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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 29, 2014, 5:30 pm
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This is in St. Paul, Minnesota, NOT the DEEP SOUTH! If I read
JUST ONE ASSHOLE REMARK ABOUT this man being in trouble because
of something he did or did not do, I will call you a RACIST
MOTHER FUCKER because THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE.
If you believe the "racial divide" in this country is caused by
people of color, you are FULL OF SHIT!
This is WHITEY's fault. ALL OF IT! Yeah, YOU non-racist whites
that keep your tongue where the sun doesn't shine when this kind
of SHIT GOES DOWN. You should be REQUIRED to shoe polish your
FACE for a year so you learned HOW IT WORKS in this country. A
few days ago one of you panicked pinkies called the cops on a
black kid handling a TOY gun in a WALMART. They KILLED HIM! FUCK
YOU!
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 31, 2014, 9:49 pm
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>
> Agelbert,
> Those video's you posted on white's vs. black's are
disinformation posts.
> Over $1,000,000,000.00 a year is spent on this kind of
nonsense.
> Your being sucker punched bubba.
>
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>
> AZ,
> Bull s h i t. Being part minority, and having several black
friends in the course of my past life, I have LIVED this stuff.
I live in Vermont. pal. I KNOW the score. I was raised in Ft.
Leavenworth, Kansas. I was a racist. Next to the base was "jig"
town. I thought, "why do those black people live next to the
post?" like any ignorant racist whitey would that doesn't know
his ass from a hole in the ground. The INSTANT you study Kansas
history you LEARN why the FEW blacks that were allowed to leave
the south after the civil war that weren't ghettoized instantly
or run out of town or hung for the fun of it ALWAYS survived
because of the Federal Government (and that was iffy a lot of
the time too!). Do you know why they were called the JIGS?
Right, because they could be USED to make a product CHEAPLY and
easily.
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>
> Whitey is the culprit. the fact that I look white has helped
learn about all the vile stuff whitey has come up with to BLAME
THE VICTIM.
>
> Don't F U C K with me on this, Az. I can give you chapter and
verse on how minorities are targeted, cornered and manipulated
into violent responses ONLY to have whitey ask, "what's wrong
with those people? Why aren't they civilized and well behaved
like whitey?".
>
> Have you ever had a cop that stopped you ram his arm inside
your car inches from your face, grab your seat belt and pull
back quickly and connect it while saying, IN _______ WE WEAR
SEAT BELTS!!? Do you KNOW why he did that or are you going to
dance around with some baloney along the lines of another
Doomstead Diner that always manages to blame the minority for
whatever problem they are in?
>
> I'm not in the mood for this game of whitey plays dumb. The
cop WANTED and excuse. A normal person reacts and grabs the
person's arm inches from his face. Then you get charged and
jailed and a nice record stays to ruin your future (if you are
lucky and don't get the stuffing beat out of you, your car
confiscated and possibly shot!). I'm NOT the normal run of the
mill chump. I KNOW how it works. So I did not move a muscle. The
cop was visibly angry and frustrated. All he could give me was a
ticket. Go ahead, AZ, just say it was a "bad day" for the cop
or it was just anecdotal or I am exaggerating. I'm not given to
hyperbole.
>
> WHY TF do you think most minorities live in ghettos, HUH? Do
you think it's because they LIKE it there!!? Learn the history
of this country, especially AFTER the Civil War and then you
will get the proper perspective on how much of this "bemusement"
about how minorities, especially those of color, "never seem to
get ahead" is BECAUSE, since the Homestead act (that EXCLUDED
AMERICAN FREE BLACKS but let your great grand daddy go steal
Arizona from the Native Americans and Mexicans), which is one of
GREATEST SOURCES of American middle class wealth in the USA, at
EVERY STEP of the way, minorities are hog tied to keep them from
getting ahead (OWNING PROPERTY) while affirmative action for
whitey has ALWAYS been PAR FOR THE COURSE while whitey screams
about all those "welfare queens" in the minorities out there.
