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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 29, 2021, 11:33:14 pm
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Biden: American People Aren’t Racist, But ‘After 400 Years,’ Black People ‘So Far Behind the Eight Ball’ in Education, Health, and Opportunity
Ian Hanchett 29 Apr 2021
During a portion of an interview with NBC aired on Thursday’s broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” President Joe Biden responded to Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) speech on Wednesday and stated that while he doesn’t think the American people are racist, “after 400 years, African Americans have been left in a position where they are so far behind the eight ball in terms of education and health, in terms of opportunity.”
Host Craig Melvin asked, “He said among other things, America isn’t racist. Is it?”
Biden responded, “No, I don’t think the American people are racist. But I think after 400 years, African Americans have been left in a position where they are so far behind the eight ball in terms of education and health, in terms of opportunity.”
He also stated, “I think the overhang from all of the Jim Crow and before that slavery has had a cost and we have to deal with it.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/04/29/biden-american-people-arent-racist-but-after-400-years-black-people-so-far-behind-the-eight-ball-in-education-health-and-opportunity/
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Let's ask Clarence Thomas about that!
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"You ain't black!"
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Foolishness. the only place Blacks are 'so far behind the eight ball' is in sh*thole liberal ghettos.
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One reply they forgot to censor or the reply was meant to enrage both races.
People need to wake up!
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Or it could possible by the byproduct of a defunct two parent family raising kids with some morals and the effect of the government replacing the father figure? /not sarcasm
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It's just heart breaking to see the black Americans suffering.....
the suffering of millionaire black baseball players suffering from racism,
the suffering of millionaire black basketball players suffering from racism
the suffering of millionaire black football players suffering from racism
the suffering of millionaire black lawyers suffering from racism
the suffering of millionaire black businessmen suffering from racism
the suffering of millionaire black musicians suffering from racism
the suffering of millionaire black singers suffering from racism
Anybody got a tin cup to help alleviate some of this massive suffering going on?
Psst, democrats have been working the black suffering/racism issue ever since they stopped lynching blacks. Now they treat whites like they did blacks, and could certainly turn that game around at any time. democrats sure know how to hustle fools, don't they ? Even to endangering the survival of the nation, as can easily be seen NOW.
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Biden is right.
The American people aren't racist.
The Democrats all are.
ALL of them.
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Biden responded, “No, I don’t think the American people are racist. But I think after 400 years, African Americans have been left in a position where they are so far behind the eight ball in terms of education and health, in terms of opportunity.”
Okay.
Which political party has been ruining...er "running" the education system for the (b)lacks these last 60 years?
Democrats.
Who bears the most responsibility for the health care of the (b)lacks in America?
The black people. It's their bodies, so it's their choices. They choose to smoke more than anyone else, now. They choose to drink more. They choose to do more recreational drugs. They choose to shoot each other more. They choose to live on a cheap high-carb thunder-thighs diet. What do white people have to do with any of that?
Nothing. Maybe the (b)lacks are being poorly educated about personal health and lifestyle issues?
Who's responsible for educating them again? Oh, yeah, the Democrats.
And in terms of opportunity, who's in charge of the Office Of Opportunity Handouts?
Oh. There is no one handing out opportunity. People have to make their opportunities happen. My opportunities happened because I enlisted in the Navy and got educated.
Who's in charge of educating dem (b)lack people again? Oh, that's right, the Democrats.
Do the (b)lacks EVER wonder why their schools SUCK? No. When they do ask, they're told by (frequently (b)lack) city councils that it's White Oppression, so go back and pick that cotton. And that's what they do. For generation after generation after generation, the (b)lacks have happily allowed themselves to be exploited by the same political party the held their ancestors in literal iron chains. And they still do.
If they're not less intelligent than other people, why do they go along with this?
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Or it could possible by the byproduct of a defunct two parent family raising kids with some morals and the effect of the government replacing the father figure? /not sarcasm
White people are not that far behind in that department.
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I can somewhat agree that as a group blacks are behind in certain areas here in America.
What I vehemently disagree with are the actions to improve.
#1, There is no systemic racism in America, so stop the crap about that.
There is open opportunity for everyone to enjoy improvements to their lives without bringing others down by taking their money and forcing them to submit, which is the Dems's way to 'help'.
There can NEVER be equal results, just equal opportunity.
