As an American you are right. However, it is really the white liberals stirring the race pot. We do have a history in this country that we cannot discount, but there are people who have found ways to profit from continuing friction. This includes "community organizers" that live on government funds and private donations, politicians who obviously find money everywhere, and many in between. As long as there is a perceived problem these people can raise money claiming to be able to fight the problem.
When you get right down to it, I don't believe we have a race problem as much as we have a greed problem.
Honestly I agree with this. In my school we have a large percentage of African Americans and some are always just saying things that are racist, AND accusing white people of being racist for pretty much no reason.
No. Mostly because there's this double standard like "what are you? 1/8 Native American? That's nothing lol." Then they'll be like "I'm 1/16 Puerto Rican so I'm mixed :3." It's quite ridiculous how people care that much. (Btw Idk my percentage.)
It really is stupid but if you play with that I'm sure you can get some awesome reactions
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1. Blacks think that they can play some stupid ass "race card". No. We aren't immune to racism and we never will be.
2. We think we black can have these "all-black" events, and TV shows and shit. We somehow have a month(every minority race has a month, look it up) known as Black History Month where people look up shit about black people and post it everywhere. Yeah, great way to remember people who did great things. I'm sure they would've loved being remembered for one day as some random ass fact on Facebook. And these black tv shows only show how dramatic and dumb people can be, yet its "empowering black people". Empowering my ass.
3. Why the fuck do we say black? Thank for erasing my identity of Native and African American(with some Haitian in) and putting me in a bucket full of people who are completely different from me.
4. WHY IN GODS ALMIGHTY NAME DO WE USE A RACIAL SLUR AS A NORMAL GREETING? It's. A. Goddamn. Insult.
There, rant over.
I'm called "white", erasing my specific identity, as well.
Welcome to the club, dude. Not everyone in life knows you well enough to address you how you'd like.
"3. Why the fuck do we say black? Thank for erasing my identity of Native and African American(with some Haitian in) and putting me in a bucket full of people who are completely different from me. "
Because that's what we do for all groups - White, Black, Native American, etc. - if someone who lives in the US has parents from Cuba and is also black they are not African American, if anything they are Cuban American, just as using the term "African American" would include Charlize Theron. There will never be a perfect system, but using those groups helps with demographics and useful things like anticipated health risks - it's not saying you as a unique individual need to disregard your heritage. Just as a library catalogs books as fiction vs sci fi vs romance vs young adult, etc., the book isn't necessarily just the main category without any of the others mixed in, but if you're searching for a type of book that genre categorization will point you in the right direction.
We've got to be able to describe each other, but "black" shouldn't be an identity. Nor, of course, should white, Latino, Asian, etc. And no, I'm not talking about ethnicity or heritage. No one is from a country called "Latin" or "Asia". Keeping in touch with one's Columbian heritage, for instance, is not the same as identifying someone as "Latino" instead of "American".
My "description" is WHITE. My "heritage" is GERMAN. But my "identity" is AMERICAN.
Because race is simply what you look like. I thought the whole idea was supposed to be equality and everyone living together in peace and harmony and all that happy horse shit.
Dividing ourselves by something as stupid as how we look will never bring us together.
And besides, there is much more to being an American than simply where you live. I'm talking about culture and a SHARED identity. Think of it as a fandom if that helps you. It's extremely sad that this concept is no longer taught in schools.
Not necessarily, and if we divide ourselves up by nationality we might end up having issues between nations. What your point?
Also, ethnicity is more than just skin color.
How can we have issues between nations? I am only speaking of The US. Other nations are free to segregate or integrate themselves as they see fit.
Let me try to be a little more specific. Americans need to start thinking of themselves, and referring to themselves, as Americans, or if you like we can all simply be humans. This history of thinking of ourselves as "black" people, or as "white" people, or as "gay" people, is what is dividing us and just plain screwing us up.
I see such differences as nothing more than cosmetic; you have black skin, Jenny has red hair, Julio has a tan I'd kill for, but we are all the same human beings.
