Posted on 02/10/2016 10:15:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
An animated film designed as a lesson in "racial discourse" for students at a Virginia high school has led to backlash from community members who've taken issue with not-so subtle references to so-called white privilege throughout the video. [...]
Officials at Glen Allen High School in Henrico said in a statement that the video, "The Unequal Opportunity Race," was a presentation involving "American history and racial discourse." [...]
As the video begins, four athletes take their marks at the start of a race. While two white athletes immediately take off at the sound of the starting gun, two non-white athletes must remain in the starting block while a red light blocks their path. The non-white athletes are bombarded with words such as "slavery," "broken treaties," "genocide" and "segregation." The white athletes continually run around the track, getting older as their batons -- marked with a money symbol -- grow larger and larger. Eventually they hand the baton off to a younger white athlete running beside them. ...
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Today in America, any given black person is more likely to have ancestors who profited from the slave trade than any given white person is. This is partly due to immigration, from both Africa and Europe, in the generations before and especially after the end of slavery, but also due to blacks’ largely overlooked predatory participation in the slave trade.
Who says opportunity should be equal?
For that matter, the very concept of “equal opportunity” is an oxymoron — if all opportunity is equalized, than no real opportunity, by definition, can possibly exist.
Opportunity is, by definition, an exceptional situation. If all of life is the “playing field,” then it is impossible for the field to be “unlevel.”
I’ve done the same, Civil War Trust is the only giving I do anymore
If they truly wish to provide a useful visual: Have each of the runners at the starting line with the following symbols on them:
1. Education
2. Work ethic
3. Character (Faith, life choices, etc.)
4. Laziness
5. Blame
6. Entitlement
Then show that those who focus on 1-3 always show progress towards the finish line. Some go farther than others, that’s life.
Then show that those who focus on 4-6 never get as far as the others. Some actually go backwards. That’s life too.
Oh, and show them all as the same color (purple would work fine) to remind that color doesn’t matter.
I was appointed the "note taker" for our discussion, and I played the "card" to avoid it. One woman took me semi-seriously, so I took pains to tell her I was joking.
Character to liberals is like garlic to vampires.
One of the reasons I can’t watch anymore.
The video was commissioned by The African American Policy Forum.
Black Privilege.
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Yet every other race on the planet that ended up in America has moved forward instead of embracing whining and the race baiters of the democrat party.
I agree!
They have it all wrong.
If they’re gonna have them run on a track, have a Choom stand - and see who stops for some.
Have a liquor stand - and see who stops for some.
Have a free money stand - and see who stops..
etc...
- and who ignores those distractions and RUNS THEIR OWN RACE TO THE FINISH LINE!!!
bump
Great minds................!
In our house it would be a lesson in racist jealousy and scapegoating. We’d get a belly full of laughs at the socially retarded racists.
My son came home after an anti-white session with a bunch of friends. They were around the kitchen table eating a snack and laughing while I was listening. They summed up the lesson: Blacks are inferior to whites and because they are inferior, they need whites to give up their rights so blacks can get jobs. They thought it was racist as heck against black people. Race shaming backfires and liberals should get out of the racist business.
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