That’s not exactly my attitude. But it’s pretty damned close.
That’s not exactly my attitude. But it’s pretty damned close.
Until a couple years ago, one of my oldest and closest friends was a h0arder. So I am very personally and intimately aware of the darkest depths of that mindset. And it was far worse of a horror story that the episode you describe.
You’re gonna need a really, really big bagful though. ‘Cause this insanely funny show I’m predicting is probably gonna go on for quite a long while.
Nah, those were the irrational, kneejerk reactions of people without proper coping mechanisms to the inevitable outcome. Kind of like irrationally hoping that if they just stick their fingers in their ears and clinch their eyes shut tight enough, it will magically make it all just go away.
While I agree wholeheartedly with your point...I view white supremacy like an out-of-control school bus hurtling down the side of a mountain. Meaning the outcome is both inevitable and very soon to be concluded. Unfortunately, I see a much, much longer and even stranger fight for #metoo. Involving tons and tons of…
The system is built on a foundation of British Common Law. Which means it’s therefore very intentionally designed to benefit the rich and the powerful — aka white. And conversely, to screw over the poor and the desperate — who, not-so-coincidentally, have historically tended to be nonwhite. And it just so happens,…
The thing is...that 62% number quietly says a whole lot to POC about where this BS is headed in the long run. Because for most of America’s history, until about 50 years ago, that number has always been in the vicinity of 90%. Which means, white supremacy is on very borrowed time!!! And the unspoken joke for those…
Men who are as incredibly bright and as incredibly disciplined as Mr Rolle has proven himself to be over the last 15 years, when they do have a character flaw it tends to be a doozy. In which case, the mathematical odds are that that quirk of character will likely uncontrollably manifest itself repeatedly over the…
To paraphrase:
Has Van really forgotten the spirit of MLK’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” THAT completely in just 50 years???
AND...depending on how charismatic their impressionable minds consider him to be...downright infallible.
I made it through about 60 seconds before I started the throw up in my mouth. Something about “...the only thing wrong with slavery...”. GTFOH!!!
That’s perversely funny as hell!!!
If they did white folks wouldn’t be fighting against change so hard.
Now suppose, just suppose...what happens if this theory of “self-correction” somehow “inconceivably” backfires in a few years? And POC suddenly find that this unfettered capitalism is instead “somehow, astoundingly” reversing many of their most hard-fought historical victories, in the arena a civil rights. But...now…
No, there’s another simpler and much more honest way — albeit much more painful.
Here’s an interesting perspective on that first letter.
Now go to any major city in America, on any day of the year, and try to hail a taxi. Now guess how many black MILLIONAIRES alone can’t do that?
I think you underestimate sick-ass people like Stephen Miller.
The frighteningly simple, yet still almost completely invisible answer, is to begin to make them aware of the accumulating deadly consequences (addictions, suicides, etc.) just within their own families and societies, if they DON’T go all in on stopping it. And to finally STOP trying to appeal to their sense of…