America's Poorest White Town

[PoliticalChic]

blacks acting like anomals. blm is black superiorirty group.

Why go that far.....the Democrats appointed a black supremacist to lead the 'Justice Department.'


"Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, believes black people are superior to white people because they possess more melanin.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson obtained shocking statements Clarke made in 1994.

“Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured by Eurocentric standards.” Kristen Clarke wrote."





















“Melanin Endows Blacks with Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities” (VIDEO)
Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, believes black people are superior to white people because they possess more melanin. Fox News host Tucker Carlson obtained shocking statements Clarke made in 1994. “Melanin endows blacks with greater ment ...






thespectator.info

What's wrong with racism?

 

[PoliticalChic]

It is much more likely that we learned to despise Native Americans. See excerpts from a summary of the book you refer to:

Silver’s explanation of the increase in racial animosity between whites and Indians in the early history of the United States emphasizes the social consequences of what happens when groups of people are forced to live a life of fear. (I insert here that the Native Americans were invaded and terrorized by outsiders. One would expect them to respond in kind to preserve their right to live on their own land.)

Silver also states that he does not think true racism existed until the years following the American Revolution; the fighting between Indians and whites in the eighteenth century was caused primarily by fear, not racial prejudice.

The second half of the book moves away from the countryside and the detailed inner life of the settlers and enters into lives within bigger cities, such as Philadelphia. It touches upon the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin and other well-known historical figures. Silver demonstrates how the American interest in pamphleteering led to white propaganda that allowed the spread of racism. “Indian-haters” and pamphleteers managed to spread the Anti-Indian Sublime to even those who had never had contact with an Indian.


Some critics have commented that the historical narrative of Our Savage Neighbors is told primarily through eye-witness accounts of only white settlers. Readers see their fears, thoughts, and emotions. Since there are few firsthand accounts of Indians’ personal views during that particular time in history, some find this book to be very one-sided—dangerous in a country like the United States that is currently divided by race. There is little detail to help readers investigate Indian motivations. It leaves questions unanswered

Not being an imbecile, I question what is presented as fact when it is one sided or written to prove a set-in-stone idea that does not take any other supporting facts into account. I also find it interesting that there are few firsthand accounts of Native American's personal views during that time. I imagine that living descendants may have stories to tell that have been passed down from generation to generation and I imagine they do not sound like Silver's version at all.

" I also find it interesting that there are few firsthand accounts of Native American's personal views during that time. "


Although we have documented that you are an imbecile.....here is one more lesson: the individual you are championing, and appealing to for written records of their "oppression"......


.....were stone age savages, some three thousand years in development behind the Europeans that they massacred.





While they did have fire, probably due to a confluence of natural events, they never developed even the simplest implements of mechanical advantage. The rest of the world did, thousands of years prior.


That simplest of ‘tools’???? The wheel.

“The invention of the wheel falls into the late Neolithic, and may be seen in conjunction with other technological advances that gave rise to the early Bronze Age. This implies the passage of several wheel-less millennia even after the invention of agriculture and of pottery, dtheuring the Aceramic Neolithic.

Two types of early Neolithic European wheel and axle are known; a circumalpine type of wagon construction (the wheel and axle rotate together, as in Ljubljana Marshes Wheel), and that of the Baden culture in Hungary (axle does not rotate). They both are dated to c. 3200–3000 BCE.””
Wheel - Wikipedia

germantownbulldogs.org



The Plains People - Transportation / Migration





See any wheels on those conveyances????




Come to think of it......you're about that far behind, too.

 

[LOIE]

" I also find it interesting that there are few firsthand accounts of Native American's personal views during that time. "


Although we have documented that you are an imbecile.....here is one more lesson: the individual you are championing, and appealing to for written records of their "oppression"......


.....were stone age savages, some three thousand years in development behind the Europeans that they massacred.





While they did have fire, probably due to a confluence of natural events, they never developed even the simplest implements of mechanical advantage. The rest of the world did, thousands of years prior.


That simplest of ‘tools’???? The wheel.

“The invention of the wheel falls into the late Neolithic, and may be seen in conjunction with other technological advances that gave rise to the early Bronze Age. This implies the passage of several wheel-less millennia even after the invention of agriculture and of pottery, dtheuring the Aceramic Neolithic.