I was not born in a millionaire home to enjoy the perks that LeBron or Barak have.
No one ever talks about taking him down.
The chief item I would recommend is to stop the hyphens and tell Americans they are Americans first, and stop separating them into groups.
That is what has been achieved during the past few decades before Barak and the Dems have forced racial issues to divide us once more.
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It's so disappointing that Barack "The Magic Negro" Obama didn't solve that problem during the eight years Joe was his faithful and obedient VP.
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I can somewhat agree that as a group blacks are behind in certain areas here in America.
Same could be said for whites in Appalachia.
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Same could be said for whites in Appalachia.
Absolutely true.
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Boston, New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco ... bastions of Limosouine liberalism, yet there remains substantial inequity. Democratic Party takes black voters for granted and only give lip service and window dressing to issues of inequity. Perfect opportunity for GOP to pillage votes in Dems' own backyards.
Need programs of fiscal and outcome accountability and education equity to challenge the largesse of the Democratic government bureaucrats.
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The Negro Racial Group is at the bottom of the cultural/societal ladder for
a plain and simple reason; the choices they made and refused to abandon.
From creation they embraced tribalism, never wavering, and their backwardness is
mute testament to the disastrous impact of this choice on their development in history.
By choosing tribalism the Negro choose the Group over the Individual and the
results have been beyond self-evident.
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Democrats swore to us before the Presidential election that if we voted for Obama, it would prove that America wasn't racist. Americans not only did that but voted Obama in TWICE. Now to suckers and fools, did they quit calling Americans racist, as they promised? ? ? Trying to educate fools out of being fools is one of the hardest tasks ever done, they love dying for their cause.
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Okay.
Which political party has been ruining...er "running" the education system for the (b)lacks these last 60 years?
Democrats.
Who bears the most responsibility for the health care of the (b)lacks in America?
The black people. It's their bodies, so it's their choices. They choose to smoke more than anyone else, now. They choose to drink more. They choose to do more recreational drugs. They choose to shoot each other more. They choose to live on a cheap high-carb thunder-thighs diet. What do white people have to do with any of that?
Nothing. Maybe the (b)lacks are being poorly educated about personal health and lifestyle issues?
Who's responsible for educating them again? Oh, yeah, the Democrats.
And in terms of opportunity, who's in charge of the Office Of Opportunity Handouts?
Oh. There is no one handing out opportunity. People have to make their opportunities happen. My opportunities happened because I enlisted in the Navy and got educated.
Who's in charge of educating dem (b)lack people again? Oh, that's right, the Democrats.
Do the (b)lacks EVER wonder why their schools SUCK? No. When they do ask, they're told by (frequently (b)lack) city councils that it's White Oppression, so go back and pick that cotton. And that's what they do. For generation after generation after generation, the (b)lacks have happily allowed themselves to be exploited by the same political party the held their ancestors in literal iron chains. And they still do.
If they're not less intelligent than other people, why do they go along with this?
Bottom line: It is far easier to blame someone else for the woes of your culture than to accept responsibility and do something to fix it. Note the most oppressed are Democrats, vote Democrat, and look for the panacea to be handed to them. Until the plantation mentality is broken, those who subscribe to it will never be free.
Nothing anyone else does will make people better students or more successful, so blaming others is not the answer...but that is far easier to see from the outside looking in, than the inside looking out.
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Let's ask Clarence Thomas about that!
Ben Carson
Thomas Sowell
Walter E. Williams ... and multitudes more.
Also, could someone let LIEden know that slavery ended over 150 years ago, Jim Crow ended 60 or 70 years ago, and many states never had Jim Crow laws or segregation (e.g., the small town CA schools my parents entered a century ago were not and had never been segregated).
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Biden’s internal polling must account for his sudden change of tune.
It wasnt that long ago he was saying ‘America has never lived up to its promise’.
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Same could be said for whites in Appalachia.
I remember some decades ago watching some documentary about the problems of people in Appalachia. One of the persons interviewed bewailed the lack of jobs/industry in the region as an explanation for the poverty.
I thought to myself, so why don't you pull up stakes and move to an area where there are jobs?
I understand the desire of many people to not want to leave the place where they grew up and love.
But the history of mankind is moving from areas of low or no opportunity to places where there are jobs and opportunity.
That process has been going on for many thousands of years.
