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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.

(snip)

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.

(snip)

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
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To: Yo-Yo

Come on...blacks killing blacks does not matter in the least. What a ridiculous, uncaring, unempathetic, racist question to ask. /s


201 posted on 05/22/2022 7:26:18 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

It’s CNN it’s fiction.


202 posted on 05/22/2022 7:35:09 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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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 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..

Like my (male) classmates who came home from Viet Nam in caskets. Or the one who returned alive, but missing a leg.

203 posted on 05/22/2022 7:51:46 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: wac3rd

“Blah blah blah blah blah racist blah”


204 posted on 05/23/2022 12:53:59 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: rlmorel

I’m confused.

Is he African-American or black or Black?

Guess it all depends on how he’s playing up his victimization.


205 posted on 05/23/2022 4:58:35 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: wac3rd

Sheer horror? Is this the same “sheer horror” this man feels every single week as dozens of blacks are gunned down in Chicago?


206 posted on 05/23/2022 5:00:42 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,039,073 active users on Truth Social)
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To: Chode

Wow!

Spot on!


207 posted on 05/23/2022 5:01:45 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: airborne; Steely Tom
The labeling is, to me, an indication of the induced Leftist schizophrenia.

This person isn't a "black father", a "Black", a "black" or an African-American.

Looking at his CV posted by Steely Tom at post #52 you see this:


Keith Magee is a Senior Fellow in Culture and Justice at UCL [University College of London] and Chair and Professor of Practice in Social Justice at Newcastle University School of History, Classics and Archaeology. A public intellectual, theologian, and social justice scholar, Magee is the Director of The Social Justice Institute, which aims to integrate public policy and public theology to impact the whole of public life. He has served on the White House African American Clergy Network and as co-chair of the Massachusetts Council of Chaplains in State Institutions for Governor Deval Patrick. Magee's research and teaching interests include social justice, civil rights, and voting rights and the intersection of US race, religion, and politics.

Expertise

Social justice
Civil rights
Voting rights
Race and politics
Religion and politics

He is a Leftist.

This commentator speaks not as a "black father" or any other entity other than a Leftist.

208 posted on 05/23/2022 5:18:26 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: wac3rd

“The state will not attempt to dictate what you can and cannot do with your own body..”

The State doesn’t have laws against illegal drug use?

Idiot.

L


209 posted on 05/23/2022 5:23:17 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is)
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To: rlmorel
EXPERTISE

Social justice

Civil rights

Voting rights

Race and politics

Religion and politics

________________________________

So he has no "expertise" except "How To Exploit Race".

210 posted on 05/23/2022 5:28:27 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: airborne

IOW...he is a Leftist.

We are in complete agreement on this!


211 posted on 05/23/2022 5:39:35 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: wac3rd

Racist claptrap.


212 posted on 05/23/2022 7:36:12 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: airborne

100%


213 posted on 05/23/2022 7:57:27 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: wac3rd
No one will try to rob you of your right to vote.

Is this guy brain dead? Did he never hear about the election of 2020?

214 posted on 05/23/2022 7:18:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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