What gives you the place to call it "backwards"? Everyone has opinions and as long as it isn't clearly threatening, which this story is not, it deserves to be given the same platform as anything else.
Your use of the word beginning with n in your username could easily be seen as threatening to black people, given the history of the redneck racists who persist in using it because they're in some pre-civil rights time warp
Well you do have a black president: do you think that would've happened last century? And I'm sure the black people in the south who had to fight so hard for a vote appreciate their civil rights. To suggest that any poor people are content with poverty indicates your own blinkered privileged position.
Civil Rights were only the start: equality takes a long time to achieve, especially in a country with an economy built on slavery of blacks and genocide and dispossession of the original owners.
Slavery exists right now in many African countries at far greater numbers than ever did in America. It hasn't and doesn't help those countries, does it?
Privilege is earned, not given away. When you give it away as politically correct people wish to do, privilege loses its stature.
Blacks exist in America living a desegregationist's dream. They have every opportunity, especially considering "affirmative action". They still refuse to assimilate.
Why would they want to assimilate with the likes of you? Assimilation can be another form of genocide because it leads to loss of culture and identity: why don't you try it? Strange isn't it, no-one ever suggests white people should assimilate with other cultures, presumably because ethnocentric people assume their culture is the best on earth.
People in the countries you mention were all colonised by white powers for centuries: they'll work it out when they can. If their riches hadn't been plundered and still are they'd all be in a much better position.
Who's talking about privilege? The issue was civil RIGHTS not privilege - more comprehension problems?
Your history is so off its barely worth debating. Black tribes sold other tribes that were conquered into bondage. White explorers didn't "conquer" or "colonize" anything in Africa, other than South Africa, which Dutch settlers set up, and as coincidence would have it is a highly functioning society.
They'd be in a good position if they had organizational skills, which as a whole they seem to lack. Sure outliers exist, but no culture takes on the characteristics of its outliers.
You discredit yourself in your first sentence. America is a white society, created, organized and founded by white men. Asians have no problem assimilating, why is it that blacks seem to? And it's not assumption about a culture being successful when it's economically proven to be.
I got a serious problem. But it's normal, yes?
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What gives you the place to call it "backwards"? Everyone has opinions and as long as it isn't clearly threatening, which this story is not, it deserves to be given the same platform as anything else.
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Your use of the word beginning with n in your username could easily be seen as threatening to black people, given the history of the redneck racists who persist in using it because they're in some pre-civil rights time warp
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And what has giving them "civil rights" resulted in? Poverty, and they seem content with that.
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Well you do have a black president: do you think that would've happened last century? And I'm sure the black people in the south who had to fight so hard for a vote appreciate their civil rights. To suggest that any poor people are content with poverty indicates your own blinkered privileged position.
Civil Rights were only the start: equality takes a long time to achieve, especially in a country with an economy built on slavery of blacks and genocide and dispossession of the original owners.
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Slavery exists right now in many African countries at far greater numbers than ever did in America. It hasn't and doesn't help those countries, does it?
Privilege is earned, not given away. When you give it away as politically correct people wish to do, privilege loses its stature.
Blacks exist in America living a desegregationist's dream. They have every opportunity, especially considering "affirmative action". They still refuse to assimilate.
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Why would they want to assimilate with the likes of you? Assimilation can be another form of genocide because it leads to loss of culture and identity: why don't you try it? Strange isn't it, no-one ever suggests white people should assimilate with other cultures, presumably because ethnocentric people assume their culture is the best on earth.
People in the countries you mention were all colonised by white powers for centuries: they'll work it out when they can. If their riches hadn't been plundered and still are they'd all be in a much better position.
Who's talking about privilege? The issue was civil RIGHTS not privilege - more comprehension problems?
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Your history is so off its barely worth debating. Black tribes sold other tribes that were conquered into bondage. White explorers didn't "conquer" or "colonize" anything in Africa, other than South Africa, which Dutch settlers set up, and as coincidence would have it is a highly functioning society.
They'd be in a good position if they had organizational skills, which as a whole they seem to lack. Sure outliers exist, but no culture takes on the characteristics of its outliers.
You discredit yourself in your first sentence. America is a white society, created, organized and founded by white men. Asians have no problem assimilating, why is it that blacks seem to? And it's not assumption about a culture being successful when it's economically proven to be.
Still claiming to only use one username, eh? Whilre replying with several on the same story?
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Yes, repression of the right to speak how you feel requires it. People like you are the problem.
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Who is repressing your right to speak? Not paranoid by any chance?
Preach it !!
As Rosabella says on the other side haha