The race baiting argument says that racism is pretty much dead but that people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson keep it alive by talking about race, by getting blacks angry about imagined cases of racism. They are “race hustlers” who “inflame racial passions”.
Examples:
- In the Zimmerman case, some whites used this argument to make sense of (and dismiss) black opinion.
- Rush Limbaugh speaks of a “race industry”.
- Booker T. Washington in 1911:
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
The terminology goes back Jim Crow times:
- 1921: inflame racial passions
- 1925: race industry
- 1935: race baiters
- 1949: race hustlers
The argument:
- Racism is dead.
- Race baiters know this but keep Negro Grievances alive for personal gain – money, votes, even blog hits!
- Most blacks are overgrown children: they cannot think for themselves and must be told what to think.
Yet another racist argument that assumes racism is dead!
As an accused race baiter, I can offer some insight:
- The personal gain thing: I make no money from this blog. And even in terms of blog hits, it is far easier to get hits by doing posts on, say, swimsuit models. And then there is the white demographic. It is at least five times bigger than the black demographic. If hits were what mattered to me, I would do nothing to turn off whites. I would at least make what I say acceptable to them. Or, better/worse yet, like a Rented Negro, I would tell them what they want to hear.
- I know that racism is dead, right? No. The rank racist inequality in New York is burned into my brain forever. And the older I get the clearer it becomes how deeply ingrained racism is in white people, more than I ever expected or “imagined”.
Al Sharpton. He has held protests for Trayvon Martin. But he has held tons of protests for plenty of people over the years. Only on occasion do they catch fire or go anywhere. If he had the kind of power over 40 million black people that some seem to think he has, he would not be freely drawing breath on American soil.
Trayvon Martin. Look at the timeline:
- February 26th 2012: Trayvon Martin shot dead.
- March 9th 2012: first comment on Trayvon Martin on this blog, by lifelearner, who called it “walking while Black” (racial profiling).
- March 12th 2012: first post on Trayvon Martin on this blog.
- March 21st 2012: Million Hoodie March
- March 22nd 2012: First Sharpton protest
Sharpton was hardly leading on this issue.
This whole race baiter thing is made up to discredit black claims of racism. It is a way to account for black anger about racism while preserving the idea that racism is dead.
The far simpler way to account for events is to say that racism is far from dead – hardly surprising given American history – and that black claims about racism are more or less right. Just as they were in 1911, 1921, 1925, 1935 and 1949.
See also:
- ENT: Emotional Negro Thinking
- the race industry argument – pretty much the same post but not as good. Goes more into what Booker T. Washington and Rush Limbaugh said.
- The black-on-black crime argument – another common argument after Zimmerman verdict
- selective outrage
- Some facts about racism
- Trayvon Martin
Abagond 
Al and Jesse are not keeping racism alive – they are pro-active in keeping it down, fighting the hidden racism that white people say is no longer an issue.
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To whites and whiteminded people, the only people who keep racism alive are the ones who bring it up. We, the monolithic black community should do as Morgan Freeman says and ignore the racism done to us. That way, it will all magically go away.
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I doubt anyone thinks you racebait to get hits. You racebait because you’re a racist and want more hits to spread your poison.
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Guys like Al and Jesse aren’t all that they seem. They are bought and paid for. These guys don’t represent the interest of black people. As a matter of fact,organizations like the Urban League and NAACP aren’t even controlled by black people. They never were from their inception. Jesse and Al are there to keep black people in the position of a permanent underclass. That’s why they’ve been around for over thirty years and black folks are in the same position. Don’t you find that odd? I don’t,if you know the game being played. They are in that position because their white masters put them there. How can Al Sharpton “fight the power” when he has a show on MSNBC??lol It’s not possible! It’s time for black people to wake up! Ignorance is not bliss.
http://kushiteprince.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/the-boule-skull-and-bones-society-part-1/
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Black people in general keep racism alive. Black people are in denial about our “Historical Relationship” with white people. Black people keep getting hurt because we continue to react to white people and expect white people to be different than white people have always been. We can’t deal with this oppressive, racist country base on the wonderful white minority. We have to deal with this oppressive, racist country based on white people in general along with the long consistent history we have with them.
