Get ready for the latest right- wing hero. This one isn't some intellectually challenged cowboy from Nevada; he is a preppy privileged brat who attends Princeton.He, like so many white men in America, believes that reverse racism is rampant in Obama's America, and that we have completely come full circle when it comes to racism.
To him, and others like him, the white male is now the victim. He is sick of being told of "white privilege" because, to him, no such thing exists.
It's all very interesting, because Tal's parents created a very good life for him, and I don't doubt that his father worked very hard for him to get it.
"I do not accuse those who “check” me and my perspective of overt racism, although the phrase, which assumes that simply because I belong to a certain ethnic group I should be judged collectively with it, toes that line. But I do condemn them for diminishing everything I have personally accomplished, all the hard work I have done in my life, and for ascribing all the fruit I reap not to the seeds I sow but to some invisible patron saint of white maleness who places it out for me before I even arrive. Furthermore, I condemn them for casting the equal protection clause, indeed the very idea of a meritocracy, as a myth, and for declaring that we are all governed by invisible forces (some would call them “stigmas” or “societal norms”), that our nation runs on racist and sexist conspiracies. Forget “you didn’t build that;” check your privilege and realize that nothing you have accomplished is real.
But they can’t be telling me that everything I’ve done with my life can be credited to the racist patriarchy holding my hand throughout my years of education and eventually guiding me into Princeton. Even that is too extreme.
So to find out what they are saying, I decided to take their advice. I actually went and checked the origins of my privileged existence, to empathize with those whose underdog stories I can’t possibly comprehend. I have unearthed some examples of the privilege with which my family was blessed, and now I think I better understand those who assure me that skin color allowed my family and I to flourish today." [Source]
Tal goes on to talk about his family tree and how his grandfather had to escape from Nazis in his native Poland, not to mention all the hard work his father put in to earn a top spot in his college class and blah blah blah.
What Tal and others like him always fail to realize is that by simply being white he benefits from what we like to call white privilege. He doesn't always necessarily see it at work, because it's one of those things that people like Tal tends to take for granted. It's like an invisible force field that's always there to protect him. He doesn't notice it, but trust me, it's there. It manifests itself in countless ways on a daily basis, and Tal has enjoyed it throughout his entire -silver spoon fed- life.
It doesn't matter if he is Jewish, Polish, Italian, Irish, Scot, or...well, you get the picture; his skin is white. That's enough.
Still, I respect Tal and others like him who speak their minds on this subject. If we are going to have an honest debate about race and racism in this country musings from folks like Tal should not be silenced, it should be encouraged.
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I gotta go Bill on that fool. It's ok to label me and any other blah person as having our success handed to us by the all powerful affirmative action but damn you if even hint that a white male didn't have any assistance in their entire lives. Can't have it both ways kid or I guess he thinks he can.
While his ancestors were fighting Hitler many of ours were fighting the klan. He seems to have more in common with those he tries to make a contrast than he may want to admit.
But they can’t be telling me that everything I’ve done with my life can be credited to the racist patriarchy holding my hand throughout my years of education and eventually guiding me into Princeton. Even that is too extreme.
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ANY White male that can't "make it" in America is just lazy.
EVERY person of color that does is brilliant!
White privilege is a myth created by the grievance industry. The purpose of creating this myth is to increase the racial paranoia of minorities and white liberals.
Hmmm, FN didn't accuse Tal of living in a trailer park.
He must be slipping.
"White privilege is a myth created by the grievance industry."
Really? So whites never had an advantage in this country due to their skin color?
Kinky:
Only partially true. The premise of "white privilege" is a blanket excuse for black dysfunction and the truth of the Bell Curve.
It can't be that blacks have an average IQ standard deviations below asians and whites, or that they have poor impulse control, lack future-time orientation or the ability to delay gratification.
Nope. The source of their failures as individuals and a community must be "White Privilege".
Or we can just be successful and not need an excuse. Always that option.
Blogger Kinky.Con said...
"White privilege is a myth created by the grievance industry. The purpose of creating this myth is to increase the racial paranoia of minorities and white liberals."
No, it's reality in America--it's been that way since slavery. There is NO myth about it.
There is a grievance industry too. It exists because of racism, discrimination...all of which stems from the power of white privilege.
Of course it is understandable that a white person like Tal at Princeton wouldn't notice his "White Privilege" because everyone he associates with is White. He has no 'idea' about discrimination or ancestors beaten, whipped, hung, raped because they were a different color.
Even today, Obama is a classic example of White Privilege because no other President has endured more racism toward him and his family the Obamas. The GOP, The Tea Party, and the ever-increasing hate groups stem from the privilege of being White....
Bundy gets to threaten the government because the President is Black. Only Whites can do such things and get away with it..
...Sterling FOR YEARS, has has mistreated people of color, based on skin color. AND, for the longest time got away with it...That's White Privilege. In addition, he gets to show off his team, with "their beautiful black bodies"... That's White Privilege by contempt and disgust toward Blacks=modern day slavery by White Privilege.
White Privilege IS difficult for a white person to see it. However, there ARE some Whites who do see it, like Tim Wise. There ARE some Whites who are working real hard to rid themselves of it.
