Dear white Facebook friends: I need you to respect what Black America is feeling right now

Salon ^ | Julia Blount

[bmwcyle]

I hear BS.

[skeeter]

Respect is something you earn, sweetie. It’s not an anointing.

Exactly. Perhaps the writer can describe what the community she speaks for has done to earn our respect.

After decades of the Great Society and the advent of the welfare state I'd really like to hear it.

[arthurus]

A certificate means you signed the registration form and maybe occupied a chair once or twice.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Mulatto means "little mule?"

This reads like parody

[Paladin2]

Julia? Does she have eyes, nose and mouth or is she a Democrat creation as seen on the web.

[American Constitutionalist]

Uncivilized, the definition, defining word there is savages.

OK, we won’t call them thugs, we will revert back to savages.

[Responsibility2nd]

I read the whole piece - and I really do have sympathy for Julia Blount . She’s a true victim of the black underclass culture. She’s being judged based on THEIR horrible choices - not her choices. None of the thugs in Baltimore - none of the rioters there or drug dealers OR scammers are ‘her’. But she carries their choices in the tint on her skin...

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What about me? Typical White Person here? I too am a “true victim of the black underclass culture.” I too am being judged based on THEIR horrible choices - not my choices.

When the Imposter in Chief blames Republicans for conditions in Baltimore, when everything is whitie’s fault; when just like Ferguson, I will be left with the tab to clean up and rebuild the burned out slums, then where’s MY sympathy?

Obviously Julia has drunk the liberal Kool-Aid and deserves no sympathy. Me? I deny and reject her BS arguments which parrots the liberal left, but I guess that’s my “white privilege” at work here.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Welfare in ALL of its forms needs to be eliminated. We have had too many generations of people who simply won’t or can’t take care of themselves. Why? Because we PAY them to be poor. If you pay for something, you get more of it.

All of this happened out of good intentions. We are (or used to be, anyway) a rich country. Why should we just let people starve? Isn’t that inhumane? No, it isn’t.

Once you take away the consequences for sloth and other sins, you remove the incentive for people to avoid them. Why work at all if the issue of basic survival is “handled” by the taxpayers and the money is available on demand?

People don’t like to hear this, but in a truly free society, people have to live with the choices they make. And, like it says in the Bible, the wages of sin is death - or at least can be.

But, I am convinced that a society that does not go out of its way to take care of people and bail them out will end up with far fewer people who need to be taken care of. The hard part is getting people to just suck it up and let people fail and live (or not) with the consequences of the choices they make. Do that and you’ll see more people making the right choices.

[Logical me]

Beautifully said. I'm with your interpretation 100 per cent. Over the years blacks have been given the same opportunity as any other race. But millions of blacks chose to like a thug style of life and what ends up is ignorance and with very little education.

[MrB]

I too am being judged based on THEIR horrible choices - not my choices.

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Not just being judged, but penalized. Financially harmed.

to the tune of

TWENTY TWO MILLION MILLION DOLLARS.

[I want the USA back]

The neocommunists have the country right where they want it. Hopelessly divided.

[MortMan]

I can respect what they are feeling right now.

I CANNOT respect what they are DOING.

When you (the author) are smart enough to acknowledge the difference, we can talk.

Until then, STFU.

[mjp]

If you cannot understand how experiences like mine or my students’ would lead to hopelessness, pain, anger, and internalized oppression, you are still not listening.

Blacks need to listen.To end the treatment that they are receiving, they need to change their behavior.They need to stop expecting the unearned and undeserved, and getting something for nothing.It is a matter of cause and effect and justice.To be treated well, you need to earn and deserve to be treated well.To earn and deserve to be treated well, you need to learn to make the right choices and do the right things, and live that lifestyle all the time.

[arthurus]

everyone has their cross

everyone has his cross - unless you are referring to a cross belonging to group of people not heretofore cited.

If one wishes to be politically correct though awkward then one should write -
Everyone has his or her cross.

[drypowder]

Unless one gets lucky in life or acts criminally, the level of life stile one reaches in a civilized society generally depends on one’s degree of intelligence and one’s willingness to put it to good use with working.

[Responsibility2nd]

White privilege and white supremacy? You asked me to listen, Julia. You have just slapped an ugly label on me, yet you know me not. And with that...I have heard enough.

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Ugly label? I don’t think so.

I wear my “White privilege and white supremacy” as a badge of honor. I WORKED for it. I EARNED it. I followed the rules, got an education, got married and raised my family. I contributed to the success that was America. My fore-fathers worked and even sacrificed their lives in great World Wars so that America would be a Shining City on a Hill (R. Reagan).

If Julia and her ilk are so envious of my “White privilege and white supremacy” then let her convince me her hip-hop ghetto trash culture is any better.

[Paladin2]

Tax slavery which occupys much of your time at work to support those who lift not a finger to support the government.

[sten]

what about the rest of the time when there is a disproportionate number of black on white crimes?

should those just be ignored?

[right way right]

I see a resume for a job in the racism industry.

[JimRed]

I hear hopelessness

I hear oppression

I hear pain

I hear internalized oppression

I hear despair

I hear anger

I hear poverty

...all of which came about due to your own people’s BEHAVIOR! Correct the behavior, lose the problems.