OT Why Never Trumpers Should Bet on DeSantis Now (3 Viewers)

[ABM]

So no. When you figure out what it is, maybe there's a discussion to be had. Maybe educate yourself before engaging

Again, look in your own sphere. If you find issues, then strive to resolve those. With family, friends, or whomever. Trust me, you'll be dealing with the minority. It's a microcosm.

 

[barfo]

Systemic racism in America is in the minority. Prove me wrong.

What you said there doesn't even make sense, so it's impossible to prove you wrong.

Rutabagas are with Marxism video games. Prove me wrong.

barfo

 

[ABM]

How do you be racist to the majority?

Racists are in the minority.

 

[RR7]

Again, look in your own sphere. If you find issues, then strive to resolve those. With family, friends, or whomever. Trust me, you'll be dealing with the minority. It's a microcosm.

Again, figure out what systemic racism is and come back.

 

[ABM]

Again, figure out what systemic racism is and come back.

It's a left wing buzzword.

 

[ABM]

Again, figure out what systemic racism is and come back.

Again, what are you personally doing about systemic racism? Do you have a plan of action? Enlighten me.

 

[ABM]

1. Listen
2. Learn
3. Understand
4. Try to do better.

We, aka white people, have for too long done what WE think is best for minorities. Why not listen to what they would like us to do.

This is within your own sphere. Bravo!

 

[RR7]

Again, what are you personally doing about systemic racism? Do you have a plan of action? Enlighten me.

Figure out what it is and come on back.

 

[ABM]

https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/2021/11/07/carol-swain-inspires-life-story/8573403002/

Carol Swain inspires with life story

The Madison County Republican Women’s group kicked off the first of their new speaker series event in October by welcoming Carol Swain, a former professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and television analyst.

“I was born and raised in Southwestern Virginia, and I was one of 12 children,” Swain said. “We were born and raised in rural poverty—and my father didn’t finish grade school, and my mother had a 10th grade education.”

Swain says the poverty of her childhood shaped her early adult years.

“The poverty that I grew up in was such that all of my siblings and I dropped out of school after completing the eighth grade,” she said. “I married at 16, and by the time I was 21 I had three small children.”

Although the success rates for young mothers with low education were not in her favor, Swain managed to turn her story around.

“Part of my story is that people encouraged me,” she said. “I went through a period of my life when I did suicide gestures—I would take bottles of pills and would call someone and get rescued. But the medical doctor told me I was intelligent, I was attractive, and I could do more with my life.

“I’d never heard that before.”

That compliment--and a divorce from her husband-- got Swain thinking. And then came another nudge.

“(While working a job), an African orderly told me I ought to go to college because there were a lot of people in college not as smart as I was,” Swain smiled at the memory. “And I had not known that you could go to college with a high school equivalency, so I started at the community college as a work-study student.”

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Swain was not convinced though. Moving on from education, Swain tried to spread her wings, but found that the job offers just weren’t quite coming through.

“I applied for jobs, and the jobs didn’t come through, but the graduate offers did,” she said. “And so I embarked on a career to get a PHD.”

Swain earned her PHD and went on to join the faculty of Princeton and later Vanderbilt “going in with the confidence that I would get early tenure. And I did.”

Now, years later and retired from her professorship at Vanderbilt and working to bring light to political issues near and dear to her heart, Swain says that every hardship from her past led her to where she in now.

“The person I am today is very difference from the person I was twenty years ago,” she said. “And the most important thing that I learned was that life is journey. And I could see how everything I’ve done as a young person fits in to what I’m doing now.

“But I look back at my life—and there are people who might feel sorry for me, going through all sorts of things,” she said. “But I’ve always been an out of the box thinker. I’ve never fit anywhere. Even as a child I didn’t fit at home.”

When asked what she would say to the young people beginning the journey into the career field of education, Swain expressed high hopes.

“I would hope for young people, and others, that they would not have to wait until they’re as old as I am to get to the point where you have true freedom,” she said. “And I recognize how life is so short. We don’t know if we’re guaranteed tomorrow. It’s important for us to be true to whatever we’re called to do.

 

[ABM]

Figure out what it is and come on back.

You're hilarious.

