Would it be racist if Kid Rock came out with a "White is King"?
Tis a query
shareNo doubt many people would see it as racist even if it was justified with something similar to how they've tried to justify "black is king".
I very much doubt black is king is racist but who knows, everyone is jumping on to the white bashing bandwagon right now but the title is clearly racially charged at the very least.
I haven't seen or heard Black is King so I can't judge it but the title is absolute beyond any doubt, RACIST.
I agree. It's probably not meant as such but it projects a "Blacks are above" vibe. Not great to appease tensions...
shareI'm sure Beyonce doesn't care about stoking the racial fire. I'm guessing she's nice and safe and secure in a fortress home, no doubt in a gated community with armed guards. Screw all the poor black neighbourhoods, black owned businesses and low income housing that are being burnt down and all the livelihoods lost. Not to mention lives being lost. I'm sure she's happy to join in with the sheep shouting "fuck the police" "de-fund the police" but who do you think she's going to call when the mob get to her neighbourhood...She'll have them arrested in a heartbeat.
shareWhat you just explained is nothing but an alternate reality to some people. They act like they care but really... it's not their problem.
shareExactly. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the world from "They Live" where there are glasses to see what's really going on but I don't need glasses here. I'm just seeing all this shit go down like "wtf guys". It's crazy.
shareThe only reason white people feel that pro black movements are anti white is because 'pro white' movements have always been anti black.
Well, the anti white elements help too...
shareWhat, exactly, is anti white about wanting equality and representation?
shareWhilst there are absolutely genuine motivations behind BLM, you have to be blind to overlook the ironic racism they spout and the racism that surrounds it.
Take for instance the September issue of British Vogue. I was reading an article about it and I had to check it didn't come from The Onion. It stated "The photoshoot was also conducted with a predominantly black team on set." I just found that weird. I wonder if there was a sign up "no whites allowed" or perhaps they were segregated in a different area...
All these people going on about just wanting equality and representation can't see the wood for the trees.
Literally forever BIPOC were not given equal opportunities, so what is wrong with having a 'predominantly' black team? It did not say exclusively black. And even if it did, a lot of times, different ethnic groups had to make their own groups and clubs, because, quite frankly, they were not welcome into ours.
shareI just think it's counterproductive. They don't like how they've been treated in the past, fair enough. To then go and do the same thing to other races because that's what been done to them? Madness. Making decisions on hiring, exclusions, that's racist. Basing anything (within reason) on skin colour is racist at the end of the day. And yes, I know it said it was not exclusively black. It just struck me as odd, like they were proud of it. How can you get rid of racism when people are still practicing it and it's being celebrated?
shareYou have to look at it differently. They are not practicing racism, they are giving opportunities to people that have not been able to get them for a long time. If nobody ever gives them a chance, how will they ever be able to gain the experience to be hired based on that?
shareBy giving someone a chance because they are black you are at the same time removing that chance from someone for simply being white, that is racism. The cure is to look past color and hire by competence.
shareExactly. This is why California wants to repeal civil rights law, so they can persecute white people legally! Absolute madness.
shareIt just doesn't fly with me. Most white people don't just magically get given these supposed advantages, they're earned. You go to school, you work hard, you learn, get good grades, go to university/learn a trade, make money, buy a house, start a family etc. This process is not exclusive to white people.
shareThat is exactly where it starts. Most of the things you listed, are part of white privilege.
If you are in a school that is in an area that has been redlined, it becomes a LOT harder to learn anything, let alone get good grades. And not everyone is able to go to school until adulthood.
All the information is out there, you just have to be open to learning it. There is a reason when someone makes it out of generational poverty, its called beating the odds.
Interesting you bring up redlining. Look at Baltimore. Under Democrat control for 53 years and look at the state it's in...And yet, the Democrats are supposedly the party for black people. They clearly don't care.
"All the information is out there, you just have to be open to learning it." That's quite a powerful statement when you think about it. The Internet is one of the, if not the best learning resource available to a person. OK, maybe your school was crap and you couldn't get a good education but go on the Internet and you can pretty much learn how to do anything if you put your mind to it, short of specialist subjects of course. Learn plastering, bricklaying, coding, whatever. There are loads of skills that can be self taught that can earn you a living.
