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Eric Reid Press Conference

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It sucks because when black people protest income inequality and police reform, it will actually benefit us all if their demands are met. But the Southern Strategy seems to make poor white people think that black folks are trying to steal from white people's plates to feed themselves when that isn't the case at all. 

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

that's why this whole "some racial demographics don't work as hard or don't stress education" trope is so offensive and harmful. It's actually divisive as fug and does way more to divide people than any police brutality protest. 

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4 minutes ago, ImaginaryKev said:

Also,  no one is arguing that inequality doesn't affect white people or anyone else. It affects black people worse bc of past and current systems of racism. Matthias has painstakingly tried to explain this. 

At this point i think you're being obtuse on purpose. 

Saying it affects black people worse is a generalization based on bias and vast observation of a much deeper narrative.

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7 minutes ago, ImaginaryKev said:

You haven't added poo to this thread besides your lived experiences, which i actually totally empathize with because income inequality is bullshit and college is fuging expensive and life really is hard for a lot of people. But you can't help but harbor animosity towards black people who have the audacity to speak up about racism. That says more about you than anything else. 

Listening to brainwashed idiots cry racism or systematic oppression for every facet of their life that went wrong falls on deaf ears

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6 minutes ago, bull123 said:

Why is that?

Why do white high school dropouts make a higher income than black people with a two year degree?  It's all in the family.  Its more likely white high school drop outs have family that can hook them up with a decent job.  It doesn't matter whether we talk wealth or income, the reason why the numbers are so large have to do with history.  Again, black people gained their first sense of citizenship in the late 60s.  Any time we see something like this....
 

 

This literally happened.  Even when we gained citizenship in the late 60s, when we started running, we had to deal with ongoing road blocks as shown in this video.  Mass incarceration, redlining, so on and so forth.

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3 hours ago, ImaginaryKev said:

It sucks because when black people protest income inequality and police reform, it will actually benefit us all if their demands are met. But the Southern Strategy seems to make poor white people think that black folks are trying to steal from white people's plates to feed themselves when that isn't the case at all. 

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

that's why this whole "some racial demographics don't work as hard or don't stress education" trope is so offensive and harmful. It's actually divisive as fug and does way more to divide people than any police brutality protest. 

Your right If you think about it The super wealthy  (bank family wealthy) needs the poor of this country to fight it's useless wars for the Military industrial complex and they know a poor white would be  more "patriotic" to fight for them instead  of  marginalized minority so keep the poor divided even though  poor black people have more in common with poor whites but they need those majority  poor whites to who would more likely  enlist and fight these wars just to continue de-stabilize  "middle east"  I  mean look how  the veterans  that are bad off are treated where it counts...just my $0.02 

 

USA is really nothing more then a private military  contractor for the 1%

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17 minutes ago, Matthias said:

It's hard for you to have this conversation.  How can you keep talking about a black man with money, which represents .00001% of his whole group, to a poor white man, who represents 4-5% of his group?  This conversation is about the group!!!!!  Take a look at this chart.....

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You see that blue line?  That represents white Americans as a whole, and what I see is more than half of all white families have at least 100k in net worth.  Look at the green line.  That represents black people, and that line only begins to lift once you reach around the 60% mark.  Here's the same chart by the actual numbers.....


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Look at that!  This basically says 65% of all black people (ALL) have the same amount of wealth as the bottom 30% of white America.  Yet you want to talk to me about poor white men, when almost all of black people are poor as dirt.  That's not going to fly with me.  I don't know what to tell you.

Not sure if you’re actually reading my posts or not but I’ll try to echo my thoughts one last time before bed as I’ve already wasted most of my evening.

 

I agree there is a racial income gap. What’re your thoughts on promoting change for this and how do you justify the change for one population versus the next if there are outliers from the norm in each population? How do we make things fair for everyone based on their familial background because we have also clearly determined that ones whiteness does not necessarily equal ones success either? It has been argued that the generation baton pass if you will is a sole determination of ones success so are we raising awareness for only one particular group of those less fortunate?

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7 minutes ago, ImaginaryKev said:

No, it's based on data. Which you summarily ignore for some reason. For real this time, take care. 

Ones suffering is a purely subjective thing so not sure how you quantify that. But alrighty then. Night.

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