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That's not what he said.

That's not what he said.

I see y'all hear quite well when you think you're being called prejudiced or racist. But you never want to listen to the why behind why people are saying that.

That's dumb. If you're talking you certainly aren't listening in a manner that says you care what the other person is saying.

Do you make it a point to talk when your boss is talking? Do you make it a point to talk when the pastor is talking on Sunday morning? I'll venture you sit back and listen so that you can clearly hear and try to understand what is being said.

Hard to be heard when you're dead.

Do yall even realize how much white privilege colors what we say? If somebody wants to incite, they are within their rights to do so. When black people are seeing other unarmed black people shot and killed by the police again and again and hearing the stories again and again and seeing the police officers go uncharged again and again, they have every reason to incite. That seems to be the only thing white people seem to take notice of and not so much because of their reasons for doing it, but because then some white people get to say again there they go acting like animals and thugs again.

But you never hear white political conservatives talking about the incited riots that took place after Joe Paterno was fired. Nobody on the right mentions the incited riot of the Pumpkin Festival in New Hampshire this year. And gosh, let somebody's college football team lose, and all Hades breaks out.


When you've been marginalized, you do what you need to do to be heard. In many cases, the white privileged perspective isn't expected to understand that because those with that perspective haven't experienced that reality.

 

And you're saying the same thing that many Blacks are saying about Whites. But when they call out the bias of white privilege, white people get upset.

Why would you expect anyone outraged at what has systematically been going on in the United States to not use inflammatory words? They're inflamed and outraged at a country who would dare speak to the acts of inhumanity around the world, to a church that would speak to the heinousness of abortion in this country, while being complicit in the systematic mistreatment and killing again and again of a segment of the population.

So yeah. I don't fault them for using inflammatory language .

What fact did he ignore and lie?

Exactly. You shut down and stopped reading the same way a lot of white people do when a black person mentions anything to do with race. You marginalized what he had to say and thus didn't read it the same way that a lot of white people marginalize what Blacks have to say and just write it off as them being racist themselves or responsible for not acting right around the police.

White privilege says that I must be the one to frame the conversation and it must be fostered in a way that I get to lead the discussion. But you weren't trying to have a discussion except for on your terms and within the parameters that you set.

That does nothing but perpetuate the same air of privilege that existed when black people were slaves and told when they could speak and how they could speak.

 

Naah. You're just trying to incite.

Noticeably your reading comprehension skills have seemingly gone from bad to worse.

 

:applause: And this is perhaps why he said to stop talking and all the other stuff and just listen for one minute. Take the time and listen and entertain the fact that though I may not be able to relate, and although it may not be my truth because it's not a reality that I've experienced, how can I dismiss them and say that what they experience everyday is untruthful and nonfactual?

 

Why would I do that? What does what you said about Ferguson have to do with what we're talking about right now? I didn't say that you condemned anyone.

I just said he should be tried. It didn't matter if it was misconduct, manslaughter or murder. But there should have at least been a trial. The prosecutors twice bypassed due process because they did not want to prosecute.

It's biased because you're looking at a version of the facts. You're not necessarily looking at the truth. There's a difference. And there's enough of a difference that you hold a trial and let a jury decide.

 

Yes here I go again. Personal experience does define reality. You may not think that police officers are systematically killing black men, but their reality may say otherwise to them.

And that has nothing to do with the systematic killing of unarmed black men by police officers. Is the same thing happening to white men?

As I mentioned in anther thread

As a general rule, nothing that white people do seems to get them shot by law enforcement.
Not walking around in a big box store with semi-automatic weapons (though standing in one with an air rifle gets you killed if you’re black); not assaulting two officers, even in the St. Louis area, a mere five days after Mike Brown was killed; not pointing a loaded weapon at three officers and demanding that they—the police—”drop their f****** guns;” not committing mass murder in a movie theatre before finally being taken alive; not proceeding in the wake of that event to walk around the same town in which it happened carrying a shotgun; and not killing a cop so as to spark a “revolution,” and then leading others on a two month chase through the woods before being arrested with only a few scratches.

I doubt you are a fan of that truth.