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All-In [25866]
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The Zimmerman Trial and Black Skin Privilege
Jul 7, 2013, 12:32 AM
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The trial of George Zimmerman is winding down with a meltdown of the prosecution’s case and lurid predictions of riots if a “politically correct” decision is not reached. Why is it in America today that racial issues like this one so resemble the Wonderland world where, as the Red Queen famously says, “first the sentence, then the evidence”? Why is it that Americans consider blacks to be much more racist on the whole than whites, yet the latter is exclusively singled out for scorn? David Horowitz and John Perazzo provide answers in their pamphlet Black Skin Privilege, written not long after Zimmerman was arrested in connection with the Trayvon Martin death. Here’s what Horowitz and Perazzo say:
In America today, blacks generally can conduct racist assaults on whites and count on “civil rights” activists and the media not to notice. In the two months following Trayvon Martin’s death, black assailants carried out at least 14 fourteen known attacks against white victims with the idea of “avenging” the fallen youth.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/the-zimmerman-trial-and-black-skin-privilege/
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Black rage/white guilt is assumed and accepted, and frames
Jul 7, 2013, 1:22 AM
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the entire conversation regarding race in this country, at least in the media. Such a paradigm thwarts any progress toward eliminating or reducing racism, and is now a huge problem unto itself.
Somehow double standards and treating people differently based on the color of their skin, which were once correctly identified as THE problem, have now become the accepted norm.
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Free stuff by looting if the right decision is not made***
Jul 7, 2013, 1:46 AM
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Actually, looting is hard and dangerous work.
Jul 7, 2013, 7:46 AM
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Message was edited by: phocks®
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Poor, oppressed whitey.
Jul 7, 2013, 8:31 AM
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When will he ever get a leg up?
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Re: Poor, oppressed whitey.
Jul 7, 2013, 9:20 AM
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white people should dress in Colonial era clothing and wave signs about their oppression from blacks.
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And, you too.***
Jul 7, 2013, 10:33 AM
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CU Medallion [58470]
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A perfect example of what I'm talking about.
Jul 7, 2013, 11:37 AM
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Instead of addressing the real issues let's just keep banging that same old drum.
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It's the only excuse/crutch left for them.
Jul 7, 2013, 11:50 AM
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Otherwise, they'd just pull their bootstraps up and get busy. They must remain oppressed.
Poor ol' whitey, my a$$. Poor ol' blackie, can't get ahead. I could marry a handicapped, black woman and retire, stinking rich, within 5 years. Of this, I have no doubt. I'd set her up in business, working in the energy industry and the DOE would pour money on us, as a monority owned business.
Gotta have excuses, to remain oppressed.
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CU Medallion [58470]
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A lot of people have an interest in keeping the perception
Jul 7, 2013, 12:02 PM
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of oppression alive.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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Who said anything about pushing my woman through
Jul 7, 2013, 3:11 PM
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the ranks of coporate America? Oh, you did. I did not.
Proof, once again, you read and see things, as you wish to.
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Legend [18026]
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Yes, that's clearly what I'm doing here. Just me.
Jul 7, 2013, 3:26 PM
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Yep. No doubt. I'm the only one who is reading and seeing things as I wish and then generalizing based on those biased observations. Me. Obviously. Duh.
Note: I bet ownership of a company would have even worse odds than what I posted for handicapped, black women. But that clearly wasn't the point. 
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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You're delving into something that you, obviously, know
Jul 7, 2013, 3:40 PM
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little to nothing about. Ownership of any company is not luck or random and, is open for pursuit, for anyone.
Having completed many qualification forms, in the energy industry specific, I am 100% certain that, as a minority owned company, the DOE would, literally, pour money, in the form of POs, into said minority owned company.
A very quick, short search returned this.
http://www.doe.gov/diversity/services/minority-economic-impact
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Legend [18026]
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and did you ever ask why that was necessary?
Jul 7, 2013, 3:48 PM
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what are the statistics on actual ownership? I think if you wanted to 'get rich' the statistics would say you partner with a white male. DOMA just was overturned, so now there's an opportunity!
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Statistically? It's a very small number, which was my
Jul 7, 2013, 4:00 PM
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original point. Minorities need to start taking advantage of real opportunities. And, by that I mean, getting up, getting out and working for these items, instaed of laying around oppressed.
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Re: Statistically? It's a very small number, which was my
Jul 7, 2013, 4:05 PM
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You are wasting your time. You note that the libbies have not addressed the point made in the article. They always have to change the subject when they know they have been exposed as bigots, racists, and enablers of the double standards. A-L-W-A-Y-S. And they are also mind readers. Ascribing something to us we never say or do. Something with which they have stereotyped us.
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Legend [18026]
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^^^Case in point of seeing what he wants to see^^^***
Jul 7, 2013, 4:09 PM
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Re: ^^^Case in point of ignoring the issue^^^***
Jul 7, 2013, 4:36 PM
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I have read your replies and those of your libbie buds to the post which was about the Zimmerman trial and reverse racism by blacks attacking whites. I have yet to see you or your buds make a single comment re. the content of the article. All I have seen is "oh, whitey is just a POS., we can overlook the reverse racism. Look, over there a squirrell. Let's change the subject and make the creepyasscracker whites the focus of racism." Is that about the gist of it? Thought so.
Typical. That's why it's a waste of time engaging you useful idiots.
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No idea what you are talking about.
Jul 7, 2013, 6:19 PM
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I'll go back to looking at "squirrells"
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Re: No idea what you are talking about.
Jul 7, 2013, 6:34 PM
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Legend [18026]
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That's fair.
Jul 7, 2013, 4:06 PM
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However, we also need to know how many actually are trying as the point you seem to be making is that they aren't trying. When it very well could be that many are trying but don't have the same opportunities as whites to accomplish that goal. Things like what you posted from the DOE are meant to try and level the playing field. Many look at those initiatives as giving "unfair advantages" to minorities when the opposite is true. That's the difference.
Not going to argue that many minorities (and whites) need to show more initiative in taking responsibility for their own lives.
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All-TigerNet [11208]
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Unfair advantage. Opposite is true? HUH?
Jul 7, 2013, 4:12 PM
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I can tell you, with certainty, that without such an "advantage" a non minority owned contractor will have to scratch and claw, amongst a good ol boy network, in which it is nigh near impossible to break into. In the oil and gas industry in the gulf states? Forget about it.
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Legend [18026]
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this conversation will go nowhere without statistics
Jul 7, 2013, 4:17 PM
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and we both are providing very little. Relying on anecdotal evidence is pointless.
You may be right as I don't know that the ins and outs of the industry, and I may be arguing for the larger point but either way, w/o actual information this is a pointless conversation.
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I'm sure that the gubmint has the stats you're looking for
Jul 7, 2013, 4:22 PM
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or, not looking for. Having worked in the industry, scrapping for these contracts and POs, anecdotal is all that I have and/or need. It's right there, in black and white, on the qualification forms. If it didn't matter, they wouldn't ask if the company was/is minority owned.
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they think they were the only ones
Jul 7, 2013, 12:11 PM
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who were slaves. Let us not forget the Irish were slaves too, and cheaper slaves at that. The Jews have been getting screwed over since Julius Caesar. But do you hear them complaining every single day about being oppressed? Nope.
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