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Why White People Don't See Racism: Explaining the disconnect between Black and white Americans
Black Entertainment Television's Fighting Words! ^ | July 24, 2013 | Keith Boykin

Posted on 07/24/2013 12:09:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah. . .not buying all these supposed "discriminatory" events. I'm quite sure there were other things going on if they occurred at all.

No white woman is going to go up to a random black man and ask to search his pockets without something else going on.

141 posted on 07/24/2013 1:20:55 PM PDT by MEGoody (You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: facedown; El Cid; 9YearLurker

This from a black man: If what he said was the least bit true, trust me - that was NOTHING BUT a pick-up line.


142 posted on 07/24/2013 1:22:19 PM PDT by jimjohn
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societal ostracism is directly proportional to cultural dysfunction


(iow: don't sh!t in your mess kit)

143 posted on 07/24/2013 1:22:58 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: dfwgator

“Readin’ b actin’ white”.


144 posted on 07/24/2013 1:23:43 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: GilGil
THIS IS VERY CREDIBLE. NO WITNESSES. WHEN THERE ARE WITNESSES LIKE WITH ZIMMERMAN CLEARLY HE IS GUILTY. WHEN THERE ARE NO WITNESSES LIKE THIS GUY CLEARLY HE IS TO BE BELIEVED.

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This is in line with...

- It's always wrong to profile; but white people are racist.

- It was OK for Trayvon to attack Zimmerman with force because Trayvon felt threatened; but it was not OK for Zimmerman to defend himself with force when Zimmerman felt threatened.

- Zimmerman has to be held responsible and deserved to be physically attacked because he disobeyed "police" orders; but even if Rodney King disobeyed police orders he did not deserve to be physically attacked.

Feel free to add to the list of hypocrisies coming from black agitators.

145 posted on 07/24/2013 1:24:18 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
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To: dennisw

Keith Richburg is awesome. I’ll never forget the first time I read the excerpt about him standing on the bridge and watching the bodies float down the river... every so often I look up that essay and read it again... and it’s not even about race. I mean, in my teens and early 20s, I walked around talking about how I was Irish. Then I went to Ireland. EYES. OPENED. I’m American.


146 posted on 07/24/2013 1:24:28 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Tzimisce

Correct, glad you have it straight :)

Just like it *must* have been racism when George Zimmerman thought Trayvon looked “suspicous”. So the only conclusion you can draw is that somebody can only look suspicious if their white, otherwise it’s racism.


147 posted on 07/24/2013 1:24:35 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: dfwgator
How many blacks have taken the time to read Booker T Washington’s “Up From Slavery”?

How many blacks have ever heard of Booker T. Washington? How many Americans of any background have ever heard of Booker T. Washington?

The NAACP was founded by his (black) opponents, and he has largely been dropped down the memory hole.

148 posted on 07/24/2013 1:25:35 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why black people do see racism: allows them to play on white guilt, manipulate for special benefits they’d never earn on their own merits, cover up their own inadequacies by blaming them on others - and on and on........


149 posted on 07/24/2013 1:26:09 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: ltc8k6

I think O’Mara just meant that he’d swallowed the hype. Zimmerman got arrested at 21 for shoving a plain-clothes cop who was trying to arrest his under-21 buddy for drinking (not smart but hardly psycho material). Also, Zimmerman and his girlfriend filed restraining orders against each other in 2005. That’s all that I know of. (And I can’t say much because a cousin of mine did that too, when she and her husband were going through a nasty divorce.)


150 posted on 07/24/2013 1:27:28 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: SkyDancer

I have many black friends who consider this man’s opinions racist and sickening.


151 posted on 07/24/2013 1:27:31 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Because it pays.


152 posted on 07/24/2013 1:27:44 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gene Eric
The odds the taxicab driver was White is slim to none -- probably a person of ME descent.

We all look alike to them. No, seriously. I'm really beginning to think that, for some blacks, there are only two colors: black and not-black.

153 posted on 07/24/2013 1:29:45 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
racism is a daily part of our lives. Like air and water, it's part of the environment in which we live. Yet far too many white Americans still live in denial about its persistence.

If blacks want to be treated better, they have to behave better. It is cause and effect. They need to stop committing so many crimes and learn to become more productive.

154 posted on 07/24/2013 1:30:16 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: A_perfect_lady

Bingo.


155 posted on 07/24/2013 1:31:26 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: mjp

If they were surrounded by other blacks, say in Africa, would that alleviate the problem?


156 posted on 07/24/2013 1:31:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind each blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“white Americans” - lowercase ‘w’.

“Black Americans” - uppercase ‘B’.

Who is the racist? Tell me again, Keith!


157 posted on 07/24/2013 1:36:54 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
but even if Rodney King disobeyed police orders...

OOooo... I'll have to remember this one. This is a good point.

158 posted on 07/24/2013 1:37:58 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Them: You a raciss!
Me: What are you going to do about it? Tell my mom?


159 posted on 07/24/2013 1:40:13 PM PDT by bluetick (If you're going to err, err on the side of liberty.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Man, black-on-white crime is becoming epidemic. And talk about buzzwords... anytime you see a story about a violent assault in the papers, look for certain words and phrases: random assault... random violence... police baffled... no known motive... There is no "random violence" and there are no violent assaults with "no motive." You follow the links to the local paper and the mug shots, and you will find the truth.
160 posted on 07/24/2013 1:40:35 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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