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To: flowerplough

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


10 posted on 09/18/2011 9:50:48 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

It would probably help a lot if they stopped calling each other niggers. Tune in a Black comedian and you’ll hear that word so many times you change channels. Too many of them have no respect for themselves.


21 posted on 09/18/2011 10:10:53 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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