Racist Comments
 

We all know that it is the pervasive racism in American society that keeps black men down. Whoever made these comments is clearly racist themselves.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060522/cm_usatoday/funnymansseriousmessage

Racist.

Without having to look at your link it sounds like Bill Cosby... I have to agree with Bill....he makes some fkin sense...instead of handouts designed to be handups...you gotta do it yourself...

An old friend of my Daddys (85 years old) told me an econ prof of his back in the 30s said, "The poor will always be with us." That means that no matter how much or how hard one tries there are some people you just can't help.

don't forget such good, positive programs such as affirmative action and school quotas... :rolleyes:

rjp

"The world needs ditch diggers too."
-Judge Smails

Oh, the fodder of capitalism...

Granted, I'm not AT ALL IN ANY WAY a racist, I'm just a realist that understands that poor black people are not poor because they are black, but for other reasons...

There is no great insight there. The econ prof was beaten to the punch by 1900 years. Either that, or he just quoted Jesus. Look it up. John 12:8.

Go Bill go.

Decades of social programs, lawsuits, entitlement programs....and we are supposed to believe that is white racism keeping black folks down?

Oh please.....

The numbers that stuck out to me in the article were a 50% high school drop-out rate, 25% incarceration rate, and 70% unemployment rate amoung black men. Those numbers are outrageous! While "the poor will always be with us", I don't think that even that sentiment can fully explain these numbers. Neither can racism.

I think the (lack of) sense of personal responsibility among black men explains the most. When you go into adult life convienently blaming racism for your believed destiny as a failure, there is no motivation to try. Fatalism is killing black America. I think that entitlement programs, while creating a "floor " for some, also create a "ceiling" for many more.

"Whats wrong with working at lumberyards? I own two of them."

"Yeah, I notice you don´t spend much time there."

"Na, not sure where they are."

- Chevy Chase in the same movie as Judge Smails.

+1.

Anyone consider the possibility that some people are just plain STUPID, LAZY, BUMS? NOte none of what I just said identified any race, creed, or nationality of anyone. So the statement is not racist.

It's Bushes fault.
Sorry I havn't been able to use that one latley

Does anybody notice anything different between the Black population in Africa and the USA...aren't all Black men shiftless and irresponsible???? In other words its cultural....

My brother travels to Ghana on a regular basis on business. You should see some of the artwork and detailed craftsmanship out of that little country. Not to mention they do something unusual: They teach comparative religions in their schools as well as (my God.How dare they?) family values. The religions are taught as simply the ways in which people worship...no sides or preferences made. Order their textbooks to see how it is done. Here, no one dare mention religion of any kind, even if it is for educational purposes. Same with family values, spelling out the duties and responsibilities of each family member such as respect, understanding, obedience of children to mention a few...

Imagine teaching and expecting tolerance and understanding...What a novel concept!!

I always remembered the exchange students from various parts of Africa -they always considered themselves different than the Blacks here.

rjp

Not so:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060522/cm_usatoday/howoneschooldistrictfoundreligion

Yes, Tabs: you're so right. Here are some perfect examples:

http://www.diversity.msu.edu/mlk/pho...es-baldwin.jpg
James Baldwin: " shiftless" Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.

http://www.mlkonline.net/images/photos/mlk3.jpg
Dr. Martin Luther King: "shiftless" civil rights activist.

http://www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/tutu.jpg
Desmond Tutu: "shiftless" world leader.

Yep, it's cultural... :rolleyes:

What do the above all have in common?....They accepted and practiced the Judeo-Christian philosophy and ethic...They rejected mother Africa and her decay and prospered because of the superior philosophy and religion of Christ.

The decay in urban black America does, unfortunately, parallel the brutality and decay in Africa...They have nobody to blame except themselves and the poverty-pimps of the Democrat party.

Totally racist. As a white man, I know that it is me, and my fellow white men, that make life so bad for black men.

Gosh, EVERYONE knows that!!

If I had a dollar for each of the people I've opressed.......

http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/clap.gif

I would so support this in my community.....

Cosby's been doing this for a while. Yes, whites have called it racist, but I can't think of a single black, either of prominence or an average guy on the street, who has called Cosby a racist or what he says racially motivated.

