I'm sure it will get shit on, as any reasoned approach does. But it's not wrong. When they see violence perpetrated as a response to injustice, they ruminate on why. Never once thinking about what it would be like to be in a similar situation.
http://www.alternet.org/white-americ...t-want-know-it
- WombRaider
- 05-11-2015, 08:42 PM
- JD Barleycorn
- 05-12-2015, 01:40 AM
Someone hijack this thread please...
- D.G.
- 05-12-2015, 01:49 AM
When you act like a child (black people ) and randomky destroy just to do it, then yes you do need to be lectured (any rationale race).
- WombRaider
- 05-12-2015, 02:28 AM
When you act like a child (black people ) and randomky destroy just to do it, then yes you do need to be lectured (any rationale race). Originally Posted by D.G.You either didn't read it, or you didn't understand it. If you think it's as simple as acting out and needing to be disciplined for it, you've completely missed the point.
- WombRaider
- 05-12-2015, 02:30 AM
Someone hijack this thread please... Originally Posted by JD BarleycornIf you had balls or brains, you could do it. But you're too goddamn chickenshit, too fucking soft in the head. Why don't you read the article and for one time in your life, try and imagine, if you can, what it must be like in someone else's shoes. It's called empathy. It's an admirable trait in a human being. Not that anything like that would interest a cretin such as yourself, but hope springs eternal and all that bullshit.
- DSK
- 05-12-2015, 05:52 AM
I'm sure it will get shit on, as any reasoned approach does. But it's not wrong. When they see violence perpetrated as a response to injustice, they ruminate on why. Never once thinking about what it would be like to be in a similar situation.I wonder why so many millions of people of color want to immigrate to this country if the white people are such head in the sand idiots like this article based upon a 50+ year old previous whiny article claims they are.
http://www.alternet.org/white-americ...t-want-know-it Originally Posted by WombRaider
What your racist head can't seem to understand is many people of all colors have overcome being in the barrio, but it takes time and hard work.
- IIFFOFRDB
- 05-12-2015, 06:32 AM
http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...f_jaquise.html
May 12, 2015
The Ballad of Jaquise
By Colin Flaherty
Before Jaquise Lewis lost his life defending his friends from an act of racist white mob violence, he was universally loved and admired.
Fun to be around, said one relative. Never got into any trouble, his aunt remembered. One after another, they lined up to tell the Albuquerque reporters the story of how Jaquise was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Alternately an innocent victim and a hero saving his friends.
The kind words poured down like rain shortly after that day in March when a bunch of white skaters attacked Jaquise and his friends at a skateboard park when all they were trying to do was have a little fun at a birthday party.
“Several dozen people remember a teenager who died too young,” intoned Tessa Mentus, the anchor at KOB news as she introduced a story on a memorial for the recently deceased Jaquise. “Gunmen opened fire at the Los Altos skateboard park last night, and 17-year old Jaquise Lewis died at the scene.”
“Six other people were shot,” said another reporter at KOB. “And understandably people were upset.” The sanctification continued with a report from the scene of the memorial: “Jaquise was well loved,” said the somber reporter Ryan Luby. “And the shooters were still at large.”
And as for the gang colors on display and gang signs many of the mourners were flashing? No one really noticed. Or cared. They were too busy consoling one of Jaquise’s homeboys who attended the memorial in his hospital gown, who was also a “victim” of the dirty white boys and their racist violence.
The next day, it got real: several friends of Jaquise reported that someone burned down their makeshift memorial. And much like the shooting of Jaquise itself, there could be only one explanation how a makeshift collection of candles and paper displays and ribbons left unattended in a windy parking lot could catch fire: White Racism.
Friends of Jaquise “say the destruction of his memorial was a hate crime,” reported KRQE. “To be honest, I think it was racism,” said a friend of the fallen teenager.
“We spoke to the victim’s grandfather earlier today,” said a reporter from KRQE. “And he said several of his family members said race may have played a role” in the death of the young Jaquise.
And that is how it stood for several weeks: White people running amok in Albuquerque. Shooting unarmed black teenagers for no reason whatsoever.
Then last week, with the help of video, the story… evolved.
There was no birthday party.
Jaquise and his friends went to the park to create havoc and violence.
They stole a skateboard -- which the police spokesman dutifully reported by saying Jaquise and his friends “borrowed it” and became upset when the skaters asked for them to give it back.
