I made one comment I thought was appropriate to this thread. You once again proceeded to imply I was in some full-blown debate with you, when I wasn't even addressing you. I was commenting to Tokie.

You can make of that comment whatever you already have.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

A dare, eh? Sorry, I don't play childish games.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

You didn't answer the questions:

Were you the only one to comment re: Bill Cosby? Was it you who selected Bill Cosby?


Funny how that works. Funny how it's straight bs, too.

Funny how the guy who objects to editorializing comments because he didn't IMPLY a certain something referenced in the editorial is also the same guy who just ups and assumes what others IMPLY with no sense that he is being hypocritical, not to mention blatantly wrong in his assumptions.

Note: Had you answered the questions you wouldn't have told me what I already knew.

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In other words, you won't dispense with the nonsense you wrote. You have not commented on 2 of my threads, race-baiting or not. Be adult, admit it.

Re: Scribbler's odd "Race Baiting" charge card


Forum: Society
Topics: Crime, Culture, Education, Law, * Race *

It must be noted that:

by 2052, an estimated $40.6 trillion will change hands as Baby Boomers and their parents pass on their accumulated assets to their heirs.

Baby Boomer Wealth Transfer

Once again, Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 - right in the heart of America's Segregation Era.



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If you've noticed, I don't comment to YOU at all. I'm only posting this because you personalized it with me. I stopped engaging in race discussions in forums before you even got here. Do NOT attempt to define me or my thinking and/or opinions based on a single sentence. That's dishonest and a pathetic example of trying to create something that isn't there.

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Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.

The true hinderence to minority success is the systemic racism still in existence in our very forms of governence, economics, education and judicial systems.

The myth that somehow minorities need to behave any differently than white people do in order to enjoy equality goes against our very constitution and the standards and ethics our country was founded on. To believe that systemic racism can be challenged and undone through the behaviors of minorities is to believe that a cracked engine block can be fixed by sending the driver through a defensive driving course. It's illogical on the face of it.

The reason these type of arguments are offered when it comes to discussing the gap between what minorities have acheived (despite the odds against them) and what whites have achieved (bolstered by the privelege of their skin colo) is to protect white people from having to recognize or relinquish the benefits they recieve from just being born the correct skin color in a society that rewards their skin color.

To say that blacks would need to stop having babies out of wedlock if they want to gain success is to hold black people to a different standard then we do the millions of white parents who have children out of wedlock. It also ignores the historic and factual systemic racism that forced the working poor to remain unmarried or to get divorced if they wanted to feed their children, which disproportionately effected minorites due to the racieal disparities in income, justice and education that still happen to this very day.

That is just one issue raised on these threads. The same could be said of any of the other issues: such as the belief that black people are uneducated because they want to be. How many white "slackers" are still living off of mommy and daddy?

To believe that blacks or minorities are any different, any "less" human in their behaviors than white people, and chalk up systemic racism to that alleged difference is to posit from a very uninformed, conditioned and unthinking position.

The cause of this gap is systemic racism, not any behaviors on behalf of those that are harmed by the racism, but rather on the behaviors of those that support the continuance of systemic racism and the abolishment of any policies or procedures enacted to combat the same.

If you notice: you just got caught in one of your lies.... AGAIN!




Now, name the 1st and 2nd "race-baiting thread" of mine in which you "injected a simple comment..."

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Interesting comment. Those comments also often ignore was seems to be no net effect that OOWB's have on the overall Black poverty rate. One would think the two - OOWB's and overall Black Poverty - would correlate. From what I've seen, they don't.

Those who make the OOWB argument often note how they skyrocketed after the 60's or so. Well, during the same time overall Black poverty went down. It appears that success, at least for Blacks, isn't that closely correlated to OOWB's.

For example:

• In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. By 1990 the rates had risen to 64 percent for black infants, 18 percent for whites.
  
  An Analysis of Out-Of-Wedlock Births in the United States

Black Poverty during that time span went in the opposite direction and certainly didn't skyrocket or rise in a manner like OOWB's.