"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass

[cnm]

2. Nothing racist about being a proud Southern.

What have you to be proud of? The excellent administration of your states and the education levels and prosperity of their inhabitants?

 

[Correll]

Perhaps the most amazing thing about hearing leftists talk is how they can yammer about "white supremacy", after 56 years of racist Affirmative Action discrimination against whites, with whites as the victims, and blacks the beneficiaries

Then how do you explain this?

Examining the Black-white wealth gap

"A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities.

"At $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family is nearly ten times greater than that of a Black family ($17,150) in 2016.

"Gaps in wealth between Black and white households reveal the effects of accumulated inequality and discrimination, as well as differences in power and opportunity that can be traced back to this nation’s inception.

"The Black-white wealth gap reflects a society that has not and does not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens."

Red lining, school segregation, white flight, Jim Crow, vote suppression, housing segregation. It's not rocket science after all, except to those who deny history.

Redlining has been illegal for generations. Where is the uptick?

Education achievement is driven by parent involvement. You keep encouraging single motherhood, you guarantee reduces parental involvement. That is on you libs.

White flight? Leaving a shitty neighborhood is just good sense. That is not on us whites, that is just us not being stupid.

Jim Crow? Repealed generations ago. Where is the uptick?

Voter suppressin a myth.

Housing segregation, illegal for generations. Where is the uptick?


You are the one denying history.

 

[Correll]

2. Nothing racist about being a proud Southern.

What have you to be proud of? The excellent administration of your states and the education levels and prosperity of their inhabitants?

People are proud of their communities. That this offends you, is you being the asshole here, not them.

 

[Godboy]

It's easier to blame someone for your predicament rather than examine your own behavior

^ lolol the irony

Its not ironic. Its simply a fact.

 

[Fang]

Whoops. LOL

Frederick Douglass statue ripped from base

 

[cnm]

People are proud of their communities.

So, proud of nothing in particular? Just vanity?

 

[georgephillip]

Starting a family without a primary breadwinner, is a good plan to remain poor.



D'uh.


Even if there is massive discrimination across society in your favor.

Centuries of massive legal discrimination against Blacks guarantees starting a family without a "primary breadwinner" isn't an option since millions of "superfluous" black males have been imprisoned without a trial.

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2018 Black males accounted for 34% of the total male prison population, white males 29%, and Hispanic males 24%."

Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

 

[georgephillip]

Nixon's Southern Strategy, as you dems describe it, is a debunked lie. All you did there was admit to being a liar.

Who "debunked" Nixon's racist Southern Strategy"?

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

"Nixon's advisers recognized that they could not appeal directly to voters on issues of white supremacy or racism.

"White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman noted that Nixon 'emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognized this while not appearing to'.[46]

"With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched to the Republican Party in 1964, Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and 'law and order'"

 

[georgephillip]

Red lining, school segregation, white flight, Jim Crow, vote suppression, housing segregation. It's not rocket science after all, except to those who deny history.

They lost this fight when the racists stopped using the N-word multiple times every day. White supremacy is among the founding principles of this country as Trump proves once again:

Trump warns his mostly white base of threat to ‘heritage’ as Confederate statues come down - The Boston Globe

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Douglas' remarks were made in 1852. No doubt they were pertinent...in 1852.

 

[Augustine_]

It's easier to blame someone for your predicament rather than examine your own behavior

^ lolol the irony

Its not ironic. Its simply a fact.

^ the Trump sheep says it's not ironic

 

[Correll]

People are proud of their communities.

So, proud of nothing in particular? Just vanity?

Ask them, I'm sure each of them would have plenty to say.


I could tell you why I am proud of my various communities, from my city to my state to my nation.


I could speculate on why they are proud of their region of this great nation. Would you like me to?


What other groups would you challenge on a simple and harmless expression of pride?


Is this racism on your part?

 

[Correll]

Starting a family without a primary breadwinner, is a good plan to remain poor.



D'uh.


Even if there is massive discrimination across society in your favor.

Centuries of massive legal discrimination against Blacks guarantees starting a family without a "primary breadwinner" isn't an option since millions of "superfluous" black males have been imprisoned without a trial.

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2018 Black males accounted for 34% of the total male prison population, white males 29%, and Hispanic males 24%."

Incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

The crime problem in the black community does restrict the potential mate pool for black women.

But the point remains. When black women choose to start a family without a primary breadwinner, that is a good way to remain poor, despite the massive and widespread discrimination in favor of blacks.

