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A Very Scary Situation (race relations)
The American Spectator ^ | December 10, 2014 | Ben Stein

Posted on 12/10/2014 10:10:52 AM PST by reaganaut1

A disturbing conversation with one of my smartest, most astute friends who is from a border state but has been observing race relations for a long time now. He is white. He is definitely idiosyncratic. This, in paraphrase, is what he said:

“I keep reading in the newspapers and seeing in the mainstream media how angry blacks are at whites over the Trayvon Martin case, the Ferguson case and the Staten Island case. And what the media is missing is that as angry as the blacks are at the whites, that’s how angry many — not all — whites are at the blacks. Blacks ask for reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, as if paying today’s twenty-year-old crack addict had anything to do with his ten times removed grandfather being a slave or could make any difference at all to the soul of that slave.

“What I wonder is when white people are going to start asking black people for reparations for wrecking the public schools, for destroying urban life in many cities, for the insanely disproportionate share of armed robberies, homicides, and rapes they commit? When are black people going to pay reparations for putting the whole nation in fear?”

I heard this from a man about my age and I would chalk it up to one person’s oddness except that I hear words a bit like these constantly these days from white people.

Except during the era of school busing in the seventies, I have never heard or seen whites so angry at blacks. Al Sharpton has done what he set out to do and so has Eric Holder. They have fanned the flames of racial anger to a white hot pitch.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
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To: Bon mots
Then you are blamed because blacks - who are less intelligent - are given preferences in education over white or asian children who merit the 'seats'. You are supposedly 'privileged' or somesuch due to the fact that you worked hard to achieve something and have a higher IQ.

Ummmm...I've got black friends and co-workers....that are very intelligent. Professionals!! Doctors, Physical Therapists, Nurses....Rad Techs..etc...etc...

You need to re-think that comment

61 posted on 12/10/2014 11:26:34 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: reaganaut1

Sorry Ben, but I think I’ll turn it over to Bushmaster and pray for a steady aim for those 300 meter shots.


62 posted on 12/10/2014 11:28:18 AM PST by technically right
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To: Bon mots

Most importantly, for every MRAP deployed against the 2nd Amendment there would have been thousands of less defended voters that called for its deployment. If the people who voted to send the MRAP against you are no longer around, the MRAP will just go home.


63 posted on 12/10/2014 11:29:17 AM PST by The Toll
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To: MtnMan101
And what happens when the KKK rises up again?

It's not your grandfather's KKK.


64 posted on 12/10/2014 11:31:08 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: GOPJ

Gawd Lets Pray your right.


65 posted on 12/10/2014 11:32:29 AM PST by MtnMan101
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To: Bon mots
The jackboots manning those vehicles will not be locals. The Butchers of Beijing learned that the hard way with the famous photo of the guy blocking the tank at Tianenmen Square. The guy driving it was a local. They came back with the tanks manned by farm boys from distant provinces and they mowed anybody down who stood in their way.

Won't be locals manning the MRAPS. They'll be from Guatemala and South Central LA and they won't give a rat's behind.

66 posted on 12/10/2014 11:34:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Osage Orange
You need to re-think that comment.

True that, I too have met some wonderful black people who did not have that chip on their shoulders.

On a statistical basis, however, blacks as a race are disadvantaged in a Gaussian distribution kind of way. Many individuals rise above the vengeant tide of mediocrity and are truly wonderful human beings. Sadly, they are the true minority.

67 posted on 12/10/2014 11:34:51 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: reaganaut1
Reparations?

How about the $20 trillion the Great Society has already cost us? Can we count that on the payments too?

68 posted on 12/10/2014 11:35:22 AM PST by Gritty (The liberal gleichschaltung; get with the program or be flattened by it - Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Bon mots
And what happens when the KKK rises up again?

It is now called the Progressive Caucus. It was and remains an offshoot of the Democratic Party.

69 posted on 12/10/2014 11:35:56 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Won't be locals manning the MRAPS. They'll be from Guatemala and South Central LA and they won't give a rat's behind.

They will have a harder time pulling that on Americans than Americans/Russians/British had trying it in Afghanistan.

70 posted on 12/10/2014 11:36:20 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: colorado tanker
Well, I'll admit I'm pissed.

I'm not pissed. I am resolved. Cold. Calculating. Preparations have been made. No hate. No rage. Just swift retribution. Should be 'nuff said.

71 posted on 12/10/2014 11:38:37 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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To: Bon mots
Fair enough...

Watch the broad brush.

That's all I ask....

72 posted on 12/10/2014 11:38:49 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The jackboots manning those vehicles will not be locals.

If it comes to jackboots manning armored vehicles, one would be foolish to attack them when they come looking for a fight.

Instead, wait. And wait. And wait. At some point, they have to come out of that MRAP. They will be tired. Not itching for a fight anymore. Just wanting to go home. They will want to be anywhere but inside that MRAP - they wanted a fight. They wanted to hurt people. Not sit in a cramped, smelly MRAP without food or water. Make them stay in it. Don't fight them while they're in it. At some point they have to come out.

Make sure they don't go home.

Of course, if it comes to that...

73 posted on 12/10/2014 11:40:28 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
That will be the first mission of Obola’s domestic army.

"Unintended Consequences". A good read.

74 posted on 12/10/2014 11:40:56 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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To: reaganaut1

Oh yea ... I am done with it ... everyone I know is done with it ... Black fatigue has reached maximum levels, and one day soon they are going to push that one last millimeter, and all hell is going to break lose.


75 posted on 12/10/2014 11:42:02 AM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: DJ Taylor
We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.

Unfortunately, your post is probably prophetic. I do wonder, however, why the gene that governed "common sense" seems not to have survived.
76 posted on 12/10/2014 11:42:21 AM PST by jjsheridan5 (Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
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To: reaganaut1

bkmk


77 posted on 12/10/2014 11:51:09 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What I Saw At The Coup
78 posted on 12/10/2014 11:54:26 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: MrB

!

Thanks MrB, you are right! : > )


79 posted on 12/10/2014 11:55:14 AM PST by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: jjsheridan5
" I do wonder, however, why the gene that governed "common sense" seems not to have survived."

Years ago, when I worked in West Africa, my interpreter, a Mr. Dau, was, hands down, the most intelligent man I have ever known. He had graduated from several European universities, and could discuss anything you cared to discuss in any of five European languages. One day, in one of our many discussions, he so astounded me with his summation that I blurted out, "Mr. Dau, in my over fifty years living in the United States, I've never met an American black man with your level of intelligence.

In response, Mr. Dau replied with the question, "Why do you think we sold them to you?"

80 posted on 12/10/2014 12:02:11 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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