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Why white people should protest racial injustice
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 12, 2014 | Zoe FitzGerald Carter

Posted on 12/14/2014 8:09:41 AM PST by artichokegrower

I’m standing at the intersection of Dwight and Shattuck in Berkeley with my hands in the air, shouting, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” It is the third night of protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the grand juries’ decision against indicting the white policemen involved in each of these cases.

Surrounding me are students wearing Cal sweatshirts, young mothers with children, hippie types with gray ponytails, and a few middle-aged women like me. Although the crowd is sprinkled with brown and black faces, most of us are white.

The irony of being a white person mimicking a black person begging for mercy from a white police officer is not lost on me. But it doesn’t feel absurd or self-righteous; it feels like a welcome outlet for my anger and frustration.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: racism
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To: artichokegrower

Yeah, my parents fought that battle on behalf of the blacks. Now some blacks hate us worse than in the 60s. What’s the point?


21 posted on 12/14/2014 8:25:28 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: artichokegrower

I support cops shooting anyone who punches and tries to take their gun. White or black. Racial justice is what it is.

This author supports punishing white people who defend themselves. That’s supporting racial injustice.


22 posted on 12/14/2014 8:25:44 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: ChicagahAl

Yes, emotions give you information that is unreliable.


23 posted on 12/14/2014 8:25:51 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: artichokegrower

she’s a direct descendant of slave owners and like any good lib, feels horribly guilty about.

Zoe, so am I, but I don’t feel guilt for something I didn’t do.

liberalism really is a mental disorder.
projection, narcissism, egocentrism.

wow how do you fight these morons?


24 posted on 12/14/2014 8:27:04 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: artichokegrower

I’ll protest when it’s actually happening.


25 posted on 12/14/2014 8:27:14 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: headstamp 2

Here is how her book might begin:

While those of privilege were doing their obscene religious winter festival shopping at the malls, I joined others of conscience for a demonstration at the intersection of Dwight and Shattuck in Berkeley. Four hours later, When I awoke in the hospital from a serious concussion, the doctor explained to me that I was the victim of the “knockout game” compliments a young African-American male in dreadlocks. Although the white power structure police wanted me to press charges, I forgave my attacker. After all, it was really society’s fault, not his.


26 posted on 12/14/2014 8:28:14 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: artichokegrower

“I’m standing at the intersection of Dwight and Shattuck in Berkeley with my hands in the air, shouting, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”

Maybe she should try that in North Compton. After she is beaten and robbed by one of the many black gangs, she can continue her protest in the safety of Berkeley where you can’t find a black person other than a college professor or a kitchen maid with the FBI.


27 posted on 12/14/2014 8:29:16 AM PST by anton
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To: doug from upland

Should be: Four hours later, when ........


28 posted on 12/14/2014 8:29:42 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Plumberman27

you sexist pig! you. /sarcasm

ROFLMAO! just what I was thinking, though she might need several repeats just to drive the lesson home.


29 posted on 12/14/2014 8:29:47 AM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: madprof98

Yes, we are indeed beautiful. Sometimes we sit and wonder, in our artless California way, why we are so much more attractive than anybody in the world? Nature is lovely and rejoices in her loveliness.

(with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan)


30 posted on 12/14/2014 8:30:50 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Because a member of the New Black Panthers was at the apartment complex minutes after the shooting and he decided to lie about it and now it’s racist to believe anything else even when the evidence proves it was a lie.


31 posted on 12/14/2014 8:30:53 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: artichokegrower

This is such a sham.


32 posted on 12/14/2014 8:30:56 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: artichokegrower

As Forrest Gump would say, “Stupid is as stupid does.”


33 posted on 12/14/2014 8:34:13 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: artichokegrower

Another vacuous twit who lives in the white enclave known as Berkeley being permanently outwaged, i tell you, outwaged!

Lemme know when she moves to west side Oakland under the freeway.

And as far as being the descendant of slave owners, and feeling obligated, let me be the first to encourage her to donate all her wealth and belongings to the needy black family of her choice. God knows they exist in Oakland.

For my part i come from the Abolitionist side of my family and we all fought each other 150 years ago, and its over. We owe zip.

But she and her plantation owner ancestors can just keep on givin’. i see no reason for everyone else to take up her self imposed obligation.


34 posted on 12/14/2014 8:34:22 AM PST by Regulator
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To: artichokegrower
"Black lives matter" is dog-whistle for "Kill Whitey."
35 posted on 12/14/2014 8:35:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: artichokegrower
The Myth Of White Privilege

Posted on May 27, 2014 | By Kathleen McKinley

http://blog.chron.com/texassparkle/2014/05/the-myth-of-white-privilege/

Please read this piece. It's good and provides ammunition to talk to your families' heads filled with this mush at Christmastime.

Example: "Now, let’s travel forward into the 60′s and 70′s. Did you know that by the mid 1960′s HALF of all blacks had moved into the middle class? Black families were intact, the door of opportunity had been opened, and discrimination became illegal. There was still plenty of racism and obstacles, but blacks were moving forward. Then, everything starts to change and unravel for the black family, as we see the big white liberal helping hand decide that government programs must be implemented. Welfare dependency soared in the 70′s. Government checks replaced husbands, gangs replaced Dads, and broken homes became the norm. By the 1980′s seventy to eighty percent of black babies were born to unwed mothers. These mothers lived their lives dependent on the government. Their children grew up and also depended on the government, and the vicious cycle of dependency began."

36 posted on 12/14/2014 8:36:33 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: artichokegrower
I would be glad to protest racial injustice.

I protest the disproportionate number of whites assaulted, robbed, and murdered by blacks.

I protest the inordinate sums of money earned by white people being spent to enable black people to sit on their asses all day long and plan how they're going to assault, rob, and murder more white people.

I protest the undue attention the media give to black "grievances" while ignoring the other side of the story entirely.

I protest the undeserved status to which black gangsters, thugs, and goons are elevated by the popular culture, when in fact these morons have done nothing to earn praise.

I protest the implication that, because I was born white and have learned a work ethic, I am "privileged."

I protest the unequal access blacks have to colleges, jobs, and promotions despite their clear lack of ability or effort in those areas.

I protest that every time there's a white-on-black incident, it's presumed to be the white man's fault, while black-on-white and black-on-black incidents are totally ignored.

I protest being held accountable for acts and institutions that were long since expired when my ancestors set foot in this country, while blacks aren't even held accountable for the egregious crimes they committed yesterday.

Finally, I protest being lectured on morality by some of the most amoral, corrupt, self-serving charlatans to ever top a soapbox.

37 posted on 12/14/2014 8:36:54 AM PST by IronJack
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To: cripplecreek

“She looks like she’s in her late 30s to early 40s and is irreparably stupid.”

I suggest that the Libtard under discussion is “willfully ignorant” rather than “irreparably stupid”

“Stupid is forever. You can’t fix stupid.”


38 posted on 12/14/2014 8:39:19 AM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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39 posted on 12/14/2014 8:39:41 AM PST by tomkat
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To: artichokegrower

Or, how a sanctimonious self-absorbed twit nursing her inner being and quest for literary relevancy creates another batch of spew for the liberal masses who don’t even have the brains to look into her background.

All this generates traceable press that she can use to inflate her web page and resume with bullsh!t provenance.


40 posted on 12/14/2014 8:40:47 AM PST by Gaffer
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