There was no fight, as earlier accounts had it: Jaquise and his friends were assaulting the skaters. And they were surprised when one of the skaters actually defended himself.
And the shooter? Oh yeah, that was Jaquise.
“We believe Jaquise Lewis was the one who fired those rounds,” said a police spokesman after reviewing pictures of the event for reporters last week at an oddly apologetic news conference.
Jaquise in turn was shot by a skater whom police say was acting in self-defense.
This was not the angelic Jaquise’s first encounter with the law or a gun: just a few weeks before, he was arrested after shooting his friend in the butt with a handgun. Jaquise said it was an accident. The night he died, Jaquise was not even supposed to be out of his house without the permission of a court -- which he did not have, said the Albuquerque Journal.
The skateboarders cooperated fully with the investigation, said the police. But friends of Jaquise, the ones who stole the skateboards and started the assault, did not. Police are still looking for them.
As the real story emerged of Jaquise and his friends as predators, not victims, some of his friends and family remain unconvinced -- and upset. Not the least of which was the attorney for the family of Jaquise. A few weeks before, he had been looking at a major personal injury lawsuit, appearances on cable TV, and all the other perks lawyers get for helping the downtrodden fight for justice. Especially when they are victims of white racism.
The police press conference put an end to those legal dreams. Even so, the lawyer put on a game face for the Albuquerque Journal: “If they’re taking the position today that suggests Jaquise Lewis died from someone acting in self-defense, give us the entirety of the evidence, let us, the community, judge this process,” said Ahmad Assed, a defense attorney representing the family. “Don’t let Albuquerque Police Department call the shots in this conversation. The African-American community deserves better.”
Some suggested the lawyer could start by talking to friends of his client. The missing ones who “were intimately involved in the encounter,” as police put it.
One of many cousins of Jaquise put an exclamation mark on the lawyer’s remarks in the comments section: “This is ridiculous,” said the correspondent self-identified as MzLadiBoss. “Now yall playin by race… now it’s a race thing. My lil cuzin was murdered (and now police) wanna let the killer loose cuz he’s not black. That’s bullshit. It’s funny how damn every white person get off and every black person either do/face life behind bars or death penalty. SMH sad sick world.”
The following day, the First Lady of the United States of America picked up the chorus at a graduation ceremony at a black college. She said reminded the graduates of Tuskegee Institute that they are victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere and that explains everything. Including why police are always picking on people who look like them for no reason whatsoever.
“We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives -- the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the “help” -- and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country,” she told the black graduating class of the Tuskegee Institute.
Perhaps she was referring to her own experience at Princeton, and the reaction her senior thesis received from the late great Christopher Hitchens: “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language.”
Maybe her writing has improved, because the message in this speech was loud and clear, talking about the “nagging worries that you’re going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason; the fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds; the agony of sending your kids to schools that may no longer be separate, but are far from equal; the realization that no matter how far you rise in life, how hard you work to be a good person, a good parent, a good citizen -- for some folks, it will never be enough. “
“And as we’ve seen over the past few years, those feelings are real. They’re rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible. And those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country.”
Like Albuquerque.
Colin Flaherty is the author of the scintillating best seller on then epidemic of black mob violence and black on white crime, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry. You can win a FREE autographed copy of his new book by signing up for his newsletter here.
Before Jaquise Lewis lost his life defending his friends from an act of racist white mob violence, he was universally loved and admired.
Fun to be around, said one relative. Never got into any trouble, his aunt remembered. One after another, they lined up to tell the Albuquerque reporters the story of how Jaquise was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Alternately an innocent victim and a hero saving his friends.
The kind words poured down like rain shortly after that day in March when a bunch of white skaters attacked Jaquise and his friends at a skateboard park when all they were trying to do was have a little fun at a birthday party.
“Several dozen people remember a teenager who died too young,” intoned Tessa Mentus, the anchor at KOB news as she introduced a story on a memorial for the recently deceased Jaquise. “Gunmen opened fire at the Los Altos skateboard park last night, and 17-year old Jaquise Lewis died at the scene.”
“Six other people were shot,” said another reporter at KOB. “And understandably people were upset.” The sanctification continued with a report from the scene of the memorial: “Jaquise was well loved,” said the somber reporter Ryan Luby. “And the shooters were still at large.”