Two types of early Neolithic European wheel and axle are known; a circumalpine type of wagon construction (the wheel and axle rotate together, as in Ljubljana Marshes Wheel), and that of the Baden culture in Hungary (axle does not rotate). They both are dated to c. 3200–3000 BCE.””
Wheel - Wikipedia


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germantownbulldogs.org



The Plains People - Transportation / Migration





See any wheels on those conveyances????




Come to think of it......you're about that far behind, too.

I don't suppose you will take the time to read this entire article, but perhaps you should.

The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History

Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages

www.smithsonianmag.com

If you choose not to be enlightened by the Smithsonian here are a few excerpts that shouldn't take too long to read:
The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History

Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages

Enter Bernard Bailyn, the greatest historian of early America alive today. Now over 90 and ensconced at Harvard for more than six decades, Bailyn has recently published another one of his epoch-making grand narrative syntheses, The Barbarous Years, casting a light on the darkness, filling in the blank canvas

“Look at the ‘peaceful’ Pilgrims. Our William Bradford. He goes to see the Pequot War battlefield and he is appalled. He said, ‘The stink’ [of heaps of dead bodies] was too much.” Bailyn is speaking of one of the early and bloodiest encounters, between our peaceful pumpkin pie-eating Pilgrims and the original inhabitants of the land they wanted to seize, the Pequots. But for Bailyn, the mercenary motive is less salient than the theological.

“The ferocity of that little war is just unbelievable,” Bailyn says. “The butchering that went on cannot be explained by trying to get hold of a piece of land. They were really struggling with this central issue for them, of the advent of the Antichrist.”

The Antichrist. The haunting figure presaging the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation plays an important part in Bailyn’s explanation of the European settlers’ descent into unrestrained savagery. The key passage on this question comes late in his new book when Bailyn makes explicit a connection I had not seen before: between the physical savagery the radical dissenting Protestant settlers of America wreaked on the original inhabitants, and the intellectual savagery of their polemical attacks on the church and state authorities they fled from in Europe—and the savagery of vicious insult and vile denunciation they wreaked upon each other as well.

But Bailyn’s “cosmic eye” saw even deeper. He wanted to capture not just physical movements but also “the interior experiences, the quality of their culture, the capacity of their minds, the patterns of their emotions.” He wanted to look inside heads and read minds. Bailyn’s voyage was a monumentally ambitious project, a voyage through unmapped oceans of data analogous to the Columbus-era explorers setting out on a vast uncharted ocean.

The opening section of his new book stands out for his profoundly sensitive appreciation of the sensibility of the original inhabitants whom he introduces simply as “Americans” rather than “Native Americans.”

He captures that sensibility as well as any attempt I’ve read: “Their world was multitudinous, densely populated by active, sentient and sensitive spirits, spirits with consciences, memories and purposes, that surround them, instructed them, impinged on their lives at every turn. No less real for being invisible...the whole of life was a spiritual enterprise...the universe in all its movements and animations and nature was suffused with spiritual potency.”

In person, Bailyn expresses an almost poetic admiration for this sort of spirituality. “All the world was alive!” he exclaims. “And the wind is alive! The mountains are alive!”

Then, he adds: “But it’s not a terribly peaceful world. They were always involved in warfare, partly because life would become imbalanced in a way that needed justification and response and reprisal. And reprisals, within their lives, are very important. But partly the onus is on the threats that they’re under.”

Bailyn does not let either of the two adversary cultures off the hook. He recounts little vignettes of the original inhabitants’ behavior such as this: Following the ambush of four Dutch traders, Bailyn quotes a report, one “had been eaten after having [been] well roasted. The [other two] they burnt. The Indians carried a leg and an arm home to be divided amongst their families.”

And, on the other side, consider that fixture of grade school Thanksgiving pageants, Miles Standish, an upstanding, godly Pilgrim stalwart who does not at all seem the sort of man who would have cut off the head of a chief and “brought it back to Plymouth in triumph [where] it was displayed on the blockhouse together with a flag made of a cloth soaked in the victim’s blood.”



TO WHICH I SAY, WELL, AT LEAST THEY INVENTED THE WHEEL!!!