"I am only speaking of The US. Other nations are free to segregate or integrate themselves as they see fit."
So this principles don't apply to other nations? Why?
"Let me try to be a little more specific. Americans need to start thinking of themselves, and referring to themselves, as Americans"
They already do that, but most people identify as more than just their nationality.
It's perfectly alright to identify a black man as a black man, and it's perfectly alright for to identify a gay person is gay. You're just not supposed to judge them as people based on those things.
Also, I'm confused as to why you equate nationality with simply being humans, it's much closer to identifying as gay or black.
Also also, race, and sexual orientation aren't "cosmetic" they're just largely irrelevant to judging a person's character.
It's a simple concept for most people to understand. Let me try to oversimplify it for you. We. Are. Not. All. Gay. Or. Black. Or. White. Or take-your-fucking-pick. We are, however, all human beings. Most of us are Americans, regardless of from where we once came. When people like you insist on categorizing us according to narrow, meaningless, and divisive standards we cannot, and will never have racial harmony.
In order to stop bigotry and racial strife we must concentrate on the many things we all have in common, and stop dwelling on the petty shit that makes everyone just a little bit different.
BTW, yes these things are, in fact, cosmetic. They are insignificant, superficial, and visual only. Just like makeup. One of the dictionary definitions of the word "cosmetic" is: "affecting only the appearance of something rather than its substance."
"We. Are. Not. All. Gay. Or. Black. Or. White. Or take-your-fucking-pick. We are, however, all human beings. Most of us are Americans"
Who is "we"?
"When people like you insist on categorizing us according to narrow, meaningless, and divisive standards we cannot, and will never have racial harmony."
Categorizing is not the same thing as judging. Racial harmony is entirely possible while at the same time acknowledging race/ethnicity/etc.
"In order to stop bigotry"
How will this stop bigotry?
"They are insignificant, superficial, and visual only. Just like makeup. One of the dictionary definitions of the word "cosmetic" is: "affecting only the appearance of something rather than its substance."
Ethnicity is not visual only, and sexual orientation isn't just superficial.
What the fuck do you want, everyone living in separate neighborhoods and fighting all the fucking time about petty shit? Supposedly that's what you have now.
There is just no reasoning with a hateful racist jackass like you.
That was my frustration. My point was that to get along we need to see each other as we see ourselves, not as this culture or that culture. We will never get over this petty BS about race, sexual orientation, religion, etc. if we keep on segregating ourselves.
My thinking in my earlier response was that anyone who refuses to give up pigeonholing everyone according to stupid criteria, must not want everyone to get along and overcome these meaningless differences. If someone does not want all races to get along, he must be racist. Like I said, that was my thought process on that.
Just for the record, again, I do not see black people, gay people, Muslim or Christian people when I look out at my fellow planet inhabitants. I see another person just like me, who maybe looks slightly different or does things a bit differently than I do. I may think to myself that they seem a little strange, but I also think life would be boring as hell if we were all exactly the same.
"What the fuck do you want, everyone living in separate neighborhoods and fighting all the fucking time about petty shit?"
"My point was that to get along we need to see each other as we see ourselves, not as this culture or that culture."
It is possible to recognize that other people are different and also not fight with them.
"anyone who refuses to give up pigeonholing everyone according to stupid criteria, must not want everyone to get along and overcome these meaningless differences."
It is also possible to recognize peoples' differences without pigeonholing them based on those differences.
"someone does not want all races to get along"
I never said that.
"Just for the record, again, I do not see black people, gay people, Muslim or Christian people when I look out at my fellow planet inhabitants."
You do no one any favors by pretending not to notice obvious things.
"We all have waaaay more in common than we have differences"
Agreed.
No need to quote my comments, I can remember or reread them.
I never said anything about pretending not to notice obvious things, but the guy down the street with dark skin is no different to me than the girl around the corner with bleached blonde hair. These people are, of course, rhetorical.
