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‘I’m off the plantation, bro!’ Video of black Stanford student goes viral. Here’s his back story.
College Fix ^ | 05-31-2018 | Jennifer Kabbany

Posted on 05/31/2018 5:16:18 AM PDT by Kevin in California

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To: PeterPrinciple

I see it as an entry point to a real conversation instead of the usual hysterical accusations, finger pointing, virtue signaling, claims of victim hood status, etc.

I won’t deny for a second there is an ugly history in America and everywhere else in the world wrt racism. It happened. It’s true. The official kind is long in the past and it’s debatable how common it is today in society. The big question: what’s the best way to get past it?

Should we self segregate, claim victimhood status, claim anybody who doesn’t agree with our politics must be racist, act like government is always the only solution to our problems, have quotas, nurse historical grievances from before most Americans today were born

OR

Treat each person like an individual to be judged solely on his/her own merits?

Which approach is more fair to each person and more likely to lead to the outcome everybody claims they want?


41 posted on 05/31/2018 8:29:19 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: FLT-bird

You seem to misss the point.

The We, the black community, is a political construct to put forward the vision of homogenity that does not and never has existed. There is no existence allowed outside the homogeneous concept because if allowed, the concept would be shown to be invalid.

The whole Black Lives Matter concept is to allow black criminals to be above the criminal justice imposed by the American Society. Those insisting that Black Live Matter are in fact demanding the right to escape punishment for crimes. Similarly the black atheletes will not stand for the National Anthem

All those have ceased to be Americans

This post is not racist but rather a cultural/political analysis


42 posted on 05/31/2018 8:37:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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I just think the whole race hustling poverty pimping grievance group approach is terrible and will not lead to a good outcome for people in the long run. We’ve been doing it that way for two generations now. That’s the Liberal Democrat approach. It goes far beyond BLM.

The other approach is to treat people like individuals. We can take into account if somebody is from a broken home or poor circumstances. But we need not automatically ASSUME somebody needs extra help or set asides just because they happen to be from this or that ethnic group.

Of course that would require looking at each person’s circumstances rather than engaging in race hustling so naturally the industry that has grown up to profit from that and Democrats who want to keep the Plantation system going to harvest votes will oppose it.


43 posted on 05/31/2018 9:09:08 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: Kevin in California

Nice... Time for minorities to speak out against liberalism. I think you are seeing a change in politics...


44 posted on 05/31/2018 2:12:02 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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