Hey everyone! Black guy here and here are my comments:
1) I think the reparation topic is one that the LEFT loves to pull on when it needs votes. To be honest, slavery happened all over the world. Yes, it's under 200 years old in America, but it happened and to give reparations to all that where effected is unrealistic. If anyone needs to…
Hey everyone! Black guy here and here are my comments:
1) I think the reparation topic is one that the LEFT loves to pull on when it needs votes. To be honest, slavery happened all over the world. Yes, it's under 200 years old in America, but it happened and to give reparations to all that where effected is unrealistic. If anyone needs to give reparations it would be the UK and it's colonization of the world.
2) Redlining is a think and that definitely should be eliminated because that is true "racism" at its core.
3) Love the mention about the Civil War. I've written a lot on the topic because I think ALL American's need to know the REAL reason behind it, because slavery is ONE aspect of it. I wrote about that here:
4) For a larger conversation on just black politics in general I think we have to look at HOW THE MEDIA HAS DESTROYED THE BLACK COMMUNITY. From media exploitation and more, once THAT conversation occurs, we can truly start to heal... and not the healing from reparations.
I agree that the media is partially to blame. It is quick to show pictures of Black Ghettoes, and promote Rap music that promotes misogynist and violent ideas thru the lyrics. The average white person never sees photos of Black people living in beautiful houses in the suburbs of Atlanta.
Redlining has largely been eliminated. Also, blaming the media is another scapegoat. Secrets to success: don't have kids out of wedlock; develop a trade or higher education, don't spend money on luxuries until you are financially secure.
I disagree. That’s a business decision that incorporates business issues - neighborhood risk, affluence of the community, etc. Money is green, and Trader Joe’s is trendy progressive. If they don’t locate in a given area, it’s, not because they’re redlining.
You miss the context, the black community doesn't want TJs to move there because then people with money (White people) will follow - that's what happened in Portland
Wow. Is that what you think? That’s fascinating. If true, someone should interview people and get their thinking around this. I’m skeptical because I think people want the best for themselves, their families and their community, and choice is always a good thing. Why, then, did you make a reference to redlining?
Is that what I think? No, that is what happened. I referenced redlining because comradity's post was about it still happening today.
I understand that you think that people want what is best for themselves, however, what you fail to understand is that some people think that keeping TJs out of their community is what is best, that eating mcdonalds and drinking sugar water is what is best, that voting for handouts and charlatans is what is best, that crab mentality is what is best. Just like whites prior to 1964 thought that keeping blacks out was what was best, everyone has different ideas about what is best for them..
I agree with the path to success (although, oddly enough, it did not help me and my husband all that much; I guess things could have been worse?) But the media definitely bears a share of the blame. If only for the promotion of rap music, which celebrates black lawlessness, violence, and misogyny. Thereby warping the minds and expectations of young blacks.
Hey everyone! Black guy here and here are my comments:
1) I think the reparation topic is one that the LEFT loves to pull on when it needs votes. To be honest, slavery happened all over the world. Yes, it's under 200 years old in America, but it happened and to give reparations to all that where effected is unrealistic. If anyone needs to give reparations it would be the UK and it's colonization of the world.
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-man-behind-the-british-empire
2) Redlining is a think and that definitely should be eliminated because that is true "racism" at its core.
3) Love the mention about the Civil War. I've written a lot on the topic because I think ALL American's need to know the REAL reason behind it, because slavery is ONE aspect of it. I wrote about that here:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-esoteric-philosophy-is-vital-329
4) For a larger conversation on just black politics in general I think we have to look at HOW THE MEDIA HAS DESTROYED THE BLACK COMMUNITY. From media exploitation and more, once THAT conversation occurs, we can truly start to heal... and not the healing from reparations.
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-white-redneck-origins-of-black
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-culture-warfare-on-the-african
I agree that the media is partially to blame. It is quick to show pictures of Black Ghettoes, and promote Rap music that promotes misogynist and violent ideas thru the lyrics. The average white person never sees photos of Black people living in beautiful houses in the suburbs of Atlanta.
I can’t take anything you write seriously after looking at your credulous essay about the long-debunked Khazar nonsense.
Thanks for that insight.
Redlining has largely been eliminated. Also, blaming the media is another scapegoat. Secrets to success: don't have kids out of wedlock; develop a trade or higher education, don't spend money on luxuries until you are financially secure.
Sofia, sounds like solutions millions of whites could use..
Not so sure redlining has been eliminated
It is illegal. Oprah can buy any house in any neighborhood, just like I (white guy) may.
That being said, try building a trader Joes in/near the hood. You'll see redlining, er, whatever they call it today.
I didn’t say it is illegal. I said it still happens.
Redlining is illegal but not putting a Trader Joe's or Nordstrom on the south side of Chicago or in Podunk, Arkansas is just business sense.
Where does it happen, except when blacks don't want something (and those someones that follow) into their neighborhoods?
I disagree. That’s a business decision that incorporates business issues - neighborhood risk, affluence of the community, etc. Money is green, and Trader Joe’s is trendy progressive. If they don’t locate in a given area, it’s, not because they’re redlining.
You miss the context, the black community doesn't want TJs to move there because then people with money (White people) will follow - that's what happened in Portland
Wow. Is that what you think? That’s fascinating. If true, someone should interview people and get their thinking around this. I’m skeptical because I think people want the best for themselves, their families and their community, and choice is always a good thing. Why, then, did you make a reference to redlining?
Is that what I think? No, that is what happened. I referenced redlining because comradity's post was about it still happening today.
I understand that you think that people want what is best for themselves, however, what you fail to understand is that some people think that keeping TJs out of their community is what is best, that eating mcdonalds and drinking sugar water is what is best, that voting for handouts and charlatans is what is best, that crab mentality is what is best. Just like whites prior to 1964 thought that keeping blacks out was what was best, everyone has different ideas about what is best for them..
The blacks are redlining today, no one else.
I agree with the path to success (although, oddly enough, it did not help me and my husband all that much; I guess things could have been worse?) But the media definitely bears a share of the blame. If only for the promotion of rap music, which celebrates black lawlessness, violence, and misogyny. Thereby warping the minds and expectations of young blacks.
Amy Wax gave that same advice and she was pilloried at Penn. Leftist Democrats are fools. Giving them control of anything is madness.