Re: Racist Comments
 

Racists?
A joke, right?
I read the article/link...I didn't see the racism.
Where is it?
:confused:

You're being facetious, methinks. ;)
I must be slow today.

Hell, a white could say all that and it wouldn't be racism, in my view.
Too much focus on racism in this culture.
Little bitty feelings get hurty-poo too quickly, methinks.

What the hell are you trying to say in the second paragraph (not the bit about the Democrats - you've bashed that to death before)?

You is right. No self respecting black or anyone else of a differen't race, than white, could disagree. Only the race baters, and racist of all cultures disagree. Everyone who has half a brain, and most blacks and people of any cultrue agree with what has to be done. Only the most racist, eg ML Coons sidekick, can state otherwise. King may have been an upstanding guy, I would not have chosen a plagerist as a hero, myself, but be what may, thats their choice. Most self respecting people of any cultrue, race, reject the claims of he race baters, with good reason. Jessie Jackson is a Racist.

This is one of their major problems.

http://www.freewebs.com/likeoldsportscars/Reality.htm

Yep but they sure can play Basketball.....

Quote:

Dr. Martin Luther King: "shiftless" civil rights activist.

You are aware of King's long history of plagiarism, aren't you? His doctoral thesis, which Boston University stated after an investigation had been plagiarized, most of his academic papers, speeches and sermons.

He was a plagiarist and an adulterer, some kind of hero to have.

I had never heard of the plagiarism allegation (I wonder why) but didn't one of his best friends write a book saying that King had been with two women, neither of whom was wife, the night before he was killed?

Won't fly in this country... it would ruin someone self esteem or some such thing.
;)
Besides this country is kept alive by name calling and placement of blame... anarchy would no doubt ensue.

http://www.cycad.com/cgi-bin/pinc/apr2000/books/gt_plagiarism.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/additional_resources/articles/palimp.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._-_authorship_issues

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlking.asp

Boston University, after conducting an investigation, concluded that King plagiarised his doctoral thesis (around 47%) and put a note on King's thesis in their archieves saying as much. Interestingly enough, the same doctoral committee that reviewed King's thesis reviewed the thesis he copied from (Jack Boozer) about 3 or 4 years prior. You didn't hear about it when it was discovered in the early 1990s, because the media covered it up, they didn't want to run the story. Wonder why...

I'm not sure about the book you mention, but it is widely known that King slept around quite a bit, and I have heard that he slept with two women in a motel the night before he was killed. Not sure if there was a book on it though.

and if he was having sex with them does that make him better or worse than a white man?:rolleyes:

Good for him that he can hump two women in one night, and plagarism? Who cares? And I hear he had a horrific temper as well. Please!

The good he attempted for humanity far outweighs the wrongs of his personal life, neither of which crossed each other in public it seems since adultury and plagarism aren't widely associated with Dr. King.

Blacks are, on average, worse than whites (e.g., abandon their children at greater rates, are less intelligent, more murderous, more corrupt etc.) and the differences between individual Blacks and Whites are multiplied in their societies to produce the differences that we see between Black and White societies.

Thats just their culture. All cultrues are equal, you know.

I guess King deserves some credit for actually doing something with the ideas he plagerized. But to make him a hero, an icon??? Bill Cosby is a much more suitable person to make an icon. I suspect most self respecting blacks agree with Cosby in general. I don't know why they support King.

So does England have this same problem with Race and prosperity? What of France and Spain?

Well... leaves only two options really:

1) what you linked to is bollocks - no action required

2) what you linked to is somehow based in fact rather than twisting facts. Best answer - spend lots of money equalizing outcomes (through education) for African Americans and any other disadvantaged people.

Oh, and I'm about 99% sure you are Alfred and have been banned twice for being racist.

The info on IQ might be correct, but so what?? Exactly how does this affect legal rights? Not at all. It does affect outcome of education however. But our system is NOT equal outcome, its equal opportuntiy. Unfortunately some not so intelligent people are demanding equal outcome. Not possible, with any race, culture or whatever. These are the idiots that need to be taught something.

No two people are equal. But their rights are.

Lets face the facts, I am better looking, smarter, stronger, and superior in all ways to anyone else on the planet. Everyone else has the same right to be the same as me, legally, but certainly not as good looking.