You Don't Have to Be a Bigot to Be Called a Racist Anymore

[IM2]

I consider myself African because my body is designed to survive on the African continent.

lol. Okay. Stand out in the middle of the brush on the continent of Africa with just your reeboks and a stick and see how for ya make it.

Good luck. If you're lucky, maybe a real African will pass by and save you. From what I was seeing in your vids in your other thread, thouhg, they kust walk right up to your door and rob you. There's no 911 in Africa. Matter of fact, they'll probly take your reeboks and you'll be left with just a stick. Then what? You'll be tippy troeing through the brush like a mofo when that lion starts chasing your butt. lolol. You might consider your body to be built for the continent, but guaranteed your mind is trained to the Wendy's and the Burger King. down the corner.Or some other such similar hunting. lol.

You're Amercan. But if you wanna pretend youre African, go right ahead.

By the way, there are 54 states in Africa. Which one are you from?

I do know for fact there are cities in Africa. There are no states in Africa unless they are part of the 55 countries that exist in Africa. Africa is a continent dumb ass. As AKIP descends from Africa, his body was made to live there. They have fast food chains in Africa. They also have cities, very large ones since they have 4 times the population of the US. For example, Lagos Nigeria has a population of 21 million people. So does the state of Texas. They have guns too. They also have a 911 or emergency services. A person can live in Africa for their entire life and never see the bush. I think you need to know these things before you make yourself look even dumber.

 

[Natural Citizen]

FYI....many Africans in Africa cannot survive in the naked in the Middle of the bush. Do you think that how most Africans live? There are many urban Africans who could not survive any better than would I in the Bush.

If we recall correctly, you're the one going around telling us how your body is built for Africa.

Do you see whats going on here? Do you see how this is going for you?

 

[Natural Citizen]

Africa is a continent dumb ass.

Well, if you look, I'm rather confident that I've mentioned the ''continent of Africa'' several times in the thread. Don't you read good?

Are you an African American, too? As an American citizen, what part of Africa are you from? The suspense is killing us.

 

[IM2]

What is a racist? There was a time when the answer to that question was pretty clear-cut. A racist was someone who joined a group like the Ku Klux Klan, spewed racial slurs, or supported segregation. A racist was someone who thought that people of other races were inherently inferior.
In the last decade or so, that's changed. In a time of expanding definitions, you don't have to be a bigot to be a racist anymore. You just have to have the wrong politics to be branded a racist, or race-baiter or race warrior.
Or you can just be associated with someone who has the wrong politics.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed David Horowitz, 79, a former 1960s radical turned conservative, as an extremist and "driving force" in the "anti-black" movement.
On Monday, The Washington Post ran a front-page story that reported that Ron DeSantis, the GOP candidate for governor in Florida, "spoke at racially-charged events" - that is, he spoke at four conferences put on by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
What makes Horowitz anti-black? He is "a vocal opponent of reparations for slavery," the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote.
He also makes provocative statements. Like this one: "Unfortunately, as a nation we have become so trapped in the melodrama of black victimization and white oppression that we are in danger of losing all sense of proportion. If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?"
Horowitz's tone can be insensitive. I think he's dead wrong to dismiss black grievances as melodramatic and I believe he overstates white grievances. He has written things that make me cringe, but I've known him for years and he is no white supremacist. In fact, Horowitz was collaborating with the Black Panthers on a learning center in 1974, when a colleague was murdered; he blamed the group for her death and began to move away from the left.
Once the SPLC labeled Horowitz as an extremist, he was supposed to become so radioactive that others would associate with him at their own peril. As DeSantis learned. According to The Washington Post, you see, DeSantis not only spoke at Horowitz events, he also "recently was accused of using racially tinged language."
After he won the GOP primary, DeSantis called his African-American Democratic opponent, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum "articulate." The Republican also told Fox News that the last thing Floridians need is "to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda."
"Monkey," critics argued, is a racist dog whistle.
"Articulate" is racist because it can be condescending -- as Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., learned in 2007 after he praised colleague Barack Obama as the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Biden apologized. Obama later picked Biden to be his running mate in 2008.
DeSantis said his "monkey" remark had nothing to do with race. Without proof, one would expect DeSantis to enjoy the benefit of the doubt. Instead he got a front-page story that implied he's a race-baiter because he spoke at conservative confabs.
Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a pro-enforcement group branded a "hate group" by the SPLC. He sees the SPLC as a left-wing political organization now dedicated to marginalizing ideas that used to be mainstream.
Politicians like former President Bill Clinton, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and the late Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Texas, used to support enforcing immigration laws. Today, Krikorian said, their positions would be "branded as hate speech" by the SPLC.
The SPLC also charged Horowitz with hating Muslims because of his harsh criticism of radical Islamic terrorism and Palestinian groups opposed to Israel.
As a proof, the SPLC includes this statement, which really is a political argument: "The difference between Islamic fanatics, or Jew haters, and Hitler is that Hitler hid the Final Solution, and the Iranians and Hezbollah shout it from the rooftops. And the whole Muslim world accepts it."
And here's how you know the SPLC's labeling is highly partisan. In 2016, Richard Cohen, the group's president, wrote a piece titled, "Black Lives Matter is not a hate group."
"There's no doubt that some protesters who claim the mantle of Black Lives Matter have said offensive things, like the chant, 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon' that was heard at one rally," Cohen wrote. "But before we condemn the entire movement for the words of a few, we should ask ourselves whether we would also condemn the entire Republican Party for the racist words of its presumptive nominee -- or for the racist rhetoric of many other politicians in the party over the course of years."
No, the SPLC would never condemn the entire GOP as racist because of Donald Trump. Better to cook the frog slowly. Start by isolating David Horowitz. Then let the r-word hang over anyone who associates with him. And then see where that goes.

