(October 12, 2021 at 1:09 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:

(October 10, 2021 at 5:12 pm)Lawz Wrote: I promise you I am stone cold sober. 

Read the OP again, mate: anger at PERCEIVED ubiquitous anti-black racism causes crime, financial (career) disenfranchisement, rage etc.

It's virtually all in the mind Boru - yes there's a BIT of genuine anti-black looking racism, but the vast majority DESPISE racism, and the constant banging on about anti-black looking racism, reminiscing ad nauseum perpetual about slavery (12 years a slave?) and BLM...then you've got shit like the recent films of RZA....the list in recent times is practically endless, but the EVIDENCE of actual anti-black profound and ubiquitous racism? Missing. Case in point: there is NO EVIDENCE of racism in the killing of George Floyd, yet it blew BLM up in the news and made it a global movement.

Just…

Wow.

Glad to impress.

Quote:Glad to impress.

She wasn't impressed

Evidence?

I’m not impressed.

I'm a big Clive Barker fan. I don't hero worship or go gaga for celebrities. I just don't. ...but I'd get his signature tattooed on my neck.

Every time I see this thread, I wish it were about the movies.

I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but racism is alive and well in the year 2021 and will probably be going strong for several more years to come.

(November 11, 2021 at 7:57 pm)T.J. Wrote: I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but racism is alive and well in the year 2021 and will probably be going strong for several more Millennia to come.

FTFY. Even if everybody was the same exact color, people would find a way to discriminate- short-tall, fat-skinny, etc. A lot of assholes in the world.

(November 11, 2021 at 7:57 pm)T.J. Wrote: I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but racism is alive and well in the year 2021 and will probably be going strong for several more years to come.

 What an interesting flair for understatement you have.

It's my understanding that people of the Middle Kingdom as well those living in The Land Of The rising Sun, still consider themselves  to be the only civilised people on earth. 

Systemic racism remains throughout the US and in my own country. In my opinion it will take at least another century to grow through it.

Came upon this guy while watching  a Amanpour broadcast. Don't know if it fits in this discussion but thought I'd throw it in. 

Quote:McWhorter argues that certain strains of anti-racism and its adherents have effectively created a religion, and a zealous one, that stifles nuance and debate. His new book is called Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.

There are people "whose devotion is less to changing lives for people who need help than showing that they understand that racism and especially systemic racism exists," McWhorter tells Morning Edition.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/105265097...rs-on-race

(November 11, 2021 at 11:56 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:

(November 11, 2021 at 7:57 pm)T.J. Wrote: I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but racism is alive and well in the year 2021 and will probably be going strong for several more years to come.

 What an interesting flair for understatement you have.

It's my understanding that people of the Middle Kingdom as well those living in The Land Of The rising Sun, still consider themselves  to be the only civilised people on earth. 

Systemic racism remains throughout the US and in my own country. In my opinion it will take at least another century to grow through it.

I could really only speak for what I've seen from my own country. I don't know enough about the rest of the world to comment, but what you said doesn't surprise me.