It’s time for Black people to hold white people accountable to their history and our historical relationship. If white people are not able to demonstrate that they are capable of behaving differently than their long consistent history, Black people should not expect anything different.
Snakes bite. Frogs jump. Rain is wet. White people are, have been, and will always be white people. They are not going to change.
If we want change, we have to change how we thing and stop waiting for white people to change.
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Its so obvious, what Rush, Sean,Glen and Bill on the far right are doing, when they call anyone, that points out racism, a race baiter.
Its a mere ploy, to bury the history of white America.
It never works, because the majority of blacks, won’t go quietly in the night and be content with the current state of affairs of the majority of poor black people.
Only the sell out, rented Negros and Negresses, that have a little money and live along side other whites, that have no black friends or associates, are married to white people and take on their ideology, like things the way they are, just like the house Negros back in slavery.
They liked to eat from the white masters table and have better choice cuts of the produce and beef, not the fat and gristle that is left over, that the master gives to the field Negros! Good riddance, i say! to David Webb,Crystal Wright,Deneen Borelli,Allen west, and the list goes on.
House Negros hate it when other blacks, speak out against racism and white supremacy, because it reminds them of their blackness, which they have rejected, so they can, transcend their black skin and race, so they can be accepted by the white race.
(http://youtu.be/nZpMwSADQQs)
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@Sondis
Handsome Brotha, how are you?
Yes I agree. I do believe the real race baiters are the rightwing nut jobs like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter with a old looking self etc. They are set on racially dividing America for their own benefit. The Left isn’t any better but I do believe the Right’s plans to racially divide America is working, sadly.
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ppl are only race baiters to them when they are talking about racism, but u let these same ppl talk about black ppl’s issues and its not race baiting to them but the truth. They just don’t like the bad attention placed on them, its the same argument they use to justify slavery, oh arabs did it so why u mad at us. They just don’t like their dirty laundry aired out and when it is they say race baiters,black on black crime or get over it. If there was no racism then there wouldn’t be any so called race baiters. don’t attack the messenger, if u don’t like the message take it up with a hole that wrote the message in the first place. and also I don’t know why they keep going on about al and jesse as if they speak for all black ppl, no don’t get it twisted, black ppl start getting upset at stuff long before al and them get involved, when they see a good number of blacks upset at something then they show up.
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Adeen:
gemme hug—-> \o/ I’m alright, just up to my usual, monkey business. ^_^
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@mstoogood4yall
applause
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Black ppl have been silent on certain issues or just waiting on the lord and putting it in gods hands. It seems a lot of ppl here in the south are kinda afraid to call out racism when they see it. idk maybe they are scared because of the stuff that still goes on down here, but I think black ppl need to speak up more now than ever. Let the whole world see what we are dealing with instead of being silent and supporting this bs. U see how kids that are bullied either commit suicide or go on a shooting rampage when they don’t talk about what’s happening or they are ignored. They are afraid black ppl will go nat turner on their ass, that is why they stay telling us to be silent and stop talking about this stuff. It is why they had cops ready for us to riot because they know we are angry at all the injustices and hope we do flip out so they can really get us. They know what they are doing that is why I try to keep cool when dealing with them because they keep adding all this stuff on us hoping we will do something. Just watch reality shows where they have one or two black ppl with a cast full of whites. U see how they always go and start petty sheit with the black person then when they cross the line the black person really flips on them and then the security comes and restrains the black person. Yes black ppl should be allowed to talk about racism idc if they call us race baiters ,ow that hurts not, we’ve been called worse.
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@ mstoogood4yall
I agree. Black people always just move on and it needs to stop. what is moving on getting us? Nothing but repeat abuse.
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@Mstoogood4yall
I agree but many people would call us the race baiters on here when we are just having an intelligent discussion about race and racism and how it affects us. We aren’t race baitors at all.
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Do you know how many articles about race baiting and colorblindness I have seen in the newspaper since Zimmerman has gotten aquitted? Too many to count! Do you mind if I quote you when I respond to those articles? Because I just can’t deal with the simple minded mess. And you brought up some awesome points! And do you mind if i quote you in the black on black crime post too?
