The Glade 4.0

Studies consistently show that people (including black people themselves) are more fearful and suspicious of and less likely to trust black people, less inclined to hire black people, less likely to offer assistance to a black person, etc. Whether or not (or to whatever extent) those prejudices have some rational basis in statistics like crime rates and and so on, it's gotta suck for all the regular, perfectly decent black people who have that **** stacked against them.

Our government is currently persecuting and harassing George Zimmerman at the direction of Eric Holder.

It's statistically harder for any arbitrary hypothetical black person to get that because that black person is more likely to fall into disqualifying categories. It is not harder for actual individuals that don't fall into those categories.

This is the entire problem with the reasoning. Because the group as a whole has the problem does not automatically translate it to the individual.

Niece of the slain civil rights leader says we need to stop dividing ourselves by race.

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
July 17, 2013


Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., rejected the now-viral image showing the late civil rights leader wearing a hoodie just like the one Travyon Martin wore the night of his death.


MLK Hoodie – April 4th, 1968 by Nikkolas Smith courtesy of Deviant Art

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would very likely not wear a hoodie,” she said. “I can assure you he would not wear sagging pants.”

Dr. King made this statement on the Andrea Tantaros Radio Show on Tuesday after being asked what she thought of the image entitled MLK Hoodie – April 4th, 1968.

“I can almost promise you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would not wear a hoodie,” she further emphasized later in the interview.

Dr. King also said that people need to think with grace rather than emotions in reference to the image and the overall backlash to the George Zimmerman verdict.

“There was a reasonable doubt in that case,” she said. “So the case went the ways of the laws of this land, but now we need to go further and look at the human heart.”

Dr. King also called out the mongers in the media and elsewhere who are trying to spin the verdict into racial tensions between Caucasians and African-Americans.

“As far as trying to fit the Caucasians against African-Americans, Mr. Zimmerman is a Hispanic,” she said. “Although we are one blood, one human family, one human race, there’s a lot of deception and emotion in these things that are being spurred.”

“Mr. Zimmerman is not a Caucasian. He’s not.”

Even when her uncle was assassinated in 1968, Dr. King said that it wasn’t fair to blame it on Caucasians.

Right before her father left home in order to retrieve the body of the slain civil rights leader, she said she stood in the kitchen ranting, “I hate white people!”

“Alveda, white people did not kill your uncle,” Dr. King’s father said to her as he held her in his arms. “The devil did.”

From that experience, Dr. King learned to answer violent tragedies with love, not hate.

“We answer with reason,” she said. “We answer with sanity.”

Other people have also rejected the image, which was originally posted at Deviant Art.

“It seems over the years, people have forgotten what exactly he (Dr. MLK, Jr.) was fighting for: equality,” one commenter said.

This article was posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 1:51 pm

For many of these "disqualifying categories," the prospective employer or loan officer or whatever does not actually know whether you fall into them or not. He has to go with the information he has and then make a decision based on the average. Having black skin color is an obvious piece of information that shifts the averages against you.

A 20-year old has super high insurance because, on average, most 20-year olds are terrible drivers. A sustained record of accident-free driving will lower his premiums, but a 23-year old with no accidents will still have a much higher insurance rate than a 40-year old on an identically valued car and no accident history. The 23-year old has a 7-year clean driving history, which AFAIK is the furthest any insurance company looks back, but his premiums are STILL higher simply because he's 23 and the other guy is 40. He's still a higher risk. Black skin represents a higher risk as long as black people have a higher crime rate/lower education rate/etc than the average.

In addition, while systematic racism is pretty much dead, individuals can still be racist and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that the number of anti-black racists far exceeds the number of anti-white ones. This is a further disadvantage for the black person.

And there are significant legal penalties to using race in that way, meaning that discriminating based on race is a risk category all its own. I don't recall ever putting race on a credit application, but I DO recall quite a few places where it was collected for equal opportunity purposes. You can bet people are tracking that kind of data.

President Barack Obama said Friday that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago" in his first live comments since a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman last weekend in the teenager's shooting death.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Where was Zimmerman when we really needed him?

Where was Zimmerman when we really needed him?

Where was Zimmerman when we really needed him?

Really Nitefox? I'd still place Harding in that spot.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

There were some real albatrosses in the 1800s we tend to forget. Millard Filmore, for example, is barely memorable - thankfully. Martin Van Buren was no champ either.

Good Lord...just read The One's comments about the case. It's official, we have the worst president in the history of the U.S. in office. What a complete moron.

Not that i know anything specifically about these guys, but to my mind, in the vast majority of situations, "Barely memorable" is the mark of a good president. There are exceptions -- extraordinary times make good leadership quite memorable, but for the most part, in normal, uneventful terms, the best thing you can say about a government is that they stayed out of your lives and were barely noticeable. If you can forget government exists, it's generally doing a good job.

Did you read the full transcript or some PJ media dissection of it?

Full thing. Didn't need a dissection. You still drinking the kool-aid?