Bottom line: you make your choices in life, and you are responsible for how your life turns out.
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Bottom line: It is far easier to blame someone else for the woes of your culture than to accept responsibility and do something to fix it. Note the most oppressed are Democrats, vote Democrat, and look for the panacea to be handed to them. Until the plantation mentality is broken, those who subscribe to it will never be free.
Nothing anyone else does will make people better students or more successful, so blaming others is not the answer...but that is far easier to see from the outside looking in, than the inside looking out.
Absolutely. Liberals simply cannot accept or choose to ignore the fact that people make their choices in life, and 99% of the people are responsible for where they are in life. That goes for whites, blacks, whomever.
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Absolutely. Liberals simply cannot accept or choose to ignore the fact that people make their choices in life, and 99% of the people are responsible for where they are in life. That goes for whites, blacks, whomever.
You are right that the vast majority of people are responsible for where they are in life, but I think you underestimate the number who have been dealt such a horrible start in life that blaming them for their state is unfair.
Unfortunately, the world visits the sins of the parents on their children: meth babies, crack babies, children born with fetal alcohol syndrome, children abused as children who adopt the treatment they received as the norm of human behavior, children raise even by non-abusive parents who do not manage to model virtues then mis-educated by state schools that by design do not inculcate virtue, children given no sense of love or belonging until they encounter a gang which they promptly join,... Add to them the mentally retarded, severely autistic, and everyone else with biologically based debilitating mental or physical conditions, and I'm afraid they make up a bit more then 1% of the population.
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You are right that the vast majority of people are responsible for where they are in life, but I think you underestimate the number who have been dealt such a horrible start in life that blaming them for their state is unfair.
Unfortunately, the world visits the sins of the parents on their children: meth babies, crack babies, children born with fetal alcohol syndrome, children abused as children who adopt the treatment they received as the norm of human behavior, children raise even by non-abusive parents who do not manage to model virtues then mis-educated by state schools that by design do not inculcate virtue, children given no sense of love or belonging until they encounter a gang which they promptly join,... Add to them the mentally retarded, severely autistic, and everyone else with biologically based debilitating mental or physical conditions, and I'm afraid they make up a bit more then 1% of the population.
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Hmm......the core premise of the Natural Law is that the Family Unit of Father, Mother
and Children has been the foundation for all cultures/societies since Eden. As such,
it is the obligation/responsibility of Man to adhere to this Principle by behaving in a
manner that protects the Family Unit.
Sanctimonious sob stories are zero defense for failure to do so.
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Black "culture" has been devolving since the late 60s/early 70s.
It's true that there is a "talented 10" (percent) or so of blacks who are far enough up the Bell Curve to perceive that it's in their interests to "live within" the white (what was once called "mainstream") culture somewhat, or at least not to fight it. They do well enough to quite well indeed.
But there remains the 75-80% or so (or perhaps even higher now) of blacks who are born in "non-family" environments -- by "non-family" I mean without any traditional family structure for multiple generations now. To them, there is no concept of "a traditional family" and it's probably not coming back. At the same time, education is ridiculed (that's for the white people), and thug behavior is exemplified as stylish and desirable.
And the black thug culture continues to worsen. All one has to do is read the news about the randomness and brutality of black attacks against whites (and Asians) to see where that's going.
I said this before, I'll say it again (you can throw all the rocks you wish):
Many (if not most) blacks were doing better under Jim Crow than they are today.
By that, I mean:
- Relatively stable families with two parents at home
- Relatively low out-of-wedlock births (black rates for this were always higher than white rates)
- Lower usage of drugs (probably MUCH lower)
- Less chance of criminal behavior
- Basic education that was probably better than most inner-city black kids get today
So long as the black thug culture goes the way it's goin', these benchmarks of stability are never coming back for them.
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It's so disappointing that Barack "The Magic Negro" Obama didn't solve that problem during the eight years Joe was his faithful and obedient VP.
Nope, he took race relations back about 50 years, Trump made some headway in bringing races together and the DEMS have pitted race against race I think beyond repair.
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Hmm......the core premise of the Natural Law is that the Family Unit of Father, Mother
and Children has been the foundation for all cultures/societies since Eden. As such,
it is the obligation/responsibility of Man to adhere to this Principle by behaving in a
manner that protects the Family Unit.
