Arkansas GOP state rep "Slavery was good for African-Americans"

[Lettow77]

 I really don't hate black folks, though. Jamal gonna disrupt class and get sent to ISS- is this really so odd to recognize?

I remember a favourite game from my high school was "Big bank, Little Bank." The two players take money out of their pockets, and whoever has more money gets the other person's money. That was the extent of the game, although i'd like to think the ensuing jumping after to school to get your money back was at least a sequel in spirit. There was also "Get like me" where you flip a dollar onto the ground, and the opposing player has to send his flipping to the ground on top of yours and showing the same facing- if it did, he was entitled to both bills, but if he lost, the original player received both. Mind, I saw a fight once because one player posited that playing with $1 bills "wasn't hard" and that his opponent was a little bitch for not shifting to $5.

It was a school in a very good area, a white-flight enclave actually, maintained only through somewhat hard-handed racist policies, but busing was in effect.

Edit: Ah, now I am nostalgic for the rap music of my youth! I am currently listening to the comparatively un-hard strains of David Banner, featuring contributory vocals by Lil'Soft.  Life is wonderful! I will miss black people most of all when I live in Japan- it will fall on me to be louder and more unresponsive to social expectations and decency than all those around me. I will make their lives more colourful, as I benefited in my turn.

The black man's cultural environment makes him a poor fit for higher education. His role models don't promote it, and it is seen as a white system. Black folks who succeed too much will cut themselves off, as they cease to be seen as black  but have instead chosen to play in the white man's system. It is a deplorable state of affairs, but is it so offensively racist to say it is so?

[garbon]

I'm glad to reminded to scroll past Lettuce posts.

[CountDeMoney]

The black man's cultural environment makes him a poor fit for higher education. His role models don't promote it, and it is seen as a white system. Black folks who succeed too much will cut themselves off, as they cease to be seen as black  but have instead chosen to play in the white man's system. It is a deplorable state of affairs, but is it so offensively racist to say it is so?

Yes it is, but that's not going to stop you.

[Lettow77]

 This sort of hyper-sensitivity is odd particularly from you, seedy. Akin to Mr. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice, you long ago resigned yourself that who you must live in such distressing proximity to all your life was lost to decency, but have instead resolved to take your amusement from their outbursts and transgressions; where some would be deplored, you are delighted, the hilarity of their existence very being your consolation.

You look upon the black community with condescending endearment and belittling diminutives. This is: SUPER RACIST

[CountDeMoney]

What color do you think I like now?

[Ed Anger]

Mew

[garbon]

Mew

That's not a color.

[DontSayBanana]

That's not a color.

Hue.

[Eddie Teach]

That's not a color.

Hue.

Wat?

[garbon]

That's not a color.

Hue.

That's not really a color either.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Teal.

[garbon]

Teal.

Reasoning?

[Darth Wagtaros]

nicomachean ethics

[viper37]

Do you really deny that it is a far better deal to end up born in America than Africa? The descendants of slaves suffered none of the ill effects, but certainly have reaped benefits. That a life as a slave in the South would be better than as an African tribesman isn't a stretch either- it's certainly the choice i'd pick.

Many did not survive the trip, or the journey as a slave, so they have no descendants.  Your argument can't really apply.
It's like saying the Black Plague was a blessing in disguise because survivors are immune to certain diseases, wich native americans were not.

[Lettow77]

 I never argued that being enslaved was a favourable outcome, or anything. Note that what I said is that ending up born in America is something to be thankful for when compared to Africa, and that life -as a slave in the South-, which negates the issue of the transatlantic voyage but also ensures you lucked out and got one of the Americas' most genteel slave systems, is better than a life a an African tribesman.

Not a defense of the abhorrent transatlantic slave system or the odious institution of slavery or etc etc etc.