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Topic Started: Jul 3 2013, 08:49 PM (1,482 Views)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZvj2BQLAl4

This is a video of Representative Frederica Wilson commenting on the Trayvon Williams shooting. She's entitled to her opinion but as a member of Congress her words hold a lot of weight. Her opinion isn't going to change the outcome of the trial but should she use her power to inflame the situation?
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Jul 7 2013, 12:53 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZvj2BQLAl4

This is a video of Representative Frederica Wilson commenting on the Trayvon Williams shooting. She's entitled to her opinion but as a member of Congress her words hold a lot of weight. Her opinion isn't going to change the outcome of the trial but should she use her power to inflame the situation?
Martin is he last name, not Williams.
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Jul 3 2013, 08:52 PM
Fuck studies, Brad, negros were created in America, so whatever they are white society made them.
Agree. However, its time to STOP being the way white society created us and rejuvenate. But doing that is like beating a dead horse. :-/
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Jul 7 2013, 04:32 PM
Martin is he last name, not Williams.
Yes, thanks. Who the heck is Trayvon Williams?
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Jul 7 2013, 04:32 PM
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Jul 7 2013, 12:53 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZvj2BQLAl4

This is a video of Representative Frederica Wilson commenting on the Trayvon Williams shooting. She's entitled to her opinion but as a member of Congress her words hold a lot of weight. Her opinion isn't going to change the outcome of the trial but should she use her power to inflame the situation?
Martin is he last name, not Williams.
Good catch


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that's what happens when you view Black males as nothing...then you can't even correctly recall the dead ones by name
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/352892/who-racist-thomas-sowell

Is there anyone here who doesn't respect what Thomas Sowell has to say?

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Who Is Racist?
Progress in race relations isn’t achieved by having minority leaders.
By Thomas Sowell
JULY 9, 2013

I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists, while 24 percent of blacks think that most whites are racist.

The difference between these percentages is not great, but it is remarkable nevertheless. After all, generations of blacks fought the white racism from which they suffered for so long. If many blacks themselves now think that most other blacks are racist, that is startling.
The moral claims advanced by generations of black leaders — claims that eventually touched the conscience of the nation and turned the tide toward civil rights for all — have now been cheapened by today’s generation of black “leaders,” who act as if it is all just a matter of whose ox is gored.

Even in legal cases involving terrible crimes — the O.J. Simpson murder trial or the charges of gang rape against Duke University students — many black “leaders” and their followers have not waited for facts about who was guilty and who was not, but have immediately taken sides based on who was black and who was white.

Among whites, according to the same Rasmussen poll, 38 percent consider most blacks racist and 10 percent consider most whites racist.

Broken down by politics, the same poll showed that 49 percent of Republicans consider most blacks racist, as do 36 percent of independents and 29 percent of Democrats.

Perhaps most disturbing of all, just 29 percent of Americans as a whole think race relations are getting better, while 32 percent think race relations are getting worse. The difference is too close to call, but the fact that it is so close is itself painful — and perhaps a warning sign for where we are heading.

Is this what so many Americans, both black and white, struggled for over the decades and generations? To try to put the curse of racism behind us — only to reach a point where retrogression in race relations now seems at least equally likely as progress?

What went wrong? Perhaps no single factor can be blamed for all the things that went wrong. Insurgent movements of all sorts, in countries around the world, have for centuries soured in the aftermath of their own success. “The revolution betrayed” is a theme that goes back at least as far as 18th-century France.

The civil-rights movement in 20th-century America attracted many people who put everything on the line for the sake of fighting against racial oppression. But the eventual success of that movement attracted opportunists and even turned some idealists into opportunists.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. After the success of the civil-rights insurgency, the latter have come into their own, gaining money, power, and fame by promoting racial attitudes and actions that are counterproductive to the interests of those they lead.

None of this is unique to blacks or to the United States. In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people — and to hate those other people.