And as for the gang colors on display and gang signs many of the mourners were flashing? No one really noticed. Or cared. They were too busy consoling one of Jaquise’s homeboys who attended the memorial in his hospital gown, who was also a “victim” of the dirty white boys and their racist violence.
The next day, it got real: several friends of Jaquise reported that someone burned down their makeshift memorial. And much like the shooting of Jaquise itself, there could be only one explanation how a makeshift collection of candles and paper displays and ribbons left unattended in a windy parking lot could catch fire: White Racism.
Friends of Jaquise “say the destruction of his memorial was a hate crime,” reported KRQE. “To be honest, I think it was racism,” said a friend of the fallen teenager.
“We spoke to the victim’s grandfather earlier today,” said a reporter from KRQE. “And he said several of his family members said race may have played a role” in the death of the young Jaquise.
And that is how it stood for several weeks: White people running amok in Albuquerque. Shooting unarmed black teenagers for no reason whatsoever.
Then last week, with the help of video, the story… evolved.
There was no birthday party.
Jaquise and his friends went to the park to create havoc and violence.
They stole a skateboard -- which the police spokesman dutifully reported by saying Jaquise and his friends “borrowed it” and became upset when the skaters asked for them to give it back.
There was no fight, as earlier accounts had it: Jaquise and his friends were assaulting the skaters. And they were surprised when one of the skaters actually defended himself.
And the shooter? Oh yeah, that was Jaquise.
“We believe Jaquise Lewis was the one who fired those rounds,” said a police spokesman after reviewing pictures of the event for reporters last week at an oddly apologetic news conference.
Jaquise in turn was shot by a skater whom police say was acting in self-defense.
This was not the angelic Jaquise’s first encounter with the law or a gun: just a few weeks before, he was arrested after shooting his friend in the butt with a handgun. Jaquise said it was an accident. The night he died, Jaquise was not even supposed to be out of his house without the permission of a court -- which he did not have, said the Albuquerque Journal.
The skateboarders cooperated fully with the investigation, said the police. But friends of Jaquise, the ones who stole the skateboards and started the assault, did not. Police are still looking for them.
As the real story emerged of Jaquise and his friends as predators, not victims, some of his friends and family remain unconvinced -- and upset. Not the least of which was the attorney for the family of Jaquise. A few weeks before, he had been looking at a major personal injury lawsuit, appearances on cable TV, and all the other perks lawyers get for helping the downtrodden fight for justice. Especially when they are victims of white racism.
The police press conference put an end to those legal dreams. Even so, the lawyer put on a game face for the Albuquerque Journal: “If they’re taking the position today that suggests Jaquise Lewis died from someone acting in self-defense, give us the entirety of the evidence, let us, the community, judge this process,” said Ahmad Assed, a defense attorney representing the family. “Don’t let Albuquerque Police Department call the shots in this conversation. The African-American community deserves better.”
Some suggested the lawyer could start by talking to friends of his client. The missing ones who “were intimately involved in the encounter,” as police put it.
One of many cousins of Jaquise put an exclamation mark on the lawyer’s remarks in the comments section: “This is ridiculous,” said the correspondent self-identified as MzLadiBoss. “Now yall playin by race… now it’s a race thing. My lil cuzin was murdered (and now police) wanna let the killer loose cuz he’s not black. That’s bullshit. It’s funny how damn every white person get off and every black person either do/face life behind bars or death penalty. SMH sad sick world.”
The following day, the First Lady of the United States of America picked up the chorus at a graduation ceremony at a black college. She said reminded the graduates of Tuskegee Institute that they are victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere and that explains everything. Including why police are always picking on people who look like them for no reason whatsoever.
“We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives -- the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the “help” -- and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country,” she told the black graduating class of the Tuskegee Institute.
Perhaps she was referring to her own experience at Princeton, and the reaction her senior thesis received from the late great Christopher Hitchens: “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language.”
Maybe her writing has improved, because the message in this speech was loud and clear, talking about the “nagging worries that you’re going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason; the fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds; the agony of sending your kids to schools that may no longer be separate, but are far from equal; the realization that no matter how far you rise in life, how hard you work to be a good person, a good parent, a good citizen -- for some folks, it will never be enough. “
“And as we’ve seen over the past few years, those feelings are real. They’re rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible. And those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country.”