You Don't Have to Be a Bigot to Be Called a Racist Anymore — RealClearPolitics

The definition of racism has not changed. It has not expanded. It's still the same. What has changed is how racism is expressed. It is not socially acceptable to be a KKK member, so we have white supremacist groups using names like Christian identity, Army of God, etc. Citizens groups. Patriot groups. Militias. Anti govrnmnt, Anti Tax groups, etc. And the way racism is communicated has changed. You can no longer just straight out make racist comments and be deemed acceptable. So what we see is called modern racism.

Wanting lower taxes is Racist!

Wanting to lower taxes is not racist but disguising yourself as an anti tax group to oppose civil rights or equal opportunity policies is.

Sorry but your post was garbled. By equal opportunity you meant affirmative action right?

Apparently you are illiterate. There was nothing garbled about what was said. I sad equal opportunity, and that includes affirmative action. Now don't try the standard dumb white mans argument about Affirmative action because it's fake news.

 

[AKIP]

FYI....many Africans in Africa cannot survive in the naked in the Middle of the bush. Do you think that how most Africans live? There are many urban Africans who could not survive any better than would I in the Bush.

If we recall correctly, you're the one going around telling us how your body is built for Africa.

Do you see whats going on here? Do you see how this is going for you?

I guarantee you that I will have less issues than you if you went around Africa without a shirt for decades. If one accepts the theory that environment shaped our different phenotype and pigmentation through natural adaptation and mutation, then what I am saying makes plenty of sense. Our phenotype are not of recent creation. They are most profoundly the result of thousands of years of evolution. In other words, it took thousands of years for an African to morph into an "Asian" and an "Asian to morph into a "Native American", due to the changed environment, adaptation and natural selection.I am hardly an "American" biologically, after a few hundred years of my ancestors being here.

Now....do you see where this is going for you?

 

[IM2]

Africa is a continent dumb ass.

Well, if you look, I'm rather confident that I've mentioned the ''continent of Africa'' several times in the thread. Don't you read good?

Are you an African American, too? As an American citizen, what part of Africa are you from? The suspense is killing us.

You descend from Europe, don't ask me stupid questions because I say I descend from Africa. You asked AKIP what state he was from in Africa.

"By the way, there are 54 states in Africa. Which one are you from?"

 

[Taz]

In my 50 years of life as an African American, America has evolved from the more of the former to more of the latter.

Unless you were born in Africa or migrated here, you have more in common with a white American in Jackson, Wyoming than you do with a black man who came here two years out of Africa. And with the growing population of actual Africans coming to America, black Americans can't keep rolling with that gig about being African American. It's laughable. You folks might be able to get away with that horse pucky if we were living a hundred and fifty years ago when black people had parents who were born into slavery and had grandparents who actually spoke African. But that's not the case. We live in a time much later now.

Now. To your point about economics. You're right, but your right for the wrong reasons. The American monetary policy is one that functions by way of central economic planning by a central bank. All of that freshly printed money goes to the 1 percenters first, and they're the ones who get to put it into the economy the way they want. These are most often special interests and lobbyists, corporations, etc. And, yes, the middle class and poor get hit with the inflation tax to pay the interest on the debt. Wages become stagnant for the middle class, as we've seen, and the rich get richer, but it affects blacks and whites, not just blacks. What we see happening in Chicago and similar places, is you get gangland style sub-cultures that evolve which is just another symptom of the economic problem.

