Posted on 08/17/2014 5:18:21 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Ferguson is not just about systemic racism—it's about class warfare, and how America's poor are held back
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You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University. During those 13 seconds of gunfire, four students were killed and nine were wounded, one of whom was permanently paralyzed. The shock and outcry resulted in a nationwide strike of 4 million students that closed more than 450 campuses. Five days after the shooting, 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C. And the nation’s youth was energetically mobilized to end the Vietnam War, racism, sexism, and mindless faith in the political establishment.
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You can “buy it” or choose not to. The 90 million not working includes those “retired”, those on “disability”, and the rest who either cannot find work or those on welfare. Look it up. Then get back to me.
Why is this garbage in Front Page News???
BINGO
Yeah, I get it, but I've been exposed to Ebonics nearly all my life, and even uneducated black people don't speak that way.
Dunno -- just sounds dumb to me.
Correct, and the Ebonics translation would be, 'gimmedat'.
(dang, now I sound like some dadgum perfesser ;-)
>>One of the richest persons in the world — EVER...<<
Not by a long shot!
Named as NBA’s all time leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired professional basketball player with an estimated net worth of $20 million as of 2o12.
It happened to my grandmother. She was in a hospital because she had broken her hip. A black nurse insisted that my grandmother had to have a bath and have her hair washed and forced her to stand naked over a tub while she washed her hair, even though it caused my grandmother great pain. When the hospital questioned the nurse, the woman claimed my grandmother called her the N word. Nobody in my family had ever heard my grandmother use that word at any time.
All the hospital did was apologize and move the nurse to another floor. My grandmother’s mental health immediately deteriorated and she had to go into a nursing home. She was delusional most of the time and died after a few months.
Yeah, if I ever have to go into a nursing home, I hope it’s in one of the Dakotas.
That is so sad...I’m so sorry your grandma had to experience that.
We have a rule in our family...no one is ever alone in the hospital.
I know some folks have no other choice, or cannot be with their loved ones at all times. We rearrange everyone’s schedules to make sure our family members aren’t alone, there.
I know nursing homes are a different story. This just makes a sad situation a bad situation....that’s only going to get worse.
Thank you for your kind words. I did not live near the city where she was, and for some reason, my dad didn’t pursue it.
I have heard other stories of blacks abusing white patients. Honestly, it makes you want to move as far away from blacks as you can get.
When did Kareem of Wheat become such an expert on modern day society.
*rolls eyes*
If stories like these are the norm whenever any group of people throw a temper tantrum after something doesn’t work they way they think it should, it’s no wonder events like this keep happening.
Rather I was doing the proper English version.
Or whites start acting like whites used to act! If that happens I don’t even want to think about the results.
“What did they do instead? Go home and eat their parents’ groceries?”
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Eat their parents’ groceries until the parents either die or finally get sick enough of them to stop feeding them. Live like dependent children until their hair turns gray. I don’t know how they can stand it, I went straight into the Navy after high school to try to learn to be an independent adult. How can people stand to be dependent on Momma when they should be grandparents themselves? The age of adulthood has moved from 18 to old age.
This should help clear things up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEy615Jzg4
OK, he could have been one of the richest ever, had he saved a little...
and he could have made a ton of money on endorsements — had he endeared himself to the fans who helped him make it possible.
My bad.
Somebody put a month-old thread on the sidebar. Darks, have you been practicing necromancy again?
“Know this, employers don’t care what one’s color is as long as one does the job and earns their pay.”
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That much is true but employers have to deal with federal government interference in hiring and the federal government promotes and encourages racial preference and penalizes hiring and promoting people based only on ability and performance without regard to race. The government DOES care about one’s color. I’m sure I don’t need to say the rest, we all know just WHAT color the government likes best. Forty years ago my employer at that time asked me to try to find an applicant who fit the government mandate because the company was being harassed for not hiring anyone who fit the skin color requirement even though no such person had ever applied. Things have only gotten worse since then. I for one don’t care what color anyone is but I also refuse to apologize if I am easy to see when standing in front of a dark background.
I can’t stand any more of this, gotta have some stress relief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEy615Jzg4
My theory on Africans is this: The smarter ones caught the less intelligent ones and sold them as slaves. Therefore, the Africans who came to America prior to the twentieth century were inferior to the ones who stayed behind or arrived later. Unfortunately for Africa, the present crop of leaders is totally corrupt - a clever bunch of crooks. If the colonial powers had maintained their influence for another few generations they might have been able to create an indigenous entrepreneurial and managerial class, but they didn’t.
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