Of course, it won't be Kinky, even though I suspect he has gotten a whiff of his own White Privilege while curing himself of "Jungle Fever"...There is a 'connection' there, and there is no way Kinky can convince me he doesn't know anything about White Privilege.
Kinky's false pretense exists because without White Privilege, he would lose his power and identity. So, I don't blame you Kinky.
If I were White I wouldn't give it up either. But remember, White Privilege has its down side: "Separation from Humanity."
depressed negro
And the reason there aren't more white or Jewish NBA players is because of black privilege.
"White privilege" is code for "black failure".
"And the reason there aren't more white or Jewish NBA players is because of black privilege."
And the reason you have such a large forehead is because your parents were cousins.
"White privilege" is code for "black failure".
"Affirmative action" is code for "white failure".
"Affirmative action" is code for "white failure".
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You are a retard.
Only losers need affirmative action.
YOU are a retard.
Only losers need white privilege.
Depressed Negro @ 11:13
Thanks for a comment that beautifully encapsulated perfectly the narcissistic, indulgent, self-absorbed viewpoint of what constitutes modern black America.
You deny the reality of what the "Privileged Princeton" freshman had to say - I guess in your mind, having relatives within your lifespan being beaten, dehumanized, experimented on, etc, counts for nothing, but being able to hang on to the vestiges of a myth about abuses of "ancestors" which you have no firsthand knowledge of trumps all of that.
And you wonder why people are sick of the whining of black America.
Every group of humans throughout history has been enslaved, abused, tortured, etc - including - shockingly! - whites. Blacks continue to deny the reality of white slavery in America, and the fact that it was a black slaveholder in Virginia that created the class of generational slavery only for Africans.
Blacks are forever telling us how clever they are, etc, so it can't be ignorance about the issue - even simple GoogleFu will bring up the issue of white slavery inside America, the enslavement of American naval soldiers by blacks off the coast of Africa, etc etc etc........
So, if it's not ignorance, then this denial must be based in something far more self-serving - aha! - I think I know what it is - the black grievance/white guilt payola machine you've created over the last five decades.
The money machine isn't spitting out quite as faithfully as it did in the past. People are getting tired of the lies and the shakedowns and the excuses.
You want to discuss the issue of "slavery" and "discrimination" then at least have the courage to start from a place of honesty and truth rather than your collective ginned up mythology.
Depressed Negro @ 11:13
"White Privilege has its downside: Separation from Humanity".
First of all, White Privilege is a myth created by progressives in order to exploit blacks as their cats paws and to most successfully leverage white guilt.
That tool has been exposed for the fraud that it is, and as I have warned in the past, this freshman's generation isn't buying. I am very proud of this young man for continuing to call out the lies of the "Diversity = Strength" racket crowd.
Your statement implies that only institutions and communities tainted by blacks or browns can be connected to "humanity". What a bunch of garbage. Study after study has proven that homogenity encourages social trust and capital, whereas "diversity" destroys it. There is nothing unseemly about whites wanting to congregate with people of their own interests - which are not monolithic, just as blacks are forever telling us that black interests are not monolithic.
Those who beat the "diversity" drum can not answer the question as to why it is always browns and blacks flocking to white majority areas (which then degrades the area, witness Detroit, Baltimore, Birmingham, and countless other "majority black" cities), but whites never flock to majority-black cities or countries or cultures? It's always a one way flow.
If black culture (whatever that is) is so superior and gives whites so much "richness" and "vibrancy" then why do social policies like forced integration and affirmative action hiring have to be shoved down the public's throats? Public policy should follow social policy, and if your claims are true, then the need for the heavy handed tyranny of the federal government and mein Obama and HoldHerr wouldn't be necessary.
Instead, we have confiscation of the wealth and labor of whites under threat of force and the forced "integration" aka destruction of communities. If proximity to blacks was such a positive, then force and coercion and threats wouldn't be necessary.
Have you ever considered that the reason many people don't want to be around blacks isn't because of some vague accusation of "racism" and "white privilege" but because it's a self-preservation strategy grounded in experiences with black behavior, choices and dynamics?
I had to come over to FN today to see if he would blog about the "White Privilege" column and he didn't disappoint.
I also scrolled through the past several weeks of posts and shockingly! - didn't see any post about the son of the author of the "NO SNITCH" series in Baltimore was killed. No commentary on the irony or the predictability of such a cultural suicide mission.
"And you wonder why people are sick of the whining of black America."
Guess the same reason people are tired of white males whining.
"Blacks continue to deny the reality of white slavery in America, and the fact that it was a black slaveholder in Virginia that created the class of generational slavery only for Africans."
Whites were never considered property and never codified as 3/5 of a human or denied rights based on their skin color.
"You want to discuss the issue of "slavery" and "discrimination" then at least have the courage to start from a place of honesty and truth rather than your collective ginned up mythology."
Ok, you first. You have made up more myths than any poster here.
PilotX @ 10:55
I used to believe that, and then I immigrated to America.
In the 10+ years I've been in this country, I've yet to see an example of a black that earned their "success" on merit and not an overt quota system. Most "successful" blacks will cackle and tell me with great delight how they got where they were because of the "hook-up" (ie: quotas).
I would love to believe the theory that it is possible for blacks to achieve success without a huge thumb on the scale, but I personally have yet to see it. Most blacks are in positions well above their actual abilities and intellect, and it is painful to see. They don't care though, cause as long as they have the appearance of competence and a paycheck they couldn't care less how the rest of the world views them.
