Originally Posted by Esso

You know what White Privliege is? Never having to ask if White Lives Matter.

Why would the privileged black kid be from Bel Air? You sound like a stereotype white joke....no offense. Dude, thats just the way things are here. Civil rights were only awarded 50 years ago...the Klan was millions strong, walking the streets with govt officials and cops among them, openly endorsing violence against blacks. Slavery. It takes a long time to undo all that....you can't teach generations to unlearn all of the hatred and prejudice, the injustice and the oppression, unless the people doing the teaching and parenting are all completely unbiased in their approach. People getting completely out of their feelings about such subjects is impossible...so it will never fully be gone. America has a unique history in that regard.

It's asked constantly of the Black Lives Matter movement if White Lives Matter. They reply "It's not about that". No one cares when a white kid, unarmed, gets shot by the police. Police officer can be black, white, asian, whatever. No one cares that a white kid got shot. That's hardly controversial newsworthy shit is it?

When a black kid dies, there's a protest. When a white kid dies (which happens at a higher rate)...not one person takes to the streets.

So...DO white lives matter?

Why wouldn't a privileged black kid be from Bel Air? I was giving an example of someone from an area considered "rich" Vs someone from an area considered "poor". The "rich" kid doesn't face the struggles and stereotyping that the "poor" kid does...regardless if the black kid is rich and the white kid is poor.

Endosred by government officials, walking the streets with cops, openly endosring violence against another race.....Eh...Esso mate...have a quick search for "Black Lives Matter" and "Dallas" and tell me what you come up with. I'm pretty sure what you'll come up with is the President of America endorsed group of individuals who take over the streets under police supervision and according to Twitter, consider the racially motivated murder of 5 innocent men to be the act of a hero and martyr. Obama went to the memorial service of the police officers and discussed racism in the police force...what's that got to do with 5 dead men who have no known connections to racism what so ever?

Slavery, smfh. Yeah cause black people are the only slaves that ever existed. It takes a long time to undo? Well I, nor anyone in my family no matter how far back, ever owned slaves (Considering my family tree comes from Ireland). Yet I'm somehow dragged into being part of a "race" (ie. some people with the same skin colour from an entirely different background and culture) that was involved in the oppression of others. You are not effected by slavery right now, I'm not effected by slavery right now. It's been a long fucking time mate and if you think your limited in your opportunities in life because your great great grandfather was mistreated...you need to look in the mirror a bit pal.

"That history will never be gone". So, what you're saying is....I'm allowed to claim that there's "English privilege" and seek reparations for the atrocities the English committed upon my ancestors? Basically, as far back as my family tree goes, there's gonna be plenty of cases of horrible acts committed by Englishmen onto either Scotsmen or Irishmen. You say it's impossible for someone's feelings towards this to be gone...but 55% of Scotland recently disagreed.

America doesn't have a unique history. Slavery happened everywhere. There are plenty of examples of black slave masters throughout history too. But you can't talk about that. No slavery amounts to the days of the KKK and cotton picking, right?

Slavery was a long time ago. Why is it a black man is allowed to feel this contempt and hatred towards that former oppression, but we'd all laugh if a woman said she felt contempt and hatred towards men as a result of the lack of woman's rights 50 years ago? It's just not relevant anymore but economically and socially...we've come a long ass way from those days to even have them be a factor in 2016.

Originally Posted by Esso

You know what White Privliege is? Never having to ask if White Lives Matter.

Why would the privileged black kid be from Bel Air? You sound like a stereotype white joke....no offense. Dude, thats just the way things are here. Civil rights were only awarded 50 years ago...the Klan was millions strong, walking the streets with govt officials and cops among them, openly endorsing violence against blacks. Slavery. It takes a long time to undo all that....you can't teach generations to unlearn all of the hatred and prejudice, the injustice and the oppression, unless the people doing the teaching and parenting are all completely unbiased in their approach. People getting completely out of their feelings about such subjects is impossible...so it will never fully be gone. America has a unique history in that regard.

It's asked constantly of the Black Lives Matter movement if White Lives Matter. They reply "It's not about that". No one cares when a white kid, unarmed, gets shot by the police. Police officer can be black, white, asian, whatever. No one cares that a white kid got shot. That's hardly controversial newsworthy shit is it?

When a black kid dies, there's a protest. When a white kid dies (which happens at a higher rate)...not one person takes to the streets.

So...DO white lives matter?

Why wouldn't a privileged black kid be from Bel Air? I was giving an example of someone from an area considered "rich" Vs someone from an area considered "poor". The "rich" kid doesn't face the struggles and stereotyping that the "poor" kid does...regardless if the black kid is rich and the white kid is poor.

Endosred by government officials, walking the streets with cops, openly endosring violence against another race.....Eh...Esso mate...have a quick search for "Black Lives Matter" and "Dallas" and tell me what you come up with. I'm pretty sure what you'll come up with is the President of America endorsed group of individuals who take over the streets under police supervision and according to Twitter, consider the racially motivated murder of 5 innocent men to be the act of a hero and martyr. Obama went to the memorial service of the police officers and discussed racism in the police force...what's that got to do with 5 dead men who have no known connections to racism what so ever?

Slavery, smfh. Yeah cause black people are the only slaves that ever existed. It takes a long time to undo? Well I, nor anyone in my family no matter how far back, ever owned slaves (Considering my family tree comes from Ireland). Yet I'm somehow dragged into being part of a "race" (ie. some people with the same skin colour from an entirely different background and culture) that was involved in the oppression of others. You are not effected by slavery right now, I'm not effected by slavery right now. It's been a long fucking time mate and if you think your limited in your opportunities in life because your great great grandfather was mistreated...you need to look in the mirror a bit pal.

"That history will never be gone". So, what you're saying is....I'm allowed to claim that there's "English privilege" and seek reparations for the atrocities the English committed upon my ancestors? Basically, as far back as my family tree goes, there's gonna be plenty of cases of horrible acts committed by Englishmen onto either Scotsmen or Irishmen. You say it's impossible for someone's feelings towards this to be gone...but 55% of Scotland recently disagreed.

America doesn't have a unique history. Slavery happened everywhere. There are plenty of examples of black slave masters throughout history too. But you can't talk about that. No slavery amounts to the days of the KKK and cotton picking, right?

Slavery was a long time ago. Why is it a black man is allowed to feel this contempt and hatred towards that former oppression, but we'd all laugh if a woman said she felt contempt and hatred towards men as a result of the lack of woman's rights 50 years ago? It's just not relevant anymore but economically and socially...we've come a long ass way from those days to even have them be a factor in 2016.