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In reply to the discussion: The Disturbing Reality of White Privilege [View all]sheshe2
(98,563 posts)3. No, it's not about media coverage.
First, Bundy has somehow been allowed to graze his cattle on Federal land for twenty years. You can't touch me I am white and I am a man!
For more than 20 years, Bundy has been grazing his cattle illegally on federal property, refusing to pay grazing fees to a government that he believes to be illegitimate. The property has been owned by the federal government since 1848, when it was ceded by Mexico, but Bundy claims to have gained ownership through some mystical process of his own imagination. He also claims that the federal government has no sovereignty in Nevada, and that its laws have no effect there. Not surprisingly, federal courts have dismissed such claims as blatant nonsense.
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2014/apr/15/bundy-ranch-standoff-sets-dangerous-precedent/
So if a black man had done this, you think the results would be the same? Not by a long shot!
Now we have an armed militia of, you guessed it WHITE MEN! Aiming guns at agents. They have armed themselves to protect a crook. This is what America has come to? I take what I want when I want and by force if I want.
As I said if these were black men they would have been shot. They would be dead.
Yes it is White Privilege.
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"I agree, sheshe, the black gun toters would either be dead or in jail already."
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#10
LOL. It's ALWAYS about race. No other explainations, ever. All about race. All the time.
Skip Intro
Apr 2014
#14
I don't doubt there's a disparity.....but as I factually pointed out on the other thread.....
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#9
Exactly. There's no way to appease racists without flat-out refusing to discuss racism.
nomorenomore08
Apr 2014
#22
I'm not refusing to discuss racism, though(where did that come from?). And that's the problem. nt
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#27
So it can be discussed, but it can't be discussed in a certain specific way because
nomorenomore08
Apr 2014
#31
See post #33. And keep in mind I'm *not* including you personally under "idiot white people." n/t
nomorenomore08
Apr 2014
#34
You're entitled to your opinion on the subject, but like the man said, opinions aren't fact. n/t
nomorenomore08
Apr 2014
#21
Frankly I have no interest in coddling ignorant, entitled fools. Not when the subject at hand
nomorenomore08
Apr 2014
#33
"I would put forward that you simply do not understand it." And you are entitled to that opinion.
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#49
More than one thing going on here, but yes, race is definitely one of them. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2014
#18
"They do not own America. They are not patriots." Seconded! They're not "patriots" at all.
AverageJoe90
Apr 2014
#29