BS, BS and more bull s h I t!
>
> I watched a Southerner (nicknamed "Flash" LOL!) in my Enroute
air traffic control center mess up continually and his pals
cover for him. They guy was DUMBER than a wedge. But there he
was, making over $22,000 a year in 1974 while minorities with
twice his intelligence and ability were kept down.
>
> That same crew had another moron that told a joke we were all
supposed to laugh at. Why do blacks have chickens on their
farms? So they can teach their kids to WALK!! Funny, funny,
funny. Why do (insert Agelbert's minority group here - just
before he has to start a shift to see if they can mess him up
well enough to make a mistake, have a "deal" and get FIRED) have
pointed shoes? So they can kill the roaches in the corners of
their house rooms. FUN-N-NY Southern CRACKERS!
>
> Don't get mad, Agelbert! You need a thick skin for this job!
We are just trying to see if you can take it before so get to
dish it out!
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/>mind that Flash and the run of the mill whitey DUMB forks were
babied 24/7!). Hey Agelbert, I'm H O R N Y, does your wife have
a sister I can F U C K? THAT too delivered right before going on
position IN FRONT of the crew chief who acted like he had heard
nothing.
>
> Hey Az, do you know what a radar screen looked like before
digitized data blocks? We had little plastic markers we would
push along a flat horizontal display. We called them "shrimp
boats". Do you know what one of my trainers from Proud Bigots 'R
'US even WORSE than Southerners (from Indiana
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/>did when I was ready to check out (get certified) on a radar
position? He took his hand and scrambled 14 shrimp boats on the
screen and said, FIX IT. I had to re-identify fourteen aircraft
in less than 3 minutes. I was pretty good. I didn't flinch and
just did it. They NEVER did that to anyone who WASN'T a
minority.
>
> Another sadistic racist on that crew took over 40 flight
progress strips I had set up in all their appropriate bays while
working the "manual" air traffic position next to the radar and
he threw them ALL on the floor! The crew chief said NOTHING. I
almost lost it but I controlled myself, picked up all the flight
progress strips and sequenced them accordingly in a couple of
minutes. They NEVER did that to anyone who WASN'T a minority.
They picked the wrong guy to fork up. Having spent 8 months at
the USMA helped me get through the sadistic racisism from
Southerners and that pack of super racists from Indianapolis
center.
>
> But that's not the POINT, Az! They POINT is that minorities
have a BULLSEYE painted on them and people like you PRETEND it
ain't so and you ain't favored for opportunites from jobs to
purchases to simple human compassion 24/7. You IGNORE the FACT
that there are a plethora of DUMB fork whiteys out there that
should not have the job that a smarter, more qualified HUMAN
that happens to be a minority SHOULD HAVE but doesn't because
whitey is covering for it's low IQ members. And it is HELL ON
WHEELS to get WHITEY to admit that! He's too busy claiming
minorities are Da ones dat do dat! LOL!
>
> Blaming the victim and planning 24/7 to hurt minorities even
more is part of this racist country's DNA. It's how DUMB fork
from the low IQ portion of whitey manage to make a decent living
while minorities of average to above average intelligence
struggle.
>
> Sure, superior intelligences and high IQ people of ANY Homo
SAP group will make it despite all the S H I T thrown at them.
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> The USA is RACIST TO THE CORE. PART of that racism is claiming
the soft peddling of bigotry (like in the above videos where
barely ANY part of the HORRORS that go on daily are touched!)
get the old KNEW JERK REACTION from whitey saying it's
PROPERGANDER aginst us sweet innocent, upstandin' Merikans. I
know better. Since I can "pass" I have observed the "game"
incognito.
>
> I even play the racist every now and then to listen to the
FILTH that comes from whitey's mouth like the old "JOKE" about
the black with 12 bullets in him tied in chains with his feet in
concrete found at the bottom of a river (Worse case of suicide
we ever haid around here!