I also find that most blacks I have interacted with have no concept of how real success is achieved - the long hours in the library, the deferment of so many other things, the drive and the choices throughout life that led to the success. They look at a white successful person and think it all magically happened and the white had it handed to them. Because blacks have never had to do it without a huge boost or thumb on the scale, they can't understand what it's like for everyone else. "White Privilege" is the magic incantation that solves that dilemma for them.
Anon @ 1:30
"guess the same reason people are tired of white males whining".
Who are these "people" who are "tired of white males whining" ??
I don't see pushing back to the bs "whining" and I don't know of any "people" who are tired of the white male whining. In fact, the obvious - there seems to be a growth industry in pushing back against the progressive memes and myths invented by self-hating losers like Tim Wise.
And again, do your homework on white slavery before you comment. Of course, I should have expected no less - that you would rigidly cling to the myth that has reaped so many unearned rewards.
"First of all, White Privilege is a myth created by progressives in order to exploit blacks as their cats paws and to most successfully leverage white guilt."
No white privilege is a fact that for centuries whites kept people of color out of institutions and powerless by law and defacto law. Poll taxes and other methods weren't real? The civil rights movement had false motives? Whites didn't have whites only rules? Jim crow is a myth? Really? Talk about mythology. Maybe if you actually read a history book you wouldn't be on this site spreading misinformation so readily.
"If black culture (whatever that is) is so superior and gives whites so much "richness" and "vibrancy" then why do social policies like forced integration and affirmative action hiring have to be shoved down the public's throats?"
No one said Black culture is superior to white culture, it's only been said that it is unique and had as much talent and intelligence as any other culture. Let's also flip the question, if white culture is so superior why then did we have centuries of oppression of Black people? Why were we not allowed to compete fairly? Why did whites feel the need to suppress Black folks?
, "but whites never flock to majority-black cities or countries or cultures?"
Uh, DC anybody? There are many areas in which whites are moving into predominately Black areas. Just because you don't know this doesn't mean it's not happening. And let's not pretend just because an area is white that is it nice. I'm sure all of us would prefer a nice middle class Black area to a poor white area in West Virginia. Keep it real.
"And again, do your homework on white slavery before you comment."
What homework have YOU done? Were whites ever considered property? Were there fugitive slave laws that affected whites?
"Who are these "people" who are "tired of white males whining" ??"
Who are the people tired of Black whining?
"I don't see pushing back to the bs "whining" and I don't know of any "people" who are tired of the white male whining."
Of course you don't, your bubble only lets in what you want to see/hear.
"self-hating losers like Tim Wise."
You mean intelligent introspective people like Tim Wise.
"Whites were never considered property and never codified as 3/5 of a human or denied rights based on their skin color."
Anyone who believes that blacks were ever considered 3/5 human is an absolute moron:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise
"In the 10+ years I've been in this country, I've yet to see an example of a black that earned their "success" on merit and not an overt quota system. Most "successful" blacks will cackle and tell me with great delight how they got where they were because of the "hook-up" (ie: quotas)."
We need to meet up, I'll introduce you to lots of us who are successful not due the "hook-up". I'm sure Field and others here can do the same.
"Anyone who believes that blacks were ever considered 3/5 human is an absolute moron:"
Anyone who believes whites were ever lawfully relegated to less than full human status is a bigger moron.
However, the Three-Fifths Compromise is arguably the most controversial topic, for it delegates that all slaves of a particular state are to be counted as three-fifths of a white person. The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes. - See more at: http://constitution.laws.com/three-fifths-compromise#sthash.cby7t5V7.dpuf
"I also find that most blacks I have interacted with have no concept of how real success is achieved - the long hours in the library, the deferment of so many other things, the drive and the choices throughout life that led to the success."
Who are you interacting with? Where is this interacting you're doing? What profession are the folks you are commenting on involved? What is YOUR profession? C'mon man, stop the BS. I've been around the block a few times and we always get the guy who meets unqualified blah folks who are in "way above their heads". I also love how they "cackle". This is BS we've all heard before. Yawn. I know i know, none of are as smart as you and need a quota system to get any job and more qualified white guys like yourself are pushed to the side so a blah person who can't even spell their name is promoted. Heard this before, wasn't true then isn't true now. Nice try though, maybe you can find some idiot to believe you.
"Nice try though, maybe you can find some idiot to believe you."
Maybe he can peddle this bull on stormfront. They love stuff like this. Nothing like a bunch of racist white guys sitting around bitching all day.
Anon@1:30AM, I am guessing you "immigrated" from Eastern Europe and that you work in a very low skilled and low paying Job. Just a guess. Because only a moron would make such a statement.
Stormfront is full of guys and gals who can't take advantage of the luxuries that white privilege affords them, this is the reason for their anger and frustration.
Last night i happen to find myself in the arms of a nubian princess. We pondered white privilege and its meaning.
I realized i was wrong.It exist.
White privilege, like porn, is hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
I often wondered why white liberals are so racist. So sexist. So angry.
Then it hit me. White privilege.
WHITE LIBERAL PRIVILEGE. WLP allows white liberals to be who they are without fear of being called out by field or any wambulance chaser on the left.