What good does it do either them or myself to insist the guy down the street is a "black man" and the girl around the corner is a "tatooed lesbian". Reducing them to mere labels is an insult. They are both much more than black or gay, so why in hell insist that they are a black man and a gay woman? I don't give a damn who she loves or what he happens to look like; I care about whether they are decent people that return my greetings when I see them out on a sunny day.
I'm not saying there are not multiple things that make up one's Identity, I'm only saying skin color, sexual orientation, or ancestral history are not the only things people are.
"No need to quote my comments, I can remember or reread them. "
Duly noted, but I'm still going to do it.
"What good does it do either them or myself to insist the guy down the street is a "black man" and the girl around the corner is a "tatooed lesbian"."
It's good to acknowledge reality.
"Reducing them to mere labels is an insult."
You can acknowledge people's differences without reducing them to only that difference. You can acknowledge than someone is black, and a comedian, and a really good dad, and a war veteran, and whatever all at the same time. The act of labeling someone doesn't automatically "reduce" them to anything. Different people are part of different demographics, that's just a fact.
"I'm only saying skin color, sexual orientation, or ancestral history are not the only things people are."
I never said people are only those things.
But the reality is that ONLY skin color is acknowledged; ONLY sexual orientation is acknowledged. Have you never heard such terms as "the black community", or "the lgbt community", perhaps "the Muslim community"?
Funny we never hear about "the Baptist community", or even "the white community" but that's neither here nor there. And yes, the act of labelling someone according to skin color does, in fact, reduce them to being a "black person" and does place them in "the black demographic". Look at the world around you man; this trend of placing people in these narrowly defined demographics and playing identity politics has created an "us vs them" atmosphere. You can argue that we should acknowledge every aspect of people's identities all day, but I'm afraid you are ignoring the reality around you.
"But the reality is that ONLY skin color is acknowledged; ONLY sexual orientation is acknowledged."
And that's what needs to change.
"Have you never heard such terms as "the black community", or "the lgbt community", perhaps "the Muslim community"?"
Those communities actually exist according to black and LGBT people, that's not people pigeonholing other people, it's people coming together based on culture. I agree that's not particularly helpful to race rations, but it's not the same thing either.
And Islam is an organized religion, not just a demographic.
"And yes, the act of labelling someone according to skin color does, in fact, reduce them to being a "black person""
No it doesn't. Explain.
"and does place them in "the black demographic"."
They are in the black demographic. That's just a fact.
"Look at the world around you man; this trend of placing people in these narrowly defined demographics and playing identity politics has created an "us vs them" atmosphere."
And what needs to change is people need to stop separating people based on those things, not ignore those things all together.
"You can argue that we should acknowledge every aspect of people's identities all day, but I'm afraid you are ignoring the reality around you."
You don't have to constantly bear in mind every aspect of some at all time, that's silly. My point is it's possible to notice someone's black without only seeing them as black. It's like learning that someone is a dentist and not only seeing them as a dentist. It's easy, and people do it all the time.
*sigh. I don't have time right now to address your whole response, but your last one; yes it is possible, but people don't. That is the problem. When we refer to blacks as blacks and reference that as a culture, demographic, identity. We are only seeing them as black. You are right it is possible to not only see a black man, just as it is possible to not only see a red-head. But as a society we do not. We must change our thought patterns in this regard, and this includes blacks that think of themselves as separate.
It appears to me that you understand my point but simply wish to argue on minutiae.
It's not minutiae, we both seem to agree on the problem that exists, but disagree on the solution. You seem to think that we need to somehow learn to completely ignore obvious things (like black people being black), where as I think we need to learn to not prejudge people on these things. I see a black person and I know he's a different race than I am, but I don't assume that he a criminal, or that he likes KFC and watermelons. I don't suddenly lock him into some sort of stereotype that prevents me from seeing him as anything that isn't commonly associated with being black.
