TolkienNegro
TolkienNegro
You’re just babbling non sequiturs and not really saying anything beyond: “My position is the only valid one and anyone who contradicts me is wrong.”
My point is that black and brown people are disproportionately the targets of police brutality and police murder. The only standard is not killing black people for existing which seems to be the current rationale behind law enforcement misconduct i.e., “This black person was here. I feared for my life. I shot them.”
I hope you get the help you clearly need.
Like I said, people who freed their slaves were still racist. Being racist is an objective condition not a value judgement. White supremacy makes that necessarily so. There are plenty of nice, compassionate, warm, loving white people who don’t believe black people are deserving of being treated like human beings. The…
HOLY SHIT, ByeTommy is Donald Trump?! I’m chatting on the internet with the Donald Trump!
Atticus defended Tom Robinson because that was his job. Generally speaking, it is possible to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s head at the same time. People who freed slaves were racist so there is no “Get Out of Racism Free” card.
If you get treated a certain way, a way which can negatively impact, say, your lung function, not to mention your ability to get a job, a loan, a lease approval, your credit score and/or the level of medical care you receive it’s not so much that you’re racist for acknowledging the construct of race as much is it is…
You can absolutely be a man of principal and an unabashed racist. Atticus hasn’t changed. The image of Atticus many progressive whites had is being challenged by the publication of this new work.
I believe it generally, though that doesn’t matter. As I said in another post, black people can’t be racist. Whether or not they can be prejudice is not really up for debate nor is it relevant either. And let’s be clear it was black people demanding justice that ended Jim Crow. Slavery was ultimately destroyed by some…
Are you completely, willfully ignorant of this nation’s history? It’s fairly explicit.
Meh. Everyone has prejudice in them because people are acculturated to discriminate for a variety of reasons. In the US, race is the most convenient attribute. Racism is a system of power. People of color don’t have a little voice inside them that wants to erect an elaborate mechanism for accruing unearned advantage…
Can you tell me your point, please?
“It’s about powerful white people being very polite—and that counting as good politics, without any charge or assertion that anything might really change in the power structure of the town.”
This was never a mystery to me. There was no way Atticus Finch couldn’t be a racist. EVERYONE was racist at that time. Just because you believed in the rule of law doesn’t mean you believe in equality.
“Salon perm?”
Why would she arrange for bail then kill herself?
“Karisch said he believes that plastic bag was used to commit suicide. “That’s what I believe, absolutely,” he said.”
Her face looks like what happens when you push all the sliders to the right on your FemShep.