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The Black Culture Thread
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Big Baybee
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That black economic thread makes me so uncomfortable while reading it.
<+)O Robido O(+>
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Thought it was just me.Big Baybee said:
spindashing
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It made me frustrated, actually...Big Baybee said:
Edit: Beat, damn. Frustration + 1
Big Baybee
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That too.Measley said:
Londa said:
Very true. My wife is white and honestly its like night and day. Case in point, she got busted shoplifting once, and the security guard just giggled like an idiot and told her to put the stuff back.
Meanwhile my brother, who is in the damn U.S. Air Force was just browsing in a Walmart and security asked him to come to the back with them. These morons said that a dude who makes close to six figures was stealing shit from Walmart, and threatened to call the cops on him. My brother didn't steal anything, but he still had to empty his pockets to prove that he was innocent. They apologized and gave him a gift card for all the crap he went through, but he shouldn't have had to gone through it in the first place.
If you're not black, you just don't get it.
Necromanti
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I kind of wish I stayed out of that thread, now. Stupid curiousity. 
In general, I find myself staying out of the OT and threads that deal with "race"/sexuality/religion/etc. in general, because I only end up with a deep-seeded feeling of frustration and tempered anger.
People are so unwilling to see the unfair privileges they have (and god forbid that they'd give that up so everyone can be taken care of and be given an equal chance in life), and rather steep themselves in ignorance instead of educating themselves.
What Measley mentioned about his wife is something I think of and notice often. For example, a crying and panick-stricken black boy who had lost his transfer when trying to take a bus home got told, "Do you think you can just hitch a ride for free?" whereas I didn't get reprimanded at all (unless a smile counts) when I didn't have enough for the bus fare.
Clearly, it is just a matter of "working harder". Everyone is obviously born into an equally deep pit of social inequality from where escape is nary a dream.
In general, I find myself staying out of the OT and threads that deal with "race"/sexuality/religion/etc. in general, because I only end up with a deep-seeded feeling of frustration and tempered anger.People are so unwilling to see the unfair privileges they have (and god forbid that they'd give that up so everyone can be taken care of and be given an equal chance in life), and rather steep themselves in ignorance instead of educating themselves.
What Measley mentioned about his wife is something I think of and notice often. For example, a crying and panick-stricken black boy who had lost his transfer when trying to take a bus home got told, "Do you think you can just hitch a ride for free?" whereas I didn't get reprimanded at all (unless a smile counts) when I didn't have enough for the bus fare.
Clearly, it is just a matter of "working harder". Everyone is obviously born into an equally deep pit of social inequality from where escape is nary a dream.
It seems that every time I post in this thread, it's about something like this. Sorry.
Dr.Palutena
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I'm so glad I avoided that thread now, though my bile fascination is urging me to check that thread out now....must resist.
Necromanti
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Save yourself the anguish.DoomXploder7 said:
For what it's worth, I've only seen this happen when certain people have said that the gay rights movement has as much in common with the black civil rights movement as it does the Holocaust. (Which means to say, not at all.)Londa said:
I personally believe that the inequalities of all groups are intrinsically linked, and that to combat one, we must combat them all, which is why the injustice suffered by one group is of everyone's concern. I also believe that no matter the extent of the inequality, it should not be acceptable. While perhaps not strictly relevant to that point, I liken it to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote of, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
magnificent83
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Londa said:
I know what you mean but IMO, I think that has a lot to do with built-in resentment over the constant and persistent repeating of what went down in the past. Apparently, Blacks in the US need to get over the injustices of the past and stop using it as an excuse and just pull themselves up.
But does crying opression olympic's solve anything? Also I rather not talk about what happens in gay threads in here please.Necromanti said:Save yourself the anguish.
For what it's worth, I've only seen this happen when certain people have said that the gay rights movement has as much in common with the black civil rights movement as it does the Holocaust. (Which means to say, not at all.)
I personally believe that the inequalities of all groups are intrinsically linked, and that to combat one, we must combat them all, which is why the injustice suffered by one group is of everyone's concern. I also believe that no matter the extent of the inequality, it should not be acceptable. While perhaps not strictly relevant to that point, I liken it to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote of, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dreams-Visions
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Which is why I stayed out of it. I don't need the emotional drain.Big Baybee said:
ChocolateCupcakes
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I just saw it and started typing but I'm not going to bother anymore.Big Baybee said:
MWS Natural
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Fuck that! I'm on my lunch break with swords drawn lol.
