I wasn’t laying out a blueprint to solve anything. Simply saying that leaving them be has consequences for the rest of us.
Oh please. I have a white acquaintance who has had four kids by four guys, all developmentally challenged thansk to her crack habit. And another white guy who died of a heart attack at the age of 46, thanks to his heroin habit. Anecdotes prove nothing.
You guys are talking about poor black people in the 'hood and that’s OK as a generalization. Just don’t overstep and apply to all black people. How much of your life resembles Appalachian white folk or white Mormons?
While we are at it, why dont we come up with 5 bullet points that would fix the white race? Or if you white you still alright?
I like stormy’s idea. Not sure where to start, but it’s worth hearing.
As for the list of 5. I don’t see them as justifying racism, but I do think that a lot of them would make it easier for whites to act less defensive and perhaps normalize relations. On the other hand, not living in the black community, I don’t have a good sense of how easy or difficult it is to address them. We often don’t have a very good picture of what’s driving certain behaviors and what’s involved in changing them.
I agree with Bill Cosby, apparently.
#1) Don’t wear boat shoes with chinos.
#2) Don’t be so eager to file your taxes to claim your refund. The later you file the less chance you have of being audited.
#3) Keep your head down all the way through your swing.
#4) Not everyone loves classical music as much as you. Please keep it down.
#5) Remember to tip your garbage man, mail man, and landscapers at xmas time.
^And if you’re BWYF, also tip your mani/pedi Korean lady, your stylist, and your plumber (because if your bidet goes out, you’re stuck with wiping your own @ss).
I have a bidet (as mentioned here) and it did go out on me for a brief period of time a couple months ago. Worst 36 hours of my life.
But don’t you still have to wipe your butt after you use the bidet? Or is it okay, 'cuz you’re just wiping water, and not poo?
EDIT - my experience with bidets is also limited to the one scene in Crocodile Dundee. I’ve never even seen one in real life.
^It’s more like drying rather than wiping.
There’s always room for improvement. You have any ideas to get the ball rolling?
Ways folks in the white community can help themselves:
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Vote your congressman/woman out of office in the next election, they actually are as bad as all the rest.
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Stop comparing yourself to the Jones, their life is not nearly as perfect as it appears from the outside.
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While you’re at it, stop trying to keep up with them as well, they’re leveraged to the hilt.
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Stop forcing your kids to college if they don’t want to go and/or don’t really belong there.
^Word, Higgs. I especially like #'s 1 through 4!!!
You guys have no idea how f’ed up white people are, do you? The view from up top must be pretty good.
Listen up, white people.
Individually:
#1. Young white guys. Stop tailgating a slow-driving grandma in your giant 5-miles-a-gallon Ford F-350. You are scaring her and every sane driver on the road. Yeah we get it, you are overcompensating for you-know-what. But you are a menace on the road.
#2. Old white guys. What’s with the meanness and hatred? Stop watching Fox News and get a hobby.
#3. Stop being so goddamned pushy. If I said No once, I probably meant it. Take a hint.
#4. I am not a bro, bud, or a dude. Definitely not yours. Keep away or approach with respect.
#5. Your self-esteem is way out of proportion to your actual accomplishments. Dial down the arrogance and think humbly about how you can improve. Trust me, I have seen better.
Collectively:
#1. Stop trying to take other people’s stuff. The oil in the Middle East does not belong to you, neither do the diamond and gold in South Africa, and neither do the islands like Greenland (Denmark), Falklands (UK) and Hawaii (US). I am glad they nixed the plan to divide Anterctica among US, UK, France, Aussie, NZ and Russia (if memory serves.)
#2. Violence is worse than sex. What kind of culture thinks that the Walking Dead is OK to be TV-14? I’d rather have soft porn be TV-14 and violent shows be TV-MA.
#3. Why do you have to label everything? The labels are always wrong and cause more harm than good. Observe first, theorize later if ever. The fields of psychology and sociology are prime examples. Calling people “natives” or labeling homosexuality as a deviant behavior, for example.
Don Lemon is just a modern day homosexual carlton banks.
OMG! That bidet thread is TOO much. I can’t stop laughing.
So you disagree with his points?
Falklands had a vote and something like 95% of them wanted to remain part of the UK. They would rather be controlled by the UK than by Argentina. I don’t blame them.
Now, you’re in my territory!
People from the Falkland Islands won’t even fly to Argentina. There are zero flights scheduled to Argentina. Absolutely none. They would rather fly across the continent and land in Chile, then continue on to the motherland.
The only reason that they fly into Argentina is because of a medical emergency.