Well....here is the thing. You are not the arbiter and hence have no standing in telling me who I have more in common with. Just as an FYI....the best friends I have made in the last 20 years have been......wait for it....native born Africans. We have PLENTY in common and the most common thing we share, besides skin color and other phenotype characteristics, is that we have all been impacted by the doctrine of white supremacy. I have in fact been to Africa. Yes....culturally we are a lot different, but the gap between us culturally is shrinking as unfortunately the world is being westernized culturally....meaning the culture of the West, and in particular America, is spreading among the young world wide....the music, the style of dress, beliefs, etc. To tell you the truth.....you make no sense to me. In my life there is little truth to what you say.

Why “unfortunately”?

Stop being such a bigot...

What do you mean?

All you do is go around throwing hate on people because they don't like what you like. Think about it.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I guarantee you that I will have less issues than you if you went around Africa without a shirt for decades

Now....do you see where this is going for you?

Nope. I'm a native. Ahhhh wooo woooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo.

In fact, I grew up living off the land. Didn't even have running water til we moved up north after about 20 years. No electricity. No gas. No plumbing. No stores. No nothing. None of the luxuries that most of modern Americans, including you, enjoy as a means for survival. I've cooked many of meal I had to kill out of the woods and the waters on a pile of rocks rubbing sticks together. And I can grow anything. I'm a killer, AKIP. Heck, I did it barefoot, too. I know how to kill and how to survive. I've lived off leaves and fungus and berries many of time. I can pretty much identify all of em.

In fact, I miss it.

 

[Natural Citizen]

don't ask me stupid questions because I say I descend from Africa

So, which part? Call me crazy but I'll ask again. As an American citizen, what part of Africa are you from?

My lineage is native to America. I'm a card carrying member of the Cherokee Nation. And I'm still here. Hell, my family was living in the Cherokee National Forest thousands of years before it was called the Cherokee National forest, and I grew up on it. Pretty much on it, anyway. The same place my ancestors lived. Unlike you, I really have a tribe. I'd take a pic and show it to ya, but I don't know you people.

So. What part of Africa are you from, my fellow American? What's your tribe?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

What is a racist? There was a time when the answer to that question was pretty clear-cut. A racist was someone who joined a group like the Ku Klux Klan, spewed racial slurs, or supported segregation. A racist was someone who thought that people of other races were inherently inferior.
In the last decade or so, that's changed. In a time of expanding definitions, you don't have to be a bigot to be a racist anymore. You just have to have the wrong politics to be branded a racist, or race-baiter or race warrior.
Or you can just be associated with someone who has the wrong politics.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed David Horowitz, 79, a former 1960s radical turned conservative, as an extremist and "driving force" in the "anti-black" movement.
On Monday, The Washington Post ran a front-page story that reported that Ron DeSantis, the GOP candidate for governor in Florida, "spoke at racially-charged events" - that is, he spoke at four conferences put on by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
What makes Horowitz anti-black? He is "a vocal opponent of reparations for slavery," the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote.
He also makes provocative statements. Like this one: "Unfortunately, as a nation we have become so trapped in the melodrama of black victimization and white oppression that we are in danger of losing all sense of proportion. If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus?"
Horowitz's tone can be insensitive. I think he's dead wrong to dismiss black grievances as melodramatic and I believe he overstates white grievances. He has written things that make me cringe, but I've known him for years and he is no white supremacist. In fact, Horowitz was collaborating with the Black Panthers on a learning center in 1974, when a colleague was murdered; he blamed the group for her death and began to move away from the left.
Once the SPLC labeled Horowitz as an extremist, he was supposed to become so radioactive that others would associate with him at their own peril. As DeSantis learned. According to The Washington Post, you see, DeSantis not only spoke at Horowitz events, he also "recently was accused of using racially tinged language."
After he won the GOP primary, DeSantis called his African-American Democratic opponent, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum "articulate." The Republican also told Fox News that the last thing Floridians need is "to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda."
"Monkey," critics argued, is a racist dog whistle.
"Articulate" is racist because it can be condescending -- as Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., learned in 2007 after he praised colleague Barack Obama as the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Biden apologized. Obama later picked Biden to be his running mate in 2008.
DeSantis said his "monkey" remark had nothing to do with race. Without proof, one would expect DeSantis to enjoy the benefit of the doubt. Instead he got a front-page story that implied he's a race-baiter because he spoke at conservative confabs.
Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a pro-enforcement group branded a "hate group" by the SPLC. He sees the SPLC as a left-wing political organization now dedicated to marginalizing ideas that used to be mainstream.
Politicians like former President Bill Clinton, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and the late Rep. Barbara Jordan, D-Texas, used to support enforcing immigration laws. Today, Krikorian said, their positions would be "branded as hate speech" by the SPLC.
The SPLC also charged Horowitz with hating Muslims because of his harsh criticism of radical Islamic terrorism and Palestinian groups opposed to Israel.
As a proof, the SPLC includes this statement, which really is a political argument: "The difference between Islamic fanatics, or Jew haters, and Hitler is that Hitler hid the Final Solution, and the Iranians and Hezbollah shout it from the rooftops. And the whole Muslim world accepts it."
And here's how you know the SPLC's labeling is highly partisan. In 2016, Richard Cohen, the group's president, wrote a piece titled, "Black Lives Matter is not a hate group."
"There's no doubt that some protesters who claim the mantle of Black Lives Matter have said offensive things, like the chant, 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon' that was heard at one rally," Cohen wrote. "But before we condemn the entire movement for the words of a few, we should ask ourselves whether we would also condemn the entire Republican Party for the racist words of its presumptive nominee -- or for the racist rhetoric of many other politicians in the party over the course of years."
No, the SPLC would never condemn the entire GOP as racist because of Donald Trump. Better to cook the frog slowly. Start by isolating David Horowitz. Then let the r-word hang over anyone who associates with him. And then see where that goes.

