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Why White People Don't See Racism: Explaining the disconnect between Black and white Americans
Black Entertainment Television's Fighting Words! ^ | July 24, 2013 | Keith Boykin

Posted on 07/24/2013 12:09:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: A_perfect_lady

Better.


121 posted on 07/24/2013 12:57:27 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Sure, sex sells, but it points to a larger cultural problem in this country where people would rather wallow in filth.


122 posted on 07/24/2013 12:58:20 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Media = LCD


123 posted on 07/24/2013 1:01:04 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh boy, Boykin (or am I allowed to say the word ‘boy’, Boykin?)


124 posted on 07/24/2013 1:01:37 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

May I suggest blacks have the discussion amongst themselves, and when they get things figured out, bring the discussion to the rest of us. Why would a cab driver turn down one fare to pick up another? Before yelling racism, think safety. Who is more likely to mug that cab driver, or stiff him on a fare? I bet the answer is black guys. The woman at the airport may have been a racist, or she may have been robbed by a black guy. Before thinking racism, ask why blacks get searched more at clubs, or why people suspect black people of committing crimes, or why a cabby would prefer a white fare.

Black men commit more crimes than any other race of men. It has become part of the black culture, with the militant hip hop and rap generation, with flash mobs, gangs and the whole black gangsta’ mentality. It’s a black problem. Deal with it instead of glamorizing it. While you’re at it, ask what is to be gained by all the hatred and militance directed at white people who would like nothing more than to live in peace with black people. If blacks work on their problems, they will find most whites don’t have a problem with them, racial or otherwise.


125 posted on 07/24/2013 1:01:42 PM PDT by pallis
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To: TADSLOS
Black men commit the largest percentage of violent crime in the US, by a wide margin. I’m not going to put myself or my family at risk for the sake of kumbaya naivety.

Yet that is precisely what the law does when it compels the vulnerable taxidriver to pick up young male African-Americans at night in dangerous areas. Doing so, it transfers the cost and the pain of African-American criminality away from the criminal class to an innocent class.


126 posted on 07/24/2013 1:02:45 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
Seems like a lot of words to say nothing. They really could have stripped the "nonexhaustive list" down to one salient point:

"If you're white, then you're wrong."

127 posted on 07/24/2013 1:04:13 PM PDT by wbill
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To: DBrow
Look up “microaggression”, this is sort of advanced training in detecting tiny little racist insults. Seeing racism is a basic part of black culture. Everything that happens to a black person is because they are black.

This is a BIG part of it. I have a friend (White guy) who was married to a black woman for 5 years. After they divorced, he told me... One of the main reasons was, she saw Racism EVERYWHERE!

If their service was slow at a restaraunt? Racism!
If a mistake was made on their order? Racism!
If someone cut in front of them in a line? Racism!

For sure, racists things happen to black people. But, not nearly as many as they THINK occur. Bad crap happens to ALL of us.. from time to time.

128 posted on 07/24/2013 1:04:48 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in governm<p>ent. If any were, business would hire them f)
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To: ransomnote

For about 20 years, I was a cute chick. You wanna talk about having a magnet on your neck...


129 posted on 07/24/2013 1:05:36 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: TBP

These White People didn't see Racism either.

Until it raped and murdered her. And shot him in the face causing him to die a week later.

 

 

Until it murderd this baby in his stroller.

 

 

 

Until it raped her and murdered her and her boyfriend.

 

No.... These creepy ass crackers (and thousands more) never saw racism at all.

130 posted on 07/24/2013 1:07:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s a good one. If you’re white and you ran into any of the Duck Dynasty men and didn’t know who they were, would you be a little leery of them?


131 posted on 07/24/2013 1:09:41 PM PDT by klgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All this argument about how high the crime rate is among blacks makes me wonder, just how is it that racism against blacks started so long ago. There had to be a reason.


132 posted on 07/24/2013 1:10:24 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Blows me away that the rhetoric now is that Zimmerman should have basically told the dispatcher “I don’t know where he went and Hell no, I’m not getting out of this car. There’s a black guy out there, what’re you crazy?”


133 posted on 07/24/2013 1:11:34 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure seeing racism now, and it ain’t from crackas.


134 posted on 07/24/2013 1:11:45 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Goodbye America. Glad the majority of my years were spent during the good days.)
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To: stinkerpot65
Young Black Men: 3% of population, 50% of murders.

The key statistic.

I personally think that the Black on Black crime (90%+) statistic is a loser. White on White crime although lower (70%+) is still a big number. That just the way it is. Most crime victims are from the same neighborhood or, as is becoming the more popular phrase, from the same "tribe".

But 3% of the population committing 50% of the murders cannot be overlooked by any rational person.

If Blacks want to understand why they are profiled, and they are, they should study that statistic. For Whites, it is the natural instinct for survival. I suspect the same applies to Blacks who must perform the same profiling - they just don't want to admit it.

135 posted on 07/24/2013 1:12:18 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: InterceptPoint

There was a South Park episode a few years back, where the Judge basically said, “You can hurt anyone you want, but just make damn sure they’re the same race as you.”


