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Black People Should Stop Expecting White America To 'Wake Up' To Racism
Daily Beast ^ | 07.11.15 | John McWhorter

Posted on 07/12/2015 8:59:07 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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To: Qiviut

>> Actually, a good article overall <<

It looks to me as if you’re one of the few people on this thread who has actually read the article!


81 posted on 07/12/2015 1:18:15 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: allendale

And when they do, and reach a sizable percentage of the population, they wreak havoc. It’s not PC to say, but it’s true.


82 posted on 07/12/2015 1:25:19 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: allendale
Politically incorrect to state, but blacks despite actual racism, wish to live among whites because they know their lives will be better.

Black people, when they adopt western values, can live and do quite well living amongst white people. Sadly, many black and many white people cannot or will not adopt western values. Also, western values are no longer taught as a virtue in the entitlement state.

83 posted on 07/12/2015 1:33:21 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Pining_4_TX

If you are talking about the Snoop Dawg, Jay-Z, ghetto types then I agree and I do not even like to live around those types similar skin color or no, but for the Colin Powell, Shelby Steel, Thomas Sowell, or Morgan Freeman types, then not really.


84 posted on 07/12/2015 1:44:19 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Right and you make a point there, did not mean to sound like I was attacking you, but I agree they need to adapt to the world and quit thinking that the world will adapt to them and will be perfect it will never be, it does not work that way.


85 posted on 07/12/2015 1:50:19 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: CincyRichieRich
John McWhorter is a professor at Columbia (was at UC Berkeley for some years) and has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford. According to his biography on Wikipedia, he is a liberal Democrat. He makes sense sometimes...this column is a mix of good and bad ideas (he does indicate that he would be pleased if reparations were paid to descendants of slaves).

According to the Wikipedia article he thinks that when white people use the word "thug" it is the equivalent to their using the "N-word" but it is OK for black people to use the word. Ain't linguistics wonderful?

86 posted on 07/12/2015 1:53:00 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Second Amendment First

“What we really need to be talking about” is, say, psychological tests showing that whites have racist biases they aren’t aware of”

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Mandatory tests, for all white people. Better yet, just declare all white people racist. Wait a minute, that’s already been done.


87 posted on 07/12/2015 1:56:12 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Second Amendment First

Most blacks have no iea how fed up sensible people are with whining about racism from blacks and self hating whites.

Accusations of racism and liberal theories like ‘White Privlege’ and ‘Micro-Aggression have become meaningless jokes.

Whining about racism is like the whining of tires on the nearby interstates - it never stops but no one really hears it anymore.


88 posted on 07/12/2015 2:19:38 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Hawthorn

Yes, I did .... all the way to The End! :-)


89 posted on 07/12/2015 2:22:42 PM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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To: Olog-hai
It’s the social engineering that has targeted the black family.

AKA: The Great Society, Affirmative Action, Urban Renewal.

90 posted on 07/12/2015 2:24:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Second Amendment First
White people should never expect the black people to stop complaining about white people or taking responsibility for their own problems!
91 posted on 07/12/2015 2:43:06 PM PDT by paratrooper82 ( 82nd ABN DIV. 1/508th BN "Fury from the Sky" Civil war is coming)
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To: Second Amendment First

Sense from Daily Beast? That’s unusual.


92 posted on 07/12/2015 8:01:23 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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