https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/02/tec...r-20-million-after-death-of-george-floyd.html Tech companies and execs announce over $20 million in donations after killing of George Floyd https://nypost.com/2021/04/24/big-tech-bankrolls-blm-in-exchange-for-net-neutrality-support/ Big tech bankrolls BLM co-founder’s PAC, charities in exchange for support https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/07/07/these-18-corporations-gave-money-to-black-lives-matter-group/ These 18 Corporations Gave Money to Radical Black Lives Matter Group
What about Mansa Musa and the Mali Empire? Europeans bred with the Natives. Africans in Africa, not so much. The urbanization of black people started in the US, because they wanted to flee the South where they were being lynched and many got jobs in manufacturing. The jobs did not keep up with the migration (the manufacturing sector has deteriorated) and since black people were not allowed access to the same level of education they had a hard time gaining skills for the modern economy. Still, even past the Civil Rights Act they have suffered from segregation, redlining, etc. on a level that other minority groups haven't. All of this contributed to a significant rise in crime over the past 50 years in the black community. That level crime simply didn't exist until about the 1960's. What also grew in demand in the 1960's? Illicit drugs. Since they could not find legitimate work, many turned towards that market for income. Hence the rise in gangs, violence, etc. Being a drug dealer is a shit life. You're more likely to get killed in that profession than as a combat troop. It's all about economic opportunity or lack there of.
I cannot help if there are some stupid people out there, any radicla group always has support.... what you dont think a white power organization has backing too? Someone has to pay for those confederate flags. But as for what really matters, the BLM organziation is just shooting itself in the foot and co-opting a movement for personal gain. When people put out a Black Lives Matters sign they are referring to the slogan not the organization but those assclown co founders are acting like they have all this support. THey will be exposed soon like the NRA was for co-optin eveyr gun issue just to raise funds and steal money.
That is history. What about today? How are Cubans doing in the US? Other Hispanics? Asians? Why are they all doing better? You say blacks have no access to education today? That is nonsense. The difference is that Asian parents are willing to use their own home as collateral to pay for their children's education. Would blacks do that? Hell, no. It is a difference of mentality. Everyone know that for the average intelligent a decent university education is THE pathway to a solid middle class lifestyle, still today. Everyone knows that and every statistic supports that fact. Yet African Americans seem to have massive problems picking up text books. Every African American child can study at home for their SAT exams. What keeps them from doing so? And why are blacks so overrepresented in crimes relative to their share of the population? Can you address those questions? We mostly agree on history (though lynching of blacks occurred very rarely, stating lynching in this discussion makes little sense) . The thing is that Asians did not have it that much better. In fact many had it worse in recent history. Nobody interned blacks as recently as 1940s while Japanese Americans were stripped off their constitutional rights and imprisoned for years. My point is that there are many individuals who were disadvantaged in the US in the past. Yet only two groups can't get their shit together and just sit there and moan, blacks and indigenous people.
I have openly criticized the black community for not getting their shit together. I've been called a racist on this forum for doing so. I've said that the culture right now is shit. I've even said most of the current racism in this country is, because of how they act now, not based on same mindset that existed 50 years ago. However, I reject the notion that they are hopeless inferior people which is what you seem to be suggesting. I recognize how they got to where they are at. What I also reject is the "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. They still aren't given equal opportunity. The small amounts of affirmative action people cry about in no way make up for the redlining, the fact that local property taxes fund the education system, and the current racism they have to deal with for being associated with other black people (just because they are black). There's no easy solution. It might not even out in my lifetime. Government won't solve all of their problems, black people need more leaders in their community to call themselves out too. Not just paid shills from conservative think tanks who have no respect within the community. I mean people like LeBron. However, to suggest that everything is fine for black people now, it's an even playing field, no excuses, is quite frankly bullshit.
I don't think I ever said they are iq wise or physically inferior to any other race. But that does not negate that there obviously is a mindset among this race that poses challenges to its own development. Nobody can deny that other ethnic groups equally suffered hardships and adversity and yet other ethnic groups did in fact fare way better because of a different mindset and mentality. Perhaps we actually agree but just use different terminology. And we may still disagree on some other issues. But you know what? I absolutely respect you and laud your effort to engage. This is not normal in this age and I think debating and discussing those issues without getting at all personal and yelling or running away is the only way forward. It's just happening too seldomly.
Thanks. I'm here to debate and discuss topics I find interesting. Not everybody is doing that in good faith. There's a lot of posters who just want to incite/troll. I find it boring. There's also a lot of people who just hate the other side. I have friends/family with all kinds of beliefs. I agree that there is a learnt mindset that needs to change.
Wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't some people here making the phone calls. https://fox8.com/news/i-team/clevel...y-police-shooting-of-teen-in-columbus-i-team/
Obviously someone in the black community rolled on her. Probably was upset that she called the cops on a fellow black girl in the first place. What white individual would know the former address and new address and phone numbers of Tonyanita.... But what is disappointing is that you can't or don't want to engage with dissenting opinion. Instead you AGAIN make it personal with your dumb cynical suggestions.
In Defense of Teenage Knife Fighting https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/in-defense-of-teenage-knife-fighting/ Since when do we need the cops to intervene in the recreational stabbings of our youth? Just when I thought that America couldn’t possibly get any softer, people start suggesting that there’s a role for the police in preventing knife murders. The snowflake generation strikes once again. Is there any tradition that the radicals won’t ruin? As the brilliant Bree Newsome pointed out on Twitter, “Teenagers have been having fights including fights involving knives for eons.” And now people are calling the cops on them? I ask: Is this a self-governing country or not? When Newsome says, “We do not need police to address these situations by showing up to the scene & using a weapon,” she may be expressing a view that is unfashionable these days. But she’s right. Disappointingly, my colleague Phil Klein has felt compelled to join the critics. In a post published yesterday, Phil asked in a sarcastic tone whether the police should “somehow treat teenage knife fights as they would harmless roughhousing and simply ignore it.” My answer to this is: Yes, that’s exactly what they should do — yes, even if they are explicitly called to the scene. I don’t know where Phil grew up, but where I spent my childhood, Fridays were idyllic: We’d play some football, try a little Super Mario Bros, have a quick knife fight, and then fire up some frozen pizza before bed. And now law enforcement is getting involved? This is political correctness gone mad. It’s hypocrisy, too. Who among us hasn’t come within a second or two of murdering someone else with a steak knife? My best friend in school, Bobby “The Blade” Simpson, used to throw shivs at the smaller kids in the music room. Did we need the authorities to step in when that happened? No, we did not. As MSNBC’s Joy Reid argued smartly on her show last night, pranks such as these were dealt with by our teachers — just as we all expected they would be. And if something went wrong? Well, that’s why we had substitutes. In all honesty, I worry that this sort of helicopter policing is making us weak. Back in my day, the people who survived a good stabbing came out stronger for it. I learned a lot of lessons from my time in the ring: self-reliance, how to overcome fear, the importance of agility, the basics of military field dressing. And, given the turnover, I also learned how to make new friends. Today, the free-range generation to which I belong is dying out — and, this time, it is not from the wounds inflicted by everyday teenage knife fights but because our politicians and activists simply cannot leave us be. From the time of the Colosseum, our civilization has had a tradition of lightly regulated, highly entertaining combat. Who are we, exactly, to think we know better?