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@ Adeen
Yep, that’s how it is. So anyway how are u today?
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Race baiter is what racist would like to use to shut up folk speaking out about various injustices. It sounds to me like they are saying “cry babies” when they use that term on Black people. As Ms. TooGood already stated. We’ve been called worse. Keep on speaking out against racial injustices. I think the cyber world is a great tool to combat racism (spreading the word-like wildfire, ie. the canceled juror’s book deal)
Slightly off topic: Al and Jesse need to retire, though. I’m tired of them trying to speak for the Black community as if we need a spokesperson.
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Al and Jesse have dealt with this nonsense for a long time and are quite expert at it. I don’t see anyone else stepping up to the plate to land a good one.
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In the newspaper from my city, The Sunday Letters section, one commenter, titles his comments, Hoodie is the new hood: The commenter goes on to say he is sick of the Democratic Party of race-baiters and welfare pimps trying to exploit the death of Trayvon Martin. The commenter a Mr. Jones, goes on to say how the jury, after hearing all the evidence came to the unmistakable decision as the police investigatiors. Mr. Jones goes on to call Trayvon Martin a thug, and says that Trayvon caused his own death, by his own behavior. These types of individuals never cease to amaze me with their compassion and understanding.{rolls eyes} Mr. Jones goes on to talk about all the decent, honest ,law-abiding people this should have ended the case. I love how Mr. Jone’s sanctimonious description of the good white people of the United Snakes of Amerikkka. Mr. Jones concludes that, Unfortunately, there are racist agitators like Jackson, Sharpton, Obama and the leftist news media who want ot capitalize, financially, or politically, from race baiting and black rioting. He ends his letter calling Jackson,Sharpton, Obama troublemakers and and calling them a black version of the KKK. That is the one of the most asinine, and ludicrious letters out of millions I have read since listening to Bill O’riley and that other fool Geraldo Rivera. The stupidity of these crazy loons.
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Al and Jesse do not speak for me just as I do not speak for every single black person on this planet. They are leaders who happen to be black, but they are not black leaders leading, thinking and controlling the collective black consciousness. I think it’s ridiculous to assume that they speak for the whole race and that we automatically follow them like mice to the Pied Piper.
However, whenever a black person, usually a celebrity or commentator in the mainstream, says something along the lines of blaming the black community for their problems, all of a sudden, whiteminded people imply that we should listen to them! In a way they’re telling us who to listen to and who not to listen to. Al and Jesse are the dangerous duo to them, while Bill Cosby and recently Don Lemon are the ones to pay attention to.
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Why is it race baiting when black people want to discuss the disease of racism in America, it’s race baiting? I guess that is why the President has been reluctant to discuss this issue.
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mary burrell,
I guess that in the end white people want to maintain their lies, myths, power and privilege. So, they’ll say anything to avoid the truth from others. In this case they will say that those who acknowledge the existence of racism are racists themselves. Personally, that statement makes no sense, but neither does wanting to maintain this inhuman system based on color coding.
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When Booker T. said that, lynching, voter disenfranchisement, KKK membership, Jim Crow laws, etc. were still on the rise. It was because of this that the alternative voice, the NAACP, was founded and started to grow.
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@Mstoogood4yall
I am okay but I doubt that people will ever stop calling others race baiters.
And personally how come the rightwing calls Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson race baiters? I don’t like any of the leaders I typed but I am just wondering.
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Adeen, this rhetoric goes back a hundred years. It is not new.
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Look, Black people.
The fact of the matter is that there is absolutely NO white person in he US who is HONEST about race relations. Period. If you just happen to meet one of these phantom, myth-like creatures who do not downplay the disgusting, evil history of their race, then show me this person. I’d like to see it.
Because so far, this entire Trayvon Martin thing PROVES me right. The ENTIRE fallout. The comments on the message boards. The articles in the papers. White people think that they are actually good. They believe that the genocides and murders that they are responsible for did not happen. That their slave trades did not happen. That today, their perverted, twisted world view, thrust upon the rest of the (genuinely) civilized world, isn’t affected by their history.
Hence these phrases like “race baiter” and the like. Any white who uses such arguments cannot be trusted. Likening them to a Klansman or Nazi (they are probably genetically related to both) is appropriate.
