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Cliven Bundy: Are Black People 'Better Off As Slaves' Than 'Under Government Subsidy?

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There are racists all over the place. Look at the "My Brother's Keeper" program.

Perfect example of outright racism. Only young men of color can apply for these government grants? LOLOLOL also what about women?

Isn't that a war on women too?? :lmao:
 
Devil's advocate food for thought..

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/04/opinion/la-oe-goldberg-obama-brothers-keeper-race-20140304
From the link:

This fact has invited some conservative criticism. The Weekly Standard's Terry Eastland notes that the program is likely unconstitutional. Doling out benefits explicitly based on race is generally a no-no, according to the Supreme Court.

Even more frowned on: discrimination against women. The program will categorically exclude women and girls. In 1996 when the court (wrongly, in my opinion) ordered the historically single-sex Virginia Military Institute to admit women, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled that blanket sex-based discrimination requires an "exceedingly persuasive justification."

For me, My Brother's Keeper meets that bar. The statistics are gloomy and familiar: 1 out of 15 black men is behind bars; 1 out of 3 can expect to be incarcerated at some point in his life.

The simplistic talk about how this is all the result of white racism misses the scope and nature of the problem. The vast majority of interracial violent crime is black on white. But most violent crime is actually intra-racial (i.e. black on black or white on white). Still, blacks are far more likely to die from homicide; half of murder victims are black, which may partly explain why black men in prison have a higher life expectancy than black men out of prison. And this leaves out all of the challenges educational, economic, etc. facing black men that don't show up in crime statistics
 
Thread has turned iffy in a way that I don't see any entry for myself - but this was very funny:


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We Republicans have worked long and hard to develop insidious racial code words like entitlement society and personal responsibility,  said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). There is no excuse for offensive racist comments like the ones Cliven Bundy made when there are so many subtler ways of making the exact same point.

Fox News also blasted the rancher, saying in a statement, Cliven Bundys outrageous racist remarks undermine decades of progress in our effort to come up with cleverer ways of saying the same thing.
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