You Don't Have to Be a Bigot to Be Called a Racist Anymore — RealClearPolitics

The definition of racism has not changed. It has not expanded. It's still the same. What has changed is how racism is expressed. It is not socially acceptable to be a KKK member, so we have white supremacist groups using names like Christian identity, Army of God, etc. Citizens groups. Patriot groups. Militias. Anti govrnmnt, Anti Tax groups, etc. And the way racism is communicated has changed. You can no longer just straight out make racist comments and be deemed acceptable. So what we see is called modern racism.

Waaa waaawawaaa you are a race baiter.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

The Southern Poverty Law Center should be labeled a hate group, I'd add.

Add Black Lives Matter, and ANTIFA to that group.

You can't actually do that.

Why not?

 

[AKIP]

I guarantee you that I will have less issues than you if you went around Africa without a shirt for decades

Now....do you see where this is going for you?

Nope. I'm a native. Ahhhh wooo woooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo.

In fact, I grew up living off the land. Didn't even have running water til we moved up north after about 20 years. No electricity. No gas. No plumbing. No stores. No nothing. None of the luxuries that most of modern Americans, including you, enjoy as a meand for survival. I've cooked many of meal I had to kill out of the woods and the waters on a pile of rocks rubbing sticks together. I'm a killer, AKIP. I know how. I've lived off leaves and fungus and berries many of time. I can pretty much identify all of em.

In fact, I miss it.

You might be Native American....but humans started as AFRICAN.....and developed different superficial designs based upon living in certain areas OUTSIDE OF AFRICA for thousands of years. The Native American design makes you the only true Americans biologically.....while others are imported phenotypes. They only make my model in Africa, despite me being born in America.

 

[IM2]

The Southern Poverty Law Center should be labeled a hate group, I'd add.

Add Black Lives Matter, and ANTIFA to that group.

You can't actually do that.

Why not?

Because they aren't hate groups. I don't consider a group that mean antifascist as a hate group. Abd black lives matter is not even close. Are you pro fascist? Do you support police brutality?

 

[IM2]

I guarantee you that I will have less issues than you if you went around Africa without a shirt for decades

Now....do you see where this is going for you?

Nope. I'm a native. Ahhhh wooo woooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo wooo.

In fact, I grew up living off the land. Didn't even have running water til we moved up north after about 20 years. No electricity. No gas. No plumbing. No stores. No nothing. None of the luxuries that most of modern Americans, including you, enjoy as a meand for survival. I've cooked many of meal I had to kill out of the woods and the waters on a pile of rocks rubbing sticks together. I'm a killer, AKIP. I know how. I've lived off leaves and fungus and berries many of time. I can pretty much identify all of em.

In fact, I miss it.

