Given the three examples here - while there *could* be alternative explanations - I’ll go ahead and stipulate that these *were* examples of racism. Albeit from a couple of generations ago.
The problem is that these people have allowed these experiences to define themselves for the rest of their lives and to dwell in the past. The result is minds filled with hate and the spectre of racism lingering behind every seemingly innocuous incident that the have passed on to succeeding generations.
Perhaps some of this is inevitable and human nature but it’s obviously not constructive for anyone.
i was hit over the head and robbed at knifepoint and gunpoint while i was in the military by two blacks.
lucky me, a friend was knifed from his biceps down to his wrist.
today we would have probably been shot.
We have got to get over this unhealthy obsession with racism. The year is 2011, 150 years after the Civil War and 50 years after the Civil Rights legislation. There may be a few vestiges of it in older white people. As seen from this article older black people find it difficult to move on. As for young people, I am seeing very little of racism at all. It is time to forgive the past and move on. It would be terrible to waste any more generations on this.
About that same time as the black liberals speak of their suffering a black liberal supervisor told me that I (as a white man) was to blame for all problems and that I should feel guilty. I told him that I was was not and would not.
This racism bullcrap will be with us forever, or as long as we have a category of citizen known as African-American.
Unfortunately, we have a community of racist pimps who make their living fabricating incidents of so-called racism.
Black people need to get over themselves and act like they are just like other people. Lose the attitude. Lose the ghetto culture. Your problems are not of my making, so don't try to say your problems are due to my racism. I know it's not true.
Some of this could be called “slot machine racism”. That is, you put a nickel in a slot machine, and if you win, it is “good luck”, but if you lose, it it because the slot machine is “racist.”
But that, in itself, is a conundrum. They can see racism anywhere, and whether it is racist or not can only be proven with objective information, which is usually not forthcoming.
Another way of looking at it is the “middle class black paradox.”
When a poor white person gets an education and works hard and becomes middle class, nobody really notices and there is no great recognition of their status.
But when a black person does the same, they often have an expectation that there *will* be some recognition. Something, anything that distinguishes them from poor, uneducated blacks. And yet, no matter what they do, they feel like they are still lumped together with the people they left behind.
And thus they are unhappy when, holding a good job, they move into a nice neighborhood with expensive homes, they are treated just like a white person, which means ignored.
To make things worse, there is no recognition by other black people, either. Comedian Chris Rock even made a stage routine about this, (peppered with NSFW language), about how going to prison held the same status as earning a Master’s degree.
Again, NSFW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSaAytiB2bM
There used to be dinosaurs roaming Manhattan, but I don’t live in that time anymore, so I don’t worry about it.
My life was once saved by a black man and I had a very close relative brutally raped by a black man.
I couldn’t care less about color—the first is a blessed saint and the other an evil bastard damned to Hell—no more no less.
Apparently only a couple hundred cases are diagnosed each year, implying that the rarity of the disease might be a more plausible explanation than racism.
Poor Henry, everything in his life seems to be the fault of some white man.
I was told pointblank that it was too bad I was white, that they would have liked to hire me, but they had to hire a black. This was in 1980 during the end of Jimmy Carter rein.
We can all play the race card if we want to. I bet the whites will have more recent examples.
The most racist thing that ever happened to be was the affirmative-action election of a racist US President based on the color of his skin.
and when I wanted to go to journalism graduate school at Boston University, the student aid office told me there was no financial aid to be had because I was not of the right socioeconomic class
(Not able to afford tuition with a widowed mother and 2 younger sibs on Social security, I declined my grad school acceptance and joined the military within a week)
Jackson, Sharpton and the like will never, ever allow racism to fade away. They will continue to perpetuate racism to the point of taking heroic measures to keep it “alive” whenever and wherever they can, regardless of the ridiculous leaps in logic and reasoning that may be required in the process. There’s simply too much money to be made with it.
is it just me - or does anyone else notice - these three have zero contribution to society? 3 race pimps, with non-working moral compasses.
In all seriousness- if one started a list of “biggest turds” - these are three top contenders. maybe not starting team - but certainly - their names would come up.
Secretarywould bea step UP for Lubianno.
So Prof. had a bad guidance counselor. The explanation could be a simple as she went to a government run school. My public school guidance counselor told me to learn a trade because I wasn’t college material. I now have a BS, MBA, and JD.
When I went to my high school guidance counselor in 1961 and said I wanted to be an architect, I was told that 'women don't become architects' and was assigned to typing and steno classes. Hated every minute of them!
“Duke Professor Wahneema Lubiano, ... took the National Merit Scholar’s test and placed as a semifinalist. But when she went to the guidance counselor, he suggested she go to secretarial school. “And I believed it,” she said. “I went home crying but I believed it.” ..”
I have a similar story (except that I WAS a National Merit Scholar, not a semi-finalist). Was race to blame for my story? I think not.
This whole article and book, apparently, is designed to cultivate grievances where they may not even exist. How does some poet think she is more brilliant than people think she is? The work of a brilliant poet will, in the end, rise and be seen and appreciated.
On the other hand, I have seen so many low-talent to zero-talent blacks treated as if they were brilliant, I could scream. Of course, this practice — which is a form of liberal racism — causes all non-blacks to question to value anyone assigns to the work of blacks, as a matter of course. Does the book point this out? Of course not, that would challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Today, blacks are being destroyed by leftist policies that assume they cannot get ahead without government intervention and dependency-inducing welfare. That has been far more corrosive than the old-fashioned in-your-face racism. In the 1950s the black family was mostly intact in a period of segregation and legalized racism. Today, more than half the black population has descended into degenerate living patterns and many are no more than wild savages. Thanks, liberals, for such wonderful progress.
Imagine what the world would have been like if institutionalized racism had ended and no one set up the liberal plantation based on racism? Blacks would have become a successful minority. Liberals could never tolerate that. They had too much to gain by keeping them down. This article encourages and promotes the mentality that helps keep blacks in their place — the liberal version.