This class is offered in America, is it not? I’d be more than happy to discuss the subtle differences between black recent American immigrants and native-born black citizens another time, but I don’t understand why we need to discuss blackness on the African continent (which would take a long time, considering the…

I’d assume the name is controversial on purpose. The issue here isn’t whether or not we like the name, the issue is whether or not we want to live in a world where our congressmen tell us what we’re allowed to learn.

I most certainly have spoken to Africans about “blackness” and their awareness of race is MUCH different than an American’s, but for native-born Americans “blackness” is usually a term used to evoke racial pride, in my experience.

No, because “blackness” does not refer to the systematic oppression of other people.

there is a book called How the Irish Became White, which you’d think doesn’t make any sense! They’re European! They’re the whitest of the white, next to the Nordic!

Sometimes I catch my fellow white people bitching about BET channel, the NAACP, black history classes, and stuff like this, and they always say “there aren’t any good ‘white people’ clubs! and the KKK doesn’t count!!” I always tell my fellow white people that there isn’t any particular reason all white-focused…

Exactly! I mean, you can dissolve a carcass in lye. But I would assume that whatever they used instead is much worse...

I think that the reason that America is all knee-jerk no, though, has more to do with the fact that you’d essentially be experimenting on your baby if there isn’t research. Very few people are willing to do that.

White lady who is not familiar with chemical relaxants here, but when I saw the “no lye!” as a selling point I got a little scared.

Honestly? You literally can’t fight it. Even when they come to you and want to fight, you have to just take it. Even if they’re going to kill you, you have to stand there preaching love. Violence never works. The minute you punch someone back, you’re at fault. Change is slow and generational and it requires sacrifice,…

Correct. Also, they don’t view themselves as neo-nazis and would find that abhorrent. They aren’t racist, they just love racist jokes (jeeze, everyone is offended by everything these days!) and they hate BLM because it’s a terrorist organization, not because it’s full of black people. Just because they don’t want…

Yes, but they are NOT the same as the rednecks I was talking about.

Not in my experience. Most of these guys are seriously lacking in education and definitely harbor sexist views, but also tend to have a healthy dose of benevolent sexism too that I don’t see in MRAs.

My cousin used to be a total wangster, but after his 3rd round of parole they put him on some farm where he decided he was instead a racist redneck. He used to be all on the cutting edge, now he pretends not to know how to access facebook on his phone.

You think that laws are what causes gossip? What?

I have a feeling you believe in it more than you’re saying, or you’d have given up already, but to address your actual point: change is slow and generational, and this social media crap is new. All you know is what they think as long as they’re in your class, you don’t see the seeds you planted that haven’t sprouted…

I skimmed the article, but it looks to me like this is talking about spending on K-12, not education. Furthermore, the article doesn’t make it clear to me whether or not they mean what the government invests, or what United States citizens themselves invest, which would include private school tuition, and finally,…

Yes. I’ve also met people in my life who are educated idiots, but that doesn’t mean education simply doesn’t work. One of the most important lessons I’ve ever had in school was how to deconstruct the media, and you better damn well believe I’ll be including that type of lesson in my own classes.

By defunding education over and over again.

I see where you’re coming from, but we can still learn from this.