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  1. 47 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

      Since none of you seen to be offering any solutions here s one.

      Break up the ghettos. Shoving hoards of poor people into one small space is a terrible idea. If you had strategically placed section 8 homes mixed in all over it would go along way into improving the situation. First, hard to have gang wars when you live next to Chip and Chad. Second, it would help being in a positive environment. People tend to do what others around them are doing. Take a 10 year old hood kid and put him with a family in Beverly Hills, and by the time he is 18 he will be a different person. Third, the education will be better, especially if it's done while they are young.

     

       People will assimilate, but they need to be in the environment they are supposed to assimilate to. A parrot won't talk if he's never heard a human speak my friend.

    So take poor blacks and mix them in with rich whites so they won't be poor blacks anymore?  They will assimilate into being different people?  Sounds paternalist and racist to me. 

    Example: Whites know better, be more white and your problems will go away.  Your black behavior and world view needs to change. 

    Y'all have railed on the ones disagreeing with you for this same line of thought.  How does that make sense when you are saying it?

    Ibram Kendi writes about just this type of racism.  DD?  He's your man and you even quote him saying the belief that once race is inferior or superior to another is racist.

    Show me the math.

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  2. On 5/3/2018 at 5:39 PM, David Dennison said:

    I'm white. I know where I stand. I know that the number of white men in power is disproportionate to the number of white men in the general population. The numbers tend to skew in our favor in a big way. I'm trying to change that with every vote. 

    You allude to just that in this post. 

  3. Nobody is perfect. Well, one guy was and we hung Him on a cross. 

    I think some people do work on it. Some don't.  But that's up to them.  Claiming that "white men in power" is on its face "racist"  is sweeping generalization that's a little hubristic. 

  4. 10 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I agree with Ibram Kendi on this: being racist is regarding one racial group as being inferior or superior to another racial group in any way.

    I have no problem with that. I don't believe any one race is better or worse than another.  Stamped from the Beginning seems to be an inetetsing book.  

    Just reading and agreeing with a book's premise does not make non-racist.  We all have some in us to a degree. All of us. 

  5. Just now, David Dennison said:

    I vote and do everything in my power not to exacerbate the problem by being racist.

    You vote. Well, OK.

    You do everything in your power to NOT be racist (your answer doesn't read well but I get what you mean).

    In your opinion, what is "being racist?"   Overt acts?  Subtle acts?  Just being white? Any act contrary to the perceived general wishes of another race?

    Serious.  Not trap questions.  Just trying to understand you. 

  6. 13 hours ago, 77horn said:

    UH started SWC play in 1976, and the conference broke up in 1996, and during those 20 years they won 7 times, so no they weren't a true rival.  But they did win the SWC in their first year. Their best success was using the run and shoot, which was new, novel, and people didn't know how to defend it. 

    I would argue that the veer offense in the Yeoman days was a much better offense when compared to the run and poot.  The run and poot worked against bad defensive  schemes  with inferior defenders such as our Horns in that time frame.  

  7. 7 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    One of the biggest problems in this country is the failure of white people to come to terms with our nation's history. It makes them very uncomfortable. This thread is a perfect example of that.

    Our history is not my opinion.

    "Come to terms."   What does that mean?   Acknowledge the past or something else?

    Are we whites that are not as woke and righteous as you "coming to terms" to meet your standard of suitable contrition?

     

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  8. 6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

       It works because it gets kids who would otherwise have to go to inferior schools a chance to get a better education. It also allows people from lower income lifestyles to rub shoulders with people from the upper classes. Not sure if you know this, but part of the problem is not KNOWING what life can be like. If all you know is what you are in you won't strive to be different because you don't know what different is. But I am sure you aren't interested in that so.....

     

    Also, "because" is spelled with the a before the u.

    I know how "because" is spelled, Wisenheimer.  I got it right the first time in the same post!  Hey, batting .500!  

    My neighborhood IS integrated (to a degree).  It is integrated, not because of a mandate, but because the people  buying property in it can afford to live there.  Note: it's not THAT expensive.

