I wonder how far down this road America will travel before it is acceptable to appreciate men again, in the family, in marriages, and in the workplace.
There really is no need to speculate or ask any of the users here what a reparation plan would be for perceived racism. We have 7 years of BLM activism to show us exactly what reparations would look like. Money funneled directly into the banks of professional race grifters and zero money funneled to people who are in and out of prison.
you can NOT monolithically create a universal term like "Black Culture" and have it apply to all dark skinned Americans.
Because you cannot define the term "Black Culture" for those reasons, you also cannot define "white privilege"
If you really want to understand the distinct variations between the many cultures of every skin color of America, I strongly suggest investing time with an audiobook from Dr Sowell called Black Rednecks and White liberals.
After you learn the book, you will never again use the term "Black Culture" or "White culture"
the government rewarding Black women financially for he destruction of the nuclear family (which BLM bizarrely describes as a good thing in their manifesto)
There needs to be both a cultural shift in America followed by policy changes and laws that discourage women initiated divorces instead of blindly maintaining the status quo encouraging the destruction of the nuclear family. Similar policies need to also discourage having children out of wedlock.
I wonder how far down this road America will travel before it is acceptable to appreciate men again, in the family, in marriages, and in the workplace.
I would like to address the same problem Coal brought up which is the government rewarding Black women financially for he destruction of the nuclear family
One cannot seek assistance from the instrument of one's demise.
what the fuck is a "culture problem" and how do you propose to "fix" it ?
At the very least, we need to undo the policies.
Or not indulge them.
Not really a choice if you do not own the monopoly on violence.
what the fuck is a "culture problem" and how do you propose to "fix" it ?It's going to have to start with the individuals concerned. In the words of the illustrious Denzel Washington, and I'm paraphrasing here, "if you believe the system is rigged against you, then why help it?"
always blame individuals for systemic failures
always blame individuals for systemic failuresNot blaming the individuals--at least, not entirely. Only that individuals should own up and take responsibility for feeding those system failures--and I use that term loosely given that "failure" is contingent on the system's goal.
--> @ShilaNope. It's the black children that would benefit more than white kids
--> @ShilaI am beginning to think you're a troll account. The nonsense you're talking is on par with what wylted used to do when he was trying to stir the pot.
I would say statically speaking, there is examples of white privilege in society, but there are also other privileges society for other races as such.
Obviously, the idea of so-called "reparations" is unconscionable at every conceivable level. Particularly where, as is the case with BLM, that entire group seems to be no more than a front to launder money from the purported "cause" to the purported "leaders."Financially, BLM is basically the same thing as the PLO.Politically, they're basically the same thing as Hamas.But BLM's similarities to terrorist organizations is low-hanging fruit; that group is so easy to find fault with any idiot could do it, and only an idiot could possibly support their activities (much less donate money to their objectives).Here's the broader point to consider: WHY are so-called "reparations" even proposed? Take Ta Nasi Coates' argument at face value, as an illustration of that argument's stupidity. I'll pick on him since he's a target my own size, as opposed to whoever these woke people are posting in this thread.The idea is that by giving money to individuals who purportedly belong to one or more group(s) that were 'oppressed' we are rebalancing the scale of historical inequity. Essentially, so-called 'white' wealth has accumulated over time and that accumulation is due in substantial part to slavery. White people got rich. Black people got less than 40 acres and a mule. A century of segregation followed, which further prevented 'black' wealth accumulation.Assuming for the sake of argument that wealth can be accumulated by groups (as opposed to individuals, who, it turns out, are the actually relevant societal units unlike groups), the way you'd prove that argument is by talking about things like average net worth of 'black' families, relative to something as a point of comparison.If you accumulated that data, which some people --- i.e., Thomas Sowell --- have, I'm sure many would be shocked to learn that black folks in fact meteorically improved their standard of living, generation after generation until a certain series of events in the 1960s when LBJ was elected. What changed, you might wonder? Well, the state decided that it was going to involve itself in black folks' lives to an increasing degree, which was one of those stupid ideas that progressives implemented 'with the best of intentions' without any notion of what 'could possibly go wrong'.Tremendous horror unfolded. People wonder why the lack of black fathers is so pervasive that it's a meme. LBJ's presidency and social initiatives are why. The government destroyed families, started constructing housing projects like Pruitt–Igoe and kicked off a range of initiatives that vitiated the human networks through which black folks' lives and standards of living had improved since the end of the civil war. And that's all very clear in the data Sowell has published on time and time and time again.It's tragic, really. Expanding welfare more than anything else probably did the most harm, because that meant that the financial costs of children born out of wedlock no longer had to be a father's responsibility. So, with reproduction unmoored from marriage; black fatherhood, or the lack of it, became a meme. Roe v. Wade thereafter made those problems worse. Entire generations of black babies were aborted after that egregiously wrong decision was handed down. When you actually look at the demographics of who was aborting babies, the data are sufficient to make your blood run cold. If there ever was any so-called 'white' privilege, it was the fact that you had a much better chance of not being aborted if you were white than if you were black, post-Roe. Sowell compellingly argues that without Roe, more black babies would have been born and they would have accumulated considerable more social and economic capital, absent the "Great Society" bullshit of LBJ's presidency.In reality, however, intergenerational poverty is hardly limited to black folks' though. White trash families throughout the South and the rest of this country remain at the bottom of the economic scale. Ever been to West Virginia? Eastern Kentucky? California's numerous trailer parks? They're as bad or worse as Chicago's South Side from a poverty perspective. The reasons why are the same: there is no surer way to remain poor for the rest of your life than to have kids out of wedlock.
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-->@ShilaAre you suggesting it will take another civil war to help disadvantaged black kids? I sure hope not.
-> @ShilaReparations have already been give. But as usual, black Americans make demands for more free shit.
--> @ShilaYou can't spell reparation without AI.
