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Where’s ‘The Talk’ When We Need It?
Townhall.com ^ | September 2, 2020 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 09/02/2020 2:32:53 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Yo-Yo

WARNING: extremely bad language.

However, this black man is funny and is very strong about his message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nAI8WNv8jk

Don’t give me any crap about the language, I warned you. ;>)


21 posted on 09/02/2020 3:42:31 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Remember Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.)
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To: Kaslin
Attention Parents... OK, Attention Baby Mama: If you're not going to teach your kids to respect authority (or anything else) at least teach them this: (I have thoughtfully put it into a rhyme for those predisposed to not listen to, or learn from, anything that doesn't rhyme):

Comply - Don't Die

22 posted on 09/02/2020 3:43:25 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear; lerker; Kaslin; All

John Derbyshire’s “The Talk”

There is much talk about “the talk.”

“Sean O’Reilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons,” Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: “Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk,” Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ Dell’Antonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel.

Yes, talk about the talk is all over.

There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too. My own kids, now 19 and 16, have had it in bits and pieces as subtopics have arisen. If I were to assemble it into a single talk, it would look something like the following.

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Colored” and “Negro” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.

“There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too.”

(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: “It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)

(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but blacks will take you to be white.

(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.

(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons. There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.

(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are random—for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to black investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.

(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.

(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.

(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.

(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:

(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.

(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).

(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.

(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.

(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.

(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.

(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.

(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”

(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.

(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.

(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.

(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.


23 posted on 09/02/2020 3:56:49 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: Kaslin

If black people are giving “The Talk” to their children, they are being completely ignored......

Orrrrrr, the ones who are contacted by the “so called pigs” and act like a holes, are criminals at heart and incorrigible.


24 posted on 09/02/2020 4:03:13 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: Kaslin
Corporate titans would love to do something to help African Americans (like employ them, maybe?), but then they remember, WAIT! I HAVE MUTUAL FUNDS! So instead they smugly proclaim “Black Lives Matter,” run a commercial with Colin Kaepernick, and they’re done.

Which, ironically, is also effecting their bottom line.

25 posted on 09/02/2020 4:20:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Kaslin
Oh by the way, over the weekend, an hour away in Chicago, 54 people were shot; 10 are dead. Woke media: Everyone involved was black, right? No big deal.

Those people don't fit the narrative.

26 posted on 09/02/2020 4:21:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
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To: Kaslin

I got “the talk” when I was a teen. Didn’t listen. Got my ass beat and still have a scar above my eye from the cop’s baton. At least I was smart enough to know that trying to grab for a gun, my own or the officers, was a very bad idea. I didn’t believe my dad actually knew anything until I was in my early twenties. Then I began to realize all the advice I had ignored as a kid was really pretty damn good. The whole idea of “the talk” being a black thing is condescending.


27 posted on 09/02/2020 4:28:57 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Ken Regis
“the talk” was daddy saying, “Obey the police.”

To which some reply, "What's a 'Daddy'?"

28 posted on 09/02/2020 4:59:48 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: Kaslin

I got “the talk” as part of driver’s ed class in 1963, and I’m a white female. My granddaughter tells me she did too, last year when she got her license.


29 posted on 09/02/2020 6:08:43 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: dynachrome
Even the very liberal Larry David had an IWSB friend on "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

Those liberals may spend considerable time looking at their physical appearance in mirrors, but precious little time examining their souls in metaphorical mirrors.

30 posted on 09/02/2020 6:09:22 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Ken Regis

My Daddy taught me not to stare into the barrel of a gun and pull the trigger to see if it was loaded - also taught me to not check for live wires by feel - and not to lay my hand on a hot stove - not attacking cops who approached me was a no-brainer.


31 posted on 09/03/2020 3:01:04 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Kaslin

Hell; this old white does all these things; too!

— Pulling over your vehicle right away
— Keeping hands visible on the steering wheel and not making sudden moves
— Not reaching for items in your wallet or glove compartment without informing the law enforcement officer first
— Being as polite as possible, using “Yes sir, officer”
— Not arguing, even if you are right


32 posted on 09/03/2020 5:06:35 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Bump


33 posted on 09/03/2020 5:58:17 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin
Comedian Chris Rock: ‘How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police’
It seems like an entire generation of kids has learned all about made-up rights –  ‘rights’ to proper food in the dorms, the ‘right’ not to hear messages that they don’t like in a classroom, and a ‘right’ not to be offended.

They’re coddled, uptight, mean bigots. Just look at the crazies at CHOP in Seattle or the radicals tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington if you doubt it.

Rock makes several points in his hilarious bit.
Obey the Law
Use Common Sense
Stop Immediately
Don’t Run Away
Turn Down Your Music
Be Polite
Don’t Bring a Crazy Friend with You
Bring a White Friend
Shut Up
Don’t Take Your Angry Girlfriend in the Car

Chris Rock: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8


34 posted on 09/03/2020 7:57:18 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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