Oh, and good to see you Back! @ Sondis.
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@ Kushite Prince
“That’s why they’ve been around for over thirty years and black folks are in the same position.”
Oh, I thought blacks were much better off…I mean with a half-black president, black Attorney General, black millionaires and billionaires throughout the world, black Fortune 500 CEOs, wealthy black communities, etc. Sure, a long way to go to reach potential, but definitely better off.
And say what you want about Sharpton, but he has brought to prominence police brutality and racial profiling of blacks, and was instrumental in bringing justice to many of the victims’ families.
@Average Bee
“White people think that they are actually good. They believe that the genocides and murders that they are responsible for did not happen. That their slave trades did not happen…”
No they don’t. Most genuinely feel guilty and shameful of their past. That’s why they want to leave it in the past. It’s the same old story of the sinner who goes to church and asks for forgiveness each Sunday, and goes back out and sins again. Only they’re not asking you for forgiveness, they just hope you’ll forget.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
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by the way, some of you are totally right. The reason these guys get so much press, is too point out how using race is almost irrelevant in today’s developed world, as can be seen by those “race baiters” who espouse the ideology.
You really should think about that. Even some of the black community espouses it. The days of using race as an inhibitor to success are almost gone. I KNOW it angers you, very much. But it is what it is.
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[…] light of all this, consider Abagond’s most recent post, re-produced below. I’ve added inline commentary in square brackets and red […]
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@ Average Bee, Kushite Prince
APPLAUSE!! My thoughts eloquently summed up. Sometimes I think that total and complete dismissal of whites (white “erething”)–to completely ignore them, would be better for our sanity. I just can’t sometimes with their begging for explanation of black ppl, our clothes, hair, kids, why wasn’t OJ guilty, the gawking and careless appropriation of our creations FOR PROFIT…
Ugh…but I digress…
I know it’s a far fetched idea, probably impossible, because every time we try to get out of their way, some self hating blacks grab on to the carrots they dangle our way and we lulled back to sleep through the mainstream media squawk box.
@ Kiwi
Your aunt’s sentiments are rinsed and repeated worldwide. The BLACK race is the lower common denominator across the globe. I really believe our spiritual connection to the Earth is the only reason we haven’t gone HAM on these ppl.
Family,
We need to refuse to give them our time and energy and reconnect to our greater purpose. We spread out over the globe all those years ago for a reason, I believe. And “race baiting” is just dandruff. We got much bigger problems coming.
Once you divest in the white man’s attempt to suck you dry, you can CALL OUT racism and give that s.hit right back to them. It’s like cryptonite to their psyche. And as you can see, they will continue to go crazy and kill each other because they are spiritually void. They spend ALL of their collective time and energy killing, oppressing, starving, hating, creating systems to support their own supremacy and now that the womb’s dried up and they will pay for this.
We all know that history has shown, nothing last forever. Ppl grow and change and “dynasties” fall. We are definitely in a transitional period, I believe.
Stay tuned.
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Noneya,
what is your point in posting the Rwandan Genocide…are you trying to play “tit for tat” globally between white and black people…
because you’ll lose.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/the-herero-and-nama-genocide/
and lets not forget the Belgium’s on their vacation in the Congo
“Shocking claims – often well documented – that 10 million Congolese were either murdered or worked to death by Leopold’s private army, that women were systematically raped, that locals’ hands were cut off and that the local populace endured kidnapping, looting and village burnings, have never been the subject of serious debate in Belgium, let alone an apology”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/13/humanities.artsandhumanities
and that’s just a few on the Continent of Africa…
if I was to place links for the other 5 continents where “white” people have committed genocides, mass murders, and “legal displacements” against Each other and against non-Europeans,….Abagond would probably cut me off because for exceeding his bandwidth.
it’s not about throwing stones, dear… it’s about white Americans having the balls to acknowledge and own up to their part in keeping the race polarization alive in American because they wish to brush everything under the rug….
