You do know the median age in the US is 37.8 years old.The integration of black students at Little Rock happened only 60 years ago. Both of my parents remember it. It wasn't that long ago.
You do know the median age in the US is 37.8 years old.The integration of black students at Little Rock happened only 60 years ago. Both of my parents remember it. It wasn't that long ago.
Black people didn't create the "us vs them" mentality and they derive no net benefit from it; getting to say the n-word is a paltry prize from years of oppression under white supremacy.
And yet despite that, you're apparently all for perpetuating it. Weird.
Yet, none of what you've said seems like you're remotely interested in removing the power from the word.
It doesn't matter who created it, it matter who is perpetuating it now. When you say 'you can't say this word because of your skin color' you are creating or maintaining divisions. You didn't answer my question so I will ask again. Do you believe that this kind of Us vs Them mentality will end or prolong racism?
[Your argument is entirely without merit. I am a little annoyed that I have to spell it out for you.
And life expectancy is almost 80. And? Do these 37.8 year olds not have parents? Are they not born into the circumstances that their parents chose to bring them into?
Important life lessons learned.As my grandmother once told me two very important things:
"Don't be a bloody cunt."
"Stop your crying and grow a thicker skin.
As I said the majority of the country was not alive when those were events happened.
It isn't. Doesn't mean that those children are oppressed or in a system of racism.Children are not born and raised without being given the knowledge of their parents/family. They learn about the world through their parents, friends, schools, and community. How is this concept in any way difficult to parse?
It isn't. Doesn't mean that those children are oppressed or in a system of racism.
The system ended with the Civil Rights Act. Also fact.Black people have lived in a system of white supremacy since before the birth of the nation. This is a fact.
The system ended with the Civil Rights Act. Also fact.
#The word ISN'T bad when black people use it among themselves. They took that word back, white people don't get to decide it's wholly bad now.
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Why cant white people also do they same as a collective take the word back too from negativity to positively?
Please inform me on this white supremacy system you speak of?If they're willing to do that, why not just end white supremacy all together?
The system ended with the Civil Rights Act. Also fact.
I would love to hear you explain how redlining and housing discrimination only affected a single generation of people and has had no effect on people since the Fair Housing act was passed.
Have those never affected white people?
If the system was oppressing and racist against minorities then whites wouldn't have been affected by those.That wasn't my question.
HOW are some white people still struggling with this? Are you that dense?
If the system was oppressing and racist against minorities then whites wouldn't have been affected by those.
If the system was oppressing and racist against minorities then whites wouldn't have been affected by those.
some people that "struggle" with it are not white and are against segregation in any way.
Yes, its not approving loans for areas that are in poor risky areas.Do you know what redlining even is? I feel like there's a disconnect here.
Are you black? If yes, you may. If no, you may not. Why? Because the word was used to dehumanize black people. It’s a double standard, but so to was the use of the word against blacks. Get over it.
It’s not segregation. It’s. A. Fucking. Word.Yes, its not approving loans for areas that are in poor risky areas.
So you are ok with segregation, if black people decide its ok?
This tactic of having to go all the way to square one to prove that white supremacy still exists is foolish, we're no falling for it. You clearly just want to shut down discussion.
Yes, its not approving loans for areas that are in poor risky areas.
It’s not segregation. It’s. A. Fucking. Word.
Jesus Christ.
No one is going to keep you out of a nice neighborhood or refuse to give you a mortgage because you didn’t say nigger or nigga.
This is a stupid argument.
This shit is so annoying because some white people pretend like they are too dumb to understand the simple logic behind this issue:
1. White people “created” and used this word in their everyday practices of racism to dehumanize black people.
2. The reverse of point 1 is not and has never been true.
3. As such, white people should not use the word. Furthermore, because black people were the victims (not white people), they get to decide how to redefine the word. Some black people avoid it; many have recontextualized it into nigga.
The logic here is pretty straightforward. It’s not “racist” that white people cant use it because the power dynamics make it impossible. That is, white people are in no way rendered inferior by their inability to use the word.
The same is true for “faggot.” I don’t use the word, but I don’t give a fuck that some gay people call themselves faggots. I’m not gay, so it is literally none of my business.
HOW are some white people still struggling with this? Are you that dense?
Well, I set my laundry apart every weekend so you better call the ACLU I guess.Segregation is setting something apart. Setting apart words for only one group is segregation.
Maybe. That’s what I believe too actually.Maybe if people let the word die on the vine we could move past this whole black people/white people thing and just go with people instead, versus staying tied to history.
Well, I set my laundry apart every weekend so you better call the ACLU I guess.
Are words humans?are your clothes humans?
Maybe. That’s what I believe too actually.
It still doesn’t mean white people can use it.
No but the people saying the words are.Are words humans?
I can keep playing this dumb game with you all day.
No. That was really not directed at you; just more of a general comment for the thread so my bad.Was there an argument for in any of what I said?
But humans set laundry apart though (hopefully you’re picking up on how absurd it is to claim that something is segregation in the absence of power dynamics; if not, I can keep going).No but the people saying the words are.
People are being set apart not the words. People are being set apart in 2 groups 1 that can say the word and one that can't.But humans set laundry apart though (hopefully you’re picking up on how absurd it is to claim that something is segregation in the absence of power dynamics; if not, I can keep going).
People are being set apart not the words. People are being set apart in 2 groups 1 that can say the word and one that can't.
Well, yeah, if by the bolded you mean 'neighborhoods where black people live', yes, because that's how the racist FHA treated it.
Please, for the love of fuck, educate yourself, and then come back and let us know how redlining has had no adverse effects on the generations of people/kids that have grown up displaced by it.
http://www.chicagonow.com/city-limi...aved-the-way-for-chicagos-segregated-poverty/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-modern-day-redlining-20180215-story.html
The ones that can't say the word, are inferior in their ability to use the language.And how does that in and of itself render those who can’t say it inferior?
I asked did it only affect minorities.Sooooo strange how this question never got answered.
I asked did it only affect minorities.
So no white people were denied loans due to redlining?Yes.
A language that was designed by the ones that can’t say it to hurt the ones that can. If the word was never used to hurt, we wouldn’t have this problem. That is the power dynamic. Those that can say it have everything to loose. Does that can’t have nothing to loose.The ones that can't say the word, are inferior in their ability to use the language.
I asked did it only affect minorities.
So you are ok with the language segregation, got it.A language that was designed by the ones that can’t say it to hurt the ones that can. If the word was never used to hurt, we wouldn’t have this problem. That is the power dynamic. Those that can say it have everything to loose. Does that can’t have nothing to loose.
It’s like a get a big stick to beat the shit out of you, and you finally take the stick away from me and turn it into a walking stick and I start complaining “bu segegashun!!!” because I can’t have that particular stick back.
Lol what a stupid way to end a stupid argumentSo you are ok with the language segregation, got it.
So no white people were denied loans due to redlining?