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Opinion: I'm a middle-aged Black father. I want to ask White teen males this question (CNN)
CNN ^ | Keith Magee

Posted on 05/22/2022 1:48:52 PM PDT by wac3rd

I am a middle-aged African American father, reeling from the sheer horror of what happened to members of my community in Buffalo. Through my pain, I am praying for all the victims and their traumatized families, friends and neighbors -- and for all the minority Americans who are feeling even more afraid now than they did before.

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Because you are male, you were born a winner of the patriarchal jackpot. You are more likely to rise to the top of the career ladder and will be better paid on your way up. The state will not attempt to dictate what you can and cannot do with your own body. On top of that, because you are White, and you live in a country that is structurally racist, you enjoy the huge privilege your skin color gives you.

(snip)

No one will try to rob you of your right to vote. You don't need to be terrified of law enforcement officers. You will benefit from better education, health care, job opportunities and finances, for example, than your peers who happen to be Black. Although your ancestors also likely moved here from somewhere else at some point in the past, it probably wasn't as shackled slaves. If you have the added bonus of being Christian, heterosexual, cisgender and able-bodied, then you might well never know firsthand how it feels to be stigmatized, marginalized or hated because of some aspect of yourself over which you have absolutely no control. That makes you very lucky indeed.

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People who openly peddle crazed, racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement Theory -- the likes of Tucker Carlson and Elise Stefanik -- are out to grab power, not to help you.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blackracist; blacksupremacy; bloggers; chat; cnn; communism; guns; keithmagee; obamasfault; paranoia; society
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To: wac3rd

Social justice to me is hanging or shooting everyone involved in stealing the general election.

I said everyone.

As Dinesh D’Souza said, “We cannot move forward.”


101 posted on 05/22/2022 2:54:57 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: wac3rd
reeling from the sheer horror of what happened to members of my community

Yes, that was very bad, and we can rest assured that the perpetrator will be severely punished, especially once he gets to GenPop in Attica or Clinton or wherever he winds up.

But my main concern must be (and I'm sure you understand this, since you went right there) about the members of MY community, the ones who have been subjected to horrific violence because of their race for decades now.

Now, I am pro-death penalty, and if this nutjob somehow got the death penalty in NY or Federally, I would volunteer for a firing squad, or to pull the lever on a gallows to hang him. It's not my fault that you will be paying taxes for decades to feed and house him.

But if you want to make someone feel bad for something they didn't have any part in, look up Channon Christian, or Waukesha, or the Wichita Horror, or the Morningside Heights torture-rape, and spread your guilt trip onto the young black male community that gave rise to those and so many other horrors that have happened to members of MY community.

102 posted on 05/22/2022 2:55:31 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: BiglyCommentary

95% of young black males killed are by other black males almost all are less than 30. This population segment BM <30 is less than 3% of the population, yet is responsible for half of the murders in the US each year. So if you really want to have a discussion, sure the. Let’s start with the biggest risks first.


103 posted on 05/22/2022 2:56:00 PM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: wac3rd

Move to Haiti if you are so fearful of white people. As a white male let me ask you, oh wise fearful black man. Why did ‘you’ allow the destruction of the black family by the progressives that have been using you for generations?


104 posted on 05/22/2022 2:56:22 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: House Atreides

Oh, PUHLEESE…. GAG ME WITH A SPOON.

There’s an expression I haven’t heard in awhile, and it fits this article to a t.


105 posted on 05/22/2022 2:56:36 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: wac3rd
The state will not attempt to dictate what you can and cannot do with your own body.

I guess mandated covid vaxxes don't count...

106 posted on 05/22/2022 2:56:57 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: wac3rd
Joe Biden:


107 posted on 05/22/2022 2:57:30 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: wac3rd

It is a bunch of bullshit.


108 posted on 05/22/2022 2:57:52 PM PDT by sport
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To: Steely Tom

What would people like this do if they had to get a real job?


109 posted on 05/22/2022 2:58:26 PM PDT by redangus
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To: wac3rd
If you have the added bonus of being Christian, heterosexual, cisgender and able-bodied...
Yeah, right, a typical "African-American father".

What a loser for falling for structural white victimhood rhetoric.
110 posted on 05/22/2022 2:59:29 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: wac3rd

Barf alert.


111 posted on 05/22/2022 2:59:40 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith… )
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To: wac3rd

This is a complicated issue. But we could solve a lot of it by ending the coverage with mass shootings everywhere. Or at least, we should not show the identity of the shooter.


112 posted on 05/22/2022 3:00:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: wac3rd
Though I'm not a teenager, I'm more than happy to address some of your misconceptions.

Because you are male, you were born a winner of the patriarchal jackpot. You are more likely to rise to the top of the career ladder and will be better paid on your way up. The state will not attempt to dictate what you can and cannot do with your own body.