    /csb:  I have several Hispanic employees.  From Houston, we have done work as far away as Midland.  This meant a good 8-9 hour drive from Houston, stopping along the way for meals, fill ups and eventually staying in motels for an extended period of time.  My employees that made the trip for the first time were scared shitless of the thought of travelling like that.  Why?  They had never experienced it.  Of course, I went with them the first few times and showed them the ropes of out-of-town-living.  Not because I'm the smart white guy but because I had the experience.  

    Using a credit card, keeping receipts, booking rooms, finding local branches of suppliers that we already have accounts with and so on were things they had never experienced.  Heck, they didn't even have luggage.  After the first trip they knew what to do and did it well.

    So, yes, I agree with your that KNOWING / experience is a good thing.

  9. 2 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    BLM is an astonishingly peaceful movement given the violence perpetrated against them.

    This is just sad.

    You are probably correct on BLM being peaceful.  In the statement I quoted, BLM was mixed in with rioting and they aren't necessarily linked.

  10. 11 hours ago, 5 5 said:

    This is what Black Lives Matter is all about. They HATE the guns & crime in their neighborhoods. They also hate the police, and the politicians, for doing nothing constructive about it. Ergo, the riots.

    So let's burn down stuff.  Good strategy.  

  11. 11 hours ago, 5 5 said:

    What's wrong with black people is nobody hires them, nobody forgives them and nobody believes them.

    Kapernick is a perfect example of this. He was absolutely right. What happened to him also happened to Vince Young. And both these guys were unmitigated winners.

    "Nobody" hires them?  Nobody?  Even other black people?  Really?

    "Nobody" forgives them?  Forgives them for what?

    Nobody believes them?  Disbelieves what?

    Now, on to football...

    Kaeprnick was absolutley right about what?  Kneeling for the NA?  OK.  Many people across all races agreed with him.  You're all butthurt that everyone didn't glorify him for his protest?  Sorry about your feelings, sweet cheeks.

    And finally "unmitigated winners"...

    Colin Kaepenick career won / loss record as professional starting QB:  28-30. Verdict: very mitigated "winner".  He was OK and he got SF to a Super Bowl (and lost probably becuase whitey turned the lights out for a while).  Remember, Trent Dilfer got the Ravens to a Super Bowl and won it.  After the season, he was summarily let go by the franchise.  Imagine that?  An "unmitigated winner" let go by an NFL franchise.

    Vince Young career won / loss record as professional starting QB: 31-19.  Verdict: unmitigated winner

    Hey!  You're batting .500.  If this was baseball you'd be in the HOF.

    (by the way, your takes aren't very good)

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  12. 50 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    Hey for all the people who get stabby about check writers at the grocery store, I had a new one this week.

    Old lady in front of me in line at the checkout. She has all her groceries on the conveyer belt, and then she's standing in front of the empty half of the belt (where I would put my shit). But I can't, because she's standing there, and she has her gigantic purse sitting on the open area of the belt, and she's digging through said purse and pulling shit out and dumping it all over the place, looking for her....

    Check book.

    God damnit.

    But then, I see that she's pulling out a debit card. Ok....Maybe this is going to be ok. Alas, no. She runs the debit card, and then when she gets the total and is handed the receipt, she actually uses the goddamn motherfucking check register and is "balancing her checkbook". The checkout lady actually had to tell her to get a move on, which of course appalled that old worthless bag of crap.

    So the checkout woman did your work for you?  Lazy ass.

  13. Diesel pump auto-shutt off set at $65.00 when you need at least $75.00 to fill up.  What’s the point?

    I tried to ask  the station attendant but I don’t speak Senegalese and she didn’t speak English too well.   She was nice and gave me a smile and a shrug.  

     

  14. 8 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    It’s a simple question: show me a high performing school district that is doing it on limited resources. 

     

    You can poorly educate kids for a lot of money.  You can also educate them well for a lot of money. What you can’t do is educate them well on the cheap.  If you could, every politician in America would point at that district as a success story

    So lack of money is not the problem?  What is the problem?

  15. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    I vote for the candidate who most closely reflects my ideology regardless of race. 

    I hit the fucking jackpot with Barack Obama.

    I can't say anything different about who I vote for or why.  On the other hand, I don't put much stock in politicians.

    Glad you got your guy Obama in office.  I didn't care for him nor vote for him. 

    Good chat. 

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