 

[PoliticalChic]

I don't suppose you will take the time to read this entire article, but perhaps you should.

The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History

Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages

www.smithsonianmag.com

If you choose not to be enlightened by the Smithsonian here are a few excerpts that shouldn't take too long to read:
The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History

Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages

Enter Bernard Bailyn, the greatest historian of early America alive today. Now over 90 and ensconced at Harvard for more than six decades, Bailyn has recently published another one of his epoch-making grand narrative syntheses, The Barbarous Years, casting a light on the darkness, filling in the blank canvas

“Look at the ‘peaceful’ Pilgrims. Our William Bradford. He goes to see the Pequot War battlefield and he is appalled. He said, ‘The stink’ [of heaps of dead bodies] was too much.” Bailyn is speaking of one of the early and bloodiest encounters, between our peaceful pumpkin pie-eating Pilgrims and the original inhabitants of the land they wanted to seize, the Pequots. But for Bailyn, the mercenary motive is less salient than the theological.

“The ferocity of that little war is just unbelievable,” Bailyn says. “The butchering that went on cannot be explained by trying to get hold of a piece of land. They were really struggling with this central issue for them, of the advent of the Antichrist.”

The Antichrist. The haunting figure presaging the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation plays an important part in Bailyn’s explanation of the European settlers’ descent into unrestrained savagery. The key passage on this question comes late in his new book when Bailyn makes explicit a connection I had not seen before: between the physical savagery the radical dissenting Protestant settlers of America wreaked on the original inhabitants, and the intellectual savagery of their polemical attacks on the church and state authorities they fled from in Europe—and the savagery of vicious insult and vile denunciation they wreaked upon each other as well.

But Bailyn’s “cosmic eye” saw even deeper. He wanted to capture not just physical movements but also “the interior experiences, the quality of their culture, the capacity of their minds, the patterns of their emotions.” He wanted to look inside heads and read minds. Bailyn’s voyage was a monumentally ambitious project, a voyage through unmapped oceans of data analogous to the Columbus-era explorers setting out on a vast uncharted ocean.

The opening section of his new book stands out for his profoundly sensitive appreciation of the sensibility of the original inhabitants whom he introduces simply as “Americans” rather than “Native Americans.”

He captures that sensibility as well as any attempt I’ve read: “Their world was multitudinous, densely populated by active, sentient and sensitive spirits, spirits with consciences, memories and purposes, that surround them, instructed them, impinged on their lives at every turn. No less real for being invisible...the whole of life was a spiritual enterprise...the universe in all its movements and animations and nature was suffused with spiritual potency.”

In person, Bailyn expresses an almost poetic admiration for this sort of spirituality. “All the world was alive!” he exclaims. “And the wind is alive! The mountains are alive!”

Then, he adds: “But it’s not a terribly peaceful world. They were always involved in warfare, partly because life would become imbalanced in a way that needed justification and response and reprisal. And reprisals, within their lives, are very important. But partly the onus is on the threats that they’re under.”

Bailyn does not let either of the two adversary cultures off the hook. He recounts little vignettes of the original inhabitants’ behavior such as this: Following the ambush of four Dutch traders, Bailyn quotes a report, one “had been eaten after having [been] well roasted. The [other two] they burnt. The Indians carried a leg and an arm home to be divided amongst their families.”

And, on the other side, consider that fixture of grade school Thanksgiving pageants, Miles Standish, an upstanding, godly Pilgrim stalwart who does not at all seem the sort of man who would have cut off the head of a chief and “brought it back to Plymouth in triumph [where] it was displayed on the blockhouse together with a flag made of a cloth soaked in the victim’s blood.”



TO WHICH I SAY, WELL, AT LEAST THEY INVENTED THE WHEEL!!!

The Smithsonian is totally in the thrall of the Progressives......very much as you are.


Here is a recent example of the Smithsonian advising black American never to be successful.....it's too 'white.'


According to the recent Smithsonian display on whiteness, these are the traits real black persons must avoid in order not to be ridiculed as ‘acting white.’

“Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

Among other things, this graphic suggests that the nuclear family, science, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition are forms of oppressive “whiteness” that non-white people should reject as part of an oppressive system.

“Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal,” the Smithsonian “whiteness” page reads. The “teaching tool” suggests that “whiteness” needs to be overthrown in order for non-white people to become liberated from an oppressive “white culture.”

“Whiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions toward people of color,” the Smithsonian page argues. “Acts of microaggressions include verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults toward nonwhites. Whether intentional or not, these attitudes communicate hostile, derogatory, or harmful messages.” Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

They cannot allow their 'pets' to assume those traits that have advanced the most successful society ever to exist in all of history.





“The chart endeavors to list "the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States." Among those traditions, attitudes, and ways of life are: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future, plus much more.” Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

 

[horselightning]

Why go that far.....the Democrats appointed a black supremacist to lead the 'Justice Department.'


"Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, believes black people are superior to white people because they possess more melanin.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson obtained shocking statements Clarke made in 1994.

“Melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical, and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured by Eurocentric standards.” Kristen Clarke wrote."





















“Melanin Endows Blacks with Greater Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abilities” (VIDEO)
Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, believes black people are superior to white people because they possess more melanin. Fox News host Tucker Carlson obtained shocking statements Clarke made in 1994. “Melanin endows blacks with greater ment ...






thespectator.info

What's wrong with racism?

no one is beter then anyone else. They are so spiritual they shoot each other to death on holidays and weekends.

 

[horselightning]

I don't suppose you will take the time to read this entire article, but perhaps you should.

The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History

Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages

www.smithsonianmag.com

If you choose not to be enlightened by the Smithsonian here are a few excerpts that shouldn't take too long to read:
The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History

Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages

Enter Bernard Bailyn, the greatest historian of early America alive today. Now over 90 and ensconced at Harvard for more than six decades, Bailyn has recently published another one of his epoch-making grand narrative syntheses, The Barbarous Years, casting a light on the darkness, filling in the blank canvas

“Look at the ‘peaceful’ Pilgrims. Our William Bradford. He goes to see the Pequot War battlefield and he is appalled. He said, ‘The stink’ [of heaps of dead bodies] was too much.” Bailyn is speaking of one of the early and bloodiest encounters, between our peaceful pumpkin pie-eating Pilgrims and the original inhabitants of the land they wanted to seize, the Pequots. But for Bailyn, the mercenary motive is less salient than the theological.

“The ferocity of that little war is just unbelievable,” Bailyn says. “The butchering that went on cannot be explained by trying to get hold of a piece of land. They were really struggling with this central issue for them, of the advent of the Antichrist.”

The Antichrist. The haunting figure presaging the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation plays an important part in Bailyn’s explanation of the European settlers’ descent into unrestrained savagery. The key passage on this question comes late in his new book when Bailyn makes explicit a connection I had not seen before: between the physical savagery the radical dissenting Protestant settlers of America wreaked on the original inhabitants, and the intellectual savagery of their polemical attacks on the church and state authorities they fled from in Europe—and the savagery of vicious insult and vile denunciation they wreaked upon each other as well.

But Bailyn’s “cosmic eye” saw even deeper. He wanted to capture not just physical movements but also “the interior experiences, the quality of their culture, the capacity of their minds, the patterns of their emotions.” He wanted to look inside heads and read minds. Bailyn’s voyage was a monumentally ambitious project, a voyage through unmapped oceans of data analogous to the Columbus-era explorers setting out on a vast uncharted ocean.

The opening section of his new book stands out for his profoundly sensitive appreciation of the sensibility of the original inhabitants whom he introduces simply as “Americans” rather than “Native Americans.”

He captures that sensibility as well as any attempt I’ve read: “Their world was multitudinous, densely populated by active, sentient and sensitive spirits, spirits with consciences, memories and purposes, that surround them, instructed them, impinged on their lives at every turn. No less real for being invisible...the whole of life was a spiritual enterprise...the universe in all its movements and animations and nature was suffused with spiritual potency.”

In person, Bailyn expresses an almost poetic admiration for this sort of spirituality. “All the world was alive!” he exclaims. “And the wind is alive! The mountains are alive!”

Then, he adds: “But it’s not a terribly peaceful world. They were always involved in warfare, partly because life would become imbalanced in a way that needed justification and response and reprisal. And reprisals, within their lives, are very important. But partly the onus is on the threats that they’re under.”

