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'There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society
NPR ^ | June 9, 2020 | Ari Shapiro

Posted on 06/09/2020 5:03:15 PM PDT by Stravinsky

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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Re: “The backlash to all this white-shaming is going to be massive.”

In the 2020 election, one third of eligible voters will be non-white.

Since 1980, non-whites have voted at least 75% Democrat in EVERY presidential election.

Trump got 57% of the white vote in 2016.

Trump will need at least 60% of the white vote in 2020 to be competitive - because almost no Democrats will throw away their votes on Third Parties, like they did in 2016.

If there is huge Democrat turn out in 2020 - and I believe there will be - Trump will need at least 62% of the white vote to be competitive.

The last Republican to get even 60% of the white vote was George H.W. Bush - in 1988.

There will not be a Trump landslide in 2020.

If Trump wins reelection, he will have the same razor thin margins in WI, MI, and PA that he had in 2016.

61 posted on 06/09/2020 6:32:14 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: All

Im starting to wish this was true, then they would stop putting these idiots on the air.


62 posted on 06/09/2020 6:33:51 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: escapefromboston

White silence in the face of racism is not the norm. So no one was surprised when an entire department refused to work on a couple of books when I was in publishing.

Why don’t we hear about that? Well, I’m telling you now.


63 posted on 06/09/2020 6:41:19 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Gene Eric

Did you get a memo? I never got a memo...


64 posted on 06/09/2020 6:54:06 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Stravinsky

Even white babies are racist, so they are fair targets.

/Leftthink


65 posted on 06/09/2020 7:24:24 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Stravinsky

With that being said, I AM A RACIST, now what


66 posted on 06/09/2020 7:26:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (silence is golden, I will not kneel)
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To: Stravinsky

...... You can always determine who the racist people are .... They are always the ones that first bring up Race .....


67 posted on 06/09/2020 7:56:10 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: Stravinsky

So then what’s the upside in me a White person treating anyone of color(because according to the woke, White isn’t a color, it’s a disease) decently if I’m just gonna be hated anyway? F’em, I will treat people just as they treat me. I have lived by one rule, F’ me and I guarantee I will return it double............at least.


68 posted on 06/09/2020 8:49:59 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Stravinsky

OH... FAAAAAAAAAA///QUUUUUUUUUUUU


69 posted on 06/09/2020 9:06:00 PM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Stravinsky
There are two top questions I get when I give a talk ... The first one is: What do I do? And when I get that question, I offer one back: ... How have you managed not to know? How have you managed to be a full-functioning, likely educated adult in 2020 and not know the answer to that question? And that's meant to challenge that person that: That's on you. The information's everywhere. Why haven't you sought it out up until this moment? What did it take to get you to ask that question?

In other words, either she doesn't know the answer, and it's all a big con to sell her books and workshops, OR the answer is "turn socialist" but if she says it too bluntly, the gig is up, so she's just got to shove them in that direction carefully.

70 posted on 06/09/2020 9:14:25 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Rummyfan
From what I gather of the White Privilege mantra, people like you and I, who grew up dirt-road poor, have "White Privilege" because we can blend in with the rich folks. So we inherit their guilt because, to black people, we look like the ones who DID grow up with everything.

You see, what they're trying to convince us of is this: our perceptions of our own lives don't matter, THEIR perception of our lives is what we are supposed to accept. You grew up poor? Well, you're white so you look like you grew up with money, and since that's what you look like to them, you're supposed to see yourself that way now.

71 posted on 06/09/2020 9:18:03 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Stravinsky

Gay, leftist, self loathing Jew (a dime a dozen) know your enemy.


72 posted on 06/09/2020 9:19:53 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Stravinsky

After this event, I’ll never make the mistake of acting like a “nice white person” again. And neither, I think, will millions of others.


73 posted on 06/09/2020 9:22:45 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Stravinsky

Condescending and insulting...pathetic, disgusting and pitiful! FO!


74 posted on 06/09/2020 9:29:13 PM PDT by ldish (2020 Election will determind if USA remains a Consitutional Republic!)
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To: Borges
It’s really scary how even Soccer Moms are spouting Maoist drivel like “Silence is Violence”.

Yep. They think that Conservative free speech is violence, and Liberal violence is free speech.

75 posted on 06/09/2020 9:34:34 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Old Yeller

They start calling Mr and then my FIRST NAME and I immediately say, “hold on - you can call me just by my FIRST NAME only, or Mr. and my LAST NAME - but not Mr. and my FIRST - condescending to me and many adults...it’s a put down.

In asia ok for a kid to do it if the parents are close friends but...


76 posted on 06/09/2020 9:36:59 PM PDT by ldish (2020 Election will determind if USA remains a Consitutional Republic!)
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To: Stravinsky

You’re either with me or you’re my enemy. It seems the very antithesis of freedom to me.


77 posted on 06/09/2020 10:55:02 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: RetiredScientist

Social Justice is a cult. There is no way to get expiation from “privilege”. These Marxists don’t know anything about any of us on an individual level. They are passing judgment on a group with no due process. This was designed to destroy free people. It is a lie from the pit of Hell.
/
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I wish this was posted everywhere. so true and to the point.


78 posted on 06/09/2020 11:40:40 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Stravinsky

I got his email from the makers of a fitness product called Powerhandz essentially saying if you are not anti-racist-you are racist. Ok literally except the way many define that.

I found amusing that they are writing about themselves but say “POWERHANDZ was founded by 2 brilliant black people” brilliant? their writing isn’t as bad as many but never addresse the huge amount of black racism-guess that would be too much-

YOUR LAST BREATH RESTORED OUR VOICE.

As I listened to George Floyd take his final breaths of life, he cried out PLEASE, 14 times. I don’t believe his plea was just for the officer to remove his knee off his neck-—his cry was for America to remove its knee and stop suffocating from racism, stereotypes, inequalities and overall injustices.

George, your last breath restored our voice.

Each of our communities have contributed to this continuous cycle of racial inequalities. There is NO in between or a BUT.
Either you are anti-racist or you are racist.
Either you embrace your teammate as your brother or sister or you don’t.
Either you deal with your stereotypes that create racist judgements or you don’t.
Either you are deliberate in educating your children about inclusion and equality or you don’t.

George, your last breath restored our voice.

We were afraid to tell you POWERHANDZ was founded by 2 brilliant black people who risked everything——our 401K, time with our 2 young children, our personal health at times, to design products and a brand that will UPLIFT our communities by making you STRONGER. For 6 years, we have seen your color, we hear your desire to get better and we LOVE everyone in all 86 countries who sacrificed your dollar to support our mission.

POWERHANDZ and its POWER TO GIVE Foundation understands the black community and the history of our journey. We will always stand with you. We commit to being a stronger bridge to UNITY and will make sure our voice is the change that creates change.

George, you are our HERO. The last moments of your life was not filmed for us to repost on social media. Your last breath was taken to restore our VOICE. Thank you for breathing life into hearts again.

Grateful,
Danyel Surrency Jones
Co-Founder & CEO of POWERHANDZ
President, Power To Give Foundation


79 posted on 06/10/2020 12:06:33 AM PDT by TECTopcat (e)
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To: Stravinsky

Where is the Mafia now that we need them? /sarc.

Another leftist fool who is ashamed of what she was born as re race, sex, ethnic origin, others, or any combination thereof.

By the way, who the hell is she? I’ve seen her book’s title but don’t know anything about her.

NPR has continued to sink way down in the PC/anti-American cesspool of Leftism and Stupidity.


80 posted on 06/10/2020 1:46:37 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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