Truth. I voted 3rd party for this very reason. And they need to clean house. Because if they don't then I'm not going for them again. If they choose Chuck Schumer for minority leader I'm gonna be pissed. He's just another Corporatist and we need those out of government.
Then people think I'm an asshole for voting for the party that wants people to act like I already do. I think they're assholes too but telling me what to think and expecting me to actually do so is insane.
You don't care at all that she told a room full of children that they'd "be like a punk ass n----- who's going to get shot." Whooptie doo about that? Fuckin' Trump. I'm blaming him for all future racism just like his supporters did Obama
I don't care. She might have even had good intentions. Hell, I'd wager that she did. Did you see that video I linked a while back where these dumb gang kids or whatever they were supposed to be had invaded some guy's convenience store? What if she called those kids that? You'd be mad because a white person said the n word. Tough shit. I didn't make up that word. I didn't ask NWA to release rap albums about a culture I didn't create. I didn't tell Chris Rock to do a whole act about black people verus "the n words" I didn't have ANYTHING to do with ANY of the racial problems this country has. I'd scream at the top of my lungs at both KKK members and BLM activists and the police. I think ALL of them are morons. Nobody except people here ever care what I think. I'm typing the n word instead of the word we're talking about because I have to pretend I care if someone gets offended during a discussion. If I called someone that word in anger it would be different. A black teacher could sit in a room full of white kids and talk about white privilege for years and nobody will give a shit but this dumb bitch was too stupid to know that she couldn't say what she thought out loud.
I rarely did vote in the years prior except vote by mail. I voted early here and voted the way I usually do. Straight Republican and NO on everything else.
No dude, we've had some talks you and I and I thought we'd had an understanding but the fact that you clearly don't care that the teacher said what she said while physically shoving a KID, exhibits a privilege I'm not afforded. One you claimed you were aware of. To use a double negative, I can't not care.
You guys can fight over this. I know without a doubt that if a black teacher said the exact same thing verbatim it would be a non issue. Feel free to worry about that and ignore the important part that in the year 2016 as a nation we are still sending black kids to shitty schools with shitty teachers in shitty neighborhoods. Enjoy your sweet white teachers who don't say anything but sit back and watch these kids fail while collecting a paycheck. Hey, as long as they don't say anything bad we're good right?
Look, I don't condone racism. I didn't see it, even if I did without being there for the days and months leading up to it I couldn't really understand it. I'm amazingly aware of my white privilege. I see it daily. I also have big mean looking guy privilege too. I'm really amazed at things other white people I know have happen to them or have said to them. I posted it in another thread, things need to be fair. Racism is the belief that someone is inferior or destined to be a certain way because of the color of their skin. I don't believe that and anyone who does is a moron. The examples of how untrue this is are there for all to see. A white trash meth head isn't that way because he is white any more than a black kid is a gang member because he's black. It's not my fight and as of now I do have the privilege of not caring. I don't know how long that will last but while it does I want to apologize to you and your ancestors for everything my ancestors have ever done. I just want you to know that I don't ever mean to downplay your fight but I'll continue to call things like I see them. I try to be as logical as I can, I don't even take my wife's side of everything even when I could just agree with her and never think about it again. I mean, seriously try that. She's actually thanked me because in the long run she has thought about a few things and it made her job easier.
One thing about this election, and I'm not sure if I'd say it's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's making people realize how racist and hateful this nation still is. We haven't come as far as maybe people had hoped. Humans are hateful by nature. We are tribal. Us vs them. It's not just racism. It's hatred towards other religions. Hatred towards other genders and sexual orientation or political beliefs. There's just a lot of hate going around. Shining the light on that hatred and exposing people will hopefully motivate people to do something. I guess that's one good thing about Trump getting elected. It's exposing a lot of festering wounds that people have been ignoring. I'm not sure if hatred and bigotry will ever go away, but at the very least we can't allow people to pass laws or discriminate. If someone wants to be a hateful piece of shit, that's their problem, but they can't be allowed to take rights and opportunities away from others.
True story here goes....... A couple of months ago the wife and I wanted lunch after the gym. I Yelped what I thought was a grilled chicken restaurant that had almost all 5 star reviews. We walked inside and I saw 20 black people eating this AMAZING looking fried chicken. There was a long line so we stood in it while I read the menu. There wasn't anything grilled on it so I made a point to say loudly how I couldn't eat fried food and it looked so good but we had to leave. I didn't want anyone thinking it was because of them that we left. It looked and smelled so fucking good toooooooooo. FUCK
Bro, I crossed the street last night while leaving the very affluent MAC Club because some "suspicious looking" white males were coming toward me. I'm now afraid of having a hate crime happen to me.... Thanks Trump...
Ignorance. Look up the Iroquois Confederacy. They lived in peace for over 160 years and invented the game LaCrosse. And please don't ever spit on what's happened to natives in this country. White people killed over 80 million of them but that holocaust is swept under the rug. The natives would've been completely fine sans-European colonialism.
You're exactly right. The fact that you don't understand why it's ok for the black teacher to say it is the issue.