136 posted on 07/24/2013 1:13:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s 2013. Your Race Card expired a long time ago. Grow up!


137 posted on 07/24/2013 1:14:11 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Peet

I suggest the author do an experiment and see how long a peach person lasts on a 9 PM stroll through the streets of North Philadelphia. Then we’ll talk.


138 posted on 07/24/2013 1:14:28 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: A_perfect_lady

Someone else on another thread pointed out that the rules of traveling by car through black neighborhoods are exactly the same as one of those drive-thru safari parks:

1. Remain in your vehicle.
2. Keep moving at all times.
3. Keep the windows rolled up.
4. Do not use the horn to provoke the animals.


139 posted on 07/24/2013 1:16:43 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Keith, if you are a member of the “Black Community,” then you are going to be lumped in with ALL blacks, just like you lumped all white people together by saying “Why White People Don’t See Racism.”

It is unfortunate that you are an upstanding citizen who is treated like a potential trouble maker or even criminal. My suggestion is that you need to get some REAL black leaders who will stand up for a moral and civilized culture and who will gather good black folks together to push this agenda in the family, in the neighborhood, in the schools, and try to re-establish the black church as well.

Want to demonstrate? Got after Al Sharpton who is an evil person. The same for Jesse Jackson. The same for all the race pimps. You need leaders who teach your people the right way to live, to take care of themselves and their family, NOT to depend on the “government.” You know that you and I pay taxes to take care of some real losers. Why not teach those losers and show them how to make a positive contribution to the world.

If Dr. Ben Carson’s mother could produce a famous surgeon, surely other black mothers (and the rare black fathers who care) can do at least a fraction of that. Make your job NOT to get drunk or stoned, but to teach your kids to read and do math and to be curious about how the world works.

If you want to be treated the same way you see white people treated, you have to go after the thugs, drug dealers, gang members, thieves, vandals, muggers, rapists, etc. You have to fearlessly do something about it.

Can you REALLY blame white people for being wary of blacks when the news is full of black-on-white crime. Am I supposed to deny the danger of black youths and endanger by life or am I going to be very careful around them? Should I fearlessly walked through a group of 10 black kids hanging out or should I avoid them? If I am wary and want to be sure who I am dealing with, I will be called a racist. If not, I may be robbed, beaten, killed, or raped if I am a woman.

We treat you differently because your race causes a LOT of the trouble. You may have a GOOD culture as your foundation, but a LOT of your fellow blacks have BAD foundation. If you want to be treated better, you have to fix those in your race who have that BAD culture.

You have to continually pound on it. You might start with the music. Teach your kids that nigga, cop killa, talking down on woman, get whitey, smash mobs, etc. are TOTALLY unacceptable. Maybe you need to establish some of your own neighborhood watches like white people have been doing.

You are in a war with people from a BAD culture. If you don’t want to clean it up, white people certainly aren’t going to be interested in catching the flack of doing it for you. The simplest thing for us to do is avoid ALL of you and move away, since you aren’t doing anything about your problem. Therefore, how can we trust or respect ANY black person we do not personally know?

Even a lot of your athletes and entertainers are dangerous people.

I could go on all day, but I’ve got things to do. I’m working on my yard to improve it for myself and my neighbors. That is something else you could teach other blacks. Don’t sit on your porch. Clean up the shit people throw on the street. Plant some grass and flowers. Mow your lawn. Show some pride where you live even if you don’t own it.

I hope you get the idea. Clean the BAD black culture out and you will be respected.

Is there a BAD white culture? Certainly, but nowhere near in the percentages there is a BAD black culture. When we have BAD white people, we take care of it or we call the cops and don’t have a riot if they have to kill one or two of the bastards.

Am I lecturing you? You’re damn right I am and you know what I said is true. What I don’t like is being lectured by black people for being wary of them because of the way they have let their culture degenerate. That’s not my fault. I didn’t vote for the democrats who helped ruin your families and culture.

Show some more courage, man! Take on the racists in your race and teach them WHY a lot of white people are afraid of them and how to fix the problem.

Drop your stupid law suit and understand why you were treated differently from the whites and try to honestly tell me that if you were the white guy, you wouldn’t do the same thing he did. Blame the BAD actors of your race who are ruining things for you. Sue THEM.

White people don’t see racism? The hell we don’t. White people get mugged and get their asses kicked by black racists on a regular basis, but we have learned to avoid it by avoiding black people we don’t know as much as possible because you GOOD black folks don’t do anything about black on white crime. What do you think about the knock-out game? Fun thing for black kids to do? Where the hell are you LEADERS? You have no leaders. Maybe you could step up and get involved.

Is that racist? No, it is closer to prejudging and profiling for one’s own protection. Just as Jesse Jackson admitted doing himself. Just as you do when you are walking down the street at night, no matter what race the other person is. Is that a wrong thing to do or is it a wise thing to do?


140 posted on 07/24/2013 1:18:09 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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