So i owe everyone an apology. I was wrong.
Sure PX. 50 years ago the whites had privileges and advantages people of color didn't.
In 2014, the color of advantage and privilege is brown. And black.
Still, I respect Tal and others like him who speak their minds on this subject. If we are going to have an honest debate about race and racism in this country musings from folks like Tal should not be silenced, it should be encouraged.
Hey feild i can respect that. but question can you see that they now have hijack racism and not only use it against minority. but now white's are now controlling the subject to favoring them. soon they will claim that it don't exist no more.. oh wait they already did.. i see right through this. we as black Americans have no power to inflect racism on these white folks they going crazy and lie neely fuller said once their word game stop working on you, well what do you think is going to happen Violence comes next, they buy up guns because they now all this trickery is failing.
Ahh....this blog never disappoints.
Just one jem among many...
Anonymous @ 1:38AM: "Were whites ever considered property?"
Do you know the etymology of the word "slave? (Etymology is the source and history of a word.) Well, it is derived from the word "Slavic," as in the people of Central and Southwest Europe. As in white people!
White people that were enslaved! How 'bout that!
And many of those enslaved white people were transported to Northern Africa to live out their lives in bondage as the property of -- get this -- black people!.
And that ends our little bit of truth for today.
But to the point of Tal's observation. THe young man is terribly mis-guided to think that there is no "white privilege."
Of course "white privilege" exists: it is the privilege to work hard and be successfult and then pay an ever increasing portion of your income as taxes to support the disfunction of the black community and the enabling government and private orgaizations whose purpose is to grow that disfunction and expand the welfare state.
This is the true "white privilege."
" I used to believe that, and then I immigrated to America."
And the BIG problem in America are immigrants like YOU, you OBVIOUSLY benefit from this economy which was built on the backs of slaves, then look with disdain at ALL slave ancestors as if we are some monolithic group of people who don't want to succeed.
Hop the first thing smokin' back to wherever you came from, and take your stereotypical, untruthful, racists viewpoints with you!!
Dr. Queen
"In 2014, the color of advantage and privilege is brown. And black."
Sure Cuckoo, the "privilege" to:
1) have double the unemployment rate of ANY other group of people.
2) have lost more equity in the housing crisis than ANY other group of people.
3) be CONSTANTLY misjudged by idiots no matter how much professional and academic success we acquire.
4) pay more for basic goods and services than ANY other group.
Yeah, it's a HUGE "privilege" to be Black in America.
So Kinky, at least you admitted white privilege existed but your timing is off. It didn't end in 1964. And if you want to correlate white privilege with "Black/Brown" privilege wasn't white privilege more encompassing? I certainly don't see blah only drinking fountains, jim crow laws that prevent whites from voting or attending any school of their choice. Any structure in place now can or will harm whites in any discernable measure and even if it did don't you think hundreds of years of white privilege necessitate programs to combat the legacy of white privilege?
Correction, any structure in place will not harm whites in any discernable measure. By contrast the structures in the past did great harm to blah people. Do the math.
BTW, no one is arguing the fact whether or not whites were ever slaves but the institution of American slavery and its effect on its inhabitants.
@ Queen, I guess we also have the privilege to get arrested and go to jail for the same petty crimes whites get probation. No thanks, they can have their privilege back.
I like anon @1014 who equates hard work with white skin and the welfare state with blah skin. I work just as hard as anyone else and guess what, my taxes go to whites on welfare. Let's not use sweeping stereotypes to justify racist beliefs.
"And the BIG problem in America are immigrants like YOU, you OBVIOUSLY benefit from this economy which was built on the backs of slaves"
Look around Queen and tell us what is still around today that was built by slaves?
Nothing.
And what happened to this magical wealth creating ability of black people? Can they only do it when forced to?
Now that Obama has got the national debt up towards $20 trillion, maybe we should re-institute slavery to pay it off. Should only take a few years.
Kinky said,
"White privilege, like porn, is hard to define, but you know it when you see it."
Thank you for this bit of wisdom. You have summed up White Privilege. People of Color see White Privilege everywhere because it's easy to see and "feel". It is discrimination that is embedded into our society. In America, White Privilege is so 'normal' that if you are White you don't notice it, and if you are Black you accept it.
"White privilege" has been best described and shown by Louis C.K., on stage in 21/2 minutes.
Sometimes it takes a White dude like Louis C.K. to explain what White Privilege really is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87LGmm1M5Is
PilotX:Freeing Slaves from the republican plantation since the 70's said...
Really? So whites never had an advantage in this country due to their skin color?
Can you please tell all those poor white people living in the backwoods of appalachia that they are privileged?
They never got the democrat talking points.
"Can you please tell all those poor white people living in the backwoods of appalachia that they are privileged?"
When those folks leave applachia they're still White, which by definition means "privileged" in America.
Dr. Queen
field negro said...
Anon@1:30AM, I am guessing you "immigrated" from Eastern Europe and that you work in a very low skilled and low paying Job. Just a guess.
Any guesses about low skilled immigrants from Mexico?
Or aren't all immigrants equal to you?
Ms. Queen said...