Bailyn does not let either of the two adversary cultures off the hook. He recounts little vignettes of the original inhabitants’ behavior such as this: Following the ambush of four Dutch traders, Bailyn quotes a report, one “had been eaten after having [been] well roasted. The [other two] they burnt. The Indians carried a leg and an arm home to be divided amongst their families.”

And, on the other side, consider that fixture of grade school Thanksgiving pageants, Miles Standish, an upstanding, godly Pilgrim stalwart who does not at all seem the sort of man who would have cut off the head of a chief and “brought it back to Plymouth in triumph [where] it was displayed on the blockhouse together with a flag made of a cloth soaked in the victim’s blood.”



TO WHICH I SAY, WELL, AT LEAST THEY INVENTED THE WHEEL!!!

ther are talking abour before thwe revolutionary war. there was no america then. only colonies own by the uk and france.

 

[MizMolly]

If this were true, why were Native Americans massacred? Why was their land stolen from them? It was because anything non-white had to be subjugated and seen as "less than." Why were blacks stolen from their homes and enslaved? Because anything non-white had to be subjugated and seen as "less than." Why are the contributions of people of color always downplayed? Because anything non-white had to be subjugated and seen as "less then."

Today, IF the articles you posted and videos you shared are real and genuine, (it's hard to tell since the sources are obviously biased) some white folks are beginning to feel what it is like to be on the receiving end - an uncomfortable place for them, since they have always been on the giving end of racist rhetoric and ideology. (Remember now - I'm white.)

It looks like she was talking about today, not history.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The only question I am left with after reading this article is this. Why are there 200 billion unused dollars from the Cares Act out of the 2 trillion passed by congress and signed into law by then President Trump? Why was it not spent? Didn't people need it? Are some states not using it for it's intended purpose?

"Schumer’s Economic Justice Act, if passed, would use $200 billion in unused funds from the $2 trillion CARES Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in March."

"Massachusetts university sued after asking applicant to “defend her whiteness” during interview​

It’s really unbelievable that this would happen to someone in a job application process, especially in light of the racism this country overcame 6 or 7 decades ago. America is headed in reverse into another era of racism and our liberal universities are taking us there."

Massachusetts university sued after asking applicant to “defend her whiteness” during interview – The Right Scoop

therightscoop.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

If this were true, why were Native Americans massacred? Why was their land stolen from them? It was because anything non-white had to be subjugated and seen as "less than." Why were blacks stolen from their homes and enslaved? Because anything non-white had to be subjugated and seen as "less than." Why are the contributions of people of color always downplayed? Because anything non-white had to be subjugated and seen as "less then."

Today, IF the articles you posted and videos you shared are real and genuine, (it's hard to tell since the sources are obviously biased) some white folks are beginning to feel what it is like to be on the receiving end - an uncomfortable place for them, since they have always been on the giving end of racist rhetoric and ideology. (Remember now - I'm white.)

1. There never was any genocide of Indians by the colonists
2. No land was stolen from them.
3. Africans were sold into slavery by other Africans.
4. Every Jim Crow law in the nation was instituted by Democrats, and that party started a war to maintain it
5.Democrats blocked every anti-lynching law the Republicans brought to Congress.
6. Everything I post is 100% true, accurate and correct.
7. The only subjugation today is of white people.

And, this...
"At least 620,000 combatants died during the four-year struggle; recent estimates put the total closer to 750,000, or more than 2 percent of the nation’s population at that time. More soldiers died in prison camps alone than America lost during the entire Vietnam War. Perhaps more to the point, some 350,000 Union soldiers died during the conflict, abolitionists in effect if not always in intent. Adjusted for population, that would amount to almost 5 million service deaths today, amounting to a blood sacrifice more than sufficient to redeem whatever moral or intellectual inconsistencies there are to be found in America’s founding documents.

And if that’s not sufficient? Well, then, nothing will be. But for most Americans—and for much of the rest of the world—it is more than enough. "
Blood Redemption

For more than a century, it was believed that 618,000 men died in the Civil War: 360,000 from the North and 258,000 from the South. But in recent decades, historians raised the number to an estimated 750,000 deaths, mostly blamed on the under-counting of Confederate casualties.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It looks like she was talking about today, not history.

