Hey white people...its on us!

[Freeper]

Star Member sheshe2 (6,189 posts)

Hey white people...its on us!

     
Hey white people...its on us!


Last night I went on twitter when the Zimmerman verdict was announced...at least until I read the words of a father wondering WTH he was going to say to his black son. Then I started balling and the evening was basically over for me.

Surely every parent of a black child in this country has to grapple with teaching them some form of the Black Male Code. I remember the profound sense of what white privilege means hit me when one of my co-workers talked about how she had to make her son cut off his dreads when he was 13 so as not to make him a target. What mother of a white child has to think about those kinds of things? And what mother of a white child has to fear for their lives when they're walking home from the store?


Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

As I explained it, the Code goes like this:

Always pay close attention to your surroundings, son, especially if you are in an affluent neighborhood where black folks are few. Understand that even though you are not a criminal, some people might assume you are, especially if you are wearing certain clothes.

Never argue with police, but protect your dignity and take pride in humility. When confronted by someone with a badge or a gun, do not flee, fight, or put your hands anywhere other than up.

Please don't assume, son, that all white people view you as a threat. America is better than that. Suspicion and bitterness can imprison you. But as a black male, you must go above and beyond to show strangers what type of person you really are.

http://www.jessewashington.com/trayvon-and-the-black-male-code.html

We Can't Fix Ya!
SAT AUG 22, 2009 AT 12:01 PM PDT

I have come to one conclusion.

Race is a problem for white people to solve. If black people or brown people could have made racism go away it would have long since disappeared back into the nothing-ness from which it came.

Nah, it’s on white folks to make the necessary moves to kill and bury, once and for all, the notion of race. I think in a generation or two this just might happen.

For one thing no small part of the fear rising in the hearts of some our finest race-baiting carbon units is the realization that within a generation they will be the minority. This idea causes folk like Pat Buchanan to go to sleep at night clutching at his gonads. He’s been ringing the white folks we’re about to be outnumbered bell for a really long time. With the election of America’s first black president, many of the dull-normals suddenly got it.

In the America they grew up in, such a thing was not possible. A black president was not a notion the mouth-breathers ever considered. It couldn’t happen. For one thing the expectation was white people would never go for it. I still remember the old southern white man who said during the election season last year "I’m voting for the ******." Even so, he was in the minority.

The majority of white people in this country voted for dumb and dumber. They were willing to be led by two people who couldn’t find their butts with a flashlight and a map.



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/08/22/770764/-We-Can-t-Fix-Ya

Perhaps a good place to start is to listen to black people talk about what it means to be a parent these days. And keep your g-d mouth shut when it comes to advice - even when what they have to say makes you uncomfortable. Right now they feel like their children's lives are at stake - with good reason. Can we find a touch of empathy to spur some curiosity about what that might feel like as a parent?

That's what its going to take, folks. As overwhelming as it might seem, every time a white person opens themselves up to that reality we get one step closer to ending days like this. If we're ever going to get there - its on us.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/07/hey-white-peopleits-on-us.html
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023258336

What a load of crap.

Race is a problem for white people to solve. If black people or brown people could have made racism go away it would have long since disappeared back into the nothing-ness from which it came.

The problem with that statement is there are several black people like Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson who make a living off of keeping people stirred up over race. It isn't us creepy ass crackers who turn everything into a an issue of race it is those on the left who see color first and then whatever took place second. The democrats have worked hard to keep minorities as perpetual victims then have turned around and tried to blame us for all the problems.

what mother of a white child has to fear for their lives when they're walking home from the store?

Plenty of white mothers have to fear for the lives of their children when they are walking home from the store. It just doesn't get the coverage that Saint Skittles got when a white kid gets beaten to death by black kids. This notion that we have to separate this by color is insane. Any person of any race has the same things to fear in our society. Any kid of any race can be killed for being in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time.

If one dares bring up the high numbers of black on black violence then we are called racists. I guess the politically correct thing to do is turn a blind eye to the devastation and tell people we just can't understand their ways and who are we to judge anyway?

Star Member malaise (108,050 posts)
7. Here's the thing sheshe2

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the white man who still hates and fears the black man is terrified of one thing - pay back.
He knows what he did and would like to continue doing to non-white people and fears that the day he is outnumbered payback is coming.

If you think all those anti-women laws are about more than producing more white people, then you have no idea how afraid they really are.

America must remain white (as if it ever were) and they must remain on top by any means necessary.

I don't hate nor fear the black man, and this cracker has never done anything to oppress anyone. The fact that there are plenty of people who want to hold me responsible for sins of the past is insane.

Half-Century Man (842 posts)
9. I think you're close

The white man who did the majority of the racist damage is long gone. His white sons fear that they will be punished for the sins of their fathers, and so act in a way which is REMEMBERED as effective.
It wasn't, it bred unbelievable strength in it's intended victims. It still does, look to the women of Texas.

Strength which can withstand open aggression and respond with political action and peaceful social change. Strength as relentless as the tide. Mountains have fallen to the power.