 

[barfo]

Again, look in your own sphere. If you find issues, then strive to resolve those.

I'm trying, Jennifer.

With family, friends, or whomever. Trust me, you'll be dealing with the minority. It's a microcosm.

I guess you are right. Of all the posters in this thread, I see only one whose racism needs to be dealt with.

barfo

 

[RR7]

You're hilarious.

If you want to have a discussion about systemic racism, or want to comment on systemic racism, you should know what it is. Just my personal opinion. You seem to have an opinion on it without being able to say what it is. Maybe UCD was right and it is all just trolling. You do you.

 

[ABM]

I'm trying, Jennifer.



I guess you are right. Of all the posters in this thread, I see only one whose racism needs to be dealt with.

barfo

You should check out the 20/20 thread. I swear, it'll help.

 

[ABM]

If you want to have a discussion about systemic racism, or want to comment on systemic racism, you should know what it is. Just my personal opinion. You seem to have an opinion on it without being able to say what it is. Maybe UCD was right and it is all just trolling. You do you.

It's implying that, systematically, America is racist, and that racism itself - tp whatever degree - is imbedded in all of our ways of thinking, laws, etc.

I happen to disagree with that notion.

 

[MadeFromDust]

It's a left wing buzzword.

1000% true. I hear this thrown around constantly without a shred of evidence that it actually exists.

 

[ABM]

1000% true. I hear this thrown around constantly without a shred of evidence that it actually exists.

The Calvary has arrived.

 

[ABM]

1000% true. I hear this thrown around constantly without a shred of evidence that it actually exists.

The angry left in here have no intention of backing their assertions that so-called systemic racism is alive an well in America,

 

[Shaboid]

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?...ion+rates&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Decent place to start.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Systemic racism in America is in the minority. Prove me wrong.

Prove your statement to be correct. We’ll wait…..

 

[ABM]

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=african americans incarceration rates&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Decent place to start.

Ick.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Have fun with that. I've been in the successfully engaging mode for years. It's quite liberating.

Eye roll/spits coffee across the room/loses consciousness from laughing so hard. You really are a funny guy….

 

[Predator]

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2413&context=articles

 

[Predator]

“Black men receive longer sentences for the exact same crime”

ABM: BuZzWoRd

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The majority of areas that were accused by the Trump of committing voting fraud were minority communities.

Trump's people targeted counties with large black and latino populations.

Since none of those accusations were based on fact or reality that is targeted racism.

 

[ABM]

Prove your statement to be correct. We’ll wait…..

As I've mentioned over an over in here. Check in with your own sphere. Are you witnessing racism as a majority? In terms of "systemic" racism do you see that effecting your community as a whole? Really?

 

[ABM]

Eye roll/spits coffee across the room/loses consciousness from laughing so hard. You really are a funny guy….

Please don't forget well liked.

 

[MadeFromDust]

The majority of areas that were accused by the Trump of committing voting fraud were minority communities.

Trump's people targeted counties with large black and latino populations.

Since none of those accusations were based on fact or reality that is targeted racism.

Regardless of whether or not those accusations are true (I happen to believe they aren't), that isn't an example of "systemic racism".

 

[MadeFromDust]

I'm grateful to live in a country that where through hard work and dedication there is no limit to what you can achieve. I happen to follow many individuals who are black or otherwise who have lived out this dream in their lives

It's a shame so many ungrateful people have lost sight of this fact.

 

[RR7]

As I've mentioned over an over in here. Check in with your own sphere. Are you witnessing racism as a majority? In terms of "systemic" racism do you see that effecting your community as a whole? Really?

So if systemic racism isn't effecting you and those in your lilly white suburb, it doesn't really exist? I remember shortly after moving to Portland having a conservative friend here saying how racism wasn't really that big of an issue. Of course, he spent his whole life in Portland, around like 90% white people, so it's easy to think that.
It takes a real concerted effort to look at the country as a whole, and try to pretend that systemic racism, and a byproduct, white privilege, does not exist.
And denying its existence helps to keep it going. Denying there's a problem is a big part of the problem.

 

[ABM]

So if systemic racism isn't effecting you and those in your lilly white suburb, it doesn't really exist?

I live in a very mixed community, thanks.