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As a percentage of the population, Black males have a MUCH harder time then their white, latin and asian male counterparts.

They are killed TWICE as much as White men by Police ( yes, even though more white men are killed by police, but as a percentage, Black men are 2x more likely to be killed)
Black men get stopped, jailed and convicted FAR more then white men, for the SAME crimes!!! And on top, get longer sentences then white men as well!!

Since the 60-70s young black males have been targeted MORE, punished MORE and jailed MORE then white young males.
Which has created almost 2 generations of broken families... since we know when people get out of Jail in America a chance at a normal life is ALOT harder then in other industrialized countries.

So.. since this goes back 50-60 years... are we going to just blame all black men and claim they can't control themselves and are inherently violent and unable to create stable families and communities? Or, might it be the over policification and policies against inner city black men might have created a mess, thats actually not their fault?


1600-1870.. slaves. US Civil war and freeing of slaves.
1870-1960.. second class citizens until US civil rights movements, when blacks got right to drink from a fountain as whites or attend the same schools.
1960-1970.. marijuana got buffed up in the criminal system with higher sentences and systematic patrolling of black communities starting.
1970-2020.. Defunding of inner city schools, much harder to get a job and voting for 2 generation of young black males, while being policed at almost twice the rate as white men, killed twice as much, jailed more then whites and treated to longer sentences then whites. FOR THE SAME CRIMES!!!



But, yeah, the easy way is, just to claim that all black people are incompatible with modern first world countries, because they are just violent and kill each other.

Or you go back in time and look at what policies has been put in place against black people in the US, and what that might actually have created!

They had 10-20 OK years in the 60-70s..



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What has this got to do with anyone except America. It's their country Black or White.
 
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I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice about it:

I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothamJean and #AtatianaJefferson).
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride).
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark).
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards).
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis).
I can sell CD's (#AltonSterling).
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown).
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice).
I can go to church (#Charleston9).
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin).
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell).
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant).
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland).
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile).
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones).
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) .
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher).
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott).
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover).
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese).
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans).
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood).
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo).
I can run (#WalterScott).
I can breathe (#EricGarner).
I can live (#FreddieGray).
I can ask someone to put a leash on their dog when it is required in the public park we are in (#ChristianCooper).
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED. #GeorgeFloyd

White privilege is real. Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience.
Not being funny but I can find a “ white example “ for Each of those ....
 
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I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice about it:

I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothamJean and #AtatianaJefferson).
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride).
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark).
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards).
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis).
I can sell CD's (#AltonSterling).
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown).
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice).
I can go to church (#Charleston9).
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin).
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell).
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant).
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland).
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile).
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones).
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) .
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher).
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott).
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover).
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese).
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans).
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood).
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo).
I can run (#WalterScott).
I can breathe (#EricGarner).
I can live (#FreddieGray).
I can ask someone to put a leash on their dog when it is required in the public park we are in (#ChristianCooper).
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED. #GeorgeFloyd

White privilege is real. Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience.
Sorry old lad but all skin tones can do that in Britain.
A bit dodgy for pale people in parts of some towns though. No white privilege involved. Any way sod all the bleeding heart stuff, Munties look out I'm on my way.🌚
 
White privilege is a myth. Anyone that believes it is either
A, looking for a cop out with a why me attitude.

B. White and privileged.

plenty of poor oppressed white people out in the world. I’m sure the white Eastern European working in the middle East does not feel to privileged ?

perhaps geography creates an element of privilege. The last time I checked people of any race and any colour could achieve anything in our society. Lots of rich people of colour, Asians, pink blue and yellow people.
this concept that we should all be ashamed of being white feeling bad for things done centuries ago is a crock of ****.

Those that think we should apologise for slavery creating today’s situation should look a little closer at who sold the slaves to the Europeans and still do to the Arabs today.

