Originally posted by KidRock
But it's okay to call all white people racist and state that white people don't know what it's like to be poor?
*Watches someone make stuff up about Obama*
It is pretty impressive how much people make up their own image of someone that's largely unconnected to what they actually do.
Time-Immemorial
It's okay to believe and represent black power. But if you are proud of being white, you are a racist.
It's ok to believe that disadvantaged racist groups need help, but it's not so ok to either stop them from getting help, or wanting to give the same advantage to groups without the same level of problems. Because, well, they don't have the same level of problems. But note, Obama can and does do programs that help white poor people and such- you know, things like the ACA, some of the measures in the stimulus, etc..
It's the idea that helping out people who need it more (due in no small part to stuff done in the past, but where the effects visibly remain, and where current unequal treatment without a doubt exists in statistically very noticeable amounts- A white convict and a black non-con gets hired at about the same rate, while two non-cons have the white person at about a 30% advantage in being hired for the same jobs) is 'unfair,' which is pretty silly.
It's especially silly to feel threatened that other people will be getting more equal treatment and opportunity. Fairness is not being anti-you, people being brought up in level is not the same as pushing others down.
It's downright bad to respond to attempts to help people by saying the one doing the helping is against everyone else and is calling everyone else racist. Which, by the way, he is not, that's just something you like to project on him.
All the things you supposedly represent online I doubt ou have any thing to do with it in real life.
I live in this country, in a diverse city (which, btw, is pretty great). People being treated fairly does have an effect on where I live.