"And the BIG problem in America are immigrants like YOU, you OBVIOUSLY benefit from this economy which was built on the backs of slaves"
Video has surfaced of Ms. Queen making her argument to the staff of a convenience store:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lgKiMRpufoM
There have always been poor white people Bill. There were poor whites in 1950 but do you think white privilege didn't exist at high levels then? Totally different topic but worthy of discussion.
And you bring up a good point Bill. There are whites on government assistance but as anon at 1014 speculates the prevailing idea is only people who look like me are lazy and on assistance. You have posters here who would get off a plane I was flying not because of my ability to fly or not fly the plane but because of the color of my skin. Racism and white privilege is ingrained into the fabric of our society and is almost invisible to the naked eye. Good catch though, there may be hope for you afterall.
Anon @1131, the White House and Capitol among other structures were built by slave labor as well as a significant portion of the US economy. Are those good enough?
"There were poor whites in 1950 but do you think white privilege didn't exist at high levels then?"
No.
" the White House and Capitol among other structures were built by slave labor"
Those are wealth consuming structures.
Did slaves build Silicon Valley? The oil industry? The electric infrastructure? The interstate highway system?
Nope.
No white privilege in 1950? Really dude?
@Bill, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. A big part of racism in this country is the resentment of poor whites. The Scot/Irish resented their secondary social status and thus elevated themselves on the backs of blah folks. To this day poor whites with nothing have an attitude of "at least I'm not a n*@@er".
Of course not anon, slavery had been abolished by the time the things you mentioned were created. Don't be ridiculous. But slavery did make those things possible.
Anon@10:14 AM, I think there is some straw coming out of your ass. Spending all day building straw men will do that to you.
field negro said...
Anon@10:14 AM, I think there is some straw coming out of your ass. Spending all day building straw men will do that to you.
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Yeah Field, now let's just set that "straw" on fire and be DONE with it!!
Dr. Queen
@ KC-
glad to see you came back to your senses. i had to laugh at you dancing offbeat to the rhythm with that no white privilege stuff.
lol.
it takes a big soul to acknowledge and apologize though.
i should say this right here:
"...find myself in the arms of a nubian princess." it sounds a bit backwards. usually women are speaking of being held in the arms of...
weren't you holding a nubian princess in your arms?
if not...
the something new crew WILL learn...
one day.
lol!
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this convo re: white guilt hits some of the licks a bit better than what is happening over here.
http://henrymakow.com/2014/05/The-Illiminati-Program-of-White-Guilt.html
as Pilot X addressed...the poorest white folk LOVE to pretend melanin deficiency puts them ahead of the game, when dealing with Blessed Blacks.
what folk WON'T discuss are the other white folk that are running things while pretending they are Shemite + pitting all nations against one another.
'ole synagogue of satan- Revelation 3:9 style with it.
even the Sterling debacle somehow became about gentile white folk. now...
i tweeted 'ole Harvey Levin @ tmz to see if he would add the searing hatred quite a few fake Shemites have for the true Shemites to his round the clock coverage of the story. also asked him to please teach me what a 'semite' is. you know white folks, gentile and fake Shemite know EVERYTHING.
lol.
so far...
crickets.
lol!
like good obedient little servants...folk will NOT criticize their masters nor call out their insidious games.
Makow IS a jew. he ALSO appears a bit bent out of shape that some of US won't alter our message to make him and other paler folk feel more comfortable with it.
this expectation in and of itself IS white privilege.
WHEN do white folk give a flying flip about my comfort as a Blessed Black woman? respect my image? respect my unique/exotic beauty?
never.
and never is when they may reasonably expect me to adjust for their comfort level.
even Makow has done the most calloused to Blessed Black women posts. so he may hem and haw all he likes because i won't adjust my flow to accommodate white folks' scary tendencies. Scriptures is clear- ALL nations will fear the Blessed Blacks. right now in our disobedience they fear US for the wrong reason. those of US with Him/His Word clock fear according to what is written. all we can do is keep striving to walk in Love.
i could not care less about putting white folk at ease. just as they don't care about what happens with Blessed Black women nor our sons and daughters.
full stop.
i ALREADY addressed this brazen evidence of white privilege here:
http://focusedpurpose.blogspot.com/2008/02/our-freedom-or-your-comfort.html
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by the same token, i do NOT worship at the alter of Black men.
i will NOT adjust the message to cater to their over inflated egos...nor to appease the BW mules that seem to feel it their job to protect BM from all Truth and accountability.
protection of Black women rarely if ever makes the list for most Black men to do. anyone NOT new to the fields would have no choice but to connect to that Truth.
colorism + sexism has been promoted over here in the fields since my first visit. without shame nor apology.
so folk caught in a snare, too afraid to give testimony and more than a conqueror power walk up out of the snare- KJV Romans 8:37 style= NOT my problem.
i would name names...but though i speak a lot..
i don't say 1/2 of what He shows me.
Well, FP, i do heart dominant nubians.
The question that we should be collective asking is why does field support liberal white privilege?
Dr. Queen@10:55
I would suggest the issues you raise has more to do with the way african americans collective vote then white privilege.
from the last thread i have brazen deadheads stepping to me disrespectfully.
still.
i will try to for once and for all put that madness to rest.
now i Understand folk got an agenda they must push and a role they must play for whatever misguided reason.
here's what folk need to know...
nowhere in my instructions is it written that i must play along.
folk stepping to me talking 'bout mistakes i have made from 20 years ago.
so what.