No, no, no. I do not think we should ignore these things. It's the little things, such as heritage, religion, etc. that define who we are. (I mean little things in the grand scheme of things, not to belittle someone's self-identity) You said you do not assume he's a criminal, etc. and neither do I, but others do. I'm not really talking about stereotypes or bigotry though. I'm talking about accepting the premise that "black" is an identity, or that "gay" is an identity. These describe us, they should not define us. We end up with a thousand different sub-categories of people. Yes, "they" sometimes segregate themselves, or identify themselves by these narrow descriptions. My thinking is that we all, gay or straight, black or white, short or tall, need to adjust our thought processes or we will never have true equality.
"These describe us, they should not define us."
As far as I know those two words have largely the same definition (besides defining something generally being more accurate than describing), how are you differentiating them in this context?
Also you seem to have changed which of those categories religion falls into. Was that on purpose?
"My thinking is that we all, gay or straight, black or white, short or tall, need to adjust our thought processes or we will never have true equality."
I agree for the most part.
Out of curiosity, how do you define "true equality"?
Basically whatever stops the bitching and whining.
No one group gets any more or less than another. For example affirmative action is not equality any more than "whites only" signs.
Wow, guestwho. For someone who resorts to dismissing people and their comments by trying to classify them as "haters" or whatever, you sure are an angry little guy.
No I'm not angry. I do get annoyed when certain people refuse to see what's right in front of them, but I'm not angry.
I also do not "resort to dismissing" anyone. Some people you just cannot reach; what is the point of continuing to argue reason when they will not join you?
This goes in line with something I witnessed yesterday, I was at the local gas station/store and a black guy was trying to buy beer but didn't have his id (this place cards everyone even the 80 year old owner gets carded every time) so when the clerk denied the sale he called her a raciest slut in front of 15 people! Needless to say he got thrown out of the store.
What about the serious problem of incarceration? As of now, 1 in 3 black men WILL go to jail which is VERY disproportionate to the US population as a whole. In addition, black people are 6x more likely to go to jail for marjuana possession when statistically, white people and black people use marjuana at roughly try same amount? So, I kinda think there's a problem, specifically different treatment of black and white people in the US. Also, people with "black sounding names" (ex. Jamal) are less likely to get good jobs than their white counterparts even if they are both equally qualified.
Just saying.
You know what? That means that black men commit a disproportionate amount if crime, doesn't it. Problem is, this is a lie.
I am aware of the meme that the activists and race hustlers have been pushing for many years that blacks are sent to prison just for being black. I have also seen many "statistics" presented by these activists. I prefer to use real stats.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp
As you can see, according to the Federal Justice Department it is WHITE people who are both arrested and incarcerated more.
That sucks, but that is not the US. We do not really have the issues we supposedly have in regards to race. We have people stirring controversy for personal gain.
We DO NOT have prisons overflowing with innocent black men whose only crime was being black. Do we have innocent people in prison? Yes, the law of averages dictates that some will slip through the cracks. I'll tell you a secret though; they come in every color and ethnicity! And so do the guilty.
That's the narrative, isn't it? Yes, at one time in America this was the case; there is no denying our history with race relations, but things have changed. People who live insular lives, either in small towns, urban ghettos, or just online on Twitter only know what they see and/or are told in their little sphere of experience. Too often "conventional wisdom" and anecdotal evidence are accepted as fact.
Unfortunately, if you look at raw statistics for the nation as a whole, not just at city/regional stats you will find that this is not the case. Anyone can find anything they wish in statistics. I question everything, even if it's saying what I already believe to be the case.
That being said, we're supposed to accept your side of the story as true. Convenient.
P.S. I noticed you used a term Bill O'Reilly has been going on about recently, "race hustlers". I couldn't help but feel like another piece of the puzzle just fell into place.
Amazing you base your opinion on hate.
I provided evidence to back my claim. I provided evidence from possibly the most reliable source available. I don't care if you refuse to accept truth because it doesn't fit into your judgmental, hate-filled paradigm.
If you want my anecdotal evidence; I am a former corrections officer, a former police officer, and a current psychology major, sociology major, and criminology minor. No, I have no clue what I'm talking about.
But the facts I have presented speak for themselves.
