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Celeb Photos: Beyoncé addresses racism in 2015 in Instagram posts
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Originally posted by RainDreamer
We all wonder that too ...
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Making fun of black people skin in a thread about racism.
You should be permabanned.
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
*a privileged black woman with a privileged black family
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Originally posted by RainDreamer
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Disgusting.
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Wait I thought she was against the riots? As in the riots are hurting people....
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Smh @ some people turning this into petty shade while they sit on their asses behind a computer screen and do NOTHING to contribute to solutions of some of our global issues.
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Originally posted by TheVoiceXtina
Lol @ it taking her till now to actually do something.
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She been busy with it .
But you tried
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Don't act like Black people can "never" be privileged either, lest we forget O.J. Simpson
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Yes, lets bring up one black guy to offset the hundreds of unprivileged being killed by cops bc they're black
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Originally posted by DIVO DIVINE
I said "even then (if you're white) it's no reason to trust the "justice" system."
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Originally posted by Crimson18
If you believe it's JUST about class than you are sorely mistaken.
Blacks and Latinos still get stopped and frisked and assaulted by cops waaayy more often than whites, and all of that happens before the cops know whether that suspect is rich or not.
Privileged Blacks are still at risk. What about Henry Louis Gates Jr. who was arrested in his own freakin neighborhood for trying to get into his own house?
Although Blacks in ghettos are definitely more likely to get into trouble because the cops protol them a lot more (and unjustly so), being Black and rich is no guarantee. If you wear a hoodie and you're Black, or you walk through a certain neighborhood, you can die no matter how rich you are.
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Yes, there is a racial disparity, but the overlap when you look at poor black vs rich black VERSUS poor black vs poor white will show you that economics is a much bigger factor. There are the here and there instances of racial profiling, but the system as a whole is systemically trampling on poor people (and most blacks are disproportionately poor) and letting the media paint it as black vs white so that nothing can be done about it (whites won't care if it's just framed as black vs white, or some will work actively against black).
You guys are smart, but let's look at the bigger issue that we can form a voting majority on. It's poor vs rich that's at play.
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Originally posted by Kisuke
Making fun of black people skin in a thread about racism.
You should be permabanned.
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There was no making fun of "black people skin", there was an allegation or alluding to skin bleaching, which is an important and contemporary issue in society and doesn't fall on a particular race but kii at you of all people getting sensitive
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
The issue is real, but the media are framing it wrong and people are falling hook line and sinker for it.
The problem isn't as simple as "black vs white" the problem is, really "poor vs rich." and this racial divide is exactly what the rich want to persuade otherwise poor white people to join their side and see the "black" as other, even though they are living in similar conditions, using the same food stamps, depending on the same public defenders, and getting shafted by the court systems at the same rate.
When it becomes "black vs white" of course the minority will lose, no matter how bad the riot.
What the media and the plutocrats are afraid of is when the true issue emerges: "rich vs poor"
We outnumber them. We shouldn't be going to jail for smoking marijuana while they're paying a small fine for embezzling millions and even billions.
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Some of what you're saying is true, but both color AND class are the issue. I don't get why you don't understand that it's multi-layered.
We do not live in a post racial society. Period. If that was true, there wouldn't still be so many differences between white and Black people in the same tax bracket. Blacks that are just as educated as their white counterparts, still don't get the same jobs, make the same amount of money, don't have access to the same networks, neighborhoods etc.
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Originally posted by lonnie
There was no making fun of "black people skin",
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Sadly there was as Beyonce and her entire mothers side are light skinned.
So please have several seats and stop trying to captain save a racist.
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Originally posted by RainDreamer
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No sane person wonders that.
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Originally posted by Crimson18
Some of what you're saying is true, but both color AND class are the issue. I don't get why you don't understand that it's multi-layered.
We do not live in a post racial society. Period. If that was true, there wouldn't still be so many differences between white and Black people in the same tax bracket. Blacks that are just as educated as their white counterparts, still don't get the same jobs, make the same amount of money, don't have access to the same networks, neighborhoods etc.
