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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. You don't know shit about me.  I was top 10 percent at UT Law and could go to any Texas biglaw firm I wanted to after I clerked for a federal judge.  I do not have a trust fund nor have I inherited a penny yet and at age 41 everything I own is from my earnings as an attorney.  I worked in college and in law school, though not during the school year in law school.  My dad died at 16 and was basically broke, so not much help there.
    I know it's hard for someone like you to believe, but some people can be successful in life without inheriting anything.  Work hard and smart so you can too.
    I wish I had a trust fund though.  Many of my friends do.  I certainly don't look down on them for it.
    I vaguely remember you soliciting from others ideas on where to invest some big lump sum you got (won/inherited/or something). I remember it because it alertred me to the idea that storage facilities were apparently good investments. That's probably where people got the idea that you were a trust fund kid, that and knowing a bunch of billionaires since you were a kid. Maybe people took the wrong cues.
  2. Stopped in a local donut shop owned and ran by an African-American family.  Sign on the front door read "No Public Restrooms, Restrooms are for Customers Only."  I didn't have to use any Bill Laimbeer elbows to move protesters out of the way to get tin
    The Philly Starbucks needed a sign that said "White people do whatever you want. Negros don't use the restroom or sit for more than 4 minutes without buying a cup of coffee."
  3. Smith is still going to get paid if he's a first round pick. Even if Smith is a bust, it's probably the right move. 
    I think Smith is the type that should absolutely go pro because his development could go either way. Max out on your raw athleticism while you can. 
    No doubt, but it's telling how little athleticism alone can get you. Although there must be more to the story wth Gerald Green. He's essentially JR Smith as far as his style of play and yet he still can't stick with a long-term deal.
  4. And a 3!
    Embiid started playing the game less than 10 years ago yet his skill level (especially for a bigman) is utter worldly. It's like watching Hakeem blossom all over again.
  5. No it isn’t. It’s reality.  We are talking Biglaw.  The universe of qualified black candidates is tiny.  And the ones that are have a golden ticket and their choice of jobs. 

    Easy peasy for black folks in Biglaw

     

    http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/hypothetical_legal_memo_demonstrates_unconscious_biases

     

    A legal memo drafted with the help of five law firm partners helped a leadership consulting firm demonstrate unconscious biases in the workplace.

     

    The experiment was conducted by leadership consulting firm Nextion, according to the Forbes blog She Negotiates. Above the Law commented on the findings.

     

    Nextion inserted 22 errors in the memo. Seven were minor spelling or grammar errors, six were substantive technical writing errors, five were errors in fact, and four were errors in the analysis of the facts, according to this summary (PDF) of the study.

     

    Sixty partners from 22 law firms who agreed to participate in a “writing analysis study” received copies of the memo. Half were told the memo was written by an African-American man named Thomas Meyer, and half were told the writer was a Caucasian man named Thomas Meyer. Fifty-three partners completed the task. Of those, 29 received the memo supposedly by a white man and 24 received the memo supposedly by a black man.

     

    The reviewers gave the memo supposedly written by a white man a rating of 4.1 out of 5, while they gave the memo supposedly written by a black man a rating of 3.2 out of 5. The white Thomas Meyer was praised for his potential and good analytical skills, while the black Thomas Meyer was criticized as average at best and needing a lot of work.

     

     

  6. Giving their side of the story

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    PHILADELPHIA — Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer.

    He thought nothing of it when he and his childhood friend and business partner, Donte Robinson, were approached at their table and were asked if they needed help. The 23-year-old entrepreneurs declined, explaining they were just waiting for a business meeting.

    A few minutes later, they hardly noticed when the police came into the coffee shop — until officers started walking in their direction.

    “That’s when we knew she called the police on us,” Nelson told The Associated Press in the first interview by the two black men since video of their April 12 trespassing arrests touched off a furor around the U.S. over racial profiling or what has been dubbed “retail racism” or “shopping while black.”

    There less than 10 minutes

  7. You don’t think being a minority is an advantage to getting hired at Biglaw? Fuck me you can’t be serious.  There aren’t a ton of minorities that make the Big Law grade cut, but the ones that do are like gold. And firms will bend the supposed GPA cutoff for minorities if it is close. 
    I was on the hiring committee at a big firm. 
    You're right Biglaw looks like 1920s Harlem New York. Can't get from one cubicle to next without tripping over a Negro.
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  8. An anecdotal story about a guy doing blow with his friends is sufficient evidence that the DEA is not looking for cocaine? 
    If you want to indulge these conspiracy theories, have at it, just know that it will result in unnecessary paranoia and wasted energy. 
    So we're dismissing anecdotes now. A few post ago you were lauding a bootstrap anecdote after rejecting large scale demographic data.
  9. Gerald Green has/had that same type of athleticism and he still found himself sitting on the couch in January when the Rockets signed him. Hopefully for Zhaire's sake he works ridiculously hard on his game. Being drafted in the 1st round will buy him 2 maybe 3 years of patience, but he needs worlds of improvement on his game to be an everyday NBA Player.