“Denial is a h’ll of a drug” — it’s got most white Americans actually Believing the myth that “it’s not me (white America), it’s really you (black America)”
this Race-baiting game started with “white America”, so since when have the perpetrators become the “victims”
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@resw77 who said:
“No they don’t. Most genuinely feel guilty and shameful of their past. That’s why they want to leave it in the past. ”
The law of averages refutes this statement. These oppressive institutions still exist, they are still supported by the average working class white person and this “white ppl are superior complex” is being passed down to white children. EVERYDAY statistics prove this. Other cultures of ppl who come to the US are blown away by it.
You (white ppl) cannot kill ppl and wreak havoc on other nation’s in other places, build up a currency, then tear it down while only a handful of ppl control everything including other naive white ppl who ACTUALLY STILL BELIEVE in Manifest Destiny!!! You are getting exactly what you deserve. The food and water is poisoning you just like it is the rest of us!! You are not immune to your own destructive and reckless tendencies!
And NO, you can’t just “Tell the Pope” and hope that the lives and societies of the ppl you destroyed and continue to do so, just forgets about it. It’s not happening. Only white ppl do things with total disregard to their future–like children. Whites have been doing this for HUNDREDS OF YEARS!! And just because the mainstream US media shields the truth and hides your precious egos from it…does NOT mean it isn’t happening. I mean really when was APARTHEID finally abolished in S. Africa? Was is in your lifetime? Mine??
Whites still function on the greenback standard–Have you noticed how “organic” and “green” living is on the up and up because it’s profitable? But do you see anybody (mainstream) telling folks to start growing their own food?
Seriously, I could go on…but I’m sure you get why folk just can’t forget the enormous crap stain whites have left on the planet.
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@ Linda
Absolutely. Willful ignorance of your past while you continue to benefit from it.
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I have noticed that Whites (i.e. white men) all over the internet do this. They will say absolutely anything and make up any excuse ,deflection or derailment that keeps them feeling good about themselves as individuals I’m not even sure they believe what they’re saying as long as they can walk away from the conversation feeling that whoever it is has been put in their place because they’ve proven they are in charge and they can have that warm glow at having deflected the topic onto their feelings about the topic.
They do this whenever the topic turns towards anything they may have done wrong or be doing wrong now. When confronted with rape statistics, stories of sexual harassment and assault, white on white violence of any kind, or the shabby treatment of anyone who is not a straight, able bodied, white male, all of these same tactics get used, right up tp name calling and threats of violence against the speaker.
Feminists get rape threats for speaking out about any topic no matter how bland or apolitical (Anita Sarkeesian. knitting) blacks get told to shut up, or it’s all our fault, or just get called racist for bringing it up, girl geeks get told they’re not really geeks, they’re just pretending to be geeks because they crave the sexual attention. Anytime anyone who is not white and male calls them on their “bs”, they seem pathologically incapable of addressing any of it without death threats.
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“Average Bee
Oh, and good to see you Back! @ Sondis.”
Thank you, friend. Its good to see you, too. ^_^
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@ resw77
I commented on your post–and now I think you were being sarcastic…so please disregard the “you” as me personally talking to you “you”.
My comment still stands though, but more in further support of your statements.
SK
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I think that is the trick. If whites tell you something is true long enough you might actually believe it….so glad I am not that weak minded. LOL
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@SugarKiss
Thank you! You’re far too kind. 🙂
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http://smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=420
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Noneya, who gives a sh’t….
white Americans are still delusional perpetrators acting like “victims” who continue to deny their role in America’s prejudice and discrimination against black people
You can bring in as many articles as you want, won’t change that reality or white America’s drug-of-choice: Denial (amongst the many other drugs you all abuse)
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I just think it’s hilarious that whiteminded people, especially whites themselves, love to refer people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as race hustlers and call black folks who point out racism, personal or systematic, as being racist for just that.
The problem is that it was not black people who created this concept of race, nor did we use it in the widespread, destructive oppression of those of European descent. White people have been the biggest race hustlers for a few centuries. And like I always say, I think it’s highly unlikely that a people that prides itself on it’s physical appearance – especially when it comes to skin color – have all of a sudden, in a blink of history’s eye no longer see race as an issue.
So Noneya, you can drop that act. Race is still a strong factor today and you know it. In fact you’re using it in your links to prove a meager point. No matter what you’re trying to point out, you just make the case stronger.
