Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

It's leftist crap to "end racism"? It's leftist crap that "we are all in this together"? Yeah, I can see why you'd be upset with it.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Darian,  Dr. Freud there  lost his wallet last week and the first thing he did was blame Trump.  His dog crapped on his carpet, and guess who was to blame?

I'm with you on these polls.  I think he and his Dem pals are running scared. As the battleground states have become closer and closer, they are accusing him of everything. 

They even said he had a mini-stroke.  

It is desperation.   And Dr. Freud is looking more and more like Dr. Seuss.

Originally Posted by James Brown

I think everyone knows that the NFL players are focusing on racism in society at large, not racism in the NFL.  Do you really think these athletes lose the right to protest racism, just because they are wealthy?  

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

If you asked me if I were a patient person, I would say absolutely. If you asked my wife or children, you may not get as enthusiastic of an answer. We are all blind to our own situation.

You either have to believe that blacks are inferior, or that there are systemic issues that hold them back in America, regardless of how an individual treats another individual. What members of this forum think which is the cause bleeds out in your posts.

Russ

Originally Posted by James Brown

That is a loaded question Darian, but I'll try to answer. 

I think racism is still a problem in the US, although I think it is lots less of a problem than it was in the past.  I don't think blacks are "oppressed" according to the traditional definition of that word, but I do think blacks are treated differently and far less fairly in many aspects of modern society. 

I recognize that the black social structure in many communities contributes a lot to the problems experienced by blacks in the US.  I am unsure whose fault that is - the absentee father or the society that limits his opportunities?  Probably a mix of both.

I recognize personally that I am not a black man and therefore do not appreciate the daily slights large and small that come with being a black man.  I give weight to the anger and sense of injustice felt by many in the black community - I don't think it is all for show.  I also give weight to contrary black voices.  I am biased to agree with Thomas Sowell more than I am biased to agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates.   I have read them both.  I think my bias is reasonably well founded (we all do), but it is a bias.  I can't forget that and still keep an open mind.  

I subscribe to Dr. Martin Luther King's definition of a racist as someone who judges another by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character.  I try to meet that ideal.  I do not understand the more modern definition of racism being an immutable characteristic of basically all whites of privilege.  In summary, I think that racism is still a problem, and a problem that we should be working on, but I do not think racism is the defining characteristic of modern America.  

Jim

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

And we all thought the only reason that DT didn't attend the WW1 memorial was he was scared his hair would get messed up because of the rain. His helicopter couldn't fly in the rain? Wrong. The secret service wouldn't drive him? Wrong.

"Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

Originally Posted by James Brown

That is a loaded question Darian, but I'll try to answer. 

I think racism is still a problem in the US, although I think it is lots less of a problem than it was in the past.  I don't think blacks are "oppressed" according to the traditional definition of that word, but I do think blacks are treated differently and far less fairly in many aspects of modern society. 

I recognize that the black social structure in many communities contributes a lot to the problems experienced by blacks in the US.  I am unsure whose fault that is - the absentee father or the society that limits his opportunities?  Probably a mix of both.

I recognize personally that I am not a black man and therefore do not appreciate the daily slights large and small that come with being a black man.  I give weight to the anger and sense of injustice felt by many in the black community - I don't think it is all for show.  I also give weight to contrary black voices.  I am biased to agree with Thomas Sowell more than I am biased to agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates.   I have read them both.  I think my bias is reasonably well founded (we all do), but it is a bias.  I can't forget that and still keep an open mind.  

I subscribe to Dr. Martin Luther King's definition of a racist as someone who judges another by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character.  I try to meet that ideal.  I do not understand the more modern definition of racism being an immutable characteristic of basically all whites of privilege.  In summary, I think that racism is still a problem, and a problem that we should be working on, but I do not think racism is the defining characteristic of modern America.  

Jim

Originally Posted by James Brown

That is a loaded question Darian, but I'll try to answer. 

I think racism is still a problem in the US, although I think it is lots less of a problem than it was in the past.  I don't think blacks are "oppressed" according to the traditional definition of that word, but I do think blacks are treated differently and far less fairly in many aspects of modern society. 

I recognize that the black social structure in many communities contributes a lot to the problems experienced by blacks in the US.  I am unsure whose fault that is - the absentee father or the society that limits his opportunities?  Probably a mix of both.

I recognize personally that I am not a black man and therefore do not appreciate the daily slights large and small that come with being a black man.  I give weight to the anger and sense of injustice felt by many in the black community - I don't think it is all for show.  I also give weight to contrary black voices.  I am biased to agree with Thomas Sowell more than I am biased to agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates.   I have read them both.  I think my bias is reasonably well founded (we all do), but it is a bias.  I can't forget that and still keep an open mind.  

I subscribe to Dr. Martin Luther King's definition of a racist as someone who judges another by the color of his skin rather than the content of his character.  I try to meet that ideal.  I do not understand the more modern definition of racism being an immutable characteristic of basically all whites of privilege.  In summary, I think that racism is still a problem, and a problem that we should be working on, but I do not think racism is the defining characteristic of modern America.  

Jim

Originally Posted by James Lacey

If you are talking about the common phrase "white privilege," then what it doesn't mean is that whites got something for free, or don't have to struggle, or don't have hardships. We all have our crosses to bear.

All white privilege means is that you don't have struggles or hardships that are simply a result of your skin color being non-white. Think of it this way. If you have autism, then you have a mental disability that is no fault of your own that causes you significant and real difficulties. Just because another non-autistic person cannot identify with or truly understand those difficulties does not make them any less valid for the autistic person. In a sense, if you don't have autism, then you have "I'm not an autistic privilege."

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi Darian:

I think there are orders of magnitude of difference between the negative social treatment of blacks and black men and any possible negative treatment of white men based upon the color of their skin.  I am not talking about individual bigots spewing hatred.  Those sad people come in all colors.  I am talking about larger social effects.  

Jim