Pulpsmack
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ORIGINAL: Blaakmaan
Really?
You live in Louisiana?
You saw what happened during Hurricane Katrina? Lots and lots and lots of white people in the water, weren't there? And, you really must commend the federal government on moving Heaven and Earth to get relief to the few black people that were in need.
What happened during hurricane Katrina (barring exceptional circumstances, like infirmed and elderly in homes) was a bunch of complacent people who grew weary of evacuating over false alarms, making the decision to put their lives at risk by wagering this was another such occurance. They put themselves in harm's way, then cried in outrage that the government wasn't there to get them out of the fix they were in. Barring those who had no possible way out (which is a slim minority) I have zero sympathy for the outraged idiots who made a bad decision then blamed the government for not bailing them out of their predicament.
As for what I saw with my own eyes regarding the hurricane, you won't want to hear it... It doesn't bode well for your argument at all.
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You at least HEARD OF what happened in Jena, LA?
Those white students sure were persecuted, weren't they? How do they bear it?
And that's just Louisiana in the past couple of years...
There is a complete thread on the topic where I suggest you address that issue.
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Whiteness is a liability? In the United States of America? In 2007???
That would be funny, if you didn't appear to be so serious...
And, believe it or not, you are part of a waning generation, unless your time machine is running backwards. Just ask my granddaughter.
At least my generation knows fact from fiction!
I
am glad you recognize the subject as lacking in humor, and I am deadly serious.
All this from a man approaching retirement age. Your "facts" of yesterday are rapidly becoming "fiction" today, and it is clear you are out of touch with reality with respect to certain pertinent issues. Do you know anything about higher learning or the entry side of the professional job market today? I have witnessed first hand the amount of discrimination that happens at the universities, admitting under qualified minorities (because the qualified ones have been recruited to top schools) at the expense of cutting qualified majorities. I am even aware of a clandestine "leap program" available only for under qualified minorities that gives unfair advantages to help these underperformers hack the competitive environment they are in amidst their qualified colleagues. The job market is the same in the professional market as well. If you have a shred of competency and a minority status, you are marketable, whereas the majority status job seekers must have something more to remain marketable in the competitive market. Title VII provides minorities with astounding leverage in the workplace and the university, but the courts have read that an unprecedented burden of proof will be necessary to prove such discrimination with the majority race.
Moreover, minority groups have license to unify and represent their own diverse interests without scrutiny. Black student associations, black entertainment network, black media, etc etc. Try that as a majority and you are a exclusionary racist. Sorry, the "One size fits all institution" where we are a majority no longer fits the bill, because it no longer represents "our diversity interests". Imagine a White Al Sharpton, oh that's right... his name was David Duke. Same ignorant race-baiting BS, only one is called out for what he is whereas the other maintains some shred of legitimacy. Relevance? The overarching theme is that one group has inherited some "sins of the fathers" class guilt and is expected to comport with strict adherence to the laws of PC and tolerance, whereas the other is free to flit about the issue using race when and if necessary.
I hope you are right that I am part of a waning generation, because my life is in many respects the polar opposite of your life experience. I grew up asking my father why there was a bat in the front seat of his car and was led to understand that there were a lot of "angry people" downtown who were upset about things and they wanted to take it out on us. I grew up knowing a ritual known as "cracker day" in public schools, a day in which you can figure for on your own and what happened to whom by whom. I grew up applying to schools knowing that performance was not the only factor, and that the color of skin brings advantage (only the opposite of what you know). I grew up with some "war guilt clause" in the wake of the PC movement that I was somehow collectively responsible for the state of affairs today. I have even had the escalation of such tension climax in gunfire. So my martyr friend, your downtrodden plight cuts no ice with me. I've been through the shit myself, and I would be happy to "measure dicks" on the subject of personally experienced racial injustice elsewhere if you really want to open that can of worms. Your forefather's story is your HISTORY, not YOUR story, and that collective outrage that has been cashed in over and over has run thin these days.
< Message edited by Pulpsmack -- 9/21/2007 9:39:19 AM >
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