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>
> And the one about the black guy that was hit by whitey's car
and was charged with breaking and entering because he went
through the windshield...
>
> Isn't that just HILAREOUS, Az!!!? Don't tell me YOU have nevah
heard such things because I will call you a LIAR to your face!
>
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> Now I know it's REAL HARD for many Doomstead Diners to picture
the outcome of the above if the guy was Black. ;)
>
> But, I can GUARANTEE YOU HE WOULD have been SHOT DEAD WITH
SEVERAL BULLETS.
>
>
>
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> But..., uh, Um, the black man stole two cokes! And, and he had
KNIFE! He would have done horrible things if they hadn't
DEFENDED themselves, RIGHT!!?
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> Keep dreamin' you have logic and reasonableness on your side,
whitey! Anyone with a lick of sense knows racism is ENDEMIC and
UBIQUITOUS in the USA.
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> Yeah, I know. The fallacious argument comes next... ::)
> [quote]
> Argument By Dismissal:
>
> an idea is rejected without saying why.
>
> Dismissals usually have overtones. For example, "If you don't
like it, leave the country" implies that your cause is hopeless,
or that you are unpatriotic, or that your ideas are foreign, or
maybe all three. "If you don't like it, live in a Communist
country" adds an emotive element.
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Video Captures EXACTLY How Cops Feel About Black People
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 2, 2014, 8:08 pm
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Cops Are Armed and Dangerous
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 3, 2014, 9:47 pm
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Another man dies during routine traffic stop; Cops withhold all
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 4, 2014, 5:26 pm
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How ABOUT THAT! Whitey's "reasonable, logical and civilized"
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Modus
Operandi EXPOSED!
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Added instructions To that FINE and PRUDENT and SENSIBLE advice
given above to HELP YOU PEOPLE TO BEHAVE so you don't CAUSE
TROUBLE by YOUR behavior.
1) When stopped by a police officer for any reason whatsoever,
even if it happens on a regular basis without a ticketing
offense, ALWAYS be RESPECTFUL and the POLICE OFFICER will be
RESPECTFUL TOO! Remember if the police officer does NOT act
RESPECTFULLY, it's YOUR FAULT! ;D
2) If a sales person follows you around in a store or you are
mistaken for a service person or/and asked to clean up some mess
or take out the garbage or [i]"Where's that pizza we ordered?",
be THANKFUL that you can get such QUICK SERVICE and ATTENTION.
;D What's wrong with you?
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Don't be
so paranoid and overly sensitive!
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Stop playing the
RACE CARD! Quit your whining!
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This
just shows what a RACIAL DIVIDE (Whites are reasonable and
non-combative - we aren't looking for silly excuses to feel
dumped on!) in this country. We whites are happy
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/>when we are followed around or mistaken for a service person.
That we get quicker service!... ;D
3) Racism ENDED in the USA when the Civil Rights act was passed
a long time ago. Stop living in the past. Get that silly chip
off your shoulder. If you don't want to be called a welfare
queen, whining trouble maker, BEHAVE and you won't have any
TROUBLE. USA! USA! USA! ;D
Signed,
Some NON-racist ;) REAL (white) Americans
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/>that made the above SUGGESTIONS for the GOOD of you over
excitable minorities. [/i]
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think it would be a good idea to ask what the RACISTS think! :P
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It Seems that, in INDIA, the WHITER YOU ARE THE RIGHTER YOU ARE!
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 5, 2014, 9:03 pm
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Ad council says telling people they won’t be loved or successful
because of the color of their skin is no way to sell beauty
products.
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September 04, 2014 By Melissa Rayworth
Melissa Rayworth is a regular contributor to TakePart. She has
also written for the Associated Press, Salon and Babble.