We...the sons of Europeans who fled their masters only to try our hand at being masters, need to remember why we fled our masters. There are no good masters, not now, not then , not ever.

Yet you idiots are actively trying your best to give us masters. You want the government to control everything in our lives. You know the things your ancestors fled to come here.

coldmountain (112 posts)
18. White southerners need to lead the way instead of whining about others being bigots toward them

What if I said that black people need to lead the way instead of whining about bigotry against them? I would be called a racist and other names. So why is it acceptable for white people to be victims of bigotry? Bigotry is either wrong for everyone or for no one. You can't have it both ways.

Yes it it is sad that black folks suffered oppression, but you know what every damn one of us comes from ancestors who were oppressed at one time or another. It's time people grow the hell up and start taking responsibility for their own lives and enjoy the freedoms that this society has given us. Just because your grandfather was oppressed is not reason for you to sit around crying how tough your life is. Your life is tough because you have made the choice to not participate in society and use the opportunities that have been given to you. A lot of people gave their lives so you can have a better future, and you sitting on your ass crying about how unfair life is, is not how you should repay those who died. Doing something with your life and being successful is what everyone should strive for.

 

[dixierose]

There's a far greater chance that a black child will get killed by someone of his/her own race than by a "white" person. It's not like black children are in any more danger now than they were Friday. The demagoguery of the Left is atrocious.

[longview]

Good responses, Freeper. 

[Big Dog]

Hidden message in the OP:

sheshe2

Then I started balling and the evening was basically over for me.

She was bragging about her sex life!

[Splashdown]

Surely every parent of a black child in this country has to grapple with teaching them some form of the Black Male Code. I remember the profound sense of what white privilege means hit me when one of my co-workers talked about how she had to make her son cut off his dreads when he was 13 so as not to make him a target. What mother of a white child has to think about those kinds of things? And what mother of a white child has to fear for their lives when they're walking home from the store

Jeez. So much to unpack.

1. Rule number one for every male teen--black or white--is that you should never double back and jump a guy. He might be armed. If Trayvon would have kept walking home and told his father someone was following him, nothing would have happened. Or even called the police on his cell.

2. Teens--black or white--should be smacked around if they do that "thug culture" crap on facebook or anywhere else. If Travon's parents saw his facebook page, perhaps they could have discussed this culture of violence.

3. White privilege my ass.

4. Oh no!!! Cutting off dreadlocks to avoid being a target!!!!!

5. A pretty solid majority of this country voted for a black president. Twice. Some of them voted for him mainly because he is black. The race card has to expire.

6. Why does the DUmp hate Hispanics?

[USA4ME]

Libs will throw their little tantrums for awhile. And then the next shiny object will come along and away they'll go to pursue that leaving black people wondering where they went.

They'll want to have a "real discussion on race" again, and like before it'll be a talk among themselves. And then they'll want some type of action, and most people will be saying "meh" because they just want to get on with normal things, and it'll slowly die.

But for now, it's the latest outrage, so they'll be harping on it for a week or two.

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[jukin]

Is this the new White Man's Burden?

For any lurking DUchebags, it is far more dangerous for a black kid to be in a black neighborhood than in a white neighborhood by over 9 to 1. Is that somehow whitey's fault too?

[jtyangel]

Is this the new White Man's Burden?

For any lurking DUchebags, it is far more dangerous for a black kid to be in a black neighborhood than in a white neighborhood by over 9 to 1. Is that somehow whitey's fault too?

I saw a young black teenage male running on the country roads here the other day. He got stopped by one adult female(who I'm guessing to be a relative or friend), they seemed to exchange some pleasantries evidenced by laughter between the two, and then he was on his way again. Somehow he was not questioned, accosted, or harassed in any way in this predominantly white neighborhood...I think most thought like I did that the young man was training for cross country or some other sport in the fall or was just maintaining his fitness as many in this community do in the same manner.  Shrug, guess I'm not doing a good job as the white oppressor, nor are my neighbors.

[movie buff]

"I remember the profound sense of what white privilege means hit me when one of my co-workers talked about how she had to make her son cut off his dreads when he was 13 so as not to make him a target. What mother of a white child has to think about those kinds of things? "
What white children want to wear dreads?

"And what mother of a white child has to fear for their lives when they're walking home from the store?"
Plenty do, especially those who live in inner cities and those who have teenage daughters.

"If you think all those anti-women laws are about more than producing more white people, then you have no idea how afraid they really are. "
Problem with that argument is, racists/ white supremacists would be OPPOSED to anti- abortion laws, since the vast majority of abortions are performed for minority women, especially black women, largely as the result of the actions of Planned Parenthood founder and racist/ eugenicist extraordinaire Margaret Sanger.

[catsmtrods]

Is this the new White Man's Burden?

For any lurking DUchebags, it is far more dangerous for a black kid to be in a black neighborhood than in a white neighborhood by over 9 to 1. Is that somehow whitey's fault too?