HOW ELSE would i have experience, knowledge and understanding?
i AM NOT my past nor my mistakes and could NOT care less about what other folks' little thoughts/opinions are regarding 'em. be clear. particularly since these are the same scary souls that hide hard- sick as all get out with their many secrets. lol.
know this: scary tricks could NOT be me. they would NOT have made it.
here's ALSO what is so:
there are many that look like perfect people- on paper.
they tend to be some of the most wretched, poorest souls on the planet.
likewise, there are those that don't look like much on paper that are Spiritual giants and Blessed beyond measure.
do the math, well "educated" folk. then know i AM focused on my operational reality aka present- which i may control...with my eyes fixed firmly on my ultimate reality aka my future. those that seek to dwell + remind me of the past- reveal themselves in the process.
'cause if my transgressions were nailed to the cross and Messiah's blood shed for my forgiveness...
who BUT a DEVIL would seek to keep digging it up + reminding me?
lol!
sit with that for a few. let it sink in.
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for the slow one that thinks i boast of MY clever status. stay with me:
i boast ONLY of the Glory of Almighty and the Grace + Mercy He/His Word bestows upon me.
write that down.
study/meditate on it.
there will be a test;)
"educated" folk are Real good about regurgitating things...so let's see how folk do with THAT fact.
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UNIVERSAL LAW:
Proverbs 28:5- Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Sovereign understand all things.
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so when folk accuse me of being a "know it all"...
on some level...
they Recognize.
lol!
and i AM NOT offended.
now...for my accusers that seek to put me in a
hit publish a bit too soon...as i try not to make my comment too long and to stay on schedule.
if so led, i will revisit the thought.
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@KC-
i AM submissive...so i don't get the role reversal;) i am most attracted to men of all colors that alpha walk through their journey.
alpha males/men of ALL colors are under attack.
thanks for clarifying the obvious script flip.
as it relates to FN- please know this:
i may not agree with ANYTHING he posts...yet, i don't feel compelled to head bop him with you. Understand this. i would rather keep silent than do that...
learned THIS from white folks. so i cop to the fact that in this instance, i AM acting white;)
white folk taught me first hand that the most bitter of enemies will unite against an outsider and revisit their internal war at a later time.
for all intents and purposes KC...that is what you are. an outsider. DESPITE your "traditional" Love of being in the arms of Blessed Black women;) for those of US that are history buffs- such declarations don't do much for US. that is the american way and more white male privilege. there are Blessed Black women that SWEAR they have come up if they can hold a WM or birth his babies. Brown, Yellow and Red women, too. by product of white supremacy from which ALL white folks benefit. directly + indirectly= whether they will admit it or not.
i AM thankful i suffer no such white is right affliction.
to FN's credit...
he is consistent-on many levels.
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Anon from last thread...i will come again. or do a post at my house for you.
we all fall down.
getting up is what it is all about;)
Much Love.
The NBA’s racism drama is more about money than morals
By Christopher Caldwell
... Anyone who listens to the nine-minute TMZ recording after having read the press accounts will be a bit confused. Offensive the audio is. But “hateful” is too strong a word, especially for those Americans who remember the late Cincinnati Reds baseball owner Marge Schott, who was censured in the 1990s for saying Adolf Hitler “was good in the beginning” but then “went too far”. This new recording, by contrast, captures a pathetic intimate quarrel between Mr Sterling and a 31-year-old woman, V Stiviano. Something is upsetting Mr Sterling very much, but it is not black people – at least not primarily. It is the Molière-esque predicament of an 80-year-old man with a young companion he cannot control.
Ms Stiviano posted photos of herself on Instagram with two black athletes many decades his junior. Some of his characterisations are racist. (“Why should you be walking publicly with black people?”) But what makes the audio bizarre is that, when race enters the conversation it is she, not he, who introduces it.
Ms Stiviano, who is of Mexican and black ancestry, says at one point: “I wish I could change the colour of my skin.”
“You miss the issue.”
“What’s the issue?”
“The issue is we don’t have to broadcast everything.”
Later Ms Stiviano asks: “What would you like me to do? Remove the skin colour out of my skin?”
Mr Sterling replies: “Is that a for-real issue or are you making something up? . . . There’s nothing wrong with you or your skin colour. Why are you saying these things? To upset me?”
Go listen to the audio. There is something stilted, oratorical and manipulative about almost everything Ms Stiviano says. One would not want to lean too heavily on it in a courtroom.
... It is going to be hard for the NBA to discipline Mr Sterling without establishing principles of draconian justice that will ramify inconveniently for other personalities in the league. This includes many athletes and owners now calling for Mr Sterling’s head. Last year Tony Parker, the French guard for the San Antonio Spurs, made a quenelle salute, created and popularised by the French comedian Dieudonné. The quenelle has become beloved of Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites, some of whom have been filmed making the gesture outside concentration camps, Holocaust memorials and synagogues. Is there a place for Parker in the NBA?
Parker has a black father (and a French mother), so the answer is: yes.
Kinky, the majority of blah folks see the same thing as the majority of young people, Asians, Latinos, Indigenous and women...that the gop is insane and kinda racist/sexist. Well maybe not the gop itself but that's where those with those beliefs feel more comfortable. Sure the dems are completely controlled by corporations but the gop is also AND they are insane. But thanks for caring. Nice to see you want some kind of outreach but we can't ignore the fact YOU are comfortable in the gop and you are kinda racist. Why the hell would any thinking blah person want to be in that party with the likes of you? Ha!