A few semesters ago, one of Jayanthi Rajan’s marketing students
had her mind blown while working on a senior project at Albright
College. As this American student compared the cultural messages
in advertising from different countries, she was stunned to see
a demeaning commercial for “skin whitening” creams sold in South
Asia.
“Professor, you have to see this ad,” the student told Rajan.
“It’s about a guy who breaks up with a girl because she’s dark.
And then she uses the cream and they get back together!”
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After working for nearly a decade in India’s advertising
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/> before teaching in the U.S., Rajan wasn’t surprised. Ads for
skin-whitening creams are ubiquitous in India and many Asian
countries, and many promote that same before-and-after story
line: Make your skin fair, and you’ll be beautiful and
successful, but stay as dark as you really are and you’ll get
nowhere in life or love.
“The so-called ‘fairness cream’ market is huge in India,” Rajan
says, and many ads depict “before-after scenarios of
dark-to-fair transitions resulting in success.” >:(
So she sees an important victory in the new guidelines announced
by the Advertising Standards Council of India on Aug. 14. The
guidelines state that ads in India can no longer depict people
with darker shades of skin as less successful, less happy, less
appealing to potential mates, or otherwise in worse situations
than fairer-skinned people.
India’s standards council is an ad industry organization, not a
government agency that can legally enforce its guidelines. But
in the past, it’s had high rates of compliance when calling for
ads it has deemed false or offensive to be removed from TV
airwaves or not to be printed.
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The council announced that it hopes these new rules will “go a
long way in ensuring that advertisements of products in this
category do not depict people with dark skin as somehow inferior
to those who are fairer.”
Rajan hopes the council is right, but she’s realistic: You can’t
sell “fairness creams” like India’s popular Fair & Lovely
without promoting the idea that lighter skin is better than
darker skin. Beauty advertising is only the beginning of India’s
deeply divided class divisions and the entrenched cultural
beliefs regarding light skin.
At best, this ruling will force advertisers to step back from
blatantly stating that lighter skin is the only road to success
and
happiness.
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That implicit connection can still have an impact on the lives
of darker-skinned people, says Harlan Spotts, a professor of
marketing at Western New England University. “Even subtle cues
can be quite powerfully transmitted through repeated exposure,”
he says.
But Spotts points out that just as American tobacco companies
were forced to stop touting the supposed health benefits of
cigarettes a half century ago, these companies are finally being
told to stop drawing an explicit connection between fair skin
and success.
They’re also beginning to face pressure because of globalization
and social media. Decades ago, multinational companies could
hide from their Western customers that they sold products with
blatantly bigoted messages in Asian countries. Today people are
hearing about these products, seeing the way they’re sold, and
sharing these offensive ads online.
At the Facebook page for Dark Is Beautiful, a campaign launched
five years ago by the India-based organization Women of Worth,
ads for “fairness creams” are posted, discussed, and shared.
Supporters can also see ads created by Dark Is Beautiful,
including some featuring Bollywood actor Nandita Das.
“Look anywhere and everywhere,” reads the tagline in an ad
featuring Das. “There are blatant and subtle reinforcements that
only fair is lovely. So much pressure and so little public
debate around it!” >:( Whether or not advertisers like it, that
public debate has begun. Fueled by social media and shaped by
rules that call out discrimination, it’s likely to grow.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 6, 2014, 5:44 pm
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In Detroit, so many workers are blocking the streets that the
police chief is worried they might run out of handcuffs.
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Another Black Man Murdered By Police
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 10, 2014, 9:03 pm
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>
> Justice for Disabled Man Killed by LAPD During a Traffic Stop
> author: SUE LEE
> target: LAPD Officials
> signatures: 10,887
>
> we've got 10,887 signatures, help us get to 11,000
>
> overview
> petition
>
> Please sign and share this petition in an effort to get LAPD
officers held accountable for killing a disabled man during a
routine traffic stop. The officers should be suspended until an
investigation is completed into the incident and why this man
ended up deceased. These officers need to be held responsible;
wearing a badge does not entitle people to kill unarmed innocent
people.