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Yes, we don't live in a post-racial society, but the gut of power and the key to climbing out has always been economics. How did Asian immigrants do it? By making money. How do powerful black people? By making money.
Economics is the thread that underlines all the issues here. It's a war of the Haves and Have Nots and the racial war is the unwinnable one that the powers-that-be want you to spend your energy fighting.
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Originally posted by Crimson18
If you believe it's JUST about class than you are sorely mistaken.
Blacks and Latinos still get stopped and frisked and assaulted by cops waaayy more often than whites, and all of that happens before the cops know whether that suspect is rich or not.
Privileged Blacks are still at risk. What about Henry Louis Gates Jr. who was arrested in his own freakin neighborhood for trying to get into his own house?
Although Blacks in ghettos are definitely more likely to get into trouble because the cops protol them a lot more (and unjustly so), being Black and rich is no guarantee. If you wear a hoodie and you're Black, or you walk through a certain neighborhood, you can die no matter how rich you are.
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Member Since: 11/30/2009
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Yes, there is a racial disparity, but the overlap when you look at poor black vs rich black VERSUS poor black vs poor white will show you that economics is a much bigger factor. There are the here and there instances of racial profiling, but the system as a whole is systemically trampling on poor people (and most blacks are disproportionately poor) and letting the media paint it as black vs white so that nothing can be done about it (whites won't care if it's just framed as black vs white, or some will work actively against black).
You guys are smart, but let's look at the bigger issue that we can form a voting majority on. It's poor vs rich that's at play.
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But that's not even true. Only 1/3 of Blacks live below the poverty line. I'm not going to argue about which one is a bigger factor (race or class) because I don't know, but I definitely wouldn't say racial profiling is only a here or there thing. But yes this capitalist society tramples all over the poor.
Regardless, we can all agree that the history of portraying Blacks as animals and inhuman in the media is playing a BIG part in how Americans are viewing the rioting.
White people riot all the time, and there is NEVER a reaction like this.
Black skin still comes with so many negative associations like that you're dangerous, stupid, etc. to ignore. Race is still a BIG issue. I think it could be arguably worse than class. Maybe.
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Whether it's about race or class, it doesn't matter. People are dying by the hands of officials that are supposed to protect us. The justice system doesn't seem to want to do a damn thing about.
You're willfully ignorant if you believe race doesn't play a role tho. The reason a lot of white people are so flippant on the issue is because they're just smelling all kinds of roses while blacks and Latinos are being punished for a cop having a bad day and not having time to go home and beat his wife.
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these white fomos needs to get the **** outta here
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Originally posted by Iman
Yes, lets bring up one black guy to offset the hundreds of unprivileged being killed by cops bc they're black
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Kii @ their 1st line of defence being a scandal that happened over 20 years ago.
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Originally posted by Kisuke
Sadly there was as Beyonce and her entire mothers side are light skinned.
So please have several seats and stop trying to captain save a racist.
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Sure
Skin bleaching is an important subject and isn't racist at all, the joke even though poor and lacking in wit wasn't "racist" but yeah go on with her Mother's side discussion
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Think about it. This country is majority white. For black people to win the war on black vs. white, you will have to have a lot of babies and raise a voting army which could take decades if not centuries.
This country, though, is still majority middle-class and poor. These are the two groups consistently screwed over by the top 1% of the income chain. Imagine the changes that could happen if people could set aside race differences and talked about how the injust justice system impacts the 99% instead of just the 13% (black)
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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Originally posted by lonnie
There was no making fun of "black people skin", there was an allegation or alluding to skin bleaching, which is an important and contemporary issue in society and doesn't fall on a particular race but kii at you of all people getting sensitive
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alleging that someone bleaches their skin is a BIG deal, especially when it's absolutely FALSE. Beyonce has always been light skinned. Look at her as a child, look at her mother..
USE YOUR BRAIN.
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