This was the history of anti-Semitic movements in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars, anti-Ibo movements in Nigeria in the 1960s, and anti-Tamil movements that turned Sri Lanka from a peaceful nation into a scene of lethal mob violence and then decades-long civil war, both marked by unspeakable atrocities.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow. While most Americans can easily name a number of black leaders, current or past, how many can name Asian-American ethnic leaders or Jewish ethnic leaders?

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

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The Zimmerman Case Exposes Black Racism

The idea that black people will riot over the Zimmerman case should be an embarrassment to blacks.


Unfortunately, far too many black Liberals are waiting to riot, hoping for the opportunity — like it’s a sale day at Macy’s. Obama did promise hope.

Neither white people nor Latinos will riot, if Zimmerman is convicted. They have better things to do. Apparently many black people have nothing better to do.

It’s not necessarily the fault of black Liberals for being so stupid. The Democrats insured this level of absurdity. The idea that one case of a black teen being killed in some obscure town in America and we are back in the racially charged ‘60s.

It goes to show you that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Democrats have all but insured the black Liberal derangement: black Liberals behaving like Pavlov’s dogs, salivating at the ringing of the bell of racism.

The ease with which Democrats and their operatives can so easily play black people is what should make America afraid.

To get a race of people to riot over a case of an overzealous neighborhood watchman shooting and killing a teen who attacked him takes some doing. If you remove the race elements from this story, black people would have as much interest in this case as they would reruns of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Yet here we are. The Zimmerman case front and center—a 21st Century OJ trial, except this one black people want the defendant declared guilty.

Thousands of black teens have been murdered since Martin’s death, yet Liberals have chosen to fixate on Martin’s death? Black Liberals should ask themselves why they have disproportionate emotion in this case versus the thousands of others.

Recall the young girl, Hadiya Pendleton who had visited with Obama at the White House, then two weeks later was unceremoniously gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Chicago? If only her murderer had been Zimmerman!

However, since her killer was likely black, there were no t-shirts with her face printed on them. Nor the almost countless other nameless, faceless black youth who are now just as dead as Trayvon Martin. Do their families not grieve? Do their deaths not demand justice?

Don’t expect the great uniter to showcase leadership in the Zimmerman case. Obama will allow the racist attitudes of Liberals to flourish. That is the glue that binds him to black people, a group to whom he has shown little, real concern.

Luckily for him, black people only care about Obama’s blackness.

It’s difficult to fathom that blacks have fought so hard against racism, only to become the most racist people in the country. Black Liberals don’t care about justice for Zimmerman, because he is the wrong color.

Truth be told, if Zimmerman were black, this case would be over and he would be a free man.
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Ether, if what you're saying is true, then HR is not the place to go with your account. I agree, HR is on the side of the company. When you were hired, were you given a policy handbook? Did you sign, saying you agree to the terms/conditions of the policy. If so, then you must abide by those terms.

However, you have a recourse....Go to EEOC. Give them your side, they will take your info, and do a prelim, and decide if there's enough proof to precede. If found to have enough evidence, let EEOC know, that you will seek your own legal counsel, and file a civil suit against the company. EEOC will turn over all evidence to support your claim, and possibly go to court with you. EEOC settles most cases, generally in favor of the company. However, a civil case is going to cost, so set aside money, if you feel you've been wronged. In the state of TX, you must follow these steps. You must go to EEOC first..

Also, in the state of TX, you're entitled to see, and in so cases, make a copy of your personnel file. Get one! What does your reviews look like? Any raises? All of this points, to a good work ethic.

The worst thing you can do, is complain..Also, print out, not send to a different email acct, print out any emails, memo's, especially with your name on it, and keep them. Start to document everything you do. Instead of asking the question, send it in a email. Documents help you, words spoken can be denied every said.

My sister just settled a case against Thomas Reprographics in the sum of $325, 000, simply because she documented everything....
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Jul 12 2013, 08:32 PM

Is there anyone here who doesn't respect ... Thomas Sowell???



