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ESPN Radio Host: "It is White Peoples Responsibility to Fix Racism"
The Social Memo ^ | 6/22/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 06/22/2015 9:56:19 AM PDT by rightistight

ESPN radio host and TV commentator Bomani Jones wrote in a series of emotional messages on Twitter yesterday that "it is white people's responsibility to fix racism" and that white people need to think about their "complicity in the racism of America."

In the tweets, which were first reported by the Social Memo, Jones called out "white supremacy" and "privilege," while also saying that liberals and conservatives are part of that structure, if they're white.

Over the course of a few hours, Jones went from analyzing racism in the United States to telling white people that they need to analyze their "complicity" in racism.

First, he wrote that his humanity was being "ignored" because he is African American:

Later, he wrote that "all white people" need to "consider their complicity in the racism of America:"

...Jones then claimed "it is white people's responsibility to fix racism:"

Next, Jones corrected people's grammar, while also making grammatical errors:


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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackkk; bomanijones; charleston; elijahcummings; espn; lorettalynch; maryland; naacp; racheldolezal; racism; redistribution; reparations; southcarolina; transracial; whiteprivilege
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To: rightistight

1. Who will fix black racism or anti-semitism or other similar things?
2. How can one individual stop another individual from being a jerk?
3. We will never cure humanity of evil. Fix it in one spot and I guarantee it will crop up in another, even if only a mutated version.
4. Who will fix the tendency to blame an entire group for the evil act of an individual or at least to make blame-connections that are completely bogus in order to reap personal and/or political advantage?


21 posted on 06/22/2015 10:12:59 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: rightistight

I thought whites weren’t qualified to discuss racism? If they can’t talk about it, how can they fix it?


22 posted on 06/22/2015 10:15:48 AM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: rightistight

I hardly know where to begin.

I have a neighbor who ALWAYS parks his car in a manner which makes it impossible for the person parked next to him to even get into their car.

And .. when his neighbor is parked next to him, he is always snooping around their car .. looking in all the windows, like he’s looking to see if there’s anything inside the car he might want. I’ve seen him doing this.

SO, HE WANTS ME TO RESPECT HIM .. WHILE HE HAS NO RESPECT FOR ANY OF US ..??????? AND I’M SUPPOSED TO FIX THIS .. IT’S NOT MINE TO FIX.


23 posted on 06/22/2015 10:16:36 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: rightistight

Top rule for me growing up, and I enforce it both at home and at work, is don’t point out a problem without offering up a solution.

I’ve yet to see any leader or commentator of stature offer any solution other than taking down the ANoVA flag and gun control. Has anyone else?

I think that what’s happening here is first trying to get people to take responsibility/admit complicity, which then makes it easier to dictate solutions to them.


24 posted on 06/22/2015 10:20:01 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: rightistight
ESPN was supposed to be about sports.
ESPN has not played in my house for years.
25 posted on 06/22/2015 10:25:57 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: rightistight
Assuming all of a certain ethnicity share some negative trait is the definition of racism.

These foolish boobs seem not to understand that.

26 posted on 06/22/2015 10:30:16 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: rightistight

I have no responsibility for other people’s actions, so don’t blame me.


27 posted on 06/22/2015 10:34:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: rightistight

It’s everybody’s responsibility. And racism will always exist … at least in splinters. This country has come a long way since the 60s. The only setbacks I’ve ever seen have happened since bambi took over as president. He has sown only division and has done little to nothing to do anything about mending black/white relations.


28 posted on 06/22/2015 10:42:02 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: rightistight

So Jackson, Sharpton, Wright and so many, many other lesser known blacks can run around the country, HECK! the World, causing racial tensions everywhere they touchdown, but it’s up to the Whites to repair the damage they have done!?

IF we were to fall for that one, then we’d be about as stupid as those saying it.


29 posted on 06/22/2015 10:47:41 AM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: rightistight

Ok then it is black people’s job to replace my car window and radio a black guy stole from my car.


30 posted on 06/22/2015 10:53:57 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: cuban leaf

OK, I will volunteer to fix it. I have ten dollars to contribute to the fare of anyone to any other country who feels they are the subject of racism in the US.


31 posted on 06/22/2015 10:54:43 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: rightistight

And it’s Black peoples responsibility to do...let me guess....do utterly nothing.


32 posted on 06/22/2015 10:59:27 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: rightistight
I go to the same Dunkin Donuts near my house all the time. Frequently - not daily, but frequently - a car will be parked or idling, directly in front of the door to the store, so that customers must walk around it to go in and out from the parking lot. This is inconsiderate, as well as illegal (it is a no parking/fire zone).

I have seen this many, many times over the past several years, done by many, many different people. And yet, ALL of them, I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE, had something in common. Anyone care to guess what it is?

33 posted on 06/22/2015 11:05:41 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: grobdriver

Some random black person is tasking me with “fixing” a problem stemming from the random mentally ill persons that might be out there in the community simply because I’m white?? Really? Cuz all white folk are psychiatrists. And have precognition. Yeah.


34 posted on 06/22/2015 11:08:53 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: DugwayDuke

Cuz you know, we’re damned if we do and also if we don’t. They want it that way. This way the perpetual victim wheel can keep going round and round with no end in sight.


35 posted on 06/22/2015 11:10:34 AM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: rightistight

I’ll be glad to fix it.

All I need is some duct tape to slap over al sharptons mouth.


36 posted on 06/22/2015 11:12:24 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: rightistight

Rachel Dolenz says that white people can’t talk about racism. How does she know I’m white? Maybe I should curl my hair...


37 posted on 06/22/2015 11:20:22 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: rightistight
We Didn't Start the Fire
38 posted on 06/22/2015 11:23:42 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: rightistight

People respond differently to tragedy and death: Some mourn quietly, some express their grief and frustration publicly, and others — such as this sports commentator and so many others like him — behave like irrational, uneducated, amoral idiots who spout nonsense and are not to be taken seriously.


39 posted on 06/22/2015 11:27:46 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: rightistight

Sorry, I’d love to help, but I was guilted into renouncing my white privilege.


40 posted on 06/22/2015 11:45:39 AM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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