How would I answer that! I don’t see black people driving around and rounding up other black people.
Rounding up black people and caring for them is a white man thing. (Churches provide everything from meals, tangible goods, child care, lodging, counseling, courses, career services, and more. All of those services would not show up on a balance sheet as outreach/service to poor individuals because they tend to just be a part of the life of the community.)
Black people just drive around and shoot blacks dead.
@sree that is not true. None of what you just said is true. There are soup kitchens and shelters ran by Black people. There are Black churches that also feed the poor- they preach to them too, but that’s something totally different, but the prosperity gospel promises them a better life after death (rolling eyes). Black people do not just go around and shoot other Black people. I hate to say this, but you are very naive to believe such things. It also shows you haven’t lived among Black people too.
@sree No dear, I didn’t live among Black people just as Mother Teresa lived among the poor. I fell in love with a Black man, had his children, and raised them, albeit by myself after our divorce, BUT I had the help of other Black women to teach me how to care for their hair, among other things. I learned a lot from Black women. That said, there were white people, Asian people, Native American people, Latino people, and even Filipino people in our neighbourhood as my sons were growing up, as well as biracial people like my sons in the neighbourhood. You seem to think that there was nothing BUT Black people and I was the only white/Native American mixed person in the neighbourhood. That’s almost hilarious.
@sree No dear, I didn’t live among Black people just as Mother Teresa lived among the poor. I fell in love with a Black man, had his children, and raised them,
Mother Theresa also fell in love with a calling as you did. Yours was a relationship with a Black man while hers was with the poor. The poor is a community, a cultural group like any other with their own respective peculiarities. Each of these communities is like a Theme Park with a unifying setting. In a sense, you live in a Black “Theme Park” and know all the “rides” and “games”.
Lausten is correct. I do learn about black people by watching movies. Last night, I watched “Facing Ali” on Netflix. It was a peek into the life of black men. I was impressed. Every fighter featured exemplified the American spirit of indomitability. They all came from poverty, some from prison even, to take on the greatest champion of all time: Ali. What I took away from that movie was that not one of them harbored hatred for the white man and blamed him for their lot in life in spite of the fact that most of them grew up at a time when they were not allowed to ride in a bus. Even Ali, who suffered the most at the hand of the US Government for refusing to fight in an unjust war, bore no ill-will against his white brothers. Despite no white privilege, he succeeded in becoming a true American hero.
Mother Theresa also fell in love with a calling as you did. Yours was a relationship with a Black man while hers was with the poor. The poor is a community, a cultural group like any other with their own respective peculiarities. Each of these communities is like a Theme Park with a unifying setting. In a sense, you live in a Black “Theme Park” and know all the “rides” and “games”.
Stop watching “Bebe’s Kids” and check out reality. We aren’t living in any theme park, I’m not Bebe, and my kids aren’t her kids. I’m also not Mother Teresa. There is a vast difference.
Lausten is correct. I do learn about black people by watching movies.
Yeah, apparently watching “Bebe’s Kids” too. Movies aren’t reality and you cannot learn about Black people through movies. IF you want to learn about Black people, try making some Black friends and facing reality.
In case you’re wondering what “Babe’s Kids” is, it’s a movie. Here’s a lovely clip for you and mind you, it’s not reality and Black babies don’t talk any better than white babies.
That was a great clip of Ali that proved me not wrong but right. Ali had more common sense than any intellectualized white man in America. The black man can stand toe to toe and destroy any white man in the boxing ring. If the black man had wanted to fight for social justice in America, he wouldn’t need white whimps and their feminist white women protesting on his behalf. The truth is, the American black man would rather live in a society run by the white man than return to Africa to live in black-run countries. Michael Jordan wouldn’t want to live in Africa even if they made him Emperor of Ethiopia. Oprah Winfrey would rather deal with white privilege than become Queen of Botswana. Ghana has offered citizenship to American blacks. Do you know of any blacks taking up that offer?
It really wasn’t that great of a clip. There are some much more politically charged statements from Ali, when he’s not trying to be funny at all. But it came up as the top hit and I liked the humor. You’re analysis of a brute force fight as the indicator of who is better is out of date by about 10,000 years.
And that “black-run” country thing is what led down a road of shutting down threads and strong warnings about your account coming to an end, so, let’s not play that game.
The examples of rich people are irrelevant. They are a class of people in the world who are not constrained by borders. They go where they want and their livelihoods contribute to the oppressive system. They give back some, because if they don’t, that system will collapse. There is no way to know how aware they are of this or if they really care.
Always nice to learn something, even from someone so ignorant, so thanks for the Ghana thing. Of course some took that offer, but it’s full of misinformation and misunderstanding. I won’t bother trying to sort it out for you.
You’re analysis of a brute force fight as the indicator of who is better is out of date by about 10,000 years.
You are missing the point because you are associating the black man with only brute force. The black American displays that same spirit of indomitability that tamed the frontier. He is nothing like the natives of Africa. He has become like us.
You’ve become as irrelevant as Omarosa, trying to claim something was said but no one ever heard it.
If you can't look past the brutality of the sport to admire the indomitability of the black gladiators in the boxing ring, I will just have to leave it at that. As Haidt pointed out, you see one thing and I another. Black lives do matter to me not because they are victims of the system (your take) but because they have earned the right to be counted as true Americans.
Just last Sunday, yet another American came from nowhere to achieve greatness. Collin Morikawa, a rookie pro shoved aside a field of formidable world-famous, battle-hardened competitors to capture the PGA Championship. Indomitability against impossible odds is the hallmark of the American spirit. Collin is going to be a star. People who don’t appreciate this can-do American champ quality find Trump’s “no-holds-barred” struggle against his political opponents repulsive. In contrast, Obama would be the chump in Muhamad Ali’s speak.
You can’t hear a word I say, Lausten. Perhaps, Butch Harmon can get my point across:
“And you got to have a lot of prick in you,” Harmon (Tiger Woods swing coach) said.
“You have to be that kind of guy when you walk between the ropes. You and I know DJ [Dustin Johnson] as well as anybody. When he walks between the ropes, and Brooks [Koepka] is the same way, Tiger’s the same way, they just want to cut your heart out. They want to beat you. They’ll go to dinner later on, or we’ll have a beer afterward and joke, but when it comes time to play, I’m going to really get you.”
Black lives do matter to me not because they are victims of the system (your take) but because they have earned the right to be counted as true Americans.
OMG! That’s one of the most racist thing I’ve ever read. They should have been citizens, instead of property, the moment they were forced to come to the States. In other words, slavery never should have been and it is hardly a means to citizenship or that is it shouldn’t be a step to “earning” citizenship.
Black lives matter because they are human beings, not a punching bag or a target for target practice. Black lives matter because they have families and friends who love them.
“Victim” isn’t quite the right word either, but not something that bothers me. Still, you’re right, Sree sometimes seems like a 90 year old dude in Georgia who never kept up with society and learned new tricks (or in this case, a new way of thinking that isn’t racist).