And PS: I do not watch O'Reilly, but apparently you do?
Not sure where the hate accusations are coming from. If me poking holes in your logic is making you defensive, try not to hold two opposing views on the internet.
Don't watch O'Reilly, saw a clip of him on The Daily/Nightly Show.
Perhaps hate may be strong, but your reaction to O'Reilly and to my presentation of an opinion that differs from yours, coupled with your last line about "a piece of the puzzle" show your disdain for anyone who contradicts your world view. Your further refusal to accept offered evidence as nothing more than opinion shows a closed-mindedness that I would suggest is unhealthy.
I would also suggest that a comedy show is not exactly a reliable source for information. Especially when Jon Stewart is an unabashed and rabid liberal. As such he certainly doesn't present differing views fairly.
I don't watch him, I saw a clip on O'Reilly!
(That was a zing by the way. Lol)
But poor people are more likely to think about being poor when someone else keeps telling them that everyone else has more money. As for your hungry person analogy, if someone is constantly pointing out that others have more food than they do, that kinda feeds that obsession, no?
I know I have been preoccupied with work or video games or whatever, and didn't realize I hadn't eaten until someone pointed out how late it was and it was past time for dinner. Once they made me aware of it I suddenly became very hungry.
To summarize, even if you are happy in life you start to think maybe you've been shafted after all when someone tells you evey effing day that your life sucks, and that someone somewhere is taking what rightfully belongs to you.
If the race hustlers weren't stirring people up and we all could be allowed to just go about our lives we would all see our commonalities and not just our differences.
When you get right down to it, I don't believe we have a race problem as much as we have a greed problem.
2. We think we black can have these "all-black" events, and TV shows and shit. We somehow have a month(every minority race has a month, look it up) known as Black History Month where people look up shit about black people and post it everywhere. Yeah, great way to remember people who did great things. I'm sure they would've loved being remembered for one day as some random ass fact on Facebook. And these black tv shows only show how dramatic and dumb people can be, yet its "empowering black people". Empowering my ass.
3. Why the fuck do we say black? Thank for erasing my identity of Native and African American(with some Haitian in) and putting me in a bucket full of people who are completely different from me.
4. WHY IN GODS ALMIGHTY NAME DO WE USE A RACIAL SLUR AS A NORMAL GREETING? It's. A. Goddamn. Insult.
There, rant over.
Jk. Slow clap for @serosenpai.
Welcome to the club, dude. Not everyone in life knows you well enough to address you how you'd like.
Because that's what we do for all groups - White, Black, Native American, etc. - if someone who lives in the US has parents from Cuba and is also black they are not African American, if anything they are Cuban American, just as using the term "African American" would include Charlize Theron. There will never be a perfect system, but using those groups helps with demographics and useful things like anticipated health risks - it's not saying you as a unique individual need to disregard your heritage. Just as a library catalogs books as fiction vs sci fi vs romance vs young adult, etc., the book isn't necessarily just the main category without any of the others mixed in, but if you're searching for a type of book that genre categorization will point you in the right direction.
My "description" is WHITE. My "heritage" is GERMAN. But my "identity" is AMERICAN.
Dividing ourselves by something as stupid as how we look will never bring us together.
And besides, there is much more to being an American than simply where you live. I'm talking about culture and a SHARED identity. Think of it as a fandom if that helps you. It's extremely sad that this concept is no longer taught in schools.
Also, ethnicity is more than just skin color.
Let me try to be a little more specific. Americans need to start thinking of themselves, and referring to themselves, as Americans, or if you like we can all simply be humans. This history of thinking of ourselves as "black" people, or as "white" people, or as "gay" people, is what is dividing us and just plain screwing us up.
I see such differences as nothing more than cosmetic; you have black skin, Jenny has red hair, Julio has a tan I'd kill for, but we are all the same human beings.
So this principles don't apply to other nations? Why?
"Let me try to be a little more specific. Americans need to start thinking of themselves, and referring to themselves, as Americans"
They already do that, but most people identify as more than just their nationality.