Its even worse for a white kid to be in a black neighborhood! Almost a sure thing to get some sort of hassle.

[thundley4]

Over 90% of black victims of gun violence were victimized by someone of their own race.

[Chris_]

2011 homicide data (FBI)

[JohnnyReb]

2011 homicide data (FBI)

Roughly speaking.....2,700 blacks killed by 2,400 blacks =  24/27 = 8/9 or 8 out of 9 blacks murdered were murdered by fellow blacks.

The ghetto needs more guns.

[ColonelCarrots]

Racist honkeys.

[jukin]

On a percentage level blacks kill twice as many whites as whites kill blacks.
On an actual numbers level blacks kill 2.3 times as many whites as whites kill blacks.

Who are the racists?

[USA4ME]

2011 homicide data (FBI)

According to that, white people are twice as likely to be killed by a black person (14%) than a black person is to be killed by a white (7%). If blacks live in fear of dying at the hands of crackers, then we crackers statistically need to be 2 times more afraid.

I'm headed out to go to Sam's Club. If I run into a black guy, he's twice as likely to kill me as I am to kill him. I'll probably push my buggy a little quicker today.

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[JohnnyReb]

On a percentage level blacks kill twice as many whites as whites kill blacks.
On an actual numbers level blacks kill 2.3 times as many whites as whites kill blacks.

Who are the racists?

We are because you did the math and I read it. You can do numbers and I can read it so we enjoy white privilege.

[Ballygrl]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/04/09/race-wars-part-1-the-shocking-data-on-black-on-black-crime/

‘Race Wars’ Part 1: The Shocking Data on Black-on-Black Crime

Equally as startling, the same study reveals African Americans were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal violent crimes in just one year alone.

What’s more, blacks comprise roughly 12.5 percent of the U.S. population.

While fatalities persist in every major metropolitan area across the nation, there are of course certain cities most impacted by violent crime. Take Cincinnati, for example, where, after the fatal shooting of a young black man by a white police officer in 2001, a wave of riots ensued. Since that time, Cincinnati has set the record for the number of murders carried out each year, with a persistent violent crime rate at a staggering 88 percent.

A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/bvvc.pdf

Recently, The Blaze featured a report on Rep. Corrine Brown, who, after professing in an interview to care about “all the children” who fall victim to murder, could not remember the name of a little girl from her district who was murdered and then dumped into a Georgia landfill. While Brown fumbled to find the words, she ultimately could not recall Somer Thompson’s name. She did, however, have much to say about racial profiling and how Trayvon Martin was selectively targeted for his race. For some reason, Brown and others who have followed suit in this case have failed to address or acknowledge the epidemic of murders occurring within their very own communities.

But Brown is not alone. Not by any stretch. Which begs the questions: where is the outrage from prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, or Rev. Al Sharpton, over the fact that members of their own communities are summarily executing each other? Critics believe that acknowledging the unfortunate, irrefutable statistical truth negates the left’s narrative about a black community selectively exploited and targeted by white racists. Some might also argue that fanning the flames of racial discontent, especially in an election year, serves a useful and powerful campaign purpose.

[Billiam Pitts]

Looks like sheshe adheres to the "White Man's Burden" perspective of social history. That's pretty racist.

[Dori]

Last night I went on twitter when the Zimmerman verdict was announced...at least until I read the words of a father wondering WTH he was going to say to his black son. Then I started balling and the evening was basically over for me.

This dude needs to learn the difference between bawling and balling....

[Celtic Rose]

Jeez. So much to unpack.

1. Rule number one for every male teen--black or white--is that you should never double back and jump a guy. He might be armed. If Trayvon would have kept walking home and told his father someone was following him, nothing would have happened. Or even called the police on his cell.

2. Teens--black or white--should be smacked around if they do that "thug culture" crap on facebook or anywhere else. If Travon's parents saw his facebook page, perhaps they could have discussed this culture of violence.

3. White privilege my ass.

4. Oh no!!! Cutting off dreadlocks to avoid being a target!!!!!

5. A pretty solid majority of this country voted for a black president. Twice. Some of them voted for him mainly because he is black. The race card has to expire.

6. Why does the DUmp hate Hispanics?

Calling the police seems like the natural response to discovering that somebody is following you.  Just think, if Trayvon had decided to call the police and say "there is a creepy guy following me around this neighborhood" we never would have heard this story.  

[hillneck]

If street thugs would follow the example of LTC West, Herman Cain, Condalisa Rice, etc, they would leave a much more productive life.  Instead they want follow the latest gangsa rapper, sell drugs, steal, and basically any other criminal activity.

[DumbAss Tanker]

On us?  F that noise.  The entitlement culture of the Black America, including the current tantrum about not being handed a sacrificial victim they'd been promised by the High Poobah, is something YOU Pigressive assholes created.  It would be only just if the monster you created turns on you.

[Ballygrl]

[Gina]

This is how I see the DUmp when they talk about this topic.