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Sneaker Heathen: Come on bro, you know White privilege is a myth created by minorities to stick it back to the man.
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so it's the white man's fault?Originally Posted by SneakerHeathen
Originally Posted by Gordon Gekko 979
This thread is a joke.. how come know of you guys address how the black community disregards education but then are surprised when they have low social standings? think about it for a second, mini al sharptons.
You obviously don't understand social pigeonholing and the effect it has on young people.Nor effects of gentrification, and HOW it effects a community. You sir are ignorant to all these and many other factors. You can't be properly educated if their isn't a proper education system in place, nor if society had placed predisposed roles upon you.
Furthermore you are blinded by PRIVILEGE, something you have failed to grasp an understanding of. I refuse to waste my time with bigots though, I'm not even going to elaborate myself to a person whom chooses (and furthermore EMBRACES) ignorance.
Originally Posted by kix4kix
I see no excuses, only acknowledgement of where the issues originate from. Solutions are much more difficult than enlightenment. You claim excuses, why do you think they aren't in AP classes, because they are lazy? Oh that is right, BLACKS do not care about education.
Originally Posted by Gordon Gekko 979
Originally Posted by kix4kix
I see no excuses, only acknowledgement of where the issues originate from. Solutions are much more difficult than enlightenment. You claim excuses, why do you think they aren't in AP classes, because they are lazy? Oh that is right, BLACKS do not care about education.
because their families aren't pushing education i guess.
im just going to address this topic.Originally Posted by Gordon Gekko 979
For example, my school is 60% black. but in all the honors/AP classes there are very little blacks, it's mostly whites/asians/middle easterns. so is it the governments fault also? everyone has the same opportunity, but people aren't taking it?
Wordy. Universal declaration of human rights ftw? I've never heard of such a declaration.Originally Posted by Dey Know Yayo
i will never know what it feels like to be a slave. but neither will any other black american living today. there is more intratribal slavery in africa between black people than there is slavery against blacks by whites in the world today.
the way to fix the race problem is to stop trying to defend races. "all humans should be treated equal" actually is a commonly held axiom now, for the first time in the history of the world. universal declaration of human rights ftw. clearly not everyone follows and believes in it but people who don't believe in it have to resort to subtle racism, as extroverted claims that one race is weaker than another are harshly derided by the mainstream public. there is no need to defend races. the common ground for solidarity shouldn't be past struggles between one race and another. it should be the solidarity between all humans, as mankind.
today's blacks cannot be grouped with the blacks of 150 years ago. the same conditions do not pervade american society. there are tangential effects from less fortunate times that black people still have to deal with, yes. but to group all black people of the last 200 years under the same guise of racial persecution is a TRAVESTY and DISHONOR to any black person's ancestors.
the truth is, black people once being kings and africa being man's original homeland lends more to black supremacy than it does to racial equality. please read my posts and reply to them, instead of repeatedly stating that "i will never know what it is like to be a black man." that is a logical fallacy and lends 0 credence to your "argument"
Africa being mans original homeland has nothing to do with black supremacy. Rather, the perception of the black race since humans migrated fromAfrica. There would not have been slavery if blacks weren't perceived as barbaric, and uncivilized, two accusations that dominate western culture attitudetowards Africans and the eastern world.
The whole point is that race based ideology was completely wrong in the first place. If we all come from Africa then that makes us all barbaric anduncivilized.
so it's the white man's fault?
and ericberry, im not even talking bad, i'm just amazed at these kind of topics. from my point of view it looks like these are all excuses instead of looking for solutions to fix the problems. For example, my school is 60% black. but in all the honors/AP classes there are very little blacks, it's mostly whites/asians/middle easterns. so is it the governments fault also? everyone has the same opportunity, but people aren't taking it?
and seriously, no one should dare call me a racisti've had these exact topics with black teachers are school, and they all tend to agree with my views. one of them said; "most of these kid's parents are just as ignorant as they are". i'm not even trying to start beef, i'm just trying to get you guys to look at it from a different point of view.
NOBODY ever claimed to shy away from our responsibility as students and learners.
IT IS the white mans fault for holding back black education for years in this country. IT DOES matter today.
I hate when people like you make an argument and notion that racism is a cop out, yet show no ability to make a citation or reference to back up your claim.
History will prove you wrong.