Like Albuquerque.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...#ixzz3ZvWudXIi
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May 12, 2015
The Ballad of Jaquise
By Colin Flaherty
Before Jaquise Lewis lost his life defending his friends from an act of racist white mob violence, he was universally loved and admired.
Fun to be around, said one relative. Never got into any trouble, his aunt remembered. One after another, they lined up to tell the Albuquerque reporters the story of how Jaquise was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Alternately an innocent victim and a hero saving his friends.
The kind words poured down like rain shortly after that day in March when a bunch of white skaters attacked Jaquise and his friends at a skateboard park when all they were trying to do was have a little fun at a birthday party.
“Several dozen people remember a teenager who died too young,” intoned Tessa Mentus, the anchor at KOB news as she introduced a story on a memorial for the recently deceased Jaquise. “Gunmen opened fire at the Los Altos skateboard park last night, and 17-year old Jaquise Lewis died at the scene.”
“Six other people were shot,” said another reporter at KOB. “And understandably people were upset.” The sanctification continued with a report from the scene of the memorial: “Jaquise was well loved,” said the somber reporter Ryan Luby. “And the shooters were still at large.”
And as for the gang colors on display and gang signs many of the mourners were flashing? No one really noticed. Or cared. They were too busy consoling one of Jaquise’s homeboys who attended the memorial in his hospital gown, who was also a “victim” of the dirty white boys and their racist violence.
The next day, it got real: several friends of Jaquise reported that someone burned down their makeshift memorial. And much like the shooting of Jaquise itself, there could be only one explanation how a makeshift collection of candles and paper displays and ribbons left unattended in a windy parking lot could catch fire: White Racism.
Friends of Jaquise “say the destruction of his memorial was a hate crime,” reported KRQE. “To be honest, I think it was racism,” said a friend of the fallen teenager.
“We spoke to the victim’s grandfather earlier today,” said a reporter from KRQE. “And he said several of his family members said race may have played a role” in the death of the young Jaquise.
And that is how it stood for several weeks: White people running amok in Albuquerque. Shooting unarmed black teenagers for no reason whatsoever.
Then last week, with the help of video, the story… evolved.
There was no birthday party.
Jaquise and his friends went to the park to create havoc and violence.
They stole a skateboard -- which the police spokesman dutifully reported by saying Jaquise and his friends “borrowed it” and became upset when the skaters asked for them to give it back.
There was no fight, as earlier accounts had it: Jaquise and his friends were assaulting the skaters. And they were surprised when one of the skaters actually defended himself.
And the shooter? Oh yeah, that was Jaquise.
“We believe Jaquise Lewis was the one who fired those rounds,” said a police spokesman after reviewing pictures of the event for reporters last week at an oddly apologetic news conference.
Jaquise in turn was shot by a skater whom police say was acting in self-defense.
This was not the angelic Jaquise’s first encounter with the law or a gun: just a few weeks before, he was arrested after shooting his friend in the butt with a handgun. Jaquise said it was an accident. The night he died, Jaquise was not even supposed to be out of his house without the permission of a court -- which he did not have, said the Albuquerque Journal.
The skateboarders cooperated fully with the investigation, said the police. But friends of Jaquise, the ones who stole the skateboards and started the assault, did not. Police are still looking for them.
As the real story emerged of Jaquise and his friends as predators, not victims, some of his friends and family remain unconvinced -- and upset. Not the least of which was the attorney for the family of Jaquise. A few weeks before, he had been looking at a major personal injury lawsuit, appearances on cable TV, and all the other perks lawyers get for helping the downtrodden fight for justice. Especially when they are victims of white racism.
The police press conference put an end to those legal dreams. Even so, the lawyer put on a game face for the Albuquerque Journal: “If they’re taking the position today that suggests Jaquise Lewis died from someone acting in self-defense, give us the entirety of the evidence, let us, the community, judge this process,” said Ahmad Assed, a defense attorney representing the family. “Don’t let Albuquerque Police Department call the shots in this conversation. The African-American community deserves better.”
Some suggested the lawyer could start by talking to friends of his client. The missing ones who “were intimately involved in the encounter,” as police put it.
