This is your encapsulation of your position? I consider education in social and cultural studies to be a kind of candle, but you apparently consider my efforts, and those of several other conscientious posters, a waste of time. What candles, specifically, have you lit?
Also, what about the unaddressed issues from the preceding several posts? The list is growing too long to repeat here, and I’m still curious to see how you address them. Frankly, I get the feeling that you’re trying to get back to shallower water by tossing off this pithy aphorism. I don’t mean that as the insult that it probably sounds like; I don’t doubt your intelligence and experience. But you really do seem to know that you’re running out of support for your position.
Which is what we are doing. The whole fighting ignorance thing. What you seem to be saying is we should ignore the darkness and go about our buisness because it is already partially lit.
You may be right. In any event, I seem to be repeating myself.
Coincidentally I have a couple of trips coming up, which will allow little access to the internet for the next 2 or 3 weeks. I appreciated this discussion with you and the other posters.
I don’t understand much about banking, so please correct me if I’m wrong. But if the bank is garunteed profit from loaning money to a black person with a bad credit history, why shouldn’t they go for it? Should they stop making a living because what they do MAY hurt the image of blacks? I don’t think so. Do you want to know who is hurting the image of blacks? The blacks who don’t give back the damn money that they borrowed! You know what I want to know? If a higher percentage of whites (than blacks) didn’t pay back loaned money, and it was supposedly “hurting” the image of white people, would any of you people be complaining or screaming racism? And do you know who I would be angry at if this were the case? My fellow honkies.
I’m not in favor of reparations, but this is a specious argument. Assuming for the purpose of debate that reparations were to be made, why shouldn’t recent immigrants have to share this burden, as well as the advantages of living in America?
My refutation takes the position that it’s utterly ridiculous of you to claim that I am a “racial McCarthyist” on the grounds that, as you claim, I called BBB a racist when he “merely stated unpleasant truths.”
I’ve made the following points:
I never called BBB a racist.
In trying to support your claim that I called BBB a racist, you quoted a number of my statements blatantly out of context, and even then you couldn’t make it look like I called BBB a racist.
In support of your assertions, you quoted a number of statements which you yourself admit had nothing to do with racism- so why even bring them up?
Although some of BBB’s statements seemed to me like they might be racist, I felt that it would be nonproductive and judgemental of me to openly make such a judgement without knowing a lot more about BBB’s position, and only admitted to these suspicions publically because you had already accused me of being a racial McCarthyist.
You yourself seem to realize that your argument is weak to the point of nonexistence- otherwise, why would you feel the need to bring up comments I made which have nothing to do with racism?
So why the apparent confusion on your part?
Could it be that not only do you feel that it is invalid for people to seek legal remedies for racism, not only do you feel that it is inappropriate for us to openly discuss racism, but also you feel that we have no right to even think about racism? Because that’s all I’ve done- I have thought that it is possible that BBB might be racist, and you have accused me of being a racial McCarthyist.