. You typed 2 not 12 or 23. You talked out of your arse then got called on it.

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Meant 13%.

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But typed 2%? Strange. That's not even close to a possible typo. I doubt your veracity.

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Do you ever wonder why the BC has high crime, abortion, and poverty levels compared to other races?

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First of all, there is no "black community." It's a misnomer that applied once upon a time but now needs to go the way of the dodo. Black people are not a homogeneous entity any longer.


Secondly, no, I don't wonder. It's pretty easy to figure out. The decline of the nuclear family (specifically the lack of fathers and father figures), and the way the majority of folks in this demographic enable each others' recalcitrant and recidivist behaviors has a far more negative impact than any policies passed on Capitol Hill.

Blacks are not more likely than whites to be killed by cops. There is no genocide by cops against blacks. The fricking president is black, so there's not even any real "oppression" against blacks.

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Do you ever wonder why the BC has high crime, abortion, and poverty levels compared to other races? Its by design mostly through democratic/republican policies.

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I tend not to post in these sort of threads, but I couldn't resist this one.

I can't fathom blaming my station in life, or my personal decision to have unprotected sex or commit a crime, on the government.

I just don't understand this world view. It's so useless and self-defeating. And seemingly educated people like TJGator pushing it do nothing but harm.

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Shaq

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Does anyone else read his quotes in their head in his voice?

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you look at most of American policies throughout US history you'll see that CK is right. Minorities have been oppressed and in many ways destroyed, whether it be treating women and minorities as property, racist phrases/propaganda for minorities, the destruction of families by the introduction of drugs into low income neighborhoods, the War on drugs and judicial sentencing against minorities, the burning of black Wall street and like minded neighborhoods by white Americans, the KKK, Jim Crow, the Indian Removal policies, internment of Japanese Americans in camps during WW2, Attitudes towards Muslims, Hispanics, Asian Americans, etc etc. 

America has a disgustingly dark and racist past

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It's like this every where, and much worse. It makes sense there are racial tensions in America. We weren't originally from here.

But my issue is don't disrespect it. Don't disrespect what gives you that right.

He basically said he did some research over 2 months. I'm betting his research was race baiting media. You wanna talk racism? Everyone is racist, you think blacks like whites or Latinos? You think latinos like gringos and blacks? Hell no. More whites are killed in this country by minorities than the other way around.

Asians seem to do just fine here without having to assimilate. Don't see the Japanese blaming anyone, looking for hand outs.

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Everyone is racist

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Eh, not really.

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you think blacks like whites or Latinos? You think latinos like gringos and blacks? Hell no.

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Whoa, hold up now I love latinos (I choose to live in a majority hispanic city, and it's fricking awesome), and I've been married to a white girl for over 5 years now.

Let's watch the blanket statements, ol' sport