Sanctimonious sob stories are zero defense for failure to do so.
I will second that... And the condition of a society - How far it has fallen from that prescription, describes Man's proscription. Those who are so quick to tell folks to turn the channel if they dont like it are the same ones tearing society to pieces... They just don't know it.
What ANY society is *FOR* is simply put, a safe place for women suitable for rearing children.
That is not what we have anymore. This society preys on women and children. Its intention is to weaken the marital bed, and to encourage 'free' sex in the youth - at an ever decreasing age.
This is descent into sin, and nothing else.
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You are right that the vast majority of people are responsible for where they are in life, but I think you underestimate the number who have been dealt such a horrible start in life that blaming them for their state is unfair.
Unfortunately, the world visits the sins of the parents on their children: meth babies, crack babies, children born with fetal alcohol syndrome, children abused as children who adopt the treatment they received as the norm of human behavior, children raise even by non-abusive parents who do not manage to model virtues then mis-educated by state schools that by design do not inculcate virtue, children given no sense of love or belonging until they encounter a gang which they promptly join,... Add to them the mentally retarded, severely autistic, and everyone else with biologically based debilitating mental or physical conditions, and I'm afraid they make up a bit more then 1% of the population.
Sure, there's a certain percentage of people who are victims of the horrible choices of their parents.
How many/what percentage of underachievers do you think that is?
I'd say the great, overwhelming majority of people are victims of themselves, if you want to put it that way.
At some point in life, if you live long enough, you should recognize what is the right thing to do and what is the wrong thing to do.
Nevertheless, when I read stories about thugs who get themselves shot and killed by the police, I don't take the time to inquire about their upbringings.
I've read two stories recently about two white thugs getting themselves shot and killed by the cops in the Twin Cities area. Maybe they had bad upbringings. Maybe their parents were on dope and screwed up their sprogs.
I don't care, they committed serious crimes, and they paid the ultimate price.
It should be pretty obvious to black males that resisting arrest and putting up a violent struggle very often leads to bad outcomes for them.
But they continue to those things that get them killed while obeying the police would have allowed them to live.
Too many black males are out of control and have to be stepped on hard....for their own good and for the good of society.
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I could be wrong(nothing new) but I am pretty darn sure that Blacks overall were doing quite well, educating themselves, working at good paying jobs and probably most importantly a well defined nuclear family system, until that is the democrats under LBJ destroyed it all with their Great Society.
Now once again a 'benevolent' democrat, one that formerly worked very hard to help them by passing laws to put more of them in prison and for longer sentences is there to help them again by making decisions for them, the children that they are, like banning menthol cigarettes and telling them how backward and disenfranchised they are. All of course because they need the benevolence of their modern slave master to make decisions for them just like their old slave masters.
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Black "culture" has been devolving since the late 60s/early 70s.
It's true that there is a "talented 10" (percent) or so of blacks who are far enough up the Bell Curve to perceive that it's in their interests to "live within" the white (what was once called "mainstream") culture somewhat, or at least not to fight it. They do well enough to quite well indeed.
But there remains the 75-80% or so (or perhaps even higher now) of blacks who are born in "non-family" environments -- by "non-family" I mean without any traditional family structure for multiple generations now. To them, there is no concept of "a traditional family" and it's probably not coming back. At the same time, education is ridiculed (that's for the white people), and thug behavior is exemplified as stylish and desirable.
And the black thug culture continues to worsen. All one has to do is read the news about the randomness and brutality of black attacks against whites (and Asians) to see where that's going.
I said this before, I'll say it again (you can throw all the rocks you wish):
Many (if not most) blacks were doing better under Jim Crow than they are today.
By that, I mean:
- Relatively stable families with two parents at home
- Relatively low out-of-wedlock births (black rates for this were always higher than white rates)
- Lower usage of drugs (probably MUCH lower)
- Less chance of criminal behavior
- Basic education that was probably better than most inner-city black kids get today
So long as the black thug culture goes the way it's goin', these benchmarks of stability are never coming back for them.
I recall the time you speak of, and concur.
Aside from being 'respectable' in demeanor, deportment and appearance (which included marriage and not having babies out of wedlock--just like white folks), the push was to become educated, be it as a professional or tradesman, and to excel in your chosen field. Having a solid reputation in both black and white communities was considered desirable. Avoidance of criminality was part and parcel of that.
