Here are my thoughts on race in America; someone must care what an educated, young white man has to say. It matters that I am a white man. I have benefited. Have all whites benefited to the same degree as myself? Do they all have fond memories of their childhood? Did their parents make a living wage or have the time to love and care for them? Of course not. When poor or struggling middle class whites hear that black lives matter, they take a heavy blow to the gut. “What about me?! My hands are cracked and bleeding from work, and I scrape by every month.”
I know in my heart that being a white male is a major advantage. But the losers in our economy come in all colors. Holding a less shitty hand in a game of capitalist playing cards does not cultivate a feeling of privilege....
Politics
Dear Fellow Bernie Supporters
I know it is possible that Bernie might endorse Hilary. I am asking any fellow Bernie supporters do not give up or think he has sold out
He has been on the right side of the issues his whole life. If he does endorse her before the convention make a last stand at the convention. Show up and protest. I also have seen posts from people saying they have heard from Bernie people on the Platform Committee saying he is being forced to make appearnces or they will shut him out of the convention. If he does endorse her he may be being forced to. Also he is still trying to get money for his delegates to get to Philadelphia so he is not suspending his campaign even with the possible endorsement. They are just trying to stop our movement. DON'T LET THEM. And if he...
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First of all, I just want to say that these thoughts that I am sharing are things that have been on my mind over the past year or so and is about no incident in particular.
I want to start out by saying that I totally agree that all lives matter. Yes, ALL lives matter. It does not matter what color your skin is. Your life matters. I am sorry to the families that have lost loved ones and I hope the violence in this world would stop. However, It’s really upsetting that society is turning against all police officers due to certain incidents.
I read a text post saying “I’ve had it with people saying ‘Not all police officers are bad’ when a black person is murdered. That’s the equivalent to saying, ‘Not all men are bad’ when a women is raped.”
A few things things: 1. I agree that when...
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You compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the KKK, in fact you called them the new KKK. However I've not seen Black Lives Matter Protesters hang people from trees, castrate them, mutilate them, and burn them alive.
I've never seen children, infants, and pregnant women's unborn fetuses beaten, dismembered, and burned. How DARE you. By the way. All lives matter has NEVER advocated for ANY lives including AND excluding Black lives. In fact the ONLY time you hear all lives matter is in ARGUMENT of Black lives matter. However, that is contradicting, hypocritical, and moronic if all lives actually matter then doesn't that MEAN that Black lives matter?
Exactly. You say Black Lives Matter is a division tactic but how can we divided unless you DON'T agree that Black lives matter. You can...
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Dear President Putin，
I regret that I must trouble you with this embarrassing request sir, but I only do so because our own American government recently demonstrated that we currently have a double standard of justice and selective enforcement of law in our troubled nation. We have Obama's "JUST US" for the wealthy elite, and we have real and severe justice for everyone else who is struggling. While Bradley Manning was locked away for 35 years for being careless with "classified" government information (leaking the "Collateral Murder" war crime video to Wikileaks), Hillary Clinton walks away from prosecution for being careless with "TOP SECRET" government information! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike
As you may know Mr. Putin, America jails the...
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Dear America,
The past 3 days have been filled with more vicious murders of Black men. More police officers sitting on paid administrative leave, as children bury their daddies, parents bury their sons, and family/friends bury loved ones. Yes, enough is enough when a group of people have been targeted for YEARS...DECADES...CENTURIES. It's even sadder when that same group of people are treated with less respect and dignity than animals. We're told to "get over it" when we talk about our history. We're told "All Lives Matter" when we say that "Black Lives Matter" because of the number of us killed by police officers. And before anyone comes out of left field saying, "we kill ourselves and that is ignored"; please know that I'm not minimizing that fact. Murder is murder no matter who...
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
This. This is a loaded statement. It's been a loaded statement since its inception 240 years ago. In its original draft...
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Dear BBC, ITN, and Sky News,
As you know, voters in last month’s referendum were repeatedly lied to about the fundamental realities of the UK’s proposed exit from the European Union. Although there were undoubtedly untruths and exaggerations on both sides of the argument, it was clear then, and it is painfully clear now, that the balance of these untruths lay firmly on the Leave side.
Presumably, in the run-up to the referendum, you felt (rightly or wrongly) that impartiality rules prevented you from pointing out this disparity. Indeed, it appears that you felt duty-bound to constrain any fact-checking efforts to relatively trivial, tit-for-tat factoids, rather than focusing on any of the fundamental lies underpinning many of the Leave side’s arguments.
Much of the analysis...
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To all the honest American women with a vagina...
We all seem to be caught up in the novelty and excitement of electing the first woman into the White House. Indeed this would be a historic achievement. But will any vagina do? I am not insulting women mind you but I remind all of you that HONESTY and ETHICS may be more important than gender. BTW... There is another woman Presidential candidate named Jill Stein from the Green Party, and she has never been involved in any murder or FBI investigations. But I will tell you more about Jill another day. For now I just want to share something I recently wrote to Hillary Clinton who has been trying to seduce people with her vagina as her best qualification to become our next President. And no, I would never vote for that Racist Trump neither...
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To the lying thieves of Westminster...
My faith in politicians has always been thin, but since the joke that was the referendum even more so. As I've gotten older and learnt more about history and more about the world, it's made me very much appreciate the UK where I was born and raised. We have the NHS (until the Tories have their way), and we live in a civilised society that's not just tolerant, but embraces other cultures too. A country that has survived two world wars, and managed to pull ourselves out of the debt and destruction from them. This last week my belief in democracy, and faith in my country has been deeply shaken. Yes voting itself was an exercise in democracy you may say. An exercise in democracy would have been a referendum based on truth. The country has voted based on...
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