You might be Native American....but humans started as AFRICAN.....and developed different superficial designs based upon living in certain areas for thousands of years. The Native American design makes you the only true Americans biologically.....while others are imported models.

I doubt he is native American. He would have named his nation and tribe.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I doubt he is native American. He would have named his nation and tribe.

No, I wouldn't have. You're just not that important that I feel the need.

You never know, though, I might take a pic and black some stuff out of it, just for the laugh. I've been known to do stuff like that. It's kinda like tinkering with the fishes. Let em go a little ways, reel em back in, let em go back out a ways further, reel em back in, and so forth. It's kind of sadistic, really.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Matter of fact, I'm due for a new avy. I might go heritage.

 

[Freiheit]

Symbolic racism (also known as modern-symbolic racism, modern racism,[1] symbolic prejudice, and racial resentment) is a coherent belief system that reflects an underlying unidimensional prejudice towards black people in the United States. These beliefs include the stereotype that blacks are morally inferior to white people, and that they violate traditional White American values such as hard work and independence. This is also more of a general term than it is specifically related to prejudice towards black people. It can be more generally characterized as an open dislike and derogation of individuals related to one's self.[clarification needed] These beliefs may cause the subject to discriminate against black people and to justify this discrimination.[2] Some people do not view symbolic racism as prejudice since it is not linked directly to race but indirectly through social and political issues.[3]

David O. Sears and P.J. Henry characterize symbolic racism as the expression or endorsement of four specific themes or beliefs:[4]

1. Blacks no longer face much prejudice or discrimination.
2. The failure of blacks to progress results from their unwillingness to work hard enough.
3. Blacks are demanding too much too fast.
4. Blacks have gotten more than they deserve.

Symbolic racism is a form of modern racism, as it is more subtle and indirect than more overt forms of racism,[5] such as those characterized in Jim Crow laws. As symbolic racism develops through socialization and its processes occur without conscious awareness,[6] an individual with symbolic racist beliefs may genuinely oppose racism and believe they are not racist.[7] Symbolic racism is perhaps the most prevalent racial attitude today.[8]

In the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement, old-fashioned (or "Jim Crow") racism dissolved along with segregation in the United States. Some people believe that new forms of racism began to replace old-fashioned racism.[9] Symbolic racism is a term that was coined by David Sears and John McConahay in 1973[10] to explain why most white Americans supported principles of equality for black Americans, but less than half were willing to support programs designed to implement these principles. The original theory described three definitive aspects of symbolic racism:[11][12]

1. A new form of racism had replaced old-fashioned Jim Crow racism, as it was no longer popular and could no longer be influential in politics as only a small minority still accepted it.
2. Opposition to black politicians and racially targeted policies is more influenced by symbolic racism than by any perceived or true threat to whites' own personal lives.
3. The origins of this form of racism lay in early-socialized negative feelings about blacks associated with traditional conservative values.

The concept of symbolic racism has evolved over time but most writings currently define symbolic racism as containing four themes:[1]

1. Racial discrimination is no longer a serious obstacle to blacks' prospects for a good life.
2. Blacks' continuing disadvantages are largely due to their unwillingness to work hard enough.
3. Blacks' continuing demands are unwarranted.
4. Blacks' increased advantages are also unwarranted.

Whitley and Kite cite six underlying factors that contribute to symbolic racism. They are to this day believed to have been some of the biggest influences on modern racism.[6]

1. Implicitly anti-black affect and negative stereotypes.
2. Racialized belief in traditional values.
3. Belief in equality of opportunity.
4. Low belief in equality of outcome.
5. Group self-interest.
6. Low knowledge of black people.

According to Whitley and Kite, those who hold symbolic racist beliefs tend to hold implicitly negative attitudes, most likely gained in childhood, towards blacks that may or may not be conscious.[6] These attitudes may not be outright hatred, but rather fear, disgust, anger, contempt, etc. In addition, those who hold symbolic racist beliefs may also believe in traditional American values such as hard work, individuality, and self-restraint.[6] However, these beliefs have become racialized. Many perceive that black individuals do not hold or act in accordance with these values.[6] Instead, black individuals rely on public assistance, seek government favors, and act impulsively.[6] As Whitley and Kite note, "The fact that White people also accept public assistance, seek government favors, and act impulsively is not relevant to people with symbolic prejudice; it is their perception (usually in stereotypic terms) of Black people's behavior that they focus on."[6] Furthermore, those with symbolic prejudice tend to believe in the equality of opportunity, which includes access to resources such as education, housing, and employment.[6] However, they tend not to believe in the equality of outcome. This explains how people can support the principle of racial equality but not support initiatives to achieve it, such as affirmative action. Government intervention when individuals do not have the same talent, effort or historical background would violate traditional values of equality of opportunity.[6] Thus, "people can simultaneously endorse equality of opportunity and reject government intervention to bring about equality of outcome."[6] Group self-interest reflects the idea that people try to do what is best for their group.[6] This idea manifests itself in the opinion that whites are deprived as a group of opportunities due to policies intended to benefit blacks. Finally, Whitley and Kite state most whites do not have extensive personal experience with blacks so the negative stereotypes they hold about blacks do not have the opportunity to be dispelled.[6]

