That only makes sense if you think being not racist at all (Sharpton) is worse than being the former head of a Klan group (Duke).
“Rejected” in the sense that they deny association with it when caught associating with it.
I disagree that Sharpton and Wright are racist, but I’ll pretend for a moment that they are black supremacists… do you have a cite that black supremacism is more common than white supremacism?
Yes, and no.
“White folks was [sic] in caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
“There is a systemic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear … that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”
“What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?”
Easy. Sharpton is Obama’s “go to guy”. David Duke wasn’t Bush’s.
Dude. Maybe you’d have a point with something like, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.” But what you cited is some seriously pathetically weak shit if you’re trying to argue Al Sharpton is somehow more of a racist than David “Former Grand Wizard of the KK fucking K” Duke.
What does Bush have to do with the prevalence of white supremacism?
That’s not a cite that black supremacism is more common than white supremacism.
Is this you, Terr?
Duke’s racism is the de facto founding principle of the United States, and quite frankly, if it’s rejected by almost everyone, why are black Americans so much worse off, on average, than white Americans?
This idiotic yammering is wrong and offensive in principle, but can you explain how it stacks up in any way to the way that American society has treated and continues to treat most black Americans?
I’m concerned by this peculiar distinction being drawn that black supremacism is more acceptable than white supremacism.
Both are equally vile.
All that really matters are two things:
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What did Rep. Scalise say in that speech?
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Did he know to whom he was speaking?
The post to which I was replying claimed that Sharpton was “not racist at all”.
The fact that the black supremacist (which is what you stipulated) is a “go to guy” for the US president - that’s the cite.
Find me a black supremacist group in the United States that has carried out a terrorist campaign anywhere within orders of magnitude of that carried out by white supremacists (including state terror, by the way), and I might agree with you.
It’s not equal. It’s not even close. Have some humility, and acknowledge the existence of privilege and structural violence.
There’s truth to this. Public services of ALL types are much more limited in white-dominated, rural areas. It’s not much better to be white trash from rural West Virginia than a drug dealer’s bastard from Compton. If you disagree, go to West Virginia, take an exit off the interstate in a rural area, and drive around a little bit. Stop at a gas station, talk to people.
The same can be said for many poor rural areas of the country.
What these whites don’t realize is that disenfranchisement and abuse of minorities just costs the country even more in the long run. Prisons are more expensive than schools, and that’s the long and short of it.
I’m concerned by this peculiar false equivalency being drawn that racially tinged expressions of resentment and black pride by representatives of that minority are somehow just as bad as white supremacist ideologies that supported centuries of slavery, murder, torture, and disenfranchisement of an entire people.
- What Scalise discussed is irrelevant. Think: Obama spoke before the local chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood as an invited guest, but don’t worry, he only gave his standard stump speech. How do you like that?
- Think: Obama spoke as an invited guest of the Muslim Brotherhood, but didn’t know who they were.
It’s the same problematic thinking that prevents universal health care, or, specifically, things like comprehensive sex-ed and subsidized Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (IUDs and implants), which collapses the abortion rate and saves a lot of money. It doesn’t fit in with a narrative of sin and morality and punishment and so on.
Fair enough. Saying Al Sharpton is not racist at all seems untenable in light of his public comments.
Other than I am not poor, nor very middle class (the way it is defined today), and the white racists would not consider me “white” (although black racists would)?
Some Black Hebrew Israelites yelled at me through a bullhorn in NYC, if that isn’t exactly like being lynched I’d like to know what is!
:rolleyes:
CMC fnord!