11 Aug 2012, 12:08 pm
HisDivineMajesty wrote:
It is impossible that poverty is a major independent cause in that; other cultural groups have worked their way out of poverty with relative ease over the course of two generations, while African-Americans have been going for about fifteen decades after slavery was abolished, and are at a level of wealth and education well beneath that of other cultural groups that arrived three or four decades ago.
The ignorance of basic American history revealed in this statement numbs the mind. Do you honestly believe that African-Americans had it easy after slavery was abolished? Do you honestly believe that Black Codes, Jim Crow, sundown towns, wealth gaps, and ongoing racial discrimination in the US never happened? For God's sake, black men without a criminal record in the US have a lower chance of being hired for jobs than equally qualified white men with criminal records, and yet you expect us to believe that everything went hunky-dory for black people after the Emancipation?
I knew wingnuts were self-delusional. but this takes the cake.
It shouldn't surprise us that recent Asian and other immigrants into the US have a socioeconomic advantage over blacks. Not only do a larger proportion of them come from relatively privileged backgrounds (how else could they afford to move into the US from overseas in the first goddamn place?), but they benefit from "model minority" stereotypes and even fetishism to a greater extent than blacks (although they still suffer some racism). In fact your using them to prove black people are cultural degenerates is a textbook demonstration of precisely how much American society values Asians over Africans.
Ironically, you couldn't even type your uneducated babbling in the first place without African people inventing hieroglyphs which would ultimately evolve into the written script we use today. For that matter, without African influences on Western civilization, you and I would still be living in wooden huts in northern Europe (not that living in huts is necessarily bad, but given how your ilk fetishizes technology...)!
11 Aug 2012, 2:24 pm
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11 Aug 2012, 4:37 pm
BrandonSP wrote:
HisDivineMajesty wrote:
It is impossible that poverty is a major independent cause in that; other cultural groups have worked their way out of poverty with relative ease over the course of two generations, while African-Americans have been going for about fifteen decades after slavery was abolished, and are at a level of wealth and education well beneath that of other cultural groups that arrived three or four decades ago.
The ignorance of basic American history revealed in this statement numbs the mind. Do you honestly believe that African-Americans had it easy after slavery was abolished? Do you honestly believe that Black Codes, Jim Crow, sundown towns, wealth gaps, and ongoing racial discrimination in the US never happened? For God's sake, black men without a criminal record in the US have a lower chance of being hired for jobs than equally qualified white men with criminal records, and yet you expect us to believe that everything went hunky-dory for black people after the Emancipation?
I knew wingnuts were self-delusional. but this takes the cake.It shouldn't surprise us that recent Asian and other immigrants into the US have a socioeconomic advantage over blacks. Not only do a larger proportion of them come from relatively privileged backgrounds (how else could they afford to move into the US from overseas in the first goddamn place?), but they benefit from "model minority" stereotypes and even fetishism to a greater extent than blacks (although they still suffer some racism). In fact your using them to prove black people are cultural degenerates is a textbook demonstration of precisely how much American society values Asians over Africans.
Ironically, you couldn't even type your uneducated babbling in the first place without African people inventing hieroglyphs which would ultimately evolve into the written script we use today. For that matter, without African influences on Western civilization, you and I would still be living in wooden huts in northern Europe (not that living in huts is necessarily bad, but given how your ilk fetishizes technology...)!
Very well said.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
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