RE: Double standards? white guy gets shot by black cop in a similar situation days apart
August 29, 2014 at 9:01 am
(August 28, 2014 at 12:15 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(August 27, 2014 at 11:28 pm)Drich Wrote: Ahh, no. This was the case maybe 20 years ago, but soceity is quickly dividing into the haves and the have nots. Those who have may subdivide themselves, but for the most part especially since the market crash the haves rally and support one another while the have nots continue to live fight and bicker like it was 20 years ago.
Those who have generally only want more, and have the business sense to be diverse enough to work with and cash in when and where ever they can. That is why race is not generally an issue. Those who have not hold on to the past, because this anger and hate is apart of them, and it is a lot easier to blame each other (other have nots of a different color) than to blame themselves for taking the easy out every chance they get.
You just conceded my point. So, thank you. In twenty years, after centuries of institutional racism, everything should have corrected itself? Twenty years. Listen to yourself. In what fantasy world do you live in? And the penal system, namely the so-called War on Drugs, still predominately targets minorities for "crimes" whites are equally likely to commit, while yet avoiding jail time, as current statistics demonstrate. The schools in many majority black communities remain in shambles and as Chuck pointed out already, the money in this country still primarily flows from the hands of white people to other white people.
It seems you do not understand the arguement.
I am not saying the feelings of superority and persecution have not gone away by soceity as a whole. I am saying the major division is no longer determined by the color of skin like it was 20 years ago, unless you are still poor. Poor people still segergate themselves by skin color because they have no other way of hating each other. Rich people may still look at each other with a sideway glance, but money is the great equalizer. I don't think their isn't a white affluent man alive who would not kiss a black butt if it meant more money
So... No I did not conceed the arguement I simply added a variable you could not address.