Charlottesville white nationalists riots

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joevol320 said:
the reason byrd gets a pass is because he supported your fascist party. your party calls every gop a kkk member, your party calls every conservative a racist even though your party is the largest anti-Semite group in America. there really is no different from those white racist than the black and muslim racist your party supports except that they're white. if this group was Hispanic. you'd have no issues with this and all the press would be defending them.
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I condemn displays of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides, many sides.
 
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Okay, I had to chuckle. Still one of my favorite Dave Chappelle skits.

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What better way of promoting your movement than beating up reporters?

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Septic said:
I'm guessing he more than made up for his transgressions - "let he who hasn't sinned, cast the first stone." Right?
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You're being awfully charitable here towards Grand Wizard Byrd. Maybe you're right, but you definitely have to use some rose colored glasses to believe it.
 
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tumscalcium said:
I witness it every day.

You're saying whites are lazier than blacks in all other walks of life? You falsely claimed they have to work harder... You think whites are lazier?
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. I will try to clarify my previous thoughts...

I am saying that in order to reach the same point in life minorities need to try harder to open doors. I wasn't accusing anyone of being lazy. I was making the observation that a lot of doors have been open to me because I look a certain way. Things which I have never considered an obstacle are obstacles for minorities.

It is indisputable that a greater percentage of blacks grow up in poverty. This starting point gives them less access to good schooling. I had the advantage of going to good schools. Many blacks don't. So the starting point for you average black is further back. They are already losing the race without taking a step. You can say this is a matter of economics and I won't disagree, but we have to find ways to try remedy the situation.

When it comes to job interviews, blacks have a harder time getting the initial interview. Studies have been performed that resumes with "black names" are given fewer interviews than resumes with names that provide no real indication of race. It's an obstacle I've never faced as I have one of the whitest names on the planet.

I know the rallying cry is affirmative action. Companies that have any sort of affirmative action program are in the minority.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
You're being awfully charitable here towards Grand Wizard Byrd. Maybe you're right, but you definitely have to use some rose colored glasses to believe it.
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Like the other guy, you need to check your facts.

This is the problem when you get your news from facebook memes and partisan 'info'graphics.

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ClearwaterVol said:
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I will try to clarify my previous thoughts...

I am saying that in order to reach the same point in life minorities need to try harder to open doors. I wasn't accusing anyone of being lazy. I was making the observation that a lot of doors have been open to me because I look a certain way. Things which I have never considered an obstacle are obstacles for minorities.

It is indisputable that a greater percentage of blacks grow up in poverty. This starting point gives them less access to good schooling. I had the advantage of going to good schools. Many blacks don't. So the starting point for you average black is further back. They are already losing the race without taking a step. You can say this is a matter of economics and I won't disagree, but we have to find ways to try remedy the situation.

When it comes to job interviews, blacks have a harder time getting the initial interview. Studies have been performed that resumes with "black names" are given fewer interviews than resumes with names that provide no real indication of race. It's an obstacle I've never faced as I have one of the whitest names on the planet.

I know the rallying cry is affirmative action. Companies that have any sort of affirmative action program are in the minority.
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The remedy is ending the culture of dependence.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I will try to clarify my previous thoughts...

I am saying that in order to reach the same point in life minorities need to try harder to open doors. I wasn't accusing anyone of being lazy. I was making the observation that a lot of doors have been open to me because I look a certain way. Things which I have never considered an obstacle are obstacles for minorities.

It is indisputable that a greater percentage of blacks grow up in poverty. This starting point gives them less access to good schooling. I had the advantage of going to good schools. Many blacks don't. So the starting point for you average black is further back. They are already losing the race without taking a step. You can say this is a matter of economics and I won't disagree, but we have to find ways to try remedy the situation.

When it comes to job interviews, blacks have a harder time getting the initial interview. Studies have been performed that resumes with "black names" are given fewer interviews than resumes with names that provide no real indication of race. It's an obstacle I've never faced as I have one of the whitest names on the planet.

I know the rallying cry is affirmative action. Companies that have any sort of affirmative action program are in the minority.
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So when do the individuals start taking responsibility for their own lives? They already have preferential treatment when it comes to college scholarships. They have preferential treatment when it comes to government jobs and if they own their own business, government contracts. Public education sucks but plenty of folks, black and white have succeeded despite it. You get out of public education what you put into it. Much of these problems stem from years of being in an environment that encouragement to succeed academically is absent.

I don't know whether you have children or not but I can tell you that in my house, freedom is earned. Academics are stressed as many stress athletics. I've always said if families emphasized academics as much as athletics there would be a lot more smart people in this world.

Fortunately my kids have been excellent students. (I could use this opportunity to brag but I'll spare you all of that.) I do think my kids have understood that schoolwork comes first. I've always told them if they don't want me pestering them about homework, manage it yourself and bring home the grades. But, if they have a bad grade, they lose their privileges of a cell phone, car, TV, video game, athletics, or whatever. I can also tell you that a "C" is failing in our household. The point I'm making is we stress this level of achievement in our family and I firmly believe that in this day in age that anyone of any color of any background can achieve.

I don't think this is a racial issue. I think it is a lack of personal responsibility and lack of emphasis in the home and it's not race that dictates it.
 
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Former CNN correspondent and Occupy activist, Jason Kessler reading poetry "White Devils" :question:
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Septic said:
Like the other guy, you need to check your facts.

This is the problem when you get your news from facebook memes and partisan 'info'graphics.

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No info graphics required. Common knowledge for decades that he was a klansmen. You have to really do some mental gymnastics to believe that somebody would join the kkk without knowing they are a racist hate group. "He thought it was something different and apologized after leaving" is not a convincing explanation. Would you accept that explanation if Trump had been in the Klan?
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
An ease of entry into job market, housing market etc.

Why is the median income of blacks 25k less than whites?
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My kids go to a school that is at least half black and the black kids their is a much smaller % interested in going to college.... Is that white privilege bc every single job that I have worked at pays exactly the same no matter the race or gender?
 
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SamRebel35 said:
No info graphics required. Common knowledge for decades that he was a klansmen. You have to really do some mental gymnastics to believe that somebody would join the kkk without knowing they are a racist hate group. "He thought it was something different and apologized after leaving" is not a convincing explanation. Would you accept that explanation if Trump had been in the Klan?
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Sure, I'd accept it from Trump if he had publicly apologized for 30 years and even more importantly had a 100% voting record from the NAACP. Let the voting record speak.
 
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