I think that anyone whop harps on a negative condition...whether that be oppression by whites, or everyone is anti-Semitic, or people are anti-Christian, or whatever tend to attract the people they complain about...
-----Original Message----- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:11 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Oops! Did I say that on tape? Shirley Sherrod of the USDA Sticks Her Foot In Her Mouth. If what you said was applicable on a Nationwide level, the realities of the figures for employment, poverty, discrimination,leadership in the corporate sector, business ownership etc. would be very different. It is very easy to use anecdotes to attempt to portray those Blacks who do not achieve as being Lazy and messed up...but again that is immaterial. Because even if that were the case, it is still a problem, and it still means that there is not equality and not parity and that still needs addressing. You also cannot in any empirical way make such statements. I myself can find several statements by celebrities in hollywood (pick an industry that is most visible) who talk about the discrimination that still exists in the Entertainment business. We recently had several examples of Hollywood forcing directors to 'Whitewash' their casts and stories to make Black people = Villains and White People = Good Guys regardless of the actual subject matter on which the movies were based. So your theory just does not stand up to reality. I know two types of White people. Those that are stupid and complain about losing their homes, being unemployed and being kept down by Wall Street and the economy, and those that are Smart and have wonderful homes and great jobs without even trying. WTF?? On 22 July 2010 12:05, Sisk, Kris <ks...@gckschools.com> wrote: > > I know two types of black people. I know some who wine about being kept > down by 'the man' and never put any effort into making themselves a success. > If you call them on it they try to tell you there's no point in even trying > because being black means they have no chance anyway. In the end it's there > refusal to try that dooms them. They're also some of the most racist people > I've ever met (call them on that and you get called all kinds of nasty > names). > > The other blacks I know, who don't waste their energy complaining about > being oppressed, put no more effort or less into their careers than anyone > else and are just as successful as there white peers. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323519 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
