I do acknowledge my “white privileges”. I did nothing to create them nor did I knowingly encourage discrimination against blacks or Mexicans/Spanish. In the case of many blacks it is partially their fault for not taking advantage of the educational opportunities available to them in the past 40 years, joining and creating street gangs and tearing up their communities in the process. I don’t think I am any more racist than Lurk or Mike but people need to take responsibility for their actions, robbing and shooting up Harlem, Queens, Detroit and Compton wasn’t by white folks doing, it was almost all blacks doing the shooting and killing. Unfortunately in the short term they probably needed to sell drugs and prostitute to survive but they could have done it without escalating the problem to robberies, burglaries and killings which ran out all but the poorest and the gangbangers and ruined their communities. Also (this applies to everyone), if you can’t afford kids don’t get knocked up! That created the desperation of many gangbangers and other shitstains on the community — causing them to sell drugs, prostitute themselves on street corners to pay their bills and feed their children (I think prostitution should be legal but VD testing should be required and it should be in a “whore house”, not out in the open, drugs should be legal but sold in licensed liquor stores and purity regulated, not out of a neighborhood house or on a street corner and their purity and other ingredients completely unregulated). I sympathize with people with kids and without the means to support them but maybe they should have thought twice before getting knocked up in the first place if they couldn’t pay for the kids in the first place.

Y’all go on fighting, protesting and insisting I’m a racist who reduses to acknowledge my white priviledges I’m too busy working on stuff like forcing legislators to change policies born out of corporate sweetheart deals and resulted in the US truly being complicit in modern day slavery. Don’t take my word for it look up Case egg farms in Ohio.

Kelli’s post on suitcase pimps hits much closer to the mark when it comes to institutional slavery and oppression these days. We are a republic governed by the people: until the people outside of ‘official’ government positions recognize this and act accordingly including holding their friends/associates accountable for current behaviors they are the government of oppression.

9 outta 10 people dont even know who those statues are, what they stood for or anything about them….wheres the honor in dying for that? Why risk your life doe improve Fox news ratings? or MSNBC? they are as complicit as anyone in this violence….its one thing to report the news, its quite another to set the stage for it