MWS Natural
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Sorry everything I eat is FRESH.Londa said:
Air said:
Because if we don't represent who is going to represent for you? They will think, "oh well no one challenged my ignorant unknowingly racist views...I guess they are right!!"Parallax said:
spindashing
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Is that your first time hearing that song or...?Meus Renaissance said:
Yeah, it's one of my favorite Lupe Fiasco songs, but his recent album and his recent uninformed political stance is making me not want to be a fan of his anymore.
ChocolateCupcakes
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Good luck with proving someone on the internet that they are wrong. It's a frustrating battle.MWS Natural said:
MWS Natural said:
you say that as if we have the ability to change anyones mindview on the subject. we have had a few black related threads since our gathering, and they have always ended badly, so much so that we have supposedly become a hivemind to these things, even though to us it seems obvious why we think the way we do. and everytime i see the phrase oppression olympics, i lose rational logic to care, since thats the equivalent of plugging ones ears and chanting.
how do we combat people thinking in such a manner?
The cool was a dope album, I like the song. I don't fuck with lasers though, fuck that album. All black everything was dope though.Meus Renaissance said:
spindashing
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That's honestly the only song worth listening to on the album. Delete everything else and keep that one.Imm0rt4l said:
eternaLightness
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spindashing said:
I can't get you outaa my head! My head!
spindashing
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Not a Trey Songz guy, myself. But other people did like it. =(eternaLightness said:
MWS Natural
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I have seen some people educated and change some of their views before. When I first started posting on GAF many didn't even know what White Privilege was. I know it can get frustrating but just giving up and letting ignorance reign isn't the solution.
Master Milk
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That thread, more than feelings of frustration or discomfort, makes me annoyed.
The status quo isn't going anymore, unfortunately.
The status quo isn't going anymore, unfortunately.
for a non black to post a video like that......hell for anyone to post a video like that in a thread about social economic disparity between whites and blacks kinda seems ingenuous. Its like having a ulterior motive, which is to vindicate their own personal bias against blacks. "hey looks this black guy doesn't like black women, why should anybody?". it's really not that simple.Mr. Patch said:
Boombloxer
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MWS Natural said:
It isn't, but there are venues where to do it. I try to stay out of threads like that because the ignorance can get really annoying, and I have shit to do.
LowerLevel
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Man my curiosity got the better of me... (sigh)
Anyways, yes Spike does get too much flak and really for no good reason. Miracle at St Anna was actually a decent movie. But shame on him for actually portraying "colored" soldiers in a semi-positive light. And I'd be very curious if something like She Hate Me could actually happen?
Anyways, yes Spike does get too much flak and really for no good reason. Miracle at St Anna was actually a decent movie. But shame on him for actually portraying "colored" soldiers in a semi-positive light. And I'd be very curious if something like She Hate Me could actually happen?
lightless_shado
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Imm0rt4l said:
That's still being adapted?!
Damnit hollywood stop taking from the east. But since the departed was adapted from an acclaimed Asian movie and it got an oscar win, then if spike does a good job adapting the story then he could become one of the few black directors to win an Academy award.
magnificent83
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Just watched this
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/african-american-comic-book/
Apparently PBS is airing an investigation into the history of an African-American comic book tonight but its already available at the link above. It was pretty good too
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/african-american-comic-book/
Apparently PBS is airing an investigation into the history of an African-American comic book tonight but its already available at the link above. It was pretty good too
Kitschkraft
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Really glad Spike locked down Oldboy.
So many directors, actors, and producers with a lot less talent then him have bombs and come out clean. He's been blackballed for far too long after Miracle. Can't wait to see this.
So many directors, actors, and producers with a lot less talent then him have bombs and come out clean. He's been blackballed for far too long after Miracle. Can't wait to see this.
Lol. Don't know about him being gay, but it seems to me he's what's wrong with black culture. Him, Oprah, Tyra... Ugh.Gamer98 said:
My experience has been that, typically, there is more racism in white middle and upper class societies. It can get really bad in certain areas the further up you go. I remember my grandma using the 'n' word often when referring to black folks. I was really ashamed. You can be old and set in your ways, but there's no excuse for that garbage.
My mother had me out of wedlock when she was 36 and my father ran off as fast as he could, so I wasn't born into privileged roots. Most of my family didn't really like that, and have been insidiously classist ever since.
It made me feel a light shade of brown sometimes - not that I'm making a comparison, I can't - but their discrimination came out of nowhere just the same. Where the fuck did they get off? What made them so special? Nothing. They were just there; white folks, judge/jury/executioners since they (never really) plowed the fields way back when. They didn't want to give any attention to that poor, crazy lady who had a son and went off and did things her own way. No, that wasn't very white of her, can't have that.
Some people just won't get over losing all that evil power. I didn't really care for what I never had.
Dreams-Visions
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this is a fascinating development.Kitschkraft said:
hope he does it justice.