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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.

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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.

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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
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blackracist; blacksupremacy; bloggers; chat; cnn; communism; guns; keithmagee; obamasfault; paranoia; society
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To: Williams

Right. That is some portion of 40 million conservative voters getting their vote suppressed by the illegal votes of Leftist invaders.


141 posted on 05/22/2022 3:45:49 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: cowboyusa

I have one question for this guy. Will you pull my finger?


142 posted on 05/22/2022 3:47:03 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Steely Tom

So, a guy checking you out at Wendy’s is more qualified and experinced in economics. These kinds of tools are paid handsomely to exploit guilty Liberals and do some redistribution of that cash (see BLM). He’s a chaplain? Wow.


143 posted on 05/22/2022 3:52:52 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: rktman
"...That someone actually published/broadcast this should be investigated by the truth bureau. It is so full of BS it’s nearly bursting. Talk about disinformation...How about being upset because people were killed. No race required..."


144 posted on 05/22/2022 3:56:07 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rlmorel

Infuriating article.


145 posted on 05/22/2022 3:57:28 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: wac3rd

And yet not a word of everyday killings in Chicago, Baltimore, etc. why isn’t this saint doing something about that.


146 posted on 05/22/2022 3:58:50 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Drew68

Exactly. Someone (Bongino or Bannon) played a mashup of Leftists gleefully discussing “Replacement Theory” at length, over many years.


147 posted on 05/22/2022 3:59:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Born in 1950

LOL, agreed. Half the time I think this is their form of trolling for entertainment, and the other half of time, I think the nitwits actually believe the smell of their own feces.


149 posted on 05/22/2022 4:01:12 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: wac3rd
My question to you is this -- what are you going to do with all that luck?

If it's all about luck, what does anyone, black or white, have to do at all? The point is that everyone inherits a set of pre-conditions, good and bad, at their birth and they have to find the courage and wisdom to make the best life for themselves they can.

If the author truly believes that society is rigged for white people, why were things for minorities in the past significantly safer and more prosperous. If he wants to correct the life outcome for all people, he should focus on what works for the successful ones. It might start with not electing incompetent and corrupt Democrat politicians for a change.

150 posted on 05/22/2022 4:01:36 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Was he a Ritalin victim?


151 posted on 05/22/2022 4:03:22 PM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: BiglyCommentary
"Because you are male, you were born a winner of the patriarchal jackpot."<.i>

At this point, it ended for me.

152 posted on 05/22/2022 4:11:18 PM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: wac3rd

I’m a commie middle-aged Black father

There. Fixed it.


153 posted on 05/22/2022 4:11:59 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: Little Ray

Yeah its insane. I have 3 kids. Their lot in life ended up with what made sense for the INDIVIDUAL. I have a UPS driver, and 2 accountants. The poor down trodden UPS driver makes much more than the 2 accountants. Skin color doesn’t matter. Effort matters. Long hours on the BS low level jobs for all 3 Determined how their currency jobs would end up. Not one time was I ever asked for my white privileged card while working up the latter. I guess if my entitlement attitude showed up then things might be very different.


154 posted on 05/22/2022 4:12:10 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice -can put the truth above narrative )
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To: wac3rd

Umm, why are blacks shooting blacks; indiscriminately shooting whites?


155 posted on 05/22/2022 4:12:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: wac3rd
I managed to get partway through this before I gave up.

Every word in this racist and sexist rant is a lie including "and", "or" and "The".

156 posted on 05/22/2022 4:13:24 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: wac3rd

So, what’s the question?


157 posted on 05/22/2022 4:20:41 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: enumerated
So, what’s the question?
What are you going to do with all that luck [of being white]?

-PJ

158 posted on 05/22/2022 4:27:11 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: wac3rd

Blame is procrastination.


159 posted on 05/22/2022 4:27:22 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: 7thson

That guy must never have had to pay alimony and child support.


160 posted on 05/22/2022 4:30:24 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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