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I'm black...try again
That's even better!!!
Are you going to call him an Uncle Tom because his stance doesn't fit your idea of social justice or the lack there of in your mind?
Not unless he exhibits some uncle tom behavior. Or am I not supposed to call (excuse the term) a spade a spade because you might not like it?
No matter the answer....I dont care
Firing Line - Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981) - YouTube
Best video ever...It'll help you out if you're looking to WORK your way for a living instead of begging, CC.
That's even better!!!
Are you going to call him an Uncle Tom because his stance doesn't fit your idea of social justice or the lack there of in your mind?
Not unless he exhibits some uncle tom behavior. Or am I not supposed to call (excuse the term) a spade a spade because you might not like it?
No matter the answer....I dont care
Well thats mighty white of you....if you dont mind me saying so.
I'm black...try again
I knew you were, I know you remember me too..
And he is right..being black doesn't mean you're not being an intellectual pussy trying to find an excuse to not address the issue. I'm black too..yet here I am, questioning dumb shit black folks take as golden. What's your excuse for not doing so, CC?
Let me get this straight. White folks in your opinion have received no benefit from being the majority ruling class in America for hundreds of years?
You couldnt even bring yourself to fix your lips and answer in the negative. If you do you either believe that head starts dont matter or that the people who were owned by whites should be on the same level socially and financially as their owners.
Which one is it champ?
Not unless he exhibits some uncle tom behavior. Or am I not supposed to call (excuse the term) a spade a spade because you might not like it?
No matter the answer....I dont care
Well thats mighty white of you....if you dont mind me saying so.
I call it like it is and wont let you, the PC cop, stop me from doing so
Firing Line - Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981) - YouTube
Best video ever...It'll help you out if you're looking to WORK your way for a living instead of begging, CC.
Tell me Locke, I told you I'm black and you assume I dont have a job...Weird. Its almost like you believe there is a correlation between the two.
But you're not trolling tho...nope no way
If you mean as a whole, No, "white people" have not benefitted any from being white in this country,
atleast not to any great extent,
they're benefitting yet this country is going from 90% white to eventually being mostly non white?
There is a privileged class, which is mostly white, that has benefitted off the backs of everyone that wasn't born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but these people could give two shits about white people obviously... They got theirs.
Where I grew up, if a white family lived there..they were poorer than us black folks 99.99% of the time. So how did being white alone benefit them, really? Think about it.
Maaaan fuck, you are a funny dude
Firing Line - Thomas Sowell w/ William F. Buckley Jr. (1981) - YouTube
Best video ever...It'll help you out if you're looking to WORK your way for a living instead of begging, CC.
Tell me Locke, I told you I'm black and you assume I dont have a job...Weird. Its almost like you believe there is a correlation between the two.
But you're not trolling tho...nope no way
You assume Im talking about you not having a job, but I didn't imply it. Think a little harder on the context of the thread and what I said previously. It has nothing to do with you as an individual, CC... Other than your begging for equality through govt intervention instead of earning it by proving the racists wrong. I don't know or care if you have a job or not, so quit making it about you.
You're more conservative than me, CC! Why, you will sit here and deny the won battles of the civil rights struggle while riding it's coattail! We don't live in the times when there was an honest to GOD privilege in being white over black.
Try to join me in TODAY, which is when they've brought up this supposed "white privilege". Today, the monied classes aren't doing anything to stop this country from going from white majority to non white majority...
So even if at one point there was a privilege just from being white(never was), it doesn't mean shit today, so why do you use it as an excuse for the condition of the black community today? This ought to be good...
You're more conservative than me, CC! Why, you will sit here and deny the won battles of the civil rights struggle while riding it's coattail! We don't live in the times when there was an honest to GOD privilege in being white over black. Try to join me in TODAY, which is when they've brought up this supposed "white privilege". Today, the monied classes aren't doing anything to stop this country from going from white majority to non white majority...So even if at one point there was a privilege just from being white(never was), it doesn't mean shit today, so why do you use it as an excuse for the condition of the black community today? This ought to be good...
Ahhh the classic troll thread!
Instead of finding out the definition of a word or phrase, the troll asks for someone personal definition instead so that the troll can turn the definition into a personal pissing match instead of opting for real information
I don't see anything troll-like in asking people who use a term to explain what they think the definition is. After all it doesn't matter what the term actually means if the people who are using it are wrong in what they think it means.
On the other hand, I do see something distinctly troll-like in someone not contributing to a conversation and instead saying "go look it up."
When someone asks and they are told to look it up and refuse are they really interested in what the term means or what someone else THINKS it means?
I don't see anything troll-like in asking people who use a term to explain what they think the definition is. After all it doesn't matter what the term actually means if the people who are using it are wrong in what they think it means.
On the other hand, I do see something distinctly troll-like in someone not contributing to a conversation and instead saying "go look it up."
When someone asks and they are told to look it up and refuse are they really interested in what the term means or what someone else THINKS it means?
Since the OP specifically addresses what white priviledge means in the minds of liberals/progressives, I would dare to say he does in fact care "what someone else THINKS it means" more than what the term "actually means."
Again, if you use a term and I want to know what you meant by it, it doesn't matter what the term actually means. It only matters what you think it means.
I knew you were, I know you remember me too..
And he is right..being black doesn't mean you're not being an intellectual pussy trying to find an excuse to not address the issue. I'm black too..yet here I am, questioning dumb shit black folks take as golden. What's your excuse for not doing so, CC?
This should be interesting.