It's perfectly alright to identify a black man as a black man, and it's perfectly alright for to identify a gay person is gay. You're just not supposed to judge them as people based on those things.
Also, I'm confused as to why you equate nationality with simply being humans, it's much closer to identifying as gay or black.
Also also, race, and sexual orientation aren't "cosmetic" they're just largely irrelevant to judging a person's character.
In order to stop bigotry and racial strife we must concentrate on the many things we all have in common, and stop dwelling on the petty shit that makes everyone just a little bit different.
BTW, yes these things are, in fact, cosmetic. They are insignificant, superficial, and visual only. Just like makeup. One of the dictionary definitions of the word "cosmetic" is: "affecting only the appearance of something rather than its substance."
Who is "we"?
"When people like you insist on categorizing us according to narrow, meaningless, and divisive standards we cannot, and will never have racial harmony."
Categorizing is not the same thing as judging. Racial harmony is entirely possible while at the same time acknowledging race/ethnicity/etc.
"In order to stop bigotry"
How will this stop bigotry?
"They are insignificant, superficial, and visual only. Just like makeup. One of the dictionary definitions of the word "cosmetic" is: "affecting only the appearance of something rather than its substance."
Ethnicity is not visual only, and sexual orientation isn't just superficial.
There is just no reasoning with a hateful racist jackass like you.
My thinking in my earlier response was that anyone who refuses to give up pigeonholing everyone according to stupid criteria, must not want everyone to get along and overcome these meaningless differences. If someone does not want all races to get along, he must be racist. Like I said, that was my thought process on that.
Just for the record, again, I do not see black people, gay people, Muslim or Christian people when I look out at my fellow planet inhabitants. I see another person just like me, who maybe looks slightly different or does things a bit differently than I do. I may think to myself that they seem a little strange, but I also think life would be boring as hell if we were all exactly the same.
"My point was that to get along we need to see each other as we see ourselves, not as this culture or that culture."
It is possible to recognize that other people are different and also not fight with them.
"anyone who refuses to give up pigeonholing everyone according to stupid criteria, must not want everyone to get along and overcome these meaningless differences."
It is also possible to recognize peoples' differences without pigeonholing them based on those differences.
"someone does not want all races to get along"
I never said that.
"Just for the record, again, I do not see black people, gay people, Muslim or Christian people when I look out at my fellow planet inhabitants."
You do no one any favors by pretending not to notice obvious things.
"We all have waaaay more in common than we have differences"
Agreed.
I never said anything about pretending not to notice obvious things, but the guy down the street with dark skin is no different to me than the girl around the corner with bleached blonde hair. These people are, of course, rhetorical.
What good does it do either them or myself to insist the guy down the street is a "black man" and the girl around the corner is a "tatooed lesbian". Reducing them to mere labels is an insult. They are both much more than black or gay, so why in hell insist that they are a black man and a gay woman? I don't give a damn who she loves or what he happens to look like; I care about whether they are decent people that return my greetings when I see them out on a sunny day.
I'm not saying there are not multiple things that make up one's Identity, I'm only saying skin color, sexual orientation, or ancestral history are not the only things people are.
Duly noted, but I'm still going to do it.
"What good does it do either them or myself to insist the guy down the street is a "black man" and the girl around the corner is a "tatooed lesbian"."
It's good to acknowledge reality.
"Reducing them to mere labels is an insult."
You can acknowledge people's differences without reducing them to only that difference. You can acknowledge than someone is black, and a comedian, and a really good dad, and a war veteran, and whatever all at the same time. The act of labeling someone doesn't automatically "reduce" them to anything. Different people are part of different demographics, that's just a fact.
"I'm only saying skin color, sexual orientation, or ancestral history are not the only things people are."
I never said people are only those things.
