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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: Gustave 05:19 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Chazwaza 01:57 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| I'm aware of the incredible hardships that Black people have gone through in this country. And I believe that "All Black Lives Matter." But the constant use of phrases like "white privilege" makes it seem that White people shoulder all the blame. Here's a statistic I can't get past. Roughly 7500 Black people are murdered in this country every year -- and 95% of the murderers are other Black people. Why don't we ever talk about these figures? Gustave | |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 09:24 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Gustave 05:19 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| What would we say about the black on black murders? Are you saying that blacks by black cops? Somehow I do not think that is the case? And if we are going to talk about black-on-black murder, we have also to talk about whites murdering whites, which has consistently outnumbers black on black murders. Are you going to talk about those figures? I am having fun with you, because you are grasping at straws here. How you get from "white privilege" to black on black murder is a leap over logic that pretty much speaks for itself. |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:33 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Gustave 05:19 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| "the constant use of phrases like "white privilege" makes it seem that White people shoulder all the blame" 1. no it doesn't. 2. if you want to focus on history, yes a lot of "blame" is properly assigned to white people. economic disparity based on race was not a black idea. mass incarceration of black men was not a black idea. etc. etc. these are bitter pills to swallow even for a white person who thinks all black lives matter. |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Last Edit: Ann 05:58 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| Posted by: Ann 05:56 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Gustave 05:19 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| Racism is not "hardships." And who should shoulder the blame for racism? It's really a topic for another forum, but I find your comments mindboggling. Examples of white privilege have been provided elsewhere; I hope you see what the phrase means. Most murders involve people of the same race. Most murder victims are killed by someone they knew or a family member. Most whites who are murdered are murdered by whites. |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:38 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Ann 05:56 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| Also, "black on black crime" is CONSTANTLY talked about and pushed in the media, and has been since I was a kid in the 90s, and i'm assuming before that. I don't know where Gustave gets the idea that no one was talking about it. What we are talking about now is that those stats do not mean what white people want them to mean. | |
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| re: White privilege | |
| Posted by: Gustave 08:07 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
| In reply to: re: White privilege - Chazwaza 06:38 pm EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| I'm not aware that black-on-black crime is constantly talked about in the media. I mean that sincerely. The fact that most murders are intra-racial is not in dispute. My point was that the number of black-on-black murders is strongly disproportionate to the number of Blacks in the population. I thought the issue was worth noting. As Ann pointed out, this topic probably belongs on another site -- although I thought ryhog cleverly brought it back to the theatre domain when he placed the cab on 8th Ave. and 46th St! Gustave | |
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