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White guy Robert Jensen put out something you've CERTAINLY read before:

by Robert Jensen

Here's what white privilege sounds like:

I am sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions, which he opposes and I support.

The student says he wants a level playing field with no unearned advantages for anyone. I ask him whether he thinks that in the United States being white has advantages. Have either of us, I ask, ever benefited from being white in a world run mostly by white people? Yes, he concedes, there is something real and tangible we could call white privilege.

So, if we live in a world of white privilege--unearned white privilege--how does that affect your notion of a level playing field? I ask.

He paused for a moment and said, "That really doesn't matter."

That statement, I suggested to him, reveals the ultimate white privilege: the privilege to acknowledge you have unearned privilege but ignore what it means.

That exchange led me to rethink the way I talk about race and racism with students. It drove home to me the importance of confronting the dirty secret that we white people carry around with us everyday: In a world of white privilege, some of what we have is unearned. I think much of both the fear and anger that comes up around discussions of affirmative action has its roots in that secret. So these days, my goal is to talk openly and honestly about white supremacy and white privilege.

White privilege, like any social phenomenon, is complex. In a white supremacist culture, all white people have privilege, whether or not they are overtly racist themselves. There are general patterns, but such privilege plays out differently depending on context and other aspects of one's identity (in my case, being male gives me other kinds of privilege). Rather than try to tell others how white privilege has played out in their lives, I talk about how it has affected me.

I am as white as white gets in this country. I am of northern European heritage and I was raised in North Dakota, one of the whitest states in the country. I grew up in a virtually all-white world surrounded by racism, both personal and institutional. Because I didn't live near a reservation, I didn't even have exposure to the state's only numerically significant non-white population, American Indians.

I have struggled to resist that racist training and the ongoing racism of my culture. I like to think I have changed, even though I routinely trip over the lingering effects of that internalized racism and the institutional racism around me. But no matter how much I "fix" myself, one thing never changes--I walk through the world with white privilege.

What does that mean? Perhaps most importantly, when I seek admission to a university, apply for a job, or hunt for an apartment, I don't look threatening. Almost all of the people evaluating me for those things look like me--they are white. They see in me a reflection of themselves, and in a racist world that is an advantage. I smile. I am white. I am one of them. I am not dangerous. Even when I voice critical opinions, I am cut some slack. After all, I'm white.

My flaws also are more easily forgiven because I am white. Some complain that affirmative action has meant the university is saddled with mediocre minority professors. I have no doubt there are minority faculty who are mediocre, though I don't know very many. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. once pointed out, if affirmative action policies were in place for the next hundred years, it's possible that at the end of that time the university could have as many mediocre minority professors as it has mediocre white professors. That isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but is a simple observation that white privilege has meant that scores of second-rate white professors have slid through the system because their flaws were overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as well as on gender, class and ideology.

Some people resist the assertions that the United States is still a bitterly racist society and that the racism has real effects on real people. But white folks have long cut other white folks a break. I know, because I am one of them.

I am not a genius--as I like to say, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I have been teaching full-time for six years, and I've published a reasonable amount of scholarship. Some of it is the unexceptional stuff one churns out to get tenure, and some of it, I would argue, actually is worth reading. I work hard, and I like to think that I'm a fairly decent teacher. Every once in awhile, I leave my office at the end of the day feeling like I really accomplished something. When I cash my paycheck, I don't feel guilty.

But, all that said, I know I did not get where I am by merit alone. I benefited from, among other things, white privilege. That doesn't mean that I don't deserve my job, or that if I weren't white I would never have gotten the job. It means simply that all through my life, I have soaked up benefits for being white. I grew up in fertile farm country taken by force from non-white indigenous people. I was educated in a well-funded, virtually all-white public school system in which I learned that white people like me made this country great. There I also was taught a variety of skills, including how to take standardized tests written by and for white people.