One of many cousins of Jaquise put an exclamation mark on the lawyer’s remarks in the comments section: “This is ridiculous,” said the correspondent self-identified as MzLadiBoss. “Now yall playin by race… now it’s a race thing. My lil cuzin was murdered (and now police) wanna let the killer loose cuz he’s not black. That’s bullshit. It’s funny how damn every white person get off and every black person either do/face life behind bars or death penalty. SMH sad sick world.”
The following day, the First Lady of the United States of America picked up the chorus at a graduation ceremony at a black college. She said reminded the graduates of Tuskegee Institute that they are victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere and that explains everything. Including why police are always picking on people who look like them for no reason whatsoever.
“We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives -- the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the “help” -- and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country,” she told the black graduating class of the Tuskegee Institute.
Perhaps she was referring to her own experience at Princeton, and the reaction her senior thesis received from the late great Christopher Hitchens: “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language.”
Maybe her writing has improved, because the message in this speech was loud and clear, talking about the “nagging worries that you’re going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason; the fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds; the agony of sending your kids to schools that may no longer be separate, but are far from equal; the realization that no matter how far you rise in life, how hard you work to be a good person, a good parent, a good citizen -- for some folks, it will never be enough. “
“And as we’ve seen over the past few years, those feelings are real. They’re rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible. And those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country.”
Like Albuquerque.
Colin Flaherty is the author of the scintillating best seller on then epidemic of black mob violence and black on white crime, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry. You can win a FREE autographed copy of his new book by signing up for his newsletter here.
Before Jaquise Lewis lost his life defending his friends from an act of racist white mob violence, he was universally loved and admired.
Fun to be around, said one relative. Never got into any trouble, his aunt remembered. One after another, they lined up to tell the Albuquerque reporters the story of how Jaquise was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
Alternately an innocent victim and a hero saving his friends.
The kind words poured down like rain shortly after that day in March when a bunch of white skaters attacked Jaquise and his friends at a skateboard park when all they were trying to do was have a little fun at a birthday party.
“Several dozen people remember a teenager who died too young,” intoned Tessa Mentus, the anchor at KOB news as she introduced a story on a memorial for the recently deceased Jaquise. “Gunmen opened fire at the Los Altos skateboard park last night, and 17-year old Jaquise Lewis died at the scene.”
“Six other people were shot,” said another reporter at KOB. “And understandably people were upset.” The sanctification continued with a report from the scene of the memorial: “Jaquise was well loved,” said the somber reporter Ryan Luby. “And the shooters were still at large.”
And as for the gang colors on display and gang signs many of the mourners were flashing? No one really noticed. Or cared. They were too busy consoling one of Jaquise’s homeboys who attended the memorial in his hospital gown, who was also a “victim” of the dirty white boys and their racist violence.
The next day, it got real: several friends of Jaquise reported that someone burned down their makeshift memorial. And much like the shooting of Jaquise itself, there could be only one explanation how a makeshift collection of candles and paper displays and ribbons left unattended in a windy parking lot could catch fire: White Racism.
Friends of Jaquise “say the destruction of his memorial was a hate crime,” reported KRQE. “To be honest, I think it was racism,” said a friend of the fallen teenager.
“We spoke to the victim’s grandfather earlier today,” said a reporter from KRQE. “And he said several of his family members said race may have played a role” in the death of the young Jaquise.
And that is how it stood for several weeks: White people running amok in Albuquerque. Shooting unarmed black teenagers for no reason whatsoever.
Then last week, with the help of video, the story… evolved.
There was no birthday party.
Jaquise and his friends went to the park to create havoc and violence.
They stole a skateboard -- which the police spokesman dutifully reported by saying Jaquise and his friends “borrowed it” and became upset when the skaters asked for them to give it back.
There was no fight, as earlier accounts had it: Jaquise and his friends were assaulting the skaters. And they were surprised when one of the skaters actually defended himself.
And the shooter? Oh yeah, that was Jaquise.
“We believe Jaquise Lewis was the one who fired those rounds,” said a police spokesman after reviewing pictures of the event for reporters last week at an oddly apologetic news conference.
Jaquise in turn was shot by a skater whom police say was acting in self-defense.
This was not the angelic Jaquise’s first encounter with the law or a gun: just a few weeks before, he was arrested after shooting his friend in the butt with a handgun. Jaquise said it was an accident. The night he died, Jaquise was not even supposed to be out of his house without the permission of a court -- which he did not have, said the Albuquerque Journal.