Funny we never hear about "the Baptist community", or even "the white community" but that's neither here nor there. And yes, the act of labelling someone according to skin color does, in fact, reduce them to being a "black person" and does place them in "the black demographic". Look at the world around you man; this trend of placing people in these narrowly defined demographics and playing identity politics has created an "us vs them" atmosphere. You can argue that we should acknowledge every aspect of people's identities all day, but I'm afraid you are ignoring the reality around you.
And that's what needs to change.
"Have you never heard such terms as "the black community", or "the lgbt community", perhaps "the Muslim community"?"
Those communities actually exist according to black and LGBT people, that's not people pigeonholing other people, it's people coming together based on culture. I agree that's not particularly helpful to race rations, but it's not the same thing either.
And Islam is an organized religion, not just a demographic.
No it doesn't. Explain.
"and does place them in "the black demographic"."
They are in the black demographic. That's just a fact.
"Look at the world around you man; this trend of placing people in these narrowly defined demographics and playing identity politics has created an "us vs them" atmosphere."
And what needs to change is people need to stop separating people based on those things, not ignore those things all together.
"You can argue that we should acknowledge every aspect of people's identities all day, but I'm afraid you are ignoring the reality around you."
You don't have to constantly bear in mind every aspect of some at all time, that's silly. My point is it's possible to notice someone's black without only seeing them as black. It's like learning that someone is a dentist and not only seeing them as a dentist. It's easy, and people do it all the time.
It appears to me that you understand my point but simply wish to argue on minutiae.
As far as I know those two words have largely the same definition (besides defining something generally being more accurate than describing), how are you differentiating them in this context?
Also you seem to have changed which of those categories religion falls into. Was that on purpose?
"My thinking is that we all, gay or straight, black or white, short or tall, need to adjust our thought processes or we will never have true equality."
I agree for the most part.
Out of curiosity, how do you define "true equality"?
No one group gets any more or less than another. For example affirmative action is not equality any more than "whites only" signs.
I also do not "resort to dismissing" anyone. Some people you just cannot reach; what is the point of continuing to argue reason when they will not join you?
Just saying.
I am aware of the meme that the activists and race hustlers have been pushing for many years that blacks are sent to prison just for being black. I have also seen many "statistics" presented by these activists. I prefer to use real stats.
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp
https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp
As you can see, according to the Federal Justice Department it is WHITE people who are both arrested and incarcerated more.
We DO NOT have prisons overflowing with innocent black men whose only crime was being black. Do we have innocent people in prison? Yes, the law of averages dictates that some will slip through the cracks. I'll tell you a secret though; they come in every color and ethnicity! And so do the guilty.
Unfortunately, if you look at raw statistics for the nation as a whole, not just at city/regional stats you will find that this is not the case. Anyone can find anything they wish in statistics. I question everything, even if it's saying what I already believe to be the case.
P.S. I noticed you used a term Bill O'Reilly has been going on about recently, "race hustlers". I couldn't help but feel like another piece of the puzzle just fell into place.
I provided evidence to back my claim. I provided evidence from possibly the most reliable source available. I don't care if you refuse to accept truth because it doesn't fit into your judgmental, hate-filled paradigm.
If you want my anecdotal evidence; I am a former corrections officer, a former police officer, and a current psychology major, sociology major, and criminology minor. No, I have no clue what I'm talking about.
But the facts I have presented speak for themselves.
And PS: I do not watch O'Reilly, but apparently you do?
Don't watch O'Reilly, saw a clip of him on The Daily/Nightly Show.
I don't watch him, I saw a clip on O'Reilly!
(That was a zing by the way. Lol)
If you're still not experiencing any cognitive dissonance, might I suggest re-reading your own comments?
*sarcasm*
I know I have been preoccupied with work or video games or whatever, and didn't realize I hadn't eaten until someone pointed out how late it was and it was past time for dinner. Once they made me aware of it I suddenly became very hungry.
To summarize, even if you are happy in life you start to think maybe you've been shafted after all when someone tells you evey effing day that your life sucks, and that someone somewhere is taking what rightfully belongs to you.
If the race hustlers weren't stirring people up and we all could be allowed to just go about our lives we would all see our commonalities and not just our differences.