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Good observation, Brothawolf. Its getting very easy to anticipate white people’s methods of deceit and lies. You’re become a pro at this! ^_^
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@Linda
“Noneya, what is your point in posting the Rwandan Genocide…are you trying to play ‘tit for tat’ globally between white and black people…”
My thoughts exactly. And the Rwandan Genocide is a direct result of the apartheid system instituted by the European colonisers who considered Tutsis to be better than the Hutus…divide and conquer
@Sugarkiss
You’re right in your assessment of what’s happening, but I do believe many (maybe not most) whites do feel guilty and hope everyone else will just shut up and forget about what they collectively have done and still do. Why else do they get so upset and uncomfortable when these race issues come to surface?
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It’s so funny how white people CANNOT stand Al/ Jesse for the life of them, like they’re the reason “race keeps happening”. It’s so strange how they’ll focus on Al/Jesse and be like “I’m not listening to this Bull” click out and focus on “real” issues, BUT ignore THE CASES Al/Jesse speak on. This has happened a billion times AND they still don’t FOCUS ON THE CASE, but at Jesse and Al. In fact many already look at the cases and act like “Who cares, they were gonna die anyway. Besides they kill eachother every other day and it just so happens the person is white, and then they cry racism. TYPICAL”. How many times have anyone read something like that while on yahoo or whatever? And they always think it’s black people talking just for talking and that other minorities “don’t complain as much”. That’s what they love to point out, “Well, other minorities don’t come crying about racism, infact many would say blacks over react or are racist!”. (Oh how much they like to use other minorities to justify those claims).
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I swear I would LOVE If there weren’t any statistics, media or any other B.S derailment many racist use when it comes to obvious racism. I wonder what they would have to do if they didn’t have their precious “facts”? Funny, how it’s always about them using action to bring up stupid links and whatnot, but NOTHING when it comes to actually SAYING(Verbal, Talking, Speaking) these actions.
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You can’t stand Al or Jesse, because they keep “racism alive”, but Crickets to Limbaugh, O’Reiley. Howard Stern and other obvious racist that COMMIT OFFENSES that keep it in people’s mouth.
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Thanks Sondis. 🙂
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You’re welcome, Brothawolf. ^_^
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The only people I see keeping racism alive is the older Whites on the Right and idiots like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck etc. I believe the Right is purposely causing racial divide in this country for their own purpose. The Left is not any better but there seems to be more racist bigots on the Right.
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rofl, its funny how someone just leaves article links without commenting ,smh. I guess some ppl can’t come up with their own words to voice their opinion so they go and paste every link they can find. I mean dam at least type what the link is about for all I know it could be spam.
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LMFAO @ mstoogood4yall.
Noneya
http://smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=420
^^ says nothing..
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I hardly care about their self-serving disgusting propaganda anymore. So if you point out their racism you’re race-baiting? What about when we were literal bait for alligators? Woe to those putting lie for truth and truth for lie.
http://www.livescience.com/37601-may-2013-third-warmest.html
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/17/2318521/nasa-globally-june-was-second-warmest-on-record/
http://worldnewsviews.com/2013/07/31/australian-cities-enjoy-their-warmest-july-on-record/
I’ll make a guess that August will be hotter still.
The rays will be a blessing for us.
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Damn it feels good to be white.
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Really…What is the purpose of whites to come onto Black forums other than to obfuscate and act oblivious , or just downright say mean spirited shit to us. They can’t stand us, yet they want to always be in the center of all things Black.
Blanka: I see you you CDC 😉
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@Brothawolf
“We, the monolithic black community should do as Morgan Freeman says and ignore the racism done to us. That way, it will all magically go away.”
To be fair to Mr. Freeman, he did come out and say exactly why Obama was receiving so much disrespect in his first term.
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Abagond,
You can add “race addict” to the list. I came across a certain critical blogger of yours who fits the description. He even follows your blog:
http://praetori.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/sigh-the-race-addicts-just-keep-coming/
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Whenever a debate like this comes up; people always act like its one or the other, it couldn’t be possible that these guys are race baiters that at the same time live in a racist society that gives them plenty of ammunition and jobs to “live” off of.