The skateboarders cooperated fully with the investigation, said the police. But friends of Jaquise, the ones who stole the skateboards and started the assault, did not. Police are still looking for them.
As the real story emerged of Jaquise and his friends as predators, not victims, some of his friends and family remain unconvinced -- and upset. Not the least of which was the attorney for the family of Jaquise. A few weeks before, he had been looking at a major personal injury lawsuit, appearances on cable TV, and all the other perks lawyers get for helping the downtrodden fight for justice. Especially when they are victims of white racism.
The police press conference put an end to those legal dreams. Even so, the lawyer put on a game face for the Albuquerque Journal: “If they’re taking the position today that suggests Jaquise Lewis died from someone acting in self-defense, give us the entirety of the evidence, let us, the community, judge this process,” said Ahmad Assed, a defense attorney representing the family. “Don’t let Albuquerque Police Department call the shots in this conversation. The African-American community deserves better.”
Some suggested the lawyer could start by talking to friends of his client. The missing ones who “were intimately involved in the encounter,” as police put it.
One of many cousins of Jaquise put an exclamation mark on the lawyer’s remarks in the comments section: “This is ridiculous,” said the correspondent self-identified as MzLadiBoss. “Now yall playin by race… now it’s a race thing. My lil cuzin was murdered (and now police) wanna let the killer loose cuz he’s not black. That’s bullshit. It’s funny how damn every white person get off and every black person either do/face life behind bars or death penalty. SMH sad sick world.”
The following day, the First Lady of the United States of America picked up the chorus at a graduation ceremony at a black college. She said reminded the graduates of Tuskegee Institute that they are victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere and that explains everything. Including why police are always picking on people who look like them for no reason whatsoever.
“We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives -- the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the “help” -- and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country,” she told the black graduating class of the Tuskegee Institute.
Perhaps she was referring to her own experience at Princeton, and the reaction her senior thesis received from the late great Christopher Hitchens: “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be 'read' at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language.”
Maybe her writing has improved, because the message in this speech was loud and clear, talking about the “nagging worries that you’re going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason; the fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds; the agony of sending your kids to schools that may no longer be separate, but are far from equal; the realization that no matter how far you rise in life, how hard you work to be a good person, a good parent, a good citizen -- for some folks, it will never be enough. “
“And as we’ve seen over the past few years, those feelings are real. They’re rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible. And those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country.”
Like Albuquerque.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...#ixzz3ZvWudXIi
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- LovingKayla
- 05-12-2015, 06:39 AM
And THAT'S the game everybody!!!! Thank you and good night.
- Jackie S
- 05-12-2015, 11:03 AM
Compare the First Lady's commencement address to Dezel Washington's.
http://thegrio.com/2015/05/11/denzel...cement-speech/
The First Lady reminded all of the young people that "it's all whitey's fault", and the world owes them a living.
Denzel gave a speech of hope and faith, and self reliance.
The First Lady had a chance to do some real good, but she chose to play the poverty pimp role and show America once again her true beliefs.
http://thegrio.com/2015/05/11/denzel...cement-speech/
The First Lady reminded all of the young people that "it's all whitey's fault", and the world owes them a living.
Denzel gave a speech of hope and faith, and self reliance.
The First Lady had a chance to do some real good, but she chose to play the poverty pimp role and show America once again her true beliefs.
- WombRaider
- 05-12-2015, 11:16 AM
Compare the First Lady's commencement address to Dezel Washington's.I didn't get that at all. I think she gave a real talk about race in this country. And understandably, that would make white people uncomfortable. That's the problem with race. One of them, anyway. White people are either uncomfortable talking about it or they talk about it in such a way as to not understand it. There's not much middle ground. Any time a black woman speaks her mind, she's labeled 'angry'.
The First Lady reminded all of the young people that "it's all whitey's fault", and the world owes them a living.
Denzel gave a speech of hope and faith, and self reliance.
The First Lady had a chance to do some real good, but she chose to play the poverty pimp role and show America once again her true beliefs. Originally Posted by Jackie S
I guess you missed the part where she said that despite all those hurdles, they were not an excuse to lose hope. White people get a chance to tell it like it is. When black people do it, they're labeled as 'poverty pimps'. If you feel like she was saying that white people had something to do with this, perhaps it's because they do. To completely ignore the part that white america played or plays in racism, is to dishonor the fight of so many.
