At this point black skin conveys so much privilege in our society that it serves as primary qualification to be Attorney General and even President of the United States. Rehashing liberal propaganda to reinforce the bogus victim status of blacks is hardly productive when those of us not lucky enough to be “oppressed” find it hard to get work.
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There is only one appropriate defense against the racism charge race-obsessed liberals inevitably throw at their opponents: conservatives and libertarians believe in individual liberty, and race is irrelevant at the individual level.
In a perfect world, yes. But as far as I've seen, such rhetoric is crafted to sweep institutionalized racism under the rug, and then pretending that it doesn't exist because we're oh-so-colorblind and enlightened.
Arguments like these are red herrings that nobody falls for.
It's quotes like these that make me kind of regret Herman Cain didn't get the GOP nom. The knots Blount's brain would have got tied into would have been most amusing.
Hey, Dave, here's a test you can do: black up for a week, and see how much extra privilege you get.
black skin conveys so much privilege in our society that it serves as primary qualification to be Attorney General and even President of the United States.
Yeah, that's why you never, ever see any hatred of our current president.
At this point black skin conveys so much privilege in our society that it serves as primary qualification to be Attorney General and even President of the United States.
This guy obviously comes from an alternate universe where black immigrants founded the US and took white slaves.
Yeah, an African-American appearance conveys absolute privilege, which is why we see so much skin bleach and hair relaxer on the market, and why we see so many delicately phrased compliments directed at Michelle Obama by the RWNJ's...
I have an idea, Count Blount, if you can't find work, blame yourself! That's what Herman Cain said, after all...
"At this point black skin conveys so much privilege in our society that it serves as primary qualification to be Attorney General and even President of the United States."
Hahahaha, in what universe? The only places where that's the case is in the Noughts and Crosses and Blonde Roots 'verses, and those were both fiction.
Yes being black is one of the primary qualifications to be President, sadly.
Maybe some day we'll see our first white President.
@Nicole - It's uncanny that you said that because when I was in high school I had been working on a fiction story where in an alternative universe West Africans made it over the Atlantic Ocean and colonized South America and brought slaves from the European Balkans (buying them from Arab and Turkish slave traders) with them. In the alternate universe diseases from Africans killed off most natives in South America and the remaining natives were partitioned off onto reservations while North America was taken over by a caste of offspring of blacks and Native Americans in North America (an idea meant to be akin to the concept of "mestizos" in real-life South America). South Americans speak a spinoff of a Mandinke language while North Americans speak an offshoot of a Wolof language. Whites were used as slaves until the northern part of South America lost the South American Civil War. In the 21st century whites are nominally free but still lived in a society of de facto racism where darker-skinned white people get better jobs and a significant number of low-income white Americans lived in ghettos. The still-discriminated against white minority struggle to craft their own identity after being stolen from Europe.
I wrote the story to investigate, as a black person myself, would human nature really lead Africans to behave any different than the European settlers did. I came to the conclusion "No" based on the fact Africans in real life treated each other no better than Europeans treated each other before the end of WWII and in real life Libya serves as an example that black people can be just as imperialistic as white people.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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