"Kinky, the majority of blah folks see the same thing as the majority of young people, Asians, Latinos, Indigenous and women...that the gop is insane and kinda racist/sexist."
Because everything you hear is filtered through media that is indistinguishable from the democrat party.
Think about it. There is no way a party that represents about half the people in this country could be 'racist' or 'sexist'. You have to be feeble-minded to actually believe that.
@ Financial times-
add a spiritual level to the whole thingy...
while i don't agree with all points in this article. the blogger hit enough licks for me to share it.
when folk get symbol literate...
much of what is happening around them will make more sense.
signs and symbols rule the world.
even when the masses don't understand all the messages that are hidden in plain sight.
http://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2014/04/30/america-the-nation-of-hypocrites-nba-the-brady-bunch-alex-rampage-majestic-mind-control/
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@KC-
hope you connected with my last comment in the spirit the comment was made.
it is NEVER my desire to make anyone feel a stranger-even as i refuse to play patty cake w/ grown ups. this is NOT permissible according to Universal Law.
i don't do the left + right convos as i shared before. the same hidden hand controls both sides. therefore i won't play along.
blessings to you KC. i STILL think you are a cutie;)
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side note: did anybody else dig deep enough into the missing flight to discover 'ole Halliburton staring back? to see where the flight went missing has a nice little 'ole military presence...complete with displacing the natives in the most inhumane of ways?
probably not. such "education" = frowned upon.
lol @ the same 'ole usual suspects...generation after generation. yet folk want to sterilize the poor...when the mess is created by the wealthiest among US.
;(
Me personally? No, I see what bills the gop offers and what they include in their platform and for me it is a turn off. Also, 90% of the republican party is white making it almost exclusively white. That is very appealing for people who don't care much about blah people. Also, you have to explain why racist posters here are so comfortable in the gop. If Kinky is comfortable being a republicon you have to ask yourself what's going on. Let's not even talk about every voter disenfranchise law is proposed by republicons. There's a lot they need to do to court voters of color. Trust me, it aint liberal media bias keeping me from voting republicon.
And once again, any party that thinks Sarah Palin is a good choice for VP has a lot of splaining to do.
"Think about it. There is no way a party that represents about half the people in this country could be 'racist' or 'sexist'. You have to be feeble-minded to actually believe that."
Well, that is the reputation the gop has whether they deserve it or not. The rhetoric from some members about immigrants, urban folk ect. lends to this reputation. No one forces such party stalwarts such as Steve King to say things about Latinos or Paul Ryan to say things about blah folks or even the person who created the term "blah people". The gop may not be racist as a whole but they certainly use language that lends to such speculation. Similar to the dems 40+ years ago, which some posters like to write about, the gop has an image problem. I'm not just making this up.
http://republicansareracists.com/
PilotX:Freeing Slaves from the republican plantation since the 70's said...
http://republicansareracists.com/
Wow, a link to Erran's site.
Classic.
PilotX: "Also, 90% of the republican party is white making it almost exclusively white."
So whose the racist? The guy who won't consider a party because it has too many white people?
Think, son, think.
anon@11:32a, thanks for the link re:white privilege. It hit the nail on the head.
However, I doubt anyone, Black or White, will comment or accept the truth from this video. It's just too painful for Blacks and Whites.
Sometimes it is better to let the Truth die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87LGmm1M5Is
"Let's not even talk about every voter disenfranchise law is proposed by republicons."
Combating rampant voter fraud = disenfranchisement.
You are an unthinking partisan robot.
"So whose the racist? The guy who won't consider a party because it has too many white people?"
Never said that but you have to admit their opposition party is more inclusive and diverse. There's a reason it's mostly white and they need to figure out a way to change their demographics. Talking about legitimate rape and god's will in rape isn't a way to attract women. As I said before I'm not saying the gop is a racist organization but they do have that reputation. They can either work to change that reputation/image or not, their choice. They don't seem to be doing much to change it yet. Just like a business, they need to appeal to me I don't need to go to them and right now they don't seem to have an interest in me joining so..........
"Combating rampant voter fraud = disenfranchisement."
Even Rand Paul admits there is no such thing as rampant voter fraud. The commission created to study such determined it is very very rare such so as to not be a problem.
"Voter fraud is "rare" and mostly occurs by absentee ballot, concluded a report Wednesday by the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
"Fraud is rare, but when it does occur, absentee ballots are often the method of choice," the report said, proposing expanded access to early voting as a measure to ease the sorts of long lines seen at the polls in the 2012 election."
"That's my conclusion too," wrote election scholar Rick Hasen, commenting on the commission's finding about the rarity of fraud, "but it is not the typical line of hard line Republicans like [Kansas Secretary of State] Kris Kobach."
The 10-member bipartisan commission was set up by President Barack Obama
last year and tasked with recommending steps to streamline voting. It proposed a series of measures such as expanding online voter registration, allowing early voting in polling facilities such as schools, better management at polling places and overhauling the certification process for new voting technologies."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/voter-fraud-is-rare-presidential-election-commission
The commission created to make voting easier determined in person voter fraud is pretty much non-existant so now we have to ask what is really behind the push for new laws to make voting harder. I think I know why but I could be wrong. But it is funny how these laws only pop up in districts that contain people that look like me. Hmmmmmm.
"Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) thinks Republicans may have "over-emphasized" the issue of voter fraud, according to The Washington Post."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-voter-fraud-over-emphasized
Paul brings up a good point about the gop limiting early voting which historically favors Dems. Closing polling locations and limiting early voting have nothing to do with ending voter fraud but they insist on continuing this practice. You have to be willfully ignorant to not assume this is being done for partisan reasons, gop officials have admitted to such.
"House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) suggested that the House’s end game in passing the Voter ID law was to benefit the GOP politically.
“We are focused on making sure that we meet our obligations that we’ve talked about for years,” said Turzai in a speech to committee members Saturday. He mentioned the law among a laundry list of accomplishments made by the GOP-run legislature.
“Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.”
http://www.politicspa.com/turzai-voter-id-law-means-romney-can-win-pa/37153/
Was this guy mistaken or just joking? I have to take him at his word. The gop seems to be trying to rig elections by changing voting laws. This is another area in which we don't see eye to eye, I want free and fair elections but this is a solution in search of a problem.
Rand Paul is mistaken.
Voter fraud is very serious, and cuts to the very hart of the legitimacy of our system.
"Voter fraud is very serious"
Sure it is but it is rare. Like a shark attack.
"and cuts to the very hart of the legitimacy of our system."
Nah, just an excuse for Republicans to keep legitimate voters away from the polls.
"Nah, just an excuse for Republicans to keep legitimate voters away from the polls."
How? Legitimate voters won't come if there is no cheating?
"How? Legitimate voters won't come if there is no cheating?"
How is extending early voting cheating? How is leaving more polling places open cheating? Everybody wants free and fair elections but it seems the gop is taking steps to burden voters of a certain hue.
• The GOP chair of the Forsyth County Board of Elections is moving to shut down an early voting site at historically black Winston-Salem State University because he claims students were offered extra credit in class for voting there. “He offered no proof such irregularities had occurred,” the Raleigh News and Observer noted.
• The GOP-controlled Watauga County Board of Elections in Boone, North Carolina, voted along party lines to close an early voting and general election polling place at Appalachian State University. Instead, the county limited early voting to one site in Boone and created the state’s third-largest voting precinct, with 9,300 voters at a precinct designed for 1,500, with only thirty-five parking places. It’s inaccessible by public transportation and over a mile from campus along a 45 mph road with no sidewalk. “I feel like the people (students) who really care might come all the way out here to vote,” said Ashley Blevins, a junior at Appalachian State, “but I know a lot of people who are like, ‘eh, it’s too far—I don’t think I’m going to walk that far,’ because they don’t really have another way of getting here.”
The attempt to prevent students from voting and running for office where they attend school is likely unconstitutional based on the 1979 Supreme Court case Symm v. United States. Nonetheless, the GOP board of elections in Pasquotank County formally prevented King from running for office today. King can then appeal to the state board of elections, which is also controlled by Republicans. If it refuses to accept his candidacy, he can appeal to the state court of appeals. But time is running short. The election is the second Tuesday in October, and ballots will soon be printed without his name on it. There’s no guarantee the courts will hear the case before the election.
“This is highly unusual,” says Anita Earls of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which is representing King. “I was on the state board of elections for two years and we never had a case where a candidate was disqualified a few weeks before the election.” Earlier this year, Pasquotank County GOP chair Richard Gilbert also purged fifty-six student voters from Elizabeth City State University, all African-American, from the voting rolls, claiming they were not properly register to vote at their campus address. At King’s hearing, Gilbert was accompanied by Susan Myrick of the Civitas Institute, a right-wing group funded almost exclusively by Art Pope, the conservative billionaire who is now Governor Pat McCrory’s budget director.
The shutting down of polling places on college campuses could also draw a legal challenge. “If there’s an intent to stop students from voting, that should be grounds for an equal protections challenge,” says Earls. “Can we get a state or federal court to stop it? That’s an open question.”
N.C., FL and Ohio are all moving to limit early voting. This isn't even about i.d. it's about limiting the amount of people who can vote which historically favors the gop. This is pretty transparent. Why limit the availability of the franchise if not to make it harder to vote? And all because of a non existent threat of voter fraud. Smells kind of fishy to me.
Good point Anon. It has gone way beyond just proper voter ID's.
If "white" Tal studies a bit of history during his collage tenure, he might learn that he and I and all of the other Jews in America were only granted membership in the "white" club in the 1940's. Prior to that time, Jews were "others", as the sociologists say, mixed in with the other "undesirable" immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Why Jews are now white is beyond the scope of this posting, but suffice to say, Tal,your recent pedigree is not that solid. One day in the new Teabag Merica you might find your white pass revoked. You should be a little more careful about whom you piss off.
"Good point Anon. It has gone way beyond just proper voter ID's."
Anyone serious about the subject and not just a kneejerk reactionary has to admit there's more to it than just worrying about fraud and clean elections. They're trying to sneak legislation to help themselves in the guise of election integrity. Same thing with money in elections, they don't give a damn about free speech, it's all about running up the score.
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