That is quite a big step back from the position of white culture permeating all thought and being the cause of the problems of black society, and I'm sure you can understand why such a point comes off as an abdication of personal responsibility at first glance.

If the above is all you are advocating, then the only real difference is the means of which it is achieved (AME church and black conservatives tend to believe that it must start locally through local communities rather than a broad reaching solution by the state, and that the problems of the local community should be fixed by the local community first), as I had posted previously:



The last two points are why I supported Jim Webb, though his campaign went nowhere.

I don't agree with any of the rest of the points, but again the differences are really regarding the means to achieve the same goal rather than a true ideological difference.

I found this study earlier which is from Canada and has similar results (and also shows discrimination in Asian names like you mentioned), is this what you're talking about? Is this study flawed too?

Exactly, that's what you believe, you don't get to have it both ways. We can't both be living in post-racial paradise where white people are all "oh black people, I'm so sorry for everything, let us repair all grievances we've wrought upon you" while white people are simultaneously furious enough about white apologetics to elect Trump. Those two things are pretty mutually exclusive with each other!

I'm sure coding and robotics engineering will go over great!

Come on.

Every struggle is always a pipe dream.

What is supposed to happen during the ****ing flight that you're identity would change? I'm not a constitutional scholar but I'm pretty sure one of those talks about letting people move freely within the borders of the US. There is already too much information being fed to the government about plane travel in the name of safety theater, having the ghestopo checking your papers is ****ing un-American. What are they going to do if you don't have them? Not let you off the plane?

Racists jokes are funny.

Jokes are only funny when the left makes them!

So according to the article linked in the tweet, ICE had reason to believe a violent person who had been ordered to leave the country was on board. Might be better if they had a picture and not have everyone show an id. But if your looking to deport violent criminals you need to find them first.

You would not say that if you heard Hilary's attempts at racist jokes.

What do irresponsible responses to racism look like?

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/12/473953...r-cp-time-joke

So do you think Hillary's racist joke was funny?

The entire left collectively cringed when Hillary did that. I appreciate you bringing up an example that demonstrates the left's outrage isn't related to whether it's an R or D in front of the person making the joke.

I mean come on dude. It wasnt really funny but should people have been mad about it? Diblasio talked about his black family 24/7 the dude can't make a joke?

I mean, it's not my call but WTF people really got mad at that?

After it seemed like a bipartisan consensus on rolling back the prison state was starting to take shape, the Trump-Sessions combo is going to be pretty bad for America.

Actually, I mostly ignored the joke, seemed trivial.

I prefer to confront racism from a values and principles approach in some instances. Which is why I asked about responsibility and response.

I can use the joke for an example,
Suppose racism is happening now, what value does that joke have in relationship to any racism happening now? If someone said "hey racism is happening now", would you say "but hilary joked"?

White House asked FBI to publicly refute news reports on Trump-Russia connections and FBI refused

In b4 angry FAKE NEWS tweets, in b4 "no big deal" posts from baghdad bob

Clearly, it is potentially very profitable to put anyone in prison enslaved as the republicans can make seem criminal.

Do you think elected leaders like de Blasio should speak as freely in their public statements as ordinary citizens?

I don't think people would really care what he does in private, but when he speaks publicly he is not speaking just for himself, but also in his role as Mayor of New York City. Doesn't that mean he should be more careful in what he says as a representative of the city?*

*Generally, not just in this case.

He gave up any expectation of privacy when he ran for public office. Any thing he says that other's can hear is his responsibility.

Lol at calling it cp time. Its nst and anyone who has bought drugs regularly knows that.

It is pretty stupid on a number of levels. Maybe even more stupid then Lynch meeting Clinton on the Tarmac.

I just think that if a Democrat who has a black family can't make a harmless joke we are taking ourselves too seriously. I dunno.

I hope you tuned in last night for Tucker Porn. Ann Coulter was there discussing Trump.

Well, obviously he can make that joke. De Blasio wasn't actually harmed by that joke. But that's not the question. I'm just curious if you think that elected officials, by virtue of their office, should be more circumspect in what they say than ordinary citizens.

They should be careful, but by no means do I think they can't use humor, I mean, it's part of speech. Just because he's a politician doesn't mean he's a robot.