All my life I have been hired for jobs by white people. I was accepted for graduate school by white people. And I was hired for a teaching position at the predominantly white University of Texas, which had a white president, in a college headed by a white dean and in a department with a white chairman that at the time had one non-white tenured professor.

There certainly is individual variation in experience. Some white people have had it easier than me, probably because they came from wealthy families that gave them even more privilege. Some white people have had it tougher than me because they came from poorer families. White women face discrimination I will never know. But, in the end, white people all have drawn on white privilege somewhere in their lives.

Like anyone, I have overcome certain hardships in my life. I have worked hard to get where I am, and I work hard to stay there. But to feel good about myself and my work, I do not have to believe that "merit," as defined by white people in a white country, alone got me here. I can acknowledge that in addition to all that hard work, I got a significant boost from white privilege, which continues to protect me every day of my life from certain hardships.

At one time in my life, I would not have been able to say that, because I needed to believe that my success in life was due solely to my individual talent and effort. I saw myself as the heroic American, the rugged individualist. I was so deeply seduced by the culture's mythology that I couldn't see the fear that was binding me to those myths. Like all white Americans, I was living with the fear that maybe I didn't really deserve my success, that maybe luck and privilege had more to do with it than brains and hard work. I was afraid I wasn't heroic or rugged, that I wasn't special.

I let go of some of that fear when I realized that, indeed, I wasn't special, but that I was still me. What I do well, I still can take pride in, even when I know that the rules under which I work in are stacked in my benefit. I believe that until we let go of the fiction that people have complete control over their fate--that we can will ourselves to be anything we choose--then we will live with that fear. Yes, we should all dream big and pursue our dreams and not let anyone or anything stop us. But we all are the product both of what we will ourselves to be and what the society in which we live lets us be.

White privilege is not something I get to decide whether or not I want to keep. Every time I walk into a store at the same time as a black man and the security guard follows him and leaves me alone to shop, I am benefiting from white privilege. There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out in our daily lives, but it is clear that I will carry this privilege with me until the day white supremacy is erased from this society.

Frankly, I don't think I will live to see that day; I am realistic about the scope of the task. However, I continue to have hope, to believe in the creative power of human beings to engage the world honestly and act morally. A first step for white people, I think, is to not be afraid to admit that we have benefited from white privilege. It doesn't mean we are frauds who have no claim to our success. It means we face a choice about what we do with our success.
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Jul 7 2013, 12:40 AM
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All of these people were white........and finally a coworker pulled me to the side and said it was because they felt I was too opinionated. I spoke my mind......



Since when does speaking your mind keep from being promoted. If something is unfair.....then that's what the open door policy is for. I don't deal with favoritism and all those that were promoted were white and buddy buddy with my superiors



So I'm suppose to "yes suh" and bow down to mistreatment and unfairness?




So I went to HR....

Ether,
You have to take what your co-worker said to you as a heads up. There could be something that he/she as heard about you and that's why you are not getting promoted.

It's not a matter of speaking your mind, it's how you come off while speaking your mind. Are you offering solutions with your opinions or are you just complaining? And you have to pick and chose your battles wisely.

Also you have to be aware of who you are sharing your opinions with. And one more advice, DO NOT TRUST H.R. Keep in mind their loyalty is to the company. And if an executive doesn't think you are good for the company in a particular position, then H.R. is going to side with the executive.

Oh yea, I know how H.R gets down. But that's why I print all emails, keep all text and have copies of everything that questions their judgement and treatment.


So they can go ahead and out me. I don't speak my mind unprofessionally.
I do with respect. But I don't let bullshit get through.


An example is how they fired a girl cause the higher ups didnt like her. They picked and choose shit to write her up for when even I and others did the same. And in doing so they required people to cover her work. Disregarding people's real lives and families....all because you didn't like someone?

Problem is morale is down. Morale plays a large issue in the work I do. And the employees time with families isn't respected. Everyone is too spooked to speak out......I just don't see that as fair
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