Both then and now.

 

[LOIE]

The Smithsonian is totally in the thrall of the Progressives......very much as you are.


Here is a recent example of the Smithsonian advising black American never to be successful.....it's too 'white.'


According to the recent Smithsonian display on whiteness, these are the traits real black persons must avoid in order not to be ridiculed as ‘acting white.’

“Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

Among other things, this graphic suggests that the nuclear family, science, capitalism, and the Judeo-Christian tradition are forms of oppressive “whiteness” that non-white people should reject as part of an oppressive system.

“Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal,” the Smithsonian “whiteness” page reads. The “teaching tool” suggests that “whiteness” needs to be overthrown in order for non-white people to become liberated from an oppressive “white culture.”

“Whiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions toward people of color,” the Smithsonian page argues. “Acts of microaggressions include verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults toward nonwhites. Whether intentional or not, these attitudes communicate hostile, derogatory, or harmful messages.” Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

They cannot allow their 'pets' to assume those traits that have advanced the most successful society ever to exist in all of history.





“The chart endeavors to list "the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States." Among those traditions, attitudes, and ways of life are: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future, plus much more.” Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

I read about this and looked at the chart. I did not find anywhere that they were encouraging black people to never be successful. I understand that the purpose for which they posted the chart was to spur conversations on race related matters and that when it was taken in a totally different way, they apologized and removed it.

The one part I did find interesting was that they explained that black people experience life in the U.S. differently than white people. One would need to be black to totally understand that, but I know black people who can explain what it feels like to be disliked simply because of the color of their skin, something they have no control over. I know young black men who can tell you the feeling they get when someone crosses over to the other side of the sidewalk when they approach, or when they see a lady quickly lock her car door when they see her sitting at the corner.

The chart looked to me like it covered pretty much everything I had been taught as a WASP, by my parents, educators and church leaders. None of those things listed are oppressive in and of themselves. When people look at stuff like this and interpret it to mean something negative, they must be seeing it differently than I do.

The intent of the portal was to give people a chance to look at something, to ask themselves the questions, "Is this true? Is this what I believe? And if so, why? Does this speak to how I see other people who are different than I am? If so, what does it say?"

I think that jumping to the conclusion that this was Marxist is simply silly. Any time we read something that makes us think and question what we have been taught and who we are, that is a good thing. Regurgitating other people's thoughts does not serve much of a purpose. We need our own.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I read about this and looked at the chart. I did not find anywhere that they were encouraging black people to never be successful. I understand that the purpose for which they posted the chart was to spur conversations on race related matters and that when it was taken in a totally different way, they apologized and removed it.

The one part I did find interesting was that they explained that black people experience life in the U.S. differently than white people. One would need to be black to totally understand that, but I know black people who can explain what it feels like to be disliked simply because of the color of their skin, something they have no control over. I know young black men who can tell you the feeling they get when someone crosses over to the other side of the sidewalk when they approach, or when they see a lady quickly lock her car door when they see her sitting at the corner.

The chart looked to me like it covered pretty much everything I had been taught as a WASP, by my parents, educators and church leaders. None of those things listed are oppressive in and of themselves. When people look at stuff like this and interpret it to mean something negative, they must be seeing it differently than I do.

The intent of the portal was to give people a chance to look at something, to ask themselves the questions, "Is this true? Is this what I believe? And if so, why? Does this speak to how I see other people who are different than I am? If so, what does it say?"

I think that jumping to the conclusion that this was Marxist is simply silly. Any time we read something that makes us think and question what we have been taught and who we are, that is a good thing. Regurgitating other people's thoughts does not serve much of a purpose. We need our own.

" I did not find anywhere that they were encouraging black people to never be successful."

That's because you are a liar as well as an imbecile.


It marked these as "white."

“The chart endeavors to list "the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States." Among those traditions, attitudes, and ways of life are: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future, plus much more.” Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'




You remain the perfect Democrat slave.....er, voter.

 

[LOIE]

Everything I post is 100% true, accurate and correct.