B Smooth 202 wrote:
so it's the white man's fault?
and ericberry, im not even talking bad, i'm just amazed at these kind of topics. from my point of view it looks like these are all excuses instead of looking for solutions to fix the problems. For example, my school is 60% black. but in all the honors/AP classes there are very little blacks, it's mostly whites/asians/middle easterns. so is it the governments fault also? everyone has the same opportunity, but people aren't taking it?
and seriously, no one should dare call me a racisti've had these exact topics with black teachers are school, and they all tend to agree with my views. one of them said; "most of these kid's parents are just as ignorant as they are". i'm not even trying to start beef, i'm just trying to get you guys to look at it from a different point of view.
NOBODY ever claimed to shy away from our responsibility as students and learners.
IT IS the white mans fault for holding back black education for years in this country. IT DOES matter today.
I hate when people like you make an argument and notion that racism is a cop out, yet show no ability to make a citation or reference to back up your claim.
History will prove you wrong.
Well said.
Originally Posted by ShoxBb433
Can we address media/TV/music in regards to black culture. I honestly think this is the #1 problem among our community. When you see your people portrayed in these same stereotypes so many times, it's only a matter of time before you feel like that is how you should be living. I grew up emulating Diddy, Jay Z ect. and these dudes were definitely not good role-models. All my counterparts end up in prison because they are trying to be like these rappers who media basically forced us to idolize.
While there is some evidence Neanderthals once occupied the plains of Eastern Europe, they seem to have been scarce or absent there during the last glacial period when modern humans arrived, he said. The lack of competitors like the Neanderthals might have been the chief attraction to the area and the reason why modern humans first entered this part of Europe, Hoffecker said.
"Unlike the Neanderthals, modern humans had the ability to devise new technologies for coping with cold climates and less than abundant food resources," he said. "The Neanderthals, who had occupied Europe for more than 200,000 years, seem to have left the back door open for modern humans. "
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/12.html
Early humans were nomadic and depended heavily on their surrounding environment. This caused human development to take place in different stages in differentplaces. Technology progressed rapidly during the stone age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_humansModern humans (i.e. @++@ sapiens sapiens) are believed to have emerged at least 250,000 years ago in Africa. Though these humans were modern in anatomy, their lifestyle changed very little from their contemporaries such as @++@ erectus and the Neanderthals. They used the same crude stone tools. Archaeologist Richard G. Klein, who has worked extensively on ancient stone tools, describes the stone tool kit of archaic hominids as impossible to categorize. It was as if when the Neanderthals went to make a stone tool they weren't really concerned about its final form. He argues that almost everywhere, whether Asia or Africa or Europe, before 50,000 years ago all the stone tools are very much alike and unsophisticated. However after 50,000 years ago there is sharp increase in the diversity of artifacts. For the first time bone artifacts, and the first art appear in the fossil record in Africa. The first evidence of human fishing is also noted from artifact in places like Blombos cavein South Africa. After 50,000 years ago, firstly in Africa, it was found that human artifacts could be placed into many different categories, such as projectile points, engraving tools, knife blades, and drilling and piercing tools. These new stone tool types have been described as being distinctly differentiated from each other as if each tool had a specific name. 3000 to 4000 years later this technology spread to Europe resulting in a population explosion of modern humans and also the extinction of the Neanderthals. The invaders commonly referred to as the Cro-Magnons left many sophisticated stone tools, cave art and Venus figurines.[sup][1][/sup][sup][2][/sup][sup][3][/sup] This shift from Middle to Upper Paleolithic is called the Upper Paleolithic Revolution. The Neanderthals continued to use Mousterian stone tool technology.
Battle Cave, ancient dwelling-place of the Bushmen (San) in the Injusati valley in the Drakensberg mountains, famous for its scenes depicting the San people's way of life and their rock art on the cave walls - History of South Africa
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Around 12,000 years ago during the Neolithic Revolution, h0m0 sapiens sapiens (us) began the domestication of animals and pastoralism (food production), whichchanged the world and set the stage for the great civilizations of Northern and West Africa
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why are you in this thread. where has anybody tried to do anything that was even remotely divisive. people are just trying to learn more abouttheir ancestral heritage & where they came from & they great things our ancestors achieved so we can have more of a sense of pride about being black.Originally Posted by Dey Know Yayo
today's black people share more in common with today's white people than they do with the black people of 200 years ago.