There is little white involvement in the modern African slave trade. But I’m supposed to feel bad that some aristocrats ancestor made money from slaves, whilst my ancestors worked in a coal mine for a pittance ?
I didn’t see any of that money neither did any of my family tree. The idea of collective guilt as a race is despicable, as despicable as the urge to re-write history tearing down statues and desecrating monuments. It won’t change history. People need to stop banging on about white privileged altogether or pass some of that privilege my way I must have missed that memo.
 
When white privilege is mentioned and implies that all white people should feel bad for being white that's when I stop looking at this thread :tiphat:

I'm equally fed up of hearing about white privilege. This article is quite a good read on that same point.

I doubt that a white teenage male from an economically deprived part of the UK attending a sink school with the prospect of zero academic qualifications would consider himself to be benefiting from white privilege. Even the Guardian doesn't think white working class males have white privilege!
 
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The recent protest in a London, with the antics and behaviour of those involved, I don’t mean the biased coverage you see on the BBC, will do absolutely nothing to mitigate the, perceived by some, Racism in this country.........Right the opposite in fact.
 
Just before I chuck the rifle in the truck, what is all this crap about deprived kids from poor areas not getting a good schooling.
I came from a poor village and made it to Grammar school in the local city. Most of the kids at that school came from poor areas of Birmingham so it's all down to the person not their background.
Interesting to note that school, now a comprehensive was one of the breeding grounds for Islamic fundamentalism. How times change.
 
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I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice about it:

I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothamJean and #AtatianaJefferson).
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride).
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark).
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards).
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis).
I can sell CD's (#AltonSterling).
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown).
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice).
I can go to church (#Charleston9).
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin).
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell).
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant).
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland).
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile).
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones).
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) .
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher).
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott).
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover).
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese).
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans).
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood).
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo).
I can run (#WalterScott).
I can breathe (#EricGarner).
I can live (#FreddieGray).
I can ask someone to put a leash on their dog when it is required in the public park we are in (#ChristianCooper).
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED. #GeorgeFloyd

White privilege is real. Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience.
Every one of those things can be down to where you live, not how much melanin you have in your skin.
Put the most affluent and privileged person whatever colour he is in a crime-ridden shithole and he'll lose those freedoms without anyone bothering to ask his background, and if he stays there he'll soon be dragged down to everyone else's level if he wants to survive.
 
Wrong again , paedophiles, murderers and rapists dont matter in my book.
Yes you have got it wrong again! it matters that we learn from their inappropriate conduct and that they are punished in order that others learn...
 
Yes you have got it wrong again! it matters that we learn from their inappropriate conduct and that they are punished in order that others learn...
It's important that they're punished for what they've done as well. For a lot of them execution would be a let-off, not a punishment and something they'd welcome (Ian Brady, Fred West, Ian Huntley for example). They should be denied that escape and be forced to confront their crimes
 
'Put the most affluent and privileged person whatever colour he is in a crime-ridden shithole and he'll lose those freedoms without anyone bothering to ask his background, and if he stays there he'll soon be dragged down to everyone else's level if he wants to survive.'

That's not necessarily the case. In fact, and interestingly, most people do not apparently change very much at all, whether they become richer or poorer. Either avenue can ruin any man...or be the making of him.

Fundamentally however, and leaving aside religious beliefs that may guide a man's choices through life, that's the nature v nurture debate. Personally, I see no need to cloud the issues surrounding social deprivation with racist overtones. Skin colour is not an excuse for behaviour. Try and make it such and it will surely come back to bite you, sooner or later.
 
I see the ole slave trade has picked up again in Libya.
Libya, Somalia, Congo. To be fair most of Africa a few places in Eastern Europe, Chinese immigrants forced in to slavery is fairly common on our high streets nail bars by day and forced prostitution by night. Slavery is not and has never been a race debate. It just fits the rhetoric to say it is. The Arab states are and always have been the biggest exploiters of the slave trade. Just because they are now called help doesn't stop the rapes beatings and abuse. It dosent fit the rhetoric of the far left heads would implode. How can I call an Arab an evil slave abuser without being racist ? I know I’ll just concentrate on the countries that abolished slavery in the 1800s
 
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