  10. With regards to paying your mortgage that has already been obtained? How so?
    Might want to check the numbers on the type of loans given to black people vs other groups with comparable credit ratings and savings. Also the subject that has been discussed here ad naseum wrt housing policies contributes to this in a myriad of ways. One being that black neighborhoods don't appreciate at near the rate of white neighborhoods of comparable median household incomes. Therefore any loss in value is much more devastating.
  11. Yeah, I saw a lot of that. I saw zero crack, that was in another stratosphere. 
    The very fact that crack is a whole nother world of bad but other drugs don't create the same level of "oh that's bad" for you is a prime example of how racial perceptions creep and guide many actions in our society. In this particular case it's criminal justice. In other's it's schooling, housing, employment you name it.
  12. What part do you disagree with?
    That blacks in America are better off than blacks in Nigeria?
    Or that it is their elite that immigrate to the USA?  They can't just jump the fucking border to get here.
    I wouldn't say it's only the elite who get here. Nigerians who make it here span the spectrum across all economic demographics. Help extends out from families and entire communities that can make up the gap. The problem wth Nigeria is extensive gift that essentially leaves no middle class. There's absurdly rich, poor, and poorer.
  13. What part do you disagree with?

    That blacks in America are better off than blacks in Nigeria?

    Or that it is their elite that immigrate to the USA?  They can't just jump the fucking border to get here.

    This ridiculous Nigerian illegitimacy rate you pulled out of your ass when in the very same post you claimed records aren't kept.

     

  14. I think about all the stupid shit my friends and I did in high school and college, and our run-ins with the police. Not once did a single person get arrested.  Can only imagine how different our lives would've been if we were black and law enforcement threw the book at us. 
     
     
    Someone in this very thread talked about working as a public defender and running into loads and loads of black and brown kids who's lives were effectively ruined for things that would've gotten him a ride HOME from the police.
  15. Be honest about the War on Drugs.  The biggest proponents on tough mandatory sentences for crack were blacks lawmakers and leaders in the black communities.  Which makes some sense.  Crack hit that community like a freight train and scared the fuck out those in it.  It turned out to be wrong, but I do not believe it was racist.  Unless you think the CBC was racist.
    They asked for a little more than the stick. Somehow people like you always leave that out when making this point.
  16. Y’all are dumb arguing back and forth with BT and DD 
    The answer is whites have ruined the chances for the black community forever. There’s no fixing it. Any and all problems lie at the feet of your ancestors (if you’re white) and nothing can or will fix it going forward.  All whites came to America rich, and is the only reason their current generations have made it  Exact opposite applies for anyone blessed with some pigment  
    This doesn’t stop for American blacks, but anyone who is darker than your run of the mill Hispanic. Except Asians, they don’t count - their success is an outlier.  Same goes for Snacks, Mizzou, or other educated AA that frequent this site Also outliers, probably had white ancestors  
     
    when did Mizzou become black
  17. Nigerians that make it to the US are the elite of the elite from that country.  They did well back home and do better here due to opportunity.  I am friends with a family from Nigeria.  He is Oxford educated and a senior executive at a large company.
    But rest assured the vast, vast, vast majority of the population in Nigeria is far more fucked up than American blacks.  How many kids born out of wedlock over there is impossible to determine as 70% of the kids aren't even registered as being born.  They have no birth certificate and in legal terms, they do not exist.
    Lol where do you come up with this bullshit? I see you're still on your genetic disadvantage jaunt.
  18. While certainly not disagreeing with you that it was nothing short of a travesty, what are your thoughts on how black home ownership has improved anything? “Gentrification” and saying a neighborhood has “turned” wouldn’t be real things with adverse impacts on the real estate market if the measurable progress was substantial.
    Black homeownership rates still haven't made a comeback from the 2008/9 credit crisis.
  19. It's hard to take responsibility for yourself and your family when you are not afforded the same opportunities. One of the biggest drivers of inequality in this country is the inability to create wealth through homeownership. Black people were largely kept out of the home finance market for decades while white America, with the help of the federal government, benefited from a deluge of subsidized mortgages. It is a sad fact of history that black people in this country were denied the opportunity to create the type of generational wealth that white people take for granted.
    And now those advantages the federal government bestowed on white people get compounded by the ability to live in neighborhoods that aren't policed to the point that youthful misdeeds get turned into life altering anchors. They live in neighborhoods where even if you were average in school the baseline level of your school will make college realistic when you finally get your act together. And the community you live in are destinations of commerce where small businesses can thrive and life is relatively stable.
  20. Finding the why is important (to the extent that you can identify reasons), but writing it off as a myth based on unrelated data is unhealthy. Even if the data is used by racists, it's either true or it isn't. Pretending otherwise doesn't help, even if you have noble anti-racist objectives.

    Yeah I sort of cringed at that thinkprogress article. The other articles were illuminating but the thinkprogress article is begging the question. It's been floating around the interwebs for a few years now and always elicits comments on Facebook anytime it's posted, but like someone said you're comparing a large population of one group to a relatively small population of the other. It's not really a worthwhile endeavor. The point isn't to dismiss the problems and make believe that they don't exist. The point is to speak truth to the causes of said problems and figure out definitive ways to solve them.

     

     

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