Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

...reminds me of the words of the great Frederick Douglass, one of America’s earliest black heroes, former s***e, and an advisor to President Lincoln, who said: “Everybody has asked the question … ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! … All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!”

Bottom line, the best way to help b****s is for government to get out of their lives. The first step toward a better life is to teach people how to get to a point where they can be independent. Liberals, of course, do not want African-Americans to be independent, because they are far too valuable to them as political pawns and as a source for soothing their white-guilt psychoses.

Justice Clarence Thomas tells a great story about his childhood that explains in visual terms why racial r********ns are counterproductive. He said that when he was a young boy, he often played marbles with friends. During one particular game, two of the boys got in an argument over the rules, which in turn resulted in a brawl that scattered all the marbles in every direction.

Thomas says that after order was finally restored, “We didn’t take the time to try to sort out which marbles belonged to which players. We just wanted to play, so we accepted everyone’s current marble count and continued on with the game.”

The moral is that no matter how much you may agree with Steve Hilton that racial discrimination policies of the past have indirectly hurt many people living today, trying to figure out who is entitled to how much would only succeed in slowing down the considerable progress African-Americans have been making for many decades. If institutionalized black suppression still existed in America, millions of African-Americans would not have been able to lift themselves out of poverty and into good-paying jobs and professions over the past fifty years.

Of course, some degree of r****m will always be with us, because it’s a phenomenon that is endemic to the human condition. But in 21st century America, institutionalized, or structural, r****m does not exist (other than as the likes of 'affirmative action,' notwithstanding the claims of those who desperately want to keep identity politics alive.

As the great Shelby Steele, a black activist himself during his college days, puts it, grievance protests of today focus primarily on what he refers to as “microaggressions.” In other words, the big issues are behind us.

Clearly, the best path forward for everyone, especially African-Americans, is to keep moving ahead by emphasizing behavior, character, and accomplishment, not r********ns for the sins of those who are no longer with us.

Vietnam Vet

the r********ns come under the name of 'affirmative action' etc

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

No

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

I don’t have the stats nor do I care to look. But there are those who say affirmative action did more to help white women

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

It did help some. Witness the late Lt. Cara ('Revlon') Hultgreen, who remained an F-14 pilot until she died in Davy Jones' locker. Or the SoCal air traffic controller who recently ordered a pilot to fly his jetliner into Mt. Wilson. (Wait...that nincompoop controller was a black woman...a double beneficiary of affirmative action.)

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. Just because it gets your foot in the door doesn’t mean you should get special treatment after.
I guess it’s kind of like lowering the physical standards for female firefighters

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

This is about 3min
This is what Dr. Martin Luther King
had to say about it, u can scroll about midway and listen from there if you like.

http://youtu.be/-Doi_U0f8OA

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Why did the group get reputations. The US had nothing to do with harming them.

http://thetempest.co/2016/08/29/social-justice/race/i-am-not-wrong-for-saying-black-people-deserve-r********ns-too/

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Companies in the US that capitalized off of s***ery in the US
http://occupywallstreet.net/story/15-major-corporations-you-never-knew-profited-s***ery

All I can say is why not

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

I forgot what a brilliant speaker MLK was. Thank you.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

You’re welcome thank you. Believe me I was flabbergasted when I saw this.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I was watching a woman on TV the other day and I would have never thought it could happen but she made a reasoned case for r********ns that actually made me sit back and think. I don't see how r********ns could work, nor can I figure a way for the government to do such a thing without facing civil i**********n because there would be so much misunderstanding by those that simply deny the institutional r****m that b****s faced as recent as within our lifetimes.

At any rate, I am supportive and hopeful for opportunity zones and other private/public partnerships designed to bring opportunity where currently there is none.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

I really don’t think about, but seeing stuff like I showed made me think.
But here is a work around sue the corporations that profited. Pay those who could trace their lineage back to minimum turn of the last century

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Over 40 million people, it would have to come in the form of community development and infrastructure. Proper dedication to community resources, schools and such, as far as identifying specific corps... I am unclear as to how that could be done.

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

Well Trump is off to a good start I believe.
I have never given it much thought.

One immediate fix; don’t crowd the starting line