Really? You believe everything you find online and post is 100% true? Do you not realize that the conservative writers, editors, journalists, commentators may start with a fact and then put their own spin on it to make it conform to their narrative? You seem to believe that EVERYTHING conservatives say is true and that EVERYTHING liberals say in false. To me that is extremely narrow minded.

I could say that the sky is blue. I could also say that is a fact. However, someone may point out that during a storm, the sky is gray or even black. They could say that during sunsets the sky is red, orange, yellow and purple. They could say that rainbow colors often appear in that blue sky, making it multicolored.

Being closed minded does not allow for the varying experiences and nuances of this life. Even experts disagree on facts. A prosecutor can put an expert witness on the stand during a trial to prove his point. The defense then calls their own expert witness who contradicts what has just been stated. The judge and jury must decide who to believe when coming to a verdict.

Life is complex. Even facts are seen through the eyes and mind of the beholder, much like beauty. Something that is beautiful to one person may be ugly to another. Facts that seem to prove something to one person might make another thinking person question their validity and the purpose for which they are being used.

I think the more important question to be answered, is "Why do I believe what I believe?" And in addition, "Does what I choose to believe lead me to contentment or to conflict and confusion?" Peace of mind is vital to my existence and to my interpersonal relationships with people from all walks of life.

 

[LOIE]

It marked these as "white."

“The chart endeavors to list "the ways white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time and are now considered standard practices in the United States." Among those traditions, attitudes, and ways of life are: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, a belief in progress, a written tradition, politeness, the justice system, respect for authority, delayed gratification and planning for the future, plus much more.” Smithsonian Goes Full Marxist: Nuclear Family, Science, Christianity All Part of Oppressive 'Whiteness'

Yes, but it does not say that these are restricted to whites. It does not call them good, bad, or indifferent. It does not say that whites are the only group of people who adhere to these beliefs. It does not say that similar beliefs do not exist elsewhere. And it does not say that other groups should not believe in any of them. Like I said, I was raised by WASP's and these are the things that were taught to me. In the U.S. since whites have been the majority and have had control over governments, systems and institutions, their beliefs have had more of an impact on the country. I'm not sure why stating that has people so bent out of shape.

And, like I said, I understood the chart was removed after so much controversy.

 

[theHawk]

Well when Dems take away jobs and ship them overseas to China, yes, white people suffer too.

If we had MAGA types running the government for any significant period, we could easily change this. More jobs for poor people, of all colors.

But that’s “RaCiSt” of me.

 

[1stNickD]

How did this occur and why are all the racists on this site obsessing with so called "black culture" and the alleged failings of the black community when they have their own communities with the exact same failings that they're always wanting to attribute to only the black race.

You all had how many hundreds of years of a head start and you still haven't pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and accomplished great things for the human race, yet you constantly ***** and moan about any progress black people make, to the point that your go-to strategy is to burn everything down that surpasses your accomplishment.

While I have compassion for these people, far too many of you appear to not even know that there is any such thing as poor white people living in such dire conditions and relying wholely or mostly off of government assistance. Or that there are areas where all of the criminals are white (an extremely rare occurence according to Tipsycatlover).

What a bunch of ignorant racist horseshit.

 

[Ringo]

 

[horselightning]

What a bunch of ignorant racist horseshit.

exactlly. its the other way around,. black are obessed with race and color. thats all they see an d talk on. everything this racist say it what black people do. he is competely descirbing the black comunuty.

 

[horselightning]

How did this occur and why are all the racists on this site obsessing with so called "black culture" and the alleged failings of the black community when they have their own communities with the exact same failings that they're always wanting to attribute to only the black race.

You all had how many hundreds of years of a head start and you still haven't pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and accomplished great things for the human race, yet you constantly ***** and moan about any progress black people make, to the point that your go-to strategy is to burn everything down that surpasses your accomplishment.

While I have compassion for these people, far too many of you appear to not even know that there is any such thing as poor white people living in such dire conditions and relying wholely or mostly off of government assistance. Or that there are areas where all of the criminals are white (an extremely rare occurence according to Tipsycatlover).

describing the black comunity to tea. yep yep yep !

 

[MizMolly]

describing the black comunity to tea. yep yep yep !

A lot of white people who mention blacks needing to better their communities is said because too many black people side with BLM, and are only concerned with black lives mattering when something is done to them by white people.