For the record, I think Emily and Locke are more accurate in saying that it has more to do with monied privilege than race.
The monied privilege comes with being white. They are intertwined. ORRRRRrrrrrr monied privilege just so happen to miss black people by chance and not because of history.
For the record of course.
This should be interesting.
For the record, I think Emily and Locke are more accurate in saying that it has more to do with monied privilege than race.
The monied privilege comes with being white. They are intertwined. ORRRRRrrrrrr monied privilege just so happen to miss black people by chance and not because of history.
For the record of course.
[sarcasm]
So there are no poor white people. I'm sure the people who are commonly called "white trash" will be so glad to hear it. Of course monied priviledge comes with being white. That's why all white families are able to pass on an inheritance, and no non-white families can.
[/sarcasm]
With the sarcasm out of my system: do you actually believe that whiteness bestows monied priviledge indescriminate of any other factor?
Poor LockeJaw...White privilege doesnt mean every white person every will be rich. Maybe thats why you dont believe it exists...wait, no you DO believe it exists (contradicting your OP) but its not THAT much privilege because poor white people exist in the world.
I knew you were, I know you remember me too..
And he is right..being black doesn't mean you're not being an intellectual pussy trying to find an excuse to not address the issue. I'm black too..yet here I am, questioning dumb shit black folks take as golden. What's your excuse for not doing so, CC?
This should be interesting.
For the record, I think Emily and Locke are more accurate in saying that it has more to do with monied privilege than race.
The monied privilege comes with being white. They are intertwined. ORRRRRrrrrrr monied privilege just so happen to miss black people by chance and not because of history.
For the record of course.
This should be interesting.
For the record, I think Emily and Locke are more accurate in saying that it has more to do with monied privilege than race.
The monied privilege comes with being white. They are intertwined. ORRRRRrrrrrr monied privilege just so happen to miss black people by chance and not because of history.
For the record of course.
You should revisit history.
In the city of Charleston, free blacks nearly monopolized the jobs of barbers, bricklayers, shoemakers, tailors and dressmakers. They prospered in their entrepreneurial jobs and were able to earn the capital needed to purchase slaves.
By the mid 1700s to early 1800s, most free blacks considered themselves more American than they did African, for almost all of them had been born on American soil, free or slave. They wanted to live the same life as whites, and they saw slaveholding as a way to become more equal with their white counterparts.
In a society that vested the ownership of one many in another, slaves represented another form of property held by free blacks. (Powers, 1994, 39) Early on in the colony of South Carolina, mulattoes were often trained as artisans and were able to earn the money to purchase slaves by working. They were commercial masters who aligned themselves with the white majority in order to preserve the system of slavery. (Koger, 1985, 30) As this practice progressed, the black slaveholders often had the same incentives as whites to own slaves.
In conclusion, there were many reasons why free blacks owned black slaves. There was a new class developing during the 1800s made up of slaveowning blacks and free light-skinned blacks. Relationships between masters and slaves were not smooth. Black slaveowners in Charleston had the same economic desires as whites when it came to being prosperous and owning slaves.
Black Slave Owners in Charleston
The monied privilege comes with being white. They are intertwined. ORRRRRrrrrrr monied privilege just so happen to miss black people by chance and not because of history.
For the record of course.
[sarcasm]
So there are no poor white people. I'm sure the people who are commonly called "white trash" will be so glad to hear it. Of course monied priviledge comes with being white. That's why all white families are able to pass on an inheritance, and no non-white families can.
[/sarcasm]
With the sarcasm out of my system: do you actually believe that whiteness bestows monied priviledge indescriminate of any other factor?
Here is how common you guys are. If you would've read above you would've seen LockeJaw doing the same "I dont understand" line of questioning. I've already responded but of course you only have the same dance moves just different people to do it.
Here's my quote. For a suggestion read this thread and try (if you can) to come from a different angle or at least be creative
Poor LockeJaw...White privilege doesnt mean every white person every will be rich. Maybe thats why you dont believe it exists...wait, no you DO believe it exists (contradicting your OP) but its not THAT much privilege because poor white people exist in the world.
The monied privilege comes with being white. They are intertwined. ORRRRRrrrrrr monied privilege just so happen to miss black people by chance and not because of history.
For the record of course.
You should revisit history.
In the city of Charleston, free blacks nearly monopolized the jobs of barbers, bricklayers, shoemakers, tailors and dressmakers. They prospered in their entrepreneurial jobs and were able to earn the capital needed to purchase slaves.
By the mid 1700s to early 1800s, most free blacks considered themselves more American than they did African, for almost all of them had been born on American soil, free or slave. They wanted to live the same life as whites, and they saw slaveholding as a way to become more equal with their white counterparts.
In a society that vested the ownership of one many in another, slaves represented another form of property held by free blacks. (Powers, 1994, 39) Early on in the colony of South Carolina, mulattoes were often trained as artisans and were able to earn the money to purchase slaves by working. They were commercial masters who aligned themselves with the white majority in order to preserve the system of slavery. (Koger, 1985, 30) As this practice progressed, the black slaveholders often had the same incentives as whites to own slaves.
In conclusion, there were many reasons why free blacks owned black slaves. There was a new class developing during the 1800s made up of slaveowning blacks and free light-skinned blacks. Relationships between masters and slaves were not smooth. Black slaveowners in Charleston had the same economic desires as whites when it came to being prosperous and owning slaves.
Black Slave Owners in Charleston
And that has what to do with what I said? Anything? Nothing?
