Thoughts and prayers

I find it funny that Jalops unanimously hate Lexus’ styling, and yet every non-Jalop I’ve asked unanimously loves it. I know you guys are weird and love diesel wagons, but damn, you guys are dead wrong on this.

Good god, why do you think poverty is so endemic in that population? Systematic denial of liberty, rights, educational, and economic opportunity over hundreds of years didn’t just go away at the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Something like that would take many generations, and while progress is being made, it’s…

Except the reason they are where they are is due to race and unfortunately as this election proved, plenty of people are racist still. I’ll agree that the solution is multi faceted though and needs to be attacked in a variety of ways, some of which do require work in the community itself. But none of those ways…

Holy shit. So you actually think that you just made a valid historical comparison? Because there was slavery that involved white Europeans and not Americans? What exactly does that have to do with the United States? Those slaves were not made into a permanent underclass, nor was it in any way equivalent to the chattel…

I used to think like you until maybe 15 years ago when I started realizing that the decades and decades of substandard education and institutionalized lack of access to capital will take decades more to overcome. Sure, things are better than when we kept slaves. Things are better since African Americans were given the…

“imagined as being in a position of power”

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…