 

[protectionist]

Perhaps the most amazing thing about hearing leftists talk is how they can yammer about "white supremacy", after 56 years of racist Affirmative Action discrimination against whites, with whites as the victims, and blacks the beneficiaries

Then how do you explain this?

Examining the Black-white wealth gap

"A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities.

"At $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family is nearly ten times greater than that of a Black family ($17,150) in 2016.

"Gaps in wealth between Black and white households reveal the effects of accumulated inequality and discrimination, as well as differences in power and opportunity that can be traced back to this nation’s inception.

"The Black-white wealth gap reflects a society that has not and does not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens."

1. Ho hum. An OpenTheBooks.com audit discovered that Brookings has been given $19.5 million in taxpayer funding from fifty federal government agencies since 2008. This includes $10.8 million in grants, $5.1 million in contracts, $1.8 million in sub-grants and $1.7 million in sub-contracts. The sources consist of the Department of Energy, former President Barack Obama’s Office of the President and the Treasury.
Since its inception in 1916, the Brookings Institution has been described as the “nation’s pre-eminent liberal think tank” .

2. Blacks sometimes don't do as well as whites economically, because many if them sleep till noon, and then go out and make money by pushing drugs, prostitution, robbing convenience stores. Most have never heard of Affirmative Action, and many drop out of school in the 8th grade.,

3. You can present 100 charts from 100 liberal think tanks, universities, CNN, etc, but they are all blown to bits by the thousands of government offices, all practicing Affirmative Action discrimination against whites, and all displaying it by the skin colors of their employees. One trip to the Tampa or St Petersburg VA hospitals will shut the door on any questions.

Strike 1......Strike 2.........Strike 3.

4. Of course America "does not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens." It gives preference to blacks, while discriminating against whites.

 

[MarcATL]

I watched the grandkids -- well done! Douglas was a powerful orator, and he's got some real smart descendants.

Douglas said in the end he does not despair of this country. I am beginning to despair, though, of seeing black and white together to work as one, as Americans, now that we have attempted to correct that great sin. Some people refuse to move on, on BOTH sides of the color line.

I sure hope that is not how YOU view the 4th, today.

Both sides huh? When did you begin to despair exactly?

 

[protectionist]

Make America Great Again has noting to do with race. It has to do with The globalization conducted by the previous 4 dumbass presidents before Trump (Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama), who gave China unrestricted access to our unique/valuable MARKET, thereby saturating our stores with Made in China junk

How much money is Trump making from China?
MAGA is all about returning to a time when propertied white males ruled without anyone questioning their privilege.

"'THOSE THAT DENY THEIR HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!'

"President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday in all capital letters, a day after saying he 'will not even consider' renaming Fort Bragg and other military installations named after Confederate generals.

"He called them 'Monumental and very Powerful Bases [that] have become part of a Great American Heritage,' even though the Pentagon had said it was open to discussing the move."

Trump's history of defending Confederate 'heritage' despite political risk: ANALYSIS

Trump's trying to run on Nixon's '68 Southern Strategy because he's too ignorant/stupid to recognize the changes that have happened since then.

He and his bigots will have the same end as the last Lost Cause.

1. Some people have to be told TWICE. AGAIN: Make America Great Again has nothing to do with race. It has to do with The globalization conducted by the previous 4 dumbass presidents before Trump (Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama), who gave China unrestricted access to our unique/valuable MARKET, thereby saturating our stores with Made in China junk.

2. The Confederate statues are 95% of SOLDIERS. Same with names of military bases. They represent THAT PERSON, and his heroism in fighting a war, not any political persuasion. Soldiers don't have any politics. They merely follow orders and fight wars. It is politicians who have politics.
If one has a gripe with an ideology, let him take it out with the politicians who enacted that ideology, and leave the soldiers alone. So these are soldier statues, and that includes those of US presidents (Commander in Chief of US military)

3. As for "bigots", do you support race-based Affirmative Action ?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

And yet, the KKK almost 100% supports Rump. Funny how that works, isn't it.

Completely irrelevant.

 

[protectionist]

Red lining, school segregation, white flight, Jim Crow, vote suppression, housing segregation. It's not rocket science after all, except to those who deny history.

Schools are not segregated. Housing is not segregated. Jim Crow is long gone. Vote suppression is needed for illegal aliens. Are you living in 1953 ?

 

[protectionist]

And yet, the KKK almost 100% supports Rump. Funny how that works, isn't it.

Dylan Roof supports the Carolina Panthers, So ?

 

[protectionist]

Where's the kkk, I never see them.

I'm 74 years old, Have lived in the north, California, and 2 southern states, Never seen a KKK person. Democrats have a whole wherehouse of straw men.