>
> Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old disabled man, was on his way home in
South Los Angeles when two police officers stopped him for
"investigation." The police claim that Ezell reached for their
gun and a struggle ensued -- but the only eyewitness account so
far tells a different story. According to the witness, Ezell was
lying on the ground, complying to the officers' demands. They
shot him three times with intent to kill.
>
> Ezell's cousin stated "They shot him in the back, knowing
mentally, he has complications. Every officer in this area, from
the Newton Division, knows that -- that this child has mental
problems... The excessive force... there was no purpose for it.
The multiple shootings in the back while he's laying down? No.
Then when the mom comes, they don't try to console her... they
pull the Billy clubs out."
>
>
> No officers were injured during the incident. In fact, one of
the officers involved has a history of complaints lodged against
him. In 2011, the officer allegedly trespassed on private
property and then nearly drowned a man to death in front of his
family when they asked to see a search warrant.
>
> These officers need to be held accountable for their actions
and realize are in these positions to serve and protect their
communities and residents, not overpower, bully and kill them!
Please sign and share this petition in an effort to get LAPD
officers held accountable for killing Ezell Ford. At the very
least, they should not be allowed on the streets with weapons
while eyewitnesses report they have needlessly murdered an
innocent man!
>
>
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Don't worry _______, this guy must have REALLY REACHED HARD for
the gun and must have REALLY given the police a REASON to shoot
him in the back! Of the course the suspect was UNARMED so the
FACT that the POLICE ARE ALWAYS ARMED provides and EXCELLENT
REASON for blowing away a blackie, DON'T IT? Now you can GIT EM'
even if they HAVE NO WEAPON! Besides, He might've given these
poor police an orbital fracture! ;D
And after all, let us not forget DUE PROCESS OF LAW! There has
been no GRAND JURY! What are, ya, uncivilized or sumptin'?
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Where's the evidence!!?
;) We must be objective about all this... Let's not get carried
away... The police must be trusted. Besides this doesn't happen
to white people so there is NOTHING TO "CRY" about, eh?
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Thomas Jefferson's BIG PLAN continues to experience MISSION
CREEP...
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VIDEO by Ferguson Kids: Hey White People: A Kinda Awkward Note
To America
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 11, 2014, 12:38 am
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 13, 2014, 1:03 pm
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September 12, 2014 By Nicole Pasulka
Staff Writer Nicole Pasulka has written for Mother Jones,
BuzzFeed, The Believer, and New York Observer. She lives in New
York City.
New witnesses to the Aug. 9 police shooting of unarmed
18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., have come forward.
Brown, who was black, was shot by white police officer Darren
Wilson. St. Louis County Police have said that Brown ran toward
Wilson and made a grab for the officer’s gun.
But statements to the police, FBI, and media this week by
witnesses contradict Wilson’s version of the shooting. Two
construction workers, who have not been named but who were near
the scene, said that they "starting hearing pops." They saw
Brown “staggering and running,” according to KSDK. "And when he
finally caught himself he threw his hands up and started
screaming, 'OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK."
"The cop didn't say, 'Get on the ground.' He just kept
shooting,” one of the construction workers, who said he heard a
gunshot and then another one 30 seconds later, told CNN. Brown
"had his f---in' hands up." The other man "got about 8 to 10
feet away from him...I heard six, seven shots...it seemed like
seven. Then he put his gun down. That's when Michael stumbled
forward. I'd say about 25 feet or so and then fell right on his
face."
A witness named Phillip Walker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
he saw Brown walking with his hands up, not running toward
Wilson.
The shooting has sparked weeks of protests in Ferguson, where
the population is around 70 percent black and the police force
and City Council are overwhelmingly white. Locals are demanding
Darren Wilson be charged in Brown’s death. On Wednesday 10
people were arrested during a demonstration that blocked traffic
on I-70.
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