Trustful_Whale
Warrior
Now that you mention it, I sometimes still catch "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" once in a while on some random cartoon channel. Shit's bizarre.
Now that you mention it, I sometimes still catch "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" once in a while on some random cartoon channel. Shit's bizarre.
Do you think a movie like Blazing Saddles or Tropic Thunder has a place? The funniest parts of both of those movies are the stereotypical portrayals.
Sure, I think both have a place. Especially Blazing Saddles. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/07/272452677/blazing-saddles-the-best-interracial-buddy-comedy-turns-40
All religions have dangerous ideologies. Some far more dangerous than others. But, that’s a completely different topic and discussion.
They have made progress, and they have and can succeed, its just much harder. You wanna put your fingers in your ear and tune it out, but its true. Also, Im speaking on racism towards BLACK PEOPLE. Dont lump all minorities together. That list you linked has Black people in dead last. No one has ever been on equal footing you say? In a country where we cut said peoples legs out from under them? No kidding. At one point no one had cars, so we should just continue to go without cars, huh? Fuck progress, tradition is enough for some.
You're absolutely right. It just makes me rage how he's singled them out over the years. But, another story for another day.
As I have stated before, I have no doubt that racism and discriminatory laws prevented blacks from acquiring wealth. Obviously, history matters because history has consequences on the present. However, racism is one out of a multitude of factors that explains why African Americans disproportionately live in poverty. Children in single-parent families, which liberals have no interest in indicating or discussing, is another. So if there is a child out of wedlock and dad or mom decides to leave because he or she is uncommitted, the family will live in poverty simply because there is one less paycheck to support the family. If you examine the household income for a married African-American family, a gap still exists but is significantly smaller. I am kindly asking people to analyze all data, think critically, and then make up their minds.
I hope you realize that you are making the conservative argument that prominent black conservatives like Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder have been making. Sowell, who has a doctorate in economics, writes that "The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life", according to the War on Poverty page on Wikipedia. So if you intend to make the case against the War on Poverty and other failed governmental programs and policies such as the the War on Drugs and military interventionism abroad, I am on your side.
Do you think that African-Americans just love single-parent families, or have you considered that slavery intentionally dividing up the family unit and forcibly separating mothers from fathers (for hundreds of years) has had a ripple effect that, to some extent, still has implications today?
"My great great grandfather has been taken away from his family during times of slavery, I should honor his legacy by abandoning my own child."
You can’t be silly enough to think that it’s done intentionally and that this is how it works.
I know, it's quite silly. Almost as silly as saying that slavery was the cause.
So if someone was violently and horrifically abused as a child, as an adult you’d just tell them “You’ve had all these years to get over it, why aren’t you over it yet?”
Is it a direct cause or the only cause? No, but I think it's pretty clear that slavery and racism have had ripple effects that have affected the black community throughout the decades, and still affects it today.
If someone was violently and horrifically abused as a child, I probably won't tell him “You’ve had all these years to get over it, why aren’t you over it yet?”, but I sure as hell will tell the very same thing to that someone's great great grandson. I'm honestly amazed that I have to explain this.
Oh, the irony.
That person's great grandson is still dealing with some of the same issues in different ways. It's not like a magical switch where as soon as slavery is over, the effects of systemically abusing and exploiting an entire race for hundreds of years vanish into the air.
You didn't read your own Wikipedia article. So I'm going to quote from it:
I think that's a little disingenuous. Liberals do have an interest in family values, but it's normally from more of an economic perspective than a sociol one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap
Yet you have apparently read even less...
This is agreeing with what I posted, so I'm not sure what your point is. "The past three centuries" means slavery and the period thereafter.
Expert theories aside, you still have not explained why the number of children born out of wedlock was significantly lower before the civil rights movement. According to the chart, the number was about 20%. Today it is assumed to be 65%.
Shhhhh. Remember, people hate having to admit that they're wrong.