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Celeb News: "No More Playing the Race Card" says Sarah Palin
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Some ppl really do overplay it but there's still so much racism in the world that this statement was not needed especially on MLK day
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part of what she is saying is right. Martin Luther King Jr. argued for a world where people were judged not by the color of their skin, but by the basis/content of their character. Things like affirmative action based on skin color, and on the converse unfair jail/death sentences based on skin color, fly in the face of that.
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It always deeply frightens and disturbs me how such utterly ignorant, uneducated, bigoted minds can come to be in positions of power and influence.
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
part of what she is saying is right. Martin Luther King Jr. argued for a world where people were judged not by the color of their skin, but by the basis/content of their character. Things like affirmative action based on skin color, and on the converse unfair jail/death sentences based on skin color, fly in the face of that.
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No they do NOT. Affirmative action is in place to address issues of systemic inequality that are present because people in this day and age are NOT judged fairly without taking their race into consideration, and because due to history (things like SLAVERY, aka forced labour for generations that prevented an entire race from accumulating wealth for CENTURIES) certain races have been systematically denied wealth and the in-built social network of connections with people in positions of power that allows so many to advance in society. It's about equity, it's about bringing everyone up to the same starting point.
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People like her need to wake up from their delusion and realize America is changing..gays are obtaining more rights, people are becoming more liberal and our nation is becoming a nation of color. People like her want to hold on to their ignorant archaic views. Just go away 🐶
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
It always deeply frightens and disturbs me how such utterly ignorant, uneducated, bigoted minds can come to be in positions of power and influence.
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
No they do NOT. Affirmative action is in place to address issues of systemic inequality that are present because people in this day and age are NOT judged fairly without taking their race into consideration, and because due to history (things like SLAVERY, aka forced labour for generations that prevented an entire race from accumulating wealth for CENTURIES) certain races have been systematically denied wealth and the in-built social network of connections with people in positions of power that allows so many to advance in society. It's about equity, it's about bringing everyone up to the same starting point.
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You are brilliant my dear!!! Educate ha!!!!
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
No they do NOT. Affirmative action is in place to address issues of systemic inequality that are present because people in this day and age are NOT judged fairly without taking their race into consideration, and because due to history (things like SLAVERY, aka forced labour for generations that prevented an entire race from accumulating wealth for CENTURIES) certain races have been systematically denied wealth and the in-built social network of connections with people in positions of power that allows so many to advance in society. It's about equity, it's about bringing everyone up to the same starting point.
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I support affirmative action based on income/wealth. There are rich black people. There are rich hispanic people. They do not need the extra help getting into top universities. At the same time, there are poor Asian people. and poor White people. They had to go through a lot of struggles too. Hence why AA, imo, should be color blind and income conscious. Slavery didn't stop a lot of blacks from succeeding. If all black/hispanic people continue to enjoy affirmative action, rich blacks/hispanics edges out a lot of poorer black people, and not to mention poor people from other races.
Equity means having a fair playing field. You really mean to tell me that a millionaire black family deserves better treatment in college admissions than a below 20k a year Asian family simply because his ancestors were enslaved? (or in many cases, where schools look for anyone who is black, he may not even have been enslaved, but is just an immigrant from Ethiopia, South Africa, etc).
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
I support affirmative action based on income/wealth. There are rich black people. There are rich hispanic people. They do not need the extra help getting into top universities. At the same time, there are poor Asian people. and poor White people. They had to go through a lot of struggles too. Hence why AA, imo, should be color blind and income conscious. Slavery didn't stop a lot of blacks from succeeding. If all black/hispanic people continue to enjoy affirmative action, rich blacks/hispanics edges out a lot of poorer black people, and not to mention poor people from other races.
Equity means having a fair playing field. You really mean to tell me that a millionaire black family deserves better treatment in college admissions than a below 20k a year Asian family simply because his ancestors were enslaved? (or in many cases, where schools look for anyone who is black, he may not even have been enslaved, but is just an immigrant from Ethiopia, South Africa, etc).
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You think when racists whites encounter blacks or other minorities that they hate, they take into account how much money they have? Wealthy blacks are victims of inequality just like poor blacks and during the Civil Rights movement the black bourgeois received harsher treatment in some cases than poor blacks because of obtaining something that was reserved exclusively for whites which was the American dream. Know your history chile before commenting!
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You think when racists whites encounter blacks or other minorities that they hate, they take into account how much money they have? Wealthy blacks are victims of inequality just like poor blacks and during the Civil Rights movement the black bourgeois received harsher treatment in some cases than poor blacks because of obtaining something that was reserved exclusively for whites which was the American dream. Know your history chile before commenting!
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at you equating 50 years ago to today
You mean to tell me Blue Ivy Carter, when she applies for college, DESERVES affirmative action over some trailer park baby just because that baby is white?
the STRETCH
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Using this .gif is so fitting...
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
at you equating 50 years ago to today
You mean to tell me Blue Ivy Carter, when she applies for college, DESERVES affirmative action over some trailer park baby just because that baby is white?
the STRETCH
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I'm going to go to bed and let you seethe in your own ignorance sweetie. Of course Blue Ivy doesn't represent black America. I'm a black man with a Masters and with a relatively decent income, home, and other assets, but when I'm seen by some whites, I'm seen as a threat. The clutched purses, the locked doors, being followed in department stores and stopped by police is something that even I experience as an educated middle class black man. Thank you!
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I'm going to go to bed and let you seethe in your own ignorance sweetie. Of course Blue Ivy doesn't represent America. I'm a black man with a Masters and with a relatively decent income, home, and other assets, but when I'm seen by some whites, I'm seen as a threat. The clutched purses, the locked doors, being followed in department stores and stopped by police is something that even I experience as an educated middle class black man. Thank you!
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Ok, but how is that affecting children who are applying for college
and at you equating locked doors and clutched purses to LYNCHING.
Children who are poor deserve a lift. A lot of those children will also happen to be black and hispanic because that's just how the cookie crumbles. But excluding white and asian children from getting that same lift just because of their skin color is a little prejudiced if not outright racist and wrong. goodnight.
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Some ppl really do overplay it but there's still so much racism in the world that this statement was not needed especially on MLK day
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2014 is the year of homophobic and racist people, I see.
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2014 is the year of homophobic and racist people, I see.
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Yes because one person decides what the year becomes
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It's interesting that when Sarah was running with Mitt they played the "Obama bin laden" card.
Yet now, she's telling obama to stop playing the Race card? - hm. Very interesting indeed.
Sarah Palin should go back to protesting abortions, shooting animals and pretending she know aboout foreign affairs instead of tweeting her hypocritical, agenda pushing and uneducated right wing opinions.
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