I couldn't get my head around why generational poverty exists so I did some research on it. To me, it certainly seems that government welfare policies are to blame.
The illegitimacy rate in the US in 1986 in general among black people was 55%. As high as 80/90% in some places such as New York and Washington DC.
This was not always the case in the US. In 1940, the rate was 12%. In 1918, the rate for black people was less than white people. So why the increase? If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. Subsidizing the cost of having children out of wedlock through welfare programs results in more more single mothers that are unable to provide for themselves and their children. Of course in addition to having children out of wedlock becoming more and more acceptable socially.
It certainly seems like the welfare state did more to destroy black families than slavery and reconstruction. Black families were far more stable in the reconstruction period. In New York in 1920, 80% of all black children lived in 2 parent families. Up until 1960, it was 75%, slightly less than the white family rate. In 1986 it was around 42% and has obviously continued to..
decline.
The destruction of the family unit is what massively contributes to poverty. Which is why it is so worrying that one of the aims of BLM is just that.
Info taken from a talk by Walter E Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzNYCPZXvlw
Younger generations of black people have had the exact same opportunities as white people. Using crap from the past does not excuse a black person being racist.
shareYou can say that, but it doesn't make it true.....
shareNo, the facts make it true.
sharePerhaps you should try using some if you know that.....
shareThe law guarantees that every single citizen has the same rights and that's a fact. Meanwhile, you've only been spouting diarrhea.
shareYeah cuz people never break the law lol
shareGot any facts to back up that white people break that law more often than anyone else? Affirmative action does seem to break that law, though. Lol, your delusions are funny.
shareWhere did I say that? All people break the law.
shareIf white people don't break that law more often than others, then everybody has the same rights and you just need to shut up.
shareThat makes no sense at all. Do you even read what you write? I suggest going back to the beginning and reading it all again.....
shareIt only doesn't make sense to you because you lack reading skills. Which was already clear from your previous reply.
We were talking about the law that guarantees the same rights for everybody. As long as you can't back it up with facts that white people break that law more often than others, your argument holds no water.
Like I already stated, people break the law all the time.
Whether white people break the law more often than other people is irrelevant. It still happens, often and casually.
Absolutely not irrelevant. Your counterargument to my point that the law guarantees equal opportunities for all, was that people break the law. Unless you can prove that white people break that law more often than others, you have no argument whatsoever against the fact that white and black people have the exact same opportunities.
shareWhat does that rate at which white people break the law compared to other races have to do with systemic racism issues that do not allow for equality? Not a damn thing.....
shareYOU claim that black and white people don't have the exact same opportunities because people break the law that guarantees equal rights for everyone. You need to back it up with statistics that show white people do that more often than others to prove that claim.
Dang, you entirely lack comprehension skills.
It isn's my comprehension, it is that what you are trying to connect has no connection.....
When Jerome brings a resume into an office and the manager throws it out because she can tell he is black, by his name alone, technically she is breaking the laws that you are claiming protects him.
Like I really need to break it all down? Are you not able to do any critical thinking at all?
They literally teach classes in this subject in nearly every post secondary institution in North America.....maybe investigate that if you need someone to lecture you to each individual way this happens.
YOU are the one who made that connection, so yes, you most certainly lack comprehension skills.
"When Jerome brings a resume into an office and the manager throws it out because she can tell he is black, by his name alone, technically she is breaking the laws that you are claiming protects him."
Right, and now we're back at where we started. Do you have any statistics that show white people break those laws more often than others? Also, fictional Jerome thinking that's why the manager never got back to him does not make it a fact.
Education is your friend.....
shareYou can't educate without FACTS.
shareFacts are still facts, regardless if you understand them or not. Like I said, there are classes taught on this very subject literally everywhere.....take one.
shareNo thanks, I already have a master's degree. I'm not interested in paying for useless classes that don't even appeal to me when it's so much easier if you provide me with statistics that show white people more often break the laws that guarantee equal rights for all.
shareMarxist organizers are genuine alright but not the way you expect. Today's whites are yesterdays kulaks.
shareCould you please explain what 'Equality' and 'Representation' that Black people aren't getting?
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