That the individual might have to do significantly better than his or her counterparts in order to receive credit where credit was due was not fair, but understood, by those who were up to the challenge. For many, it was an uphill climb, (and it was for many poor whites from the 'wrong side of the tracks', too, and remains so). But those were the pathfinders who paved the way for better successes in the workplace just as equal opportunity programs removed the need for excellence, and replaced it with a quota system that essentially wiped out the accomplishments of those who had not yet been recognized as having achieved their positions on merit. Between that, and welfare for all who would just kick that "worthless ol' man' out so they could get their food stamps and subsidized housing and Medicaid and more, the destruction of the family and society might be characterized as an unintended consequence, or perhaps something more sinister. The erosion of the middle class, polarizing society into the very wealthy and those barely scraping by or dependent on the great teat is all part and parcel of Marxist aims, and without that destruction of the middle class, there is no intermediate step for the poor to aspire to. It is no accident that the Democrat Party has devolved into the socialist stock from which the current adaptive radiation of aspiring totalitarians has sprung.
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It's true that 10 percent of blacks are far enough up the Bell Curve to perceive it's in their
interest to live within white culture or at least not to fight it.
But there remains the 75-80% or so of blacks who are born in "non-family" environments, by "non-family", meaning without any traditional family structure for multiple generations.
To them, there is no concept of a traditional family and it's probably not coming back.
At the same time, education is ridiculed as for white people and thug behavior is
exemplified as stylish and desirable.
And the black thug culture continues to worsen. All one has to do is read the news about the randomness and brutality of black attacks against whites and Asians to see where that's going.
I said this before, I'll say it again:
Many, if not most blacks were doing better under Jim Crow than they are today, meaning:
- Relatively stable families with two parents at home
- Relatively low out-of-wedlock births (black rates were always higher than whites)
- Lower usage of drugs.
- Less chance of criminal behavior.
- Basic education that was probably better than most inner-city black kids get today.
So long as the black thug culture goes the way it's goin', these benchmarks of stability are never coming back for them.
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Very well done Fisherman.
Blacks have been going in another direction for tens of thousands of years and are incapable of change for a core reason.
White culture/society, birthed in the Mediterranean/Middle East, was anchored by Individualism, the catalyst driving its creativity and innovation.
In stark contrast, Black culture/society, birthed in Africa was anchored by Tribalism,
group think viscerally hostile to competitive ideas.
The consequences of these radically divergent attitudes and behaviors are self-evident
in the record of history since the Garden of Eden.
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Its well known the democrats replaced the Father figure in the family, replaced by government that finances the family, all that's then needed is for men to be sperm donors and a great many women are perfectly happy with that, changing bed mates became so much easier.
LBJ's great society wherein he stated; We'll own those n____rs for two hundred years.
What a damn shame you can't quote an American President in the exact words that spoke publicly. Freedom of speech is p.c. restricted now, its only partially free speech now due to political correctness. Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Very well done Fisherman.
Blacks have been going in another direction for tens of thousands of years and are incapable of change for a core reason.
White culture/society, birthed in the Mediterranean/Middle East, was anchored by Individualism, the catalyst driving its creativity and innovation.
In stark contrast, Black culture/society, birthed in Africa was anchored by Tribalism,
group think viscerally hostile to competitive ideas.
The consequences of these radically divergent attitudes and behaviors are self-evident
in the record of history since the Garden of Eden.
Not exactly. Individualism is a valued aspect in the tribes of Europe, who have advanced significantly technologically, all trying to best one another.
The idea that there is no intertribal conflict among caucasians is proven erroneous, from the Goths and Visigoths to the Vandals sacking Rome, to the intertribal conflicts that included everything from Viking Raids, to Hastings, to WWII and the present day. It is just that groupthink has not been an effective adaptation among the European (and other caucasian) tribes compared to utilizing the relative genius of a few to give the tribe an edge, and fostering individuality to an advantage in conflict, whether martial or economic.
Humans are Tribal creatures, it is just that America has (had?) become a tribe all its own until the purveyors of division more recently fomented the most recent split. Even then, we have had our internal divisions, just less on lines based on blood lineage than politics.
When the great tribe fragments, we'll be back to a more historically normal normal, just with more diverse (genetically speaking) groups based on philosophy and geography.