What black parents are still telling their children

Troy Daily News ^ | August 19, 2009 | Nat Hentoff

[sonofagun]

I truly hope that everyone here understands the sarcasm in the above sentence.

I am no longer "white".

I now declare myself to be "Euro-American"

No sarcasm intended.

[libs_kma]

"If white males made up 6% of the population and committed 40% of the crime, would the police be profiling if more than 6% of their stops were white males?"

Needs to be repeated at every opportunity, but it's "racist" to point out that little nugget of truth.

[fieldmarshaldj]

First one isn’t true. It’s been debunked endlessly on this website.

[JavaJumpy]

And on CNN, Colin Powell chimed in with his advice to black children: “When you’re faced with an officer who is trying to do his job and get to the bottom of something, this is not the time to get in an argument with him. I was taught that as a child.”
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Plenty of white folk were taught that as a child, too.

[Dudoight]

THanks for the update on Hentoff’s leanings. Has PBS fired him yet (since I don’t listen anymore).

[Lee'sGhost]

It’s true, racism hasn’t gone away. It’s just that it now predominantly resides in the black community instead of the white community.

[dirtboy]

Blah, blah, blah...who was it that cleaned up NYC, you maroon! Reality doesn’t matters to these loons.

Rudy also tried non-stop to take guns away from lawful owners and lobbied for more federal gun control laws.

But to some, the end always justifies the means.

[lentulusgracchus]

....I swore that if I ever won the lottery I'd assist low SES youth by helping the ones who had academic promise ....

I admire your impulse, but what is "SES"? Bureaucratic abbreviation?

[lentulusgracchus]

Deb, are you getting all this?

Still think Rudy's a conservative?

You were pretty serious about upbraiding the Rudy Unbelievers upthread, and reprehending our ignorance of the man's real positions on things.

[lentulusgracchus]

My home city of Houston is approximately 25% black. Yet, more than three-quarters of the city bus drivers are black.

I live in Houston, too. Second-hand "as told to" anecdotal info is that both Metro, the bus service, and the Solid Waste Division are black fiefdoms.

The word is, they're color-blind on hiring, but if you're white and you hire on, the black hands will "unofficially" make sure you don't stick around.

In other words, they're racist as hell and nobody ever, ever, ever, in 30 years, has called them on it. Never.

[lentulusgracchus]

Has PBS fired [Nat Hentoff] yet (since I don’t listen anymore).

I don't know, I don't follow his career. Do you mean NPR? I seldom "listen" to PBS, but I do watch it.

I avoid NPR, it's a waste of earlobes. Socialist scum, pretending to be fair but managing to get only to mellow.

[Dudoight]

RIGHT...I am so familiar with them I don’t know the difference between PBS and NPR. Remembered the name Nat Hentoff from years ago.

[I Buried My Guns]

The term SES means "Socio Economic Status"; normally it is used with the word "lower" in front of it to denote "poor".

The word "poor" has fallen out of fashion. People who work in education have been brainwashed with this term for many years now, and I use it too.

I must fight the power and overcome my programming!

[lentulusgracchus]

I must fight the power and overcome my programming!

LOL -- "Smash the Matrix!!"

BTTT.