I know the conversation white america has. Being a minority, but not necessarily looking like one, I float between worlds. I see both sides. White people think that minorities should just shut up and quit talking about the struggle. And maybe they would, if it didn't still happen every fucking day. You want to act like it's over. And it's not.
- Yssup Rider
- 05-12-2015, 11:23 AM
- Yssup Rider
- 05-12-2015, 11:24 AM
- Yssup Rider
- 05-12-2015, 11:29 AM
I wonder why so many millions of people of color want to immigrate to this country if the white people are such head in the sand idiots like this article based upon a 50+ year old previous whiny article claims they are.Posting in the same thread under two handles?
What your racist head can't seem to understand is many people of all colors have overcome being in the barrio, but it takes time and hard work. Originally Posted by DSK
- JD Barleycorn
- 05-12-2015, 11:47 AM
I didn't get that at all. I think she gave a real talk about race in this country. And understandably, that would make white people uncomfortable. That's the problem with race. One of them, anyway. White people are either uncomfortable talking about it or they talk about it in such a way as to not understand it. There's not much middle ground. Any time a black woman speaks her mind, she's labeled 'angry'.Sometimes you have to wonder what universe Baby Killer lives in. Take the above; white people don't talk about race...are you kidding? It was a black (I think race is important to understand the context here) Attorney General that said we were cowards for not wanting to talk about race. Everytime (see above) a white person wants to talk about race, and not toe the liberal line, they are called a racist but people like Baby Killer and Al Sharpton. Who wants to talk about race when that happens? There is the other reaction; you can't talk about race (which means shut up) because you're white.
I guess you missed the part where she said that despite all those hurdles, they were not an excuse to lose hope. White people get a chance to tell it like it is. When black people do it, they're labeled as 'poverty pimps'. If you feel like she was saying that white people had something to do with this, perhaps it's because they do. To completely ignore the part that white america played or plays in racism, is to dishonor the fight of so many.
I know the conversation white america has. Being a minority, but not necessarily looking like one, I float between worlds. I see both sides. White people think that minorities should just shut up and quit talking about the struggle. And maybe they would, if it didn't still happen every fucking day. You want to act like it's over. And it's not. Originally Posted by WombRaider
The angry black woman....wasn't that from a movie written by a black man? I seem to recall the democrats complaining about the angry white man voter in the 90s. What was there to be angry about? Nothing except lies from the left about churches being burned by white racists (wasn't true), black men being dragged to death by white racists (sentenced to death and approved by George W. Bush), and even TV networks designed to exclude white TV shows. No, no reason for there to be any angry white people.
And the source of the comments: Michelle Robinson Obama, the privileged daughter of a couple who made enough money to send her to Princeton, who lives in a nice house, who made sure that Michelle has everything that so many other children (black, white or otherwise) didn't have access to. She has nothing to complaint about....but she can't help it. She was raised to have a racial chip on her shoulder.
Poverty pimps? How about "uncle Tom" or "oreo" when someone like Bill Cosby comes along and tells young black men to pull up their pants, go back to school, and get a job. That is what the left calls a black man. Just look at recently when I posted about Ben Carson running for president, Baby Killer and his ilk...well, the nicest thing they said about Ben Carson was that he was an Uncle Tom.
I see that Baby Killer is now wanting to cast himself as a Faux Bro. How convenient that he is now a minority. Remember: white people are not allowed to talk about race, only black people.
To finish off Michelle, her speech will probably go down in history as one of the worst commencement addresses of our time. It failed to inspire, furthered lies, and it was given at a traditionally black only college.
There is a word in Hebrew called "Chutzpah" and at the risk of someone claiming I called Michelle "angry", she reeks of Chutzpah.
- WombRaider
- 05-12-2015, 02:22 PM
Your ignorance is hopeless. You just don't get it, because you're not really interested in getting it. You like thinking the way you do and see no reason to change. Look at how unsure you are off how to even talk about race when you apologize for mentioning someone is black. Just say he was black. Don't follow it up with some uncomfortable comment about it providing context. How can I expect you to get it? You don't even know how to talk about it.