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[Natural Citizen]

You might be Native American....but humans started as AFRICAN.....and developed different superficial designs based upon living in certain areas OUTSIDE OF AFRICA for thousands of years. The Native American design makes you the only true Americans biologically.....while others are imported phenotypes. They only make my model in Africa, despite me being born in America.

Yeah. That's true, I agree. Absolutely, humanity started in Africa, geographically and biologically speaking. I won't debate that.

Actually, Sumer, being the earliest recorded civilization.

 

[Unkotare]

I consider myself African because my body is designed to survive on the African continent.

lol. Okay. Stand out in the middle of the brush on the continent of Africa with just your reeboks and a stick and see how for ya make it.

Good luck. If you're lucky, maybe a real African will pass by and save you. You might consider your body to be built for the continent, but guaranteed your mind is trained to the Wendy's and the Burger King. down the corner.Or some other such similar hunting. lol.

You're Amercan. But if you wanna pretend youre African, go right ahead.

By the way, there are 54 states in Africa. Which one are you from?

Why did you ignore the hypocrisy of you referring to us as black Americans when we are not actually "black"? Did that not make you lol....it certainly made me lol....just saying.

I live around many Africans in my city. My daughter is constantly assumed, by the other African kids in her high school.....to be African. The kids who are making the assumption are the children of African immigrants, but they themselves were born in the US. Thus, when they ask my daughter where is she from and she tells them the United States.....they are like "no.....where are you REALLY from....where were your parents from". In other words, kids born in the US of African parents who were born in Africa, think my daughter is just like them.

Its just like some American cars used to have foreign engines. Because the car was assembled in the US....is it really an "American car" if the engine was manufactured in Japan? I am an African with the culture of an American. Not a "black" with the culture of an American. There is nothing "black" about me except for my hair.

How about just being an American?

 

[Unkotare]

Unless you were born in Africa or migrated here, you have more in common with a white American in Jackson, Wyoming than you do with a black man who came here two years out of Africa. And with the growing population of actual Africans coming to America, black Americans can't keep rolling with that gig about being African American. It's laughable. You folks might be able to get away with that horse pucky if we were living a hundred and fifty years ago when black people had parents who were born into slavery and had grandparents who actually spoke African. But that's not the case. We live in a time much later now.

Now. To your point about economics. You're right, but your right for the wrong reasons. The American monetary policy is one that functions by way of central economic planning by a central bank. All of that freshly printed money goes to the 1 percenters first, and they're the ones who get to put it into the economy the way they want. These are most often special interests and lobbyists, corporations, etc. And, yes, the middle class and poor get hit with the inflation tax to pay the interest on the debt. Wages become stagnant for the middle class, as we've seen, and the rich get richer, but it affects blacks and whites, not just blacks. What we see happening in Chicago and similar places, is you get gangland style sub-cultures that evolve which is just another symptom of the economic problem.

Well....here is the thing. You are not the arbiter and hence have no standing in telling me who I have more in common with. Just as an FYI....the best friends I have made in the last 20 years have been......wait for it....native born Africans. We have PLENTY in common and the most common thing we share, besides skin color and other phenotype characteristics, is that we have all been impacted by the doctrine of white supremacy. I have in fact been to Africa. Yes....culturally we are a lot different, but the gap between us culturally is shrinking as unfortunately the world is being westernized culturally....meaning the culture of the West, and in particular America, is spreading among the young world wide....the music, the style of dress, beliefs, etc. To tell you the truth.....you make no sense to me. In my life there is little truth to what you say.

Why “unfortunately”?

Stop being such a bigot...

What do you mean?

All you do is go around throwing hate on people because they don't like what you like. Think about it.

Illogical conclusion, bigot.