Civil Rights icon calls white wokeness 'insulting' to black Americans

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  1. fmw

    fmw Well-Known Member

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    I can see you weren't around prior to the 1960's.
     
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    We have the video, and lots and lots of it. And we have plenty of video of various Trumpster mobs, I also have personal experience with Trumpster yelling racial epitaphs at blacks from out of truck windows.

    Racist comments are very much the norm amongst the angry white reactionaries on this forum, and have been for years.
     
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    Anybody see Tucker Carlson's take on the Dr Suess issue?

    He identified some of Theodor Seuss Geisel's stories that basically preached a colorblind message. The man was not racist at all.
    A message similar to MLK's assertion that we should judge people not by color but by character. That message today according to Tucker is what scares libocrats the most today.

    It is basically the same thing Morgan Freeman talked about. Libocrats want skin color and tribe to matter the most.

     
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    There is nothing 'racist' with seeing the differences between races, skin color, nationality, gender, and so forth. It's what you do with that information, if anything.

    I agree, the overuse of the word 'racist' has devalued it to a point that it's almost worthless. Bigot is likely closer to what people actually mean, but maybe don't know the word(?).
     
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    So you honestly believe black voters of the era were actually going to vote for the people "Democrats" apposed to there freedom from slavery and to VOTE!

    WOW that takes a fair amount of imagination..
     
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    How many times does the black community rage about their treatment at the hands of police? Yet nothing changes.
     
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    It's been my experience the very best places to observe racism is in large cities and blocks that border Blacks and Hispanic, or Blacks and Asian, or Asian and Hispanics so on and so forth.. Whites consciously bend over backwards to be polite and cordial with all races especially Black.

    On the other hand they are certainly not greeted in the same way by other races and as we all have seen, guilted at every turn by them, WHILE nothing is said about their obvious hatred of other races..
     
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    Part of that is, they never change either..
     
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    Do they 'rage' about the treatment of their people at the hands of their people?

    Those law enforcement that violate basic principals of any individual, need to be held accountable. Skin color doesn't matter.
     
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    well that explains it, I avoid cities like the plague. Overpopulation and crowding + liberal rule = racist cesspools, apparently.
     
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    WOW I did not know that, thanks for the clip, I guess more examples of the misinform eating their own..
     
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    You lost me at "Libocrat".

    What is a "Libocrat"?

    Anyway, as to the OP?

    Any article referring to Bob Woodson as a "Civil Rights Icon" is a stretch.

    Most people have never even heard of him.

    Sure, he is entitled to his opinion.

    But, regardless of what Woodson may (or may not) have been in the past, at this point, Woodson is showing signs of a Senile 83-Year-Old Man (being used by a Delusional Extreme RW Propagandist (Solomon)) to push an agenda.
     
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    I just find the narrow narrative of racism being preached today in the U.S. is always white and black when it's hardly that anymore..
     
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    Very good question!
     
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    And Biden will be 82 by the time he come round to re-election, plus he has had two brain bleeds..

    So what's your point again?
     
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    Every liberal must watch this ASAP! I love Morgan!
     
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    We all wish they would watch Morgan and take it to heart. It's the simplest and most common sense solution. But, Leftists are heavily invested in the Victicrat mindset.
     
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    In all honesty, there is so much behind it all that to narrow it down to word choice seems simplistic. But, IMO, that's exactly what needs to happen. It seems that there are slightly different definitions of racism in use. Personally, when I hear racist, I think of the 50s and 60s--how states openly promoted things like segregation. Today, it's different, maybe the laws have changed, but those old attitudes still seem to surface when people get upset.

    My choice of words for this would be 'stereotypes.' Yes, it's a very natural thing to stereotype others, and it's not going to disappear. It's an organizational structure of our human intellect. However, we can make ourselves aware of our own tendency to think in stereotypes and force ourselves to see the fallacies they are filled with.

    Prejudices are made from stereotypes. That's our social shield to protect us from those who look and sound different. Think of a Black kid in a hoodie and with pants sagging below the butt. Are we going to be open minded and not make a judgment? Just the mental image of that kid stirs the stereotypes. Is that racism? I tend to think that there is an element of racism there, but I also believe that dismissing it simply as racism ignores the very foundation of how our minds work and interpret the world. It blocks the road to improvement.

    Our prejudices rise from our stereotypes and are often labeled racist. Our whole society is structured around a White dominated world view. It's full of prejudices and stereotypes. If you attack me and call my world view racist, it's natural for me to get defensive and not work towards some kind of solution. I'm more open to being asked to look at my prejudices and talk about where they come from.
     
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    Yeah, and the Justice Department’s assessment of racial issues in the Ferguson government and police was scathing. They confirmed the pattern of harassment was very easy to spot, and is institutional.


    “As detailed in our report, this investigation found a community that was deeply polarized, and where deep distrust and hostility often characterized interactions between police and area residents,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “Our investigation showed that Ferguson police officers routinely violate the Fourth Amendment in stopping people without reasonable suspicion, arresting them without probable cause, and using unreasonable force against them. Now that our investigation has reached its conclusion, it is time for Ferguson’s leaders to take immediate, wholesale and structural corrective action. The report we have issued and the steps we have taken are only the beginning of a necessarily resource-intensive and inclusive process to promote reconciliation, to reduce and eliminate bias, and to bridge gaps and build understanding.”

    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/just...civil-rights-investigations-ferguson-missouri
     
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    That’s all it has to be for this crowd.
     
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    Your post is a weak attempt at a substitution argument.
     
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    This is exactly what Trump said.

    “"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best; they're not sending you," Trump said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

    The good people end, was a typical Trump trick to plant the racist dog whistle to be heard loud and clear by the target audience and the gratuitously inserting a weak disclaimer. That’s there so the bigots who hear the shout can hide behind the whimper.
     
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    Words really do matter, and since they are used freely, and usually incorrectly, they have lost a great deal of meaning.

    I have no 'stereotypical' prejudices, each individual stands for themselves. It's something a great number of people can't seem to wrap their head around. As to the saggy bottom jeans, I've seen it across all skin colors and nationalities. They make up their own subgroup of 'unimpressed', lol. If you want to call that a 'judgement', that's fine.

    I do 'judge' others, such as posters on here, who attempt to pigeon-hole people based on presumptions. Disagreement on a subject does not make one a Republican or a Democrat, yet that is the paintbrush used. I get very tired of it.
     
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    So by putting his words into print, may I suggest you look at what words you use... there is a difference between 'they're' and 'their', and the inference.
     
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    Libocrat-A far right wing person who supports the fascist democrat party and Neocon candidates like Joe Biden.

    AKA libotard.
     
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