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The ever-changing face of hatred: Justice has been served in church bombing, but racism still remain
MSNBC ^
| May 23 2002
| By Jill Nelson
Posted on 06/02/2002 12:36:57 PM PDT by tricky_k_1972
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Well I guess this means that anyone who dissagrees with the Left is a Racist, there's news for ya. by the way you can write her back using the URL and going to the bottom of the article. Sorry I'm not familliar with HTML yet, so you'll just have to cut and paste.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/756345.asp?0dm=O1FPO
To: tricky_k_1972
To: tricky_k_1972
Yea, I guess it must have been my white privilege that got me that 25K a year job in that hot geasy factory.
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posted on
06/02/2002 12:40:36 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: tricky_k_1972
I too feel there's world racism, but I think the most discriminated people in the world are the straight white males.
When applying for a job or college admission, they have to go to the end of the line. PC Quotas get in first.
All other races and genders are the privaliged. They don't even have to work for the position. It's handed to them.
To: tricky_k_1972
Well, that's kinda along the lines of if you're a Republican, you're automatically a wealthy, racist white guy.
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posted on
06/02/2002 12:44:16 PM PDT
by
rintense
To: tricky_k_1972
You forgot the
BARF ALERT!Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit the Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com
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posted on
06/02/2002 12:44:59 PM PDT
by
fporretto
To: concerned about politics
Well said!
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posted on
06/02/2002 12:45:26 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
To: tricky_k_1972
They are those who insist that all they have is due to hard work, while all that other, less fortunate members of society lack is a result of their own ineptitude.
This line of thought makes the assumption that all whites are successful and are looking down on minorities. More BS whining.
Finish school, keep your record clean, work hard and you have as good a chance at success as anyone
... except Shaqeal O'neal.
To: tricky_k_1972
Just another attack on the white race by the leftist liberals who hate their own forebearers. And whats with this privilege business? My great Grand father fought in the Civil war to preserve this Union,my father fought in WW1 and my brother was killed in Nam is this privilege or is this hard won freedoms? Why is it only the White Europeans are accused of rascism? I've worked with blacks and over heard their rascism but to say this makes me a racist?? I am white ,European descent, and proud to look in the mirror and see a white face looking back. If the liberals love the blacks so much how come Hillary doesn't marry one or any of the Kennedys??
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posted on
06/02/2002 12:49:49 PM PDT
by
GeorgeHL
To: tricky_k_1972
The problem the this argument is that it's not the case that to be white is to be privileged. There's a legacy of discrimination against Catholics, Germans, Jews, and others -- not to mention any number of white English, who were sent to America as debtors and prisoners.
The problem is that most people of privilege have been white males, but not all whites have been privileged. White may have been a necessary condition for privilege in American history; but it was not, in and of itself, sufficient.
Even if it makes any different, Ms. Nelson and others like her, can't see the difference between a Boston Brahmin and poor, white farmer, whose ancestors were debtors, brought to Georgia by Oglethorpe.
Or, as a friend of the family once said, "My father couldn't get a job, because he was Italian. Now my son can't get a job, because he's white."
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posted on
06/02/2002 12:54:33 PM PDT
by
cgk
To: BurkeCalhounDabney
Gee, I live with my wife and five children in a 3-bedroom, 1,100 apartment. Where's my "privilege"? She's your wife, and they're your kids!
Just kidding. I'm with you 100%. My suburban white kids can just go to the end of the line. We see it with the local busing program. The ungrateful, minority inner-city kids cause most of the trouble in the school, and the teachers are far more tolerant of them than of the local kids, who get the PC zero-tolerance Africa was a wonderful civilization treatment. My kids are fairly bright, so when they had a state-wide test (Massachusetts famous MCAS) they did very well in Math and Science. However, in history, they did quite poorly, because history isn't what they teach these days. Fortunately, they can imbibe some of my perspectives, which have imbued them with a healthy amount of cynicism.
To: tricky_k_1972
The article is partially right. There are racists among us. Some of them have even tried to hijack the US Civil Rights Commission from the rule of law.
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posted on
06/02/2002 1:03:07 PM PDT
by
Arkinsaw
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To: tricky_k_1972
White privilege disfranchises people of color around the world? If non-whites are disfranchised in other countries that is the fault of white Americans? No doubt they should all be allowed to vote in US elections. Gore lost in 2000 because only those who had actually come to America were able to vote.
Bill Bradley pushed the theme of "white skin privilege" in the 2000 primaries, but it didn't win him a single state--and that was with 'Rat voters. Obviously talking about white privilege by itself isn't enough...it needs to be combined with a practical plan for reparations. The 2004 Democratic platform should include one.
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To: BurkeCalhounDabney
OH! I forgot to mention he fought on the side of the Confederacy!!
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posted on
06/02/2002 1:11:24 PM PDT
by
GeorgeHL
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