Posted on 10/12/2017 8:19:15 PM PDT by DeweyCA
......”It’s a shame an article such as this no longer generates intelligent discussion on FR.”......
Could be people have had ‘intelligent discussions’ for years on articles such as this yet nothing gets resolved within the black community itself. It’s been ‘talked’ to death...I for one find it useless and unproductive chatter.
Exactly. What they’re saying above about blacks and the bell curve, it may all be true, it may not but what is inarguable is that blacks USED to do a LOT BETTER than they do now, as did whites.
You’re right, I read a few paragraphs and my interest dropped off.
I’m a big admirer of Heather McDonald. I appreciate that she wants to produce scholarly work in support of her theses.
But it’s a complete disconnect to me to conflate how someone or a class of someones (as if the anecdotes she cites are evidence) acts towards another person or class of persons with an enormous, tedious, convoluted article or paper. As far as I am concerned, she might just as well analyze the protons and electrons in the nosehairs of the people interacting. There are a hundred factors affecting whether there is objective racism in any given interaction. There is no authorized authority who can place those causes upon any agreed-upon hierarchical scale. Because any hierarchical scale just depends upon whom is yelling or complaining louder. But it ultimately does not matter because whatever scholarly effort is invested into the study of same is inevitably supplanted by repeatedly chanting the “racist” bumperstickerism no matter what any sort of reality is. So to get all intellectual about it into a discussion whose mean IQ level is about 78 (and maybe that is a racist comment) seems totally pointless. To me.
You will never end racism...poverty..perversion.
But not electing democrats and RINOs is a step in the right direction.
Liberal bullies are the new checkists. They think it is moral and necessary to monitor word choice, fashion, private relationships, beliefs and censor anything not per liberal dogma.
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