That there could be a “race industry” with people in it for negative reasons that might actually be beneficial to society, like everybody in a job thats needed is a saint, I mean every cop is a great human being right?
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sign this black people, it takes 2 minutes:
https://www.change.org/petitions/change-for-trayvon-stand-your-ground-laws-must-be-reviewed#share
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Hi Y’all I actually had the chance at a protest to talk to Jesse Jackson face to face. I asked him why he wasn’t protesting with us, but was talking to clinton. He said he wanted to be on the winning side. I said what if, the wining side isn’t the right side? Isn’t our side and what we need. He said the wining side was always the right side and history proves that. That was a big gift cause as he said this it became clear what mattered most to him. After that I never saw him as I once did nor do I think that the ones in the spot light have our best intrest at heart. I need proof now before I think otherwise.
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@ honeytreebee
I agree with that. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton both seem to be in bed with the Democratic Party. There are certain lines they will not cross.
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I despise with all my soul the race-baiter argument, because it is precisely as Abagond says; an attempt to silence black criticism while keeping alive the specious and false idea that racism is dead. Besides if we want to talk race baiters, the greatest race baiter EVER is moldering in his grave. His name: Richard Nixon. He created a whole new Republican party through his true race-baiting tactics. Now I don’t listen to any person who talks about baiting and race cards as if black people have been imagining the past 400 thrilling years ride on the racist roller coaster we call America. There is a contingent of whites that just want black people to shut the hell up already, not because they truly believe racism is dead, but because they don’t want to deal with it. Period.
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Oh dear, Nixon, regarding abortion, he said that he was generally against abortion except in the case of mixed race babies.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5626338/President-Richard-Nixon-said-it-was-necessary-to-abort-mixed-race-babies-tapes-reveal.html
And he promoted the southern strategy:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/the-southern-strategy/
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Jackson, Sharpton et al are hardly perfect. They’re humans. But the racists who insult them and bring them up really have a problem with any black person who points out racism. The only black people they like are self-hating folks who claim there is no racism and every black person is the sole cause of his/her own problems.
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I wouldn’t say that we DON’T NEED the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons and Cornell Wests of the world speaking out on racial issues–but they ARE like modern day doctors–merely pointing out what’s wrong and giving you medicine to treat a contracted illness as opposed to offering and enacting any preventative advice–they’d both be out of a job if they did that.
What is counter-productive about what they do is the allowance they afford a lot of Black people who look to them for guidance on issues of race and use racism as an excuse and a distraction–rather than focusing on self-reliance, improvement and direction.
The “Us vs. Them” is a smoke and mirrors distraction. There’s only you vs everyone else. Just because the playing field’s not level doesn’t mean you opt out of the game.
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It always amazes me that the same individuals who argue that the only reason racism still exists is due to black people keep bringing it up and talking about it. Don’t talk about it, they’ll argue, and it will meet its demise.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why Washington politicians cannot have this epiphany and CEASE talking about the USA seventeen trillion dollar national debt. Some of the individuals posting here may want to contact their congressional representatives and ask them to refrain from discussing it.
The same logic should apply.
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@stoicatheist: “merely pointing out what’s wrong and giving you medicine to treat a contracted illness as opposed to offering and enacting any preventative advice–they’d both be out of a job if they did that.”
The problem is that the disease has already been contracted. Prevention would have had to have been implemented like over 300 years ago. They were not around then, so it’s impossible for them to be anything but a “treatment doctor”.
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I like how the race baiter argument says racism is dead, then in part 3 (and maybe even part 2) proceeds to be racist.
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My take on it: white people the world over, have exonerated and continue to exonerate themselves of racism in all its forms since day one. They do not see or feel that there is anything wrong with racism. They do not or cannot connect with their crimes against humanity since they left Europe and turned our world upside down.
After trying to figure out this phenomenon of their hatred, I have come to the conclusion that they see absolutely nothing with racism. The temerity of accusing victims of racism as race-baiters is one of many of their modus operandi in divesting themselves of any responsibility in the active role they play in making everybody who does not possess a white skin, hell.
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