I think pretty much anyway someone would slice or dice it always leads to the same conclusion. dbphoenix is a screaming dumb ass.
I can't imagine why anyone would not leap at the opportunity to answer a question that is put so politely. Why not google it? Or fuck yourself? Or both?
Fatalism Is Not An Option In Battle Against Racism Ed Mazza While many of the recent protests around the country have focused on racism and the police, the officers themselves may only be part of the problem. During MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" on Wednesday night, Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent at The Atlantic, said police are just doing what society wants them to do. "We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism," Coates said. "But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system. It doesn't come from the police. The police are pretty much doing what the society that they originate from want them to do." However, Coates also told Hayes that it was important to avoid fatalism. "I'm the descendent of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820, if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. There was reason at that point in time to believe that emancipation was 40 or 50 years off. And yet folks resisted and folks fought on. So fatalism isn't really an option. Even if you think you're not going to necessarily win the fight today in your lifetime, in your child's lifetime, you still have to fight. It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see. As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option."
Fox News’ racial confusion: What Charles Barkley and Ben Carson could teach Megyn Kelly Fox's Megyn Kelly says something can't be racist if a person of color believes it. Here's the lesson she's missing ELIAS ISQUITH Charles Barkley, Megyn Kelly, Ben Carson (Credit: AP/Elise Amendola/Alex Kroke/Reuters/Mike Theiler/Photo montage by Salon) During a characteristically unilluminating and stupefying interview with Texas Rep. Al Green on Tuesday, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly seemed to think she had a mic drop-worthy response to the Democrat’s criticisms of the outcome in Ferguson, Missouri. “Every witness that testified [Michael Brown] was charging [at Darren Wilson] was African-American!” she said. “How is this a race thing?” Green, who is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, essentially responded by simply ignoring and talking over Kelly, which was probably for the best. For the kind of people who can spend an hour listening to Bill O’Reilly’s insights on black people’s meager intelligence, only to then decide that they’d like to hear the greatest hits of white resentment politics, but this time from a more telegenic singer, Kelly’s line was probably a real winner. (Indeed, not since the first suburban white 13-year-old blasted the double-standard that keeps him from saying the N-word, while letting Jay Z do it unchallenged, has a white person leveled a more crushing blow to the “racial grievance industry.”) Anyone who understands that being a member of a minority group does not negate the capacity for independent thought, however, likely found Kelly’s comeback less definitive. Megyn Kelly is popular, influential and fond of disseminating racist nonsense throughout American politics. But that’s not the reason I’m bringing her Tuesday interview up. Instead, the phenomenon that I think it illustrates quite cleanly — and that still goes unappreciated by many Americans, and not just the ones watching Fox — is how bigoted logic, if it’s mainstream enough, can grab hold of anyone, regardless of their political or social identity. Put differently, there’s no reason that the long-standing American meme of the irrational, hostile and animalistic young black man cannot be adopted by people who are themselves black [bold mine]. And there’s no reason they can’t bring that inherited worldview with them when they’re sitting on a grand jury. While it’s certainly possible for someone to harbor prejudice toward a group they belong to — the archetype of the self-hating Jew, for example, wasn’t just a creation of hard-line right-wing Zionists — what usually happens when we harbor these thoughts about ourselves is that we find some reason, no matter how flimsy, to conclude “we” are not like “them” [bold mine]. For women, this can take the form of blaming female rape victims for their own misfortune, which usually rests on the idea that the assaulted did something her female critic would never do. The process may also be evident with members of the LGBTQ community who argue that hatred directed their way could be lessened if only folks on their side were more mild-mannered. To see this at play among black people in America, let’s look at two African-American celebrities who are known to enjoy slamming people who look like them for failing to act like them, too: Ben Carson and Charles Barkley. Carson, of course, is in the news right now because of his vainglorious and all-but-official campaign to be elected president in 2016. But while Carson was an enormously successful and celebrated neurosurgeon in an earlier life, he’s become a national conservative icon over the past few years chiefly because of his willingness to say things about President Obama — and black people, in general — that white conservatives want to but know they can’t. Former NBA great and beloved TV personality Charles Barkley, meanwhile, is now earning attention from a whole new audience by using the controversy in Ferguson to do much the same by defending the unconstitutional practice of racial profiling, as well as the grand jury’s decision in favor of Darren Wilson. In both cases, these wealthy and powerful men set themselves up as positive, contrary examples of black masculinity. They wear their pants high. They work hard. They respect their country and its various sacred myths. And in both cases, it’s very likely that they truly believe in their own superiority; they’re both supremely gifted and have both expressed sentiments along these lines for decades. But the fact that they believe themselves to be living proof that most of their fellow black Americans more or less are what racists claim — lazy, entitled, irrational and, above all else, more invested in their victimhood than in the quality of their and their children’s lives — is not a sign that these sentiments aren’t racist. It’s merely a sign of the enormous, lingering influence of white supremacy in our culture, as well as the boundless human capacity to respond to that which scares us (like the idea that we, too, might be treated unjustly for reasons outside our control) by concocting some reason why we need not feel unsafe. Whether they’re good or bad, cruel or kind, ideologies like racism, homophobia and sexism have a life of their own. They’re adaptable. They’re flexible. They can contort themselves to best fit their time and place. So if we believe in equality — as I’m sure Barkley, Carson and Kelly believe they do — there’s no reason to be surprised that a black person might’ve voted in Wilson’s favor or echoed Bill O’Reilly’s latest rant. But none of it proves Kelly’s point.
The real proplem you Americans have is you still have not fully worked out your "race issues". All the world seems to know that about your people, and you seem the last one to want to at least acknowledge your country problem. Even when you try to hide it, minimize it, it will not go away till you, Americans, recognise it and start sorting it out.