What kind of "patriarchy" is it that has significantly fewer males earning college degrees than females? What kind of "patriarchy" has males earning less than females as a result? Why are males significantly more likely to commit suicide and why do males have a shorter lifespan? Why do women get a choice when there is a pregnancy, but men get no choice? Why do males get harsher sentences from the justice system for the same crimes? Why do males routinely not get custody of the children as women do when there is a divorce? All of these facts demonstrate that there is no "patriarchy" and that is simply a dishonest Left wing construct.

On top of that, because you are White, and you live in a country that is structurally racist, you enjoy the huge privilege your skin color gives you.

If the country is so "structurally racist" and White people "enjoy a huge privilege" as you claim, why are White people routinely discriminated against when it comes to college admissions? Or grad school admissions? Or hiring by companies? Or government programs? And yes, they clearly are and have been for over 50 years. It is actually Black people who get a significant advantage and can gain admission and get hired with lower test scores, lower GPA's and less experience on average. The privilege of skin color is what Black people get, not White people.

No one will try to rob you of your right to vote.

Nor you.

You don't need to be terrified of law enforcement officers.

More unarmed White people are killed by police every year than unarmed Black people despite the total number of police encounters being roughly equal. Just ask Ashley Babbit.

You will benefit from better education, health care, job opportunities and finances, for example, than your peers who happen to be Black.

False as I've outlined above.

Although your ancestors also likely moved here from somewhere else at some point in the past, it probably wasn't as shackled slaves. If you have the added bonus of being Christian, heterosexual, cisgender and able-bodied, then you might well never know firsthand how it feels to be stigmatized, marginalized or hated because of some aspect of yourself over which you have absolutely no control. That makes you very lucky indeed.

If you think White people - specifically White males are never discriminated against, hated, stigmatized, etc over their innate characteristics, think again. I can specifically tell you of examples of not getting jobs or promotions or admission to certain schools specifically because I am a White male. Many of not most of the White people who came to America were quite poor. Some came as slaves. Some came as indentured servants. Many came with nothing fleeing discrimination and dire poverty at home.

People who openly peddle crazed, racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as the Great Replacement Theory -- the likes of Tucker Carlson and Elise Stefanik -- are out to grab power, not to help you.

Actually, the people peddling the Great Replacement Theory have been Leftists. They've been doing so for decades and they've been doing so quite openly. They have specifically said demographics is destiny, talked about their plan to flood the country with poor Hispanic immigrants in large numbers and talked about how this would benefit the Democrat party. In fact, an article in the NY Times just a few years ago was titled "We can replace them"....which Tucker Carlson showed along with several other examples of Leftists saying exactly that. In short, you have swallowed a whole pack of Leftist lies about everything. They are of course not out to help you. The Leftist elites who run the Democrat party can't stand you. They just want to use you to obtain and keep power for themselves.

113 posted on 05/22/2022 3:00:53 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: wac3rd
"Piggybacking the Buffalo tragedy, this is such a litany of Left Wing/CIA/DNC psyops talking points. It feigns compassion and empathy while pressing the constant lies and omissions the Left does. It's a steaming pile of the latte, government worker or tech moron drivel."

Well, I'd say that pretty much sums it up...

114 posted on 05/22/2022 3:01:34 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: wac3rd
Because you are male, you were born a winner of the patriarchal jackpot. You are more likely to rise to the top of the career ladder ...

Not true at ALL today in today's world of Black Supremacy. Bow down before the AA black professional, from what I can tell. Although, LBGTQ+, women, and anything but straight hetero men are given promotional advantages.

115 posted on 05/22/2022 3:04:53 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Yo-Yo

Give the “writer” a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.


116 posted on 05/22/2022 3:05:09 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: Drew68
Twenty years ago this exact same theory was called "The Emerging Democratic Majority" and liberals loved it! They wrote books about it!

And, ironically enough, it will likely be blacks who are replaced in the "Democratic Coalition" by Hispanics, Indians, Middle-Easterns, and other "Brown" people who will carry none of the white guilt, and care nothing about the special status of American blacks.

117 posted on 05/22/2022 3:05:09 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: wac3rd

Dear black father,

You vote democrap. You deserve all the misery (and much more) they can deliver.


118 posted on 05/22/2022 3:06:59 PM PDT by utax
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To: wac3rd

Dear black father,

You vote democrap. You deserve all the misery (and much more) they can deliver.


119 posted on 05/22/2022 3:06:59 PM PDT by utax
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"Why is it that all of the black people shot in Minneapolis are shot by black people?"

Nobody!

Nobody cares about the Black deaths caused by Black people.

120 posted on 05/22/2022 3:08:00 PM PDT by blam
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