So people who have careers are a bad thing?
If their career is race hustling, yes. Yes it absolutely is.
Such as people who write books? Give lectures, and teach on racial issues, and have careers? They deserve to be discredited?
Again, yes. These people are doing more than just earning money and writing scholarly articles, they are sowing division and hatred in society.
For actually working? Contributing to the economy , in an era of increased labor shortages?
By this same rationale, being a contract killer, or a drug dealer, or a pimp should not be condemned. After all, they're just earning a living, and they pump the money they earn back into the economy, so they're working too. If they hurt people... pshaw. What's that compared to the good they do for the economy?
But if they've made a career out of anything related to racial issues or equality, they are automatically horrible people? At least they have a job. They work and generate income.
Yes, they're horrible people. When you set people against each other and stir up bitterness, division, animosity and discord, that is
not an honorable way to earn a living. Deliberate mischief making is not to our society's benefit.
But yes, let's discredit people who have careers, got educations, work and contribute.
If their "contribution" increases social strife and tears apart our society, yes, by all means, let's discredit them. They are gremlins, sabotaging the machinery of a well-running society, and whatever slight good they do by earning and spending money, is
far outweighed by the damage they do to our country's social cohesion and civil society.
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chumbawampa (732)
2 months ago
Who exactly are "these people" that are supposedly earning money talking about racism? Oprah Winfrey? Ta Nehisi Coates? And How is that sowing division and hatred? Simply writing a book on race from their perspective? It's America, do they not have a write to capitalize on a book and get it published? In the land of capitalism $$$? Why is it bad that they've made income and a living? Why is it so bad to simply talk about race? How does that make someone a horrible person?
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maximmm (3335)
2 months ago
BLM, for one. Ever wondered where that came from? Ever wondered why corporate media painted a picture of an angel being chocked by a demon, where it was anything but that?
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Darren (1342)
2 months ago
Who exactly are "these people" that are supposedly earning money talking about racism?
Have you been living under a rock? They've been around for
decades some of them. Some are more recent, but they are well known. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the old guard among the race hustlers. More recent are the likes of Henry Rogers (AKA Ibram X. Kendi) and Robin DiAngelo. Walsh features several more in this movie. Shaun King and Rachel Dolezal are white pretenders who have gotten in on the action.
These are the people Booker T. Washington warned everyone about a century ago when he said: “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
It's America, do they not have a write to capitalize on a book and get it published? In the land of capitalism $$$? Why is it bad that they've made income and a living?
Once
again, by that logic, there is nothing wrong with being a pimp or a drug dealer. Human trafficking is just another career.
Earning a living in such a way that does harm to others, is
dishonorable. How is that I actually have to explain this to you?
Why is it so bad to simply talk about race? How does that make someone a horrible person?
Oh they do more than "simply talk about race," and you damn well know it. They sell the idea that white people and Western civilization are uniquely wicked, that being white is somehow inherently evil, and thus help justify anti-white racism. They pit groups of people against each other. They do harm.
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chumbawampa (732)
2 months ago
Okay. I only read one sentence of your way too long, meandering post.
You call out Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton makes more sense than anyone on MSNBC and is one of the most clear-thinking, intelligent speakers on the entire left. That's all I have to say.
I'm sorry, but Al Sharpton makes sense. He makes A LOT of sense. He's eloquent, well spoken, and he knows what he's talking about. If that's who you want to go after, that's who you want to blame... I think I'm finished with this argument.
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Darren (1342)
2 months ago
There was nothing long or meandering about my post. That's a BS cop out to avoid answering questions you can't answer honestly without conceding points to your opponent.
Al Sharpton is a race-hustling scumbag, who has never apologized for supporting proven liar Tawana Brawley in 1987, or in fanning the flames of a riot in which a Jewish rabbinical scholar had been stabbed to death in 1991. For the past three decades, Sharpton has used his National Action Network to squeeze cash out of major corporations by threatening them with boycotts based on allegations of racism.
Al Sharpton is a lying, grifting, anti-semitic slimeball who has made himself rich from race hustling. That's all I have to say.
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chumbawampa (732)
2 months ago
Race-hustling sounds alot more like what you're doing. In fact, I think that's what's happening. You are hustling race issues for political gain , where as Al Sharpton speaks about race issues, because he cares about it.
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Darren (1342)
2 months ago
I generally hate to respond with LOL, but in this case nothing else fits. This is ludicrously bass ackward.
Al Sharpton doesn't speak about race issues "because he cares about it," he does it because it makes him rich. (He'd be richer still if he didn't owe millions in back taxes.) He raked in $1,046,948 from his own charity in 2018. His salary is never less than six figures. He sold the rights to his life story to his own charity for $531,000.
Race-hustling doesn't sound remotely like what I'm doing. I'm not making a penny off it; Sharpton is making millions.
Your moral inversion is absolute: you see people who criticize grifters as grifters, and refuse to see the actual grifters for what they are, despite all the documented skeezy crap they've done. Up is down. Black is white.
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chumbawampa (732)
2 months ago
Then we'll just have to agree to disagree. Race-hustling is randomly bringing up the issue of 'race' when it has no relevance. Like getting mad at a black guy for simply talking about race on television, and making an issue out of it: THAT's race hustling.
I'm not making a penny off it; Sharpton is making millions.
1. He's not race hustling
2. Once again, and this is a very important point in America: WHAT IS WRONG WITH MAKING MONEY IN AMERICA?? There's NOTHING wrong with making money in America, the land of the $$$ where everyone respects money above all else. Obivously you're just upset because he's made more money than you.
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Darren (1342)
2 months ago
1. He's not race hustling
He's
absolutely race hustling. He's been doing it his whole life. For decades now, every time there is a racially charged incident, anywhere in the U.S., Sharpton gets a on a plane and inserts himself into it. He's managed to turn this into a career, and he's made himself wealthy doing it. This is the textbook definition of race hustling, and it's exactly what Booker T. Washington warned about.
2. Once again, and this is a very important point in America: WHAT IS WRONG WITH MAKING MONEY IN AMERICA??
Once again, there's plenty wrong with it,
when you make money by doing harm. Stoking division, perpetuating grievances, and sowing sectarian strife does society harm, and sometimes leads to violence in which people get physically hurt, even killed.
Now you're seriously pissing me off. If there's one thing I simply cannot abide it's willful obtuseness. I absolutely despise people who play
stupid and keep asking a question that's already been answered.
Obivously you're just upset because he's made more money than you.
Again, LOL.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, the late Steve Jobs, there's an endless list of people who are richer than I'll ever dream of being, and I don't resent or dislike them, because they made their money by
improving society, not damaging it. Sharpton makes his money pitting people against each other. He's a fucking parasite.
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liscarkat (18367)
a month ago
Darren: you are far too smart for the room. But trying to reason with this Chupacabra guy is as futile, to quote Thomas Paine, as administering medicine to the dead.
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TerraFirma69 (2229)
2 months ago
As soon as you praise Al Sharpton as some kind of reasonable figure in this debate, you lose credibility. You must be trolling or joking.
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MCguy (1135)
2 months ago
That poster is not trolling or joking. They are a white liberal. Those are the only people that take Al seriously.
MX warned his people about white liberals.
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