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We’re all racist. But racism by white people matters more
The Manchester Guardian ^ | October 5, 2017 | Mona Chalabi

Posted on 10/14/2017 9:04:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

We don’t live in a racially neutral society: from police officers to headteachers, all the gatekeepers in my life have been white. Yet we do have to acknowledge those who feel they lose out to ethnic minorities

Most white people don’t see themselves as racist. They can comfortably reel off a list of people of colour they know, like, or maybe even love. They can’t think of a time when they’ve negatively discriminated against someone on the grounds of their race. And they don’t see, in a concrete way, how their own race has positively affected them.

More than that, when people imagine a racist, they probably envisage a white skinhead sat in a pub ready to start a fight with the first black or brown person who walks through the door. That’s a convenient picture to conjure up – it’s pretty easy to comfort yourself that you’re nothing at all like that awful bastard.

In fact, though, everyone – of whatever colour – is racist. As part of a TV documentary I’ve been working on, I’ve seen how our brains have a tendency to automatically associate our own race with good and other races with bad, whoever we are....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: antiwhite; antiwhiteracism; blacks; blahblahblah; chalabi; lawenforcement; monachalabi; racism; tripe; whites
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To: Paladin2

their


41 posted on 10/14/2017 9:59:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Boomer

My dog is all about the close pack, the greater pack, and The Other.


42 posted on 10/14/2017 10:01:55 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Paladin2
Are there chocolate crackers?

Well sorta, Paladin2. We call those "oreos." More of a cookie really.

Animal crackers come in a variety of colors and are normally found in an urban environment.

43 posted on 10/14/2017 10:01:58 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

dang old white peoples..surely no black men would ever shuck and jive! Or any Asians! They never stole from nobody! hardly ever!

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3595078%2C31#help


44 posted on 10/14/2017 10:02:42 PM PDT by mylife (Mon< you ignorant lut)
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To: bagster

I asked a shipmate where the word honky came from. He said that blacks are used to hearing other blacks talk, with lower pitched voices and more slowly than whites. So, to them, whites sound high pitched and rapid. Like a goose honking. Now that I think about it, that doesn’t make a lost of sense, but it worked at the time.


45 posted on 10/14/2017 10:04:10 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I suppose she thinks Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin were innocent victims.

Different cases.

Why drag that up now?

46 posted on 10/14/2017 10:05:29 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m a grinner
I’m a lover
And I’m a sinner


47 posted on 10/14/2017 10:06:51 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The great thing about racial, ethnic, and nationality differences is that a loving God is in control of these things. He is our Creator and the one who determines where and when each of us is brought into this world.

Those who have been privileged to be born into the United States should be very grateful for our freedoms and opportunities to prosper. A large percentage of the world, still to this day, does not enjoy these freedoms and opportunities, and would give anything to be here.

Black Americans should thank God for letting them be descendants of slaves which led to them being born here rather than Africa where slavery still exists. They should be grateful for not being born into a Muslim home in a Muslim nation where freedom of religion does not exist. Same with China, North Korea, and many places in the world.

God let His chosen people, Israel, be enslaved so that He could accomplish His own will and purposes. He let His servant Joseph be sold by his brothers into slavery, let him go to prison based on false accusations and for doing the right thing, and he was forgotten there in prison. But God then transformed these circumstances to raise Joseph up to be one of the most powerful rulers on earth. He used Joseph to rescue his own family from famine, along with many others. And most of all, God’s name was glorified because of what He did through Joseph’s faith and obedience.

A large percentage of “blacks” in the US are descendants of slaves AND slave owners. Should they be bitter at their own foreparents? Some blacks—men like Obama—are not descendants of slaves but of slave traders. Are these men who deserve special sympathy because of slavery? Is skin color the sole determination of guilt and innocence? How about the majority of whites who never owned slaves? How about whites who were slaves themselves? How about whites who were poor sharecroppers, struggling just like everyone else to survive? How about whites who died fighting to free slaves? How about the fatherless children of these men?

Lies are keeping black people trapped in a different kind of slavery today. Jesus taught that the truth will set you free.


48 posted on 10/14/2017 10:07:14 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Taxman

Lesson learned


49 posted on 10/14/2017 10:09:42 PM PDT by mylife (Mon< you ignorant lut)
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To: bagster

“Animal Crackers in my soup....”

https://youtu.be/eZNlXoux1uE


50 posted on 10/14/2017 10:10:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: sparklite2

It makes more sense than what I heard. Something about honking a car horn.


51 posted on 10/14/2017 10:12:25 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: unlearner

Don’t forget those tax slaves who spend 40-50% of their working hours supporting the welfare state.


52 posted on 10/14/2017 10:15:43 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: bagster

Whatta bout Graham Crackers?

Smores?


53 posted on 10/14/2017 10:17:32 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Paladin2

Ha Ha now there’s a version of that song I’ve never seen before. Who needs Shirley Temple.


54 posted on 10/14/2017 10:19:04 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: Paladin2

Time Stamp that on libtards heads


55 posted on 10/14/2017 10:21:01 PM PDT by mylife (Mon< you ignorant lut)
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To: All

Kafkatrapping. They can take that cr@p and shove it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3061495/posts


56 posted on 10/14/2017 10:22:32 PM PDT by farlander (Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum. Sic Semper Tyrannis!)
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To: Paladin2
Whatta bout Graham Crackers?

Commonly found in barrios across America, both north and south.

Smores?

A hybrid cracker created when mixing the dark cracker with marshmellows. (See Barak Obama for further information.)

57 posted on 10/14/2017 10:23:14 PM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: foundedonpurpose

I recommend you message the admins to block out the F-bomb in your post.. F-bombs are not welcome here :/


58 posted on 10/14/2017 10:27:02 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: farlander

The Trial and The Castle were boring. The fireworks are in the short stories. The Hunger Artist, The Country Doctor, The Penal Colony, and a Message from the Emperor. There are more.


59 posted on 10/14/2017 10:30:43 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Japanese version of kimchi isn’t that great :p


60 posted on 10/14/2017 10:30:59 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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