Attack the person not the idea. Congrats. "Structural racism" is made up. This is a country that elected a black president twice. There are black billionaires. Right now Asians make more per capita as a minority group than the majority whites. Our structure to hold down minorities is really failing there.

Yet, you want to say that our entire society is set-up to hold black people down. If this is the case then why didn't the black president do anything about it when he was in power or make a bigger issue about it?

I also love that you championed bringing back the poster who said black people are trash, while saying I'm the most worthless person here. That's straight up bullshit. I have a more hopeful outlook than our society is broken, and we can't ever fix it. I also would love to know what laws need to be changed to fix the "structural racism" that no one can clearly define or talk about how to fix.

What country in the world is there more opportunity for black people? Is structural racism also to blame for Africa having the lowest GNP of any continent? If it's so racist here why not go back to Africa to become billionaires?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

None of this will be answered and instead, you will just be labeled a bigot.

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You mean like you did with Coates?

None of these things is inconsistent with the existence of structural racism, no more than saying "I have a black friend" proves a person isn't racist.
The entire society doesn't have to be oriented solely towards holding minorities down for there to nevertheless still be structural and systemic obstacles that come down on them.Because Obama at his core is a neoliberal who had as little interest in racial justice as he had in economic justice.
I mentioned several things in my previous post, which you glossed over to continue to whine that the existence of structural racism itself is made up. Coates himself mentions several things in "The Case for Reparations."
No, it's probably their poor IQs and mediocre phrenological features, as explicated by acclaimed scientist Charles Murray and his colleagues from Mankind Quarterly.

WOW!!!

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

This response is embarrassing. I attacked Coates on his ideas. He was happy white people died on 9/11.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Good to have you back, buddy!

No you said nothing about his ideas at all and managed the rare feat of being even more dismissive than me. Don't pretend you brought anything substantive to the table while calling him a gimmick several pages ago.

I'm glad to see you were quickly able to Google some right-wing talking points about him now though. If you read the 9/11 quote, he never expressed any kind of happiness at all about 9/11 but merely lack of sympathy for the firefighters and cops. But beyond that, he specifically says his attitude changed in the very next paragraph of that out of context quote anyway.

Welcome back!

Rubbish. The American economic recovery was one of the worst recoveries ever under Obama. The guy simply didn't know how to grow an economy and stifled economic opportunity for all. YOu just hate Trump and won't give him the credit that he deserves.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Yeah...….. It seems to be the mantra now for the pseudo intellectual socialists now. Structural Racism. And of course REPARATIONS. I guess if a guy's great great great grandfather was a slave, I owe this guy something? Hilarious.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

It is a made-up term. When affirmative action failed, black socialists had to come up with something else in order to coax sympathy out of white guilt so structural racism and reparations became popular jargon.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

I gotta say these CFMB racism convos are getting more and more exhausting.

Are any white people on the board experiencing racism IN REAL LIFE every day? Or even once a week? Once a month?

Can we just go back to clowning each other about bad sports thoughts?

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Not so sure how welcome I am. I really just want to post about sports and leave the political stuff alone, BUT I can't stop myself from reading the threads even if I don't comment. That's a problem.

We have one poster who hated generalizations, labeling and name calling of white Trump voters so much that he metamorphosed into a stereotypical President Trump supporter. When I read his posts about blacks, Democrats, or posters who have the same views he once had, he is almost always doing at least 1 of the 3 things that he claimed to hate. Makes me wonder if he ever decides to read his own thoughts will he change back to a liberal.

We have several posters who would be the first to rightly point out the structural issues in America that have created generational poverty for many whites, but they'll do all they can not to acknowledge the impact these structural issues may have on some ethnic minorities. Despite also arguing that our structural issues is the primary reason why many people of all colors voted for the president or should support the president.

We have one poster who may be the most sensitive on the board when it comes to being labeled, BUT somehow he spends a good chunk of his time labeling others or making offensive accusations because he's easily frustrated when challenged.

We have many people complaining about the treatment of black conservatives. Complaining about them being labeled Uncle Tom's and having their thoughts unfairly dismissed by some blacks. Somehow the same white people doing the complaining don't realize or care how the statements they make about white men or women who aren't waving a MAGA flag or have different views on race sound. People like Zeph are immediately shamed for not taking a "pro white" stance. They're told that they hate themselves, have white guilt, are woke, are race police and are called the real racists. They're literally doing the same thing (or worse) to white people who see the world differently than them that they complain about some blacks doing to black conservatives.

We even had a "back to Africa" argument.

For better or worse tribalism has taken over CFMB. Scapegoating Toxic or America or JLN doesn't change that. I'll try to have enough self control to keep most of my bad thoughts to the sports sections. That's typically the place that unites everyone regardless of how you look or where you come from.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

You should just stick to posting gifs and pseudo memes.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

It may come down to that.

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Were they ever not exhausting?

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You know me like that.

Historically, any sports thoughts you have are bad.

As far as any of the rest of your thoughts, they’re just ‘white’ noise.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

You're right, but it's just getting weirder and weirder.

It seems those of us who have love for everybody are being shamed more and more.

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I think MANY people in the country don't realize how cancerous tribalism is.

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Nothing about my Trump and Bush comments pertained to them "sucking". It did pertain to them getting special treatment however.

There was nothing merit based about them attending Yale and Penn. The fact that you immediately spun it into something else suggests quite a bit.

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I did. But I still bought a ton of popcorn from those kids.

It was just OK. Overpriced.

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You know me like that.

I don’t think I’m in the ‘minority’ wishing whoever hacked jbills computer those many years ago would do it again and stop this nonsense.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

No one hacked anyone's PC bud.

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We all knew that. You were the one who didn’t and claimed otherwise.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Sometimes when you're at a serious low point in your life you say things that are exaggerated, paranoid, and incorrect.

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That’s cool. Are you at a peak or a trough now?

Maybe just stick to gifs and memes. Nobody really gives a shit about those. You and your computer are safe.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I'm good now. Everything seems to be on the up and up. Thanks for asking.

Idk if you've noticed, but no one who posts here is of any more significance than anyone else. This is an internet message board. About as outdated as listening to sports radio, but MANY of us can't give it up.

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Welcome back nonetheless. I think most people are groping for a way to explain a nation that was significantly different forty years ago. My own cognitive dissonance--when I am made aware of it--is alarming.

I’m happy you’re good. Nobody here is hacking anything of yours. That’s cool.

You’re at a peak. I’m glad for you. You should kneel at the alter of Trump for your newfound lot in life.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

Thanks man. I can't kneel at the alter of that guy, but I am happy he kept the oilfield alive.

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