Posted on 09/11/2014 9:37:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Six kids from the block where Michael Brown was killed tell the truth about race with some humor in video.
Six kids from Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was shot and killed, have something to say about the state of racism in a humorous video called "Hey White People: A Kinda Awkward Note to America by #Ferguson Kids" created by the T-shirt company FCKH8.com.
"Sometimes white people are like, 'But is racism still a thing?' Spoiler alert: Duh. Just because Beyoncé is on your playlist and you voted for Obama, doesn't mean that our generation has seen the end of racist drama," they say in a series of clips.
"All this focus on race makes me uncomfortable. Uncomfortable? Try being Black," the smart kids continue. They then run down facts about racial disparities in America — from stop-and-frisk numbers to employment discrimination.
"Do you know that employers don't even need to see the color of our skin for the discrimination to begin?" one girl said. "Resumes with Black sounding names, like Tenisha or Tyrone, are 50 percent less likely to get called in for a job interview than the exact same resume with white-sounding names."
The video also had some humorous parts. "Some of my best friends are Black," says one boy. Another boy claps his hands in applause at the fact. "You get a cookie," one of the smallest kids says and holds the reward up to the screen.
During the video, the kids wear T-shirts that declare, "Racism is not over, but I'm over racism."
The video is promoting a fundraiser for five different anti-racism causes. For every tee or hoodie sold, $5 will be donated to organizations fighting to make change, the website states.
Two days before he was set to begin college, Michael Brown, 18, was killed Aug. 9 by Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. The tragic death has brought the issue of police brutality back to the nation's attention. The city of Ferguson has erupted in protests and cries for justice for the teen.
Just how many white people do these little tikes actually know?
How many black victims have been assaulted by playaz of the Knock Out Game?
Just don't bother me with it because I don't care.
I have no time for a message about a killed thug who got what he deserved.
Adults who tell black children that white people will never accept them are bigots who spread hate and infect the minds of subsequent generations.
It'll never end until the black separatists (who MLK Jr. himself rightly called out as bigots) get over themselves.
As my Dad was found of saying: I’m not a racist - I hate all people equally.
Chris Rock says every black person needs one white friend..
why I do not know.
They hate “appropriating our culture,” minstrel shows, blackface and all that but then they put out a video like this? Who named those people Tenisha or Tyrone, some white overseer? Nope.
Here is what they say: Racism is still a thing.
Here is what their handlers mean: Racism is our meal ticket.
Apparently FCKH8 (the company behind this that is being pimped by Paramount/Viacom’s BET network) is a vile/viral marketing company also pushing the homofascist mantra... Found this while searching the youtube: “LGBT rights & kicks a$$ fundraising T-shirts!”
How does it feel to have politics co-opted for fashion/fascism and capitalist coffers?
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody White and feel relieved.”
— Jesse Jackson
The Color of Suspicion.
By Jeffrey Goldberg.
Published: June 20, 1999.
New York Times
some of their best friends are white
“Resumes with Black sounding names, like Tenisha or Tyrone, are 50 percent less likely to get called in for a job interview than the exact same resume with white-sounding names.”
Yep, that’s true, but so what? You are going to be judged on everything, from the formatting of the resume, to the spelling, to the crazy name your parents gave you. If your parents were dippy hippies and named you “Mountain Flower”, I’d throw that in the trash too.
Hey I got called a bigot right here on Free Republic yesterday, acvtually was 2 guys here tag teaming on me
Hey I got called a bigot right here on Free Republic yesterday, acvtually was 2 guys here tag teaming on me
Communist activists are bitter clingers...
Who cares?
“Do you know that employers don’t even need to see the color of our skin for the discrimination to begin?”
Because La-A (pronounced Ladasha) is a perfectly reasonable name to name a child that you would like to grow up some day and be a CEO of a major corporation, I mean just the other day the CEO of.....well....I mean....okay well no serious person with a serious job is named La-A but someone could be.
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