Sargon found this interview and makes his critiques. I couldn't find the original full length unedited, so hopefully we can get a nice discussion from this video. I enjoyed it because it shows the depth of what people believe they are a victim, even when they were given the exact same educational opportunities as other races. They still fall back on affirmative action, and don't see how being given something they didn't earn isn't patronizing at all. There is a huge mentality in the black culture that they "need" affirmative action or else they can't succeed, even though blacks did succeed before the CRA was passed.
I'll try. 1. The narrator's technique is to build strawman throughout the video and then argue talk against them. He's pretty dishonest. 2. What's also bad about the thread title and the video in the OP is that one black woman is used as a representative for the rest of the other black people. Not something done with other races. 3. The part on Affirmative Action is embarrassing to listen to. Lee Peterson and the woman are bad here, but only because neither of them know better. The government has helped whites with major government plans like with the GI bill and continuously helps them via social safety nets. Moreover, the group most helped via Affirm Action are whites. NO ONE EVER "condescends to" whites about getting help. The subsidies, tax breaks, safety nets, etc. that mostly benefits whites cost taxpayers trillions of dollars. Yet, black people are the only people who are supposed to feel bad when they get help whereas other groups who are continuously helped never are questioned or denigrated. 4. The narrator is talking about making excuses. The woman isn't making excuses. She's giving reasons, although she fails to make her points clearly. 5. The narrator totally dismisses the woman on the street's point at the end because he was hell bent on promoting an anti-black agenda. Most important refutation. Black people should have the same privilege as whites in that they are seen as individuals and not some monolith. Only judge the dysfunctional individuals as dysfunctional. Leave everyone else alone.
Who, sargon or the interviewer? I wanted the original video, but couldn't find it. Agreed No blacks get any of the first benefits for which they first worked and sacrificed for? How are whites the most helped by AA? What subsidies and tax breaks are only for whites? You do understand that AA is given just for being black right, no tax break or subsidy is given just for being white. Right, shes making excuses for black communities and blacks being oppressed because of white privilege, then saying if black fathers stayed in the home, they would be better off. Sure, he has an anti-black agenda. I agree, and the biggest proponents of blacks having a black identity are other blacks. You see this with all the condemnations against Kanye and Candice ownens, and any other black who is in favor of republicans.
