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Right. A rationale and effective response should never be emotional. 😎

Also according to code you're not supposed to directly call a White person a racist UNLESS they identify themselves as one.....lol. We can and should suspect every White person we meet of being a racist and don't let your guard down UNLESS they prove beyond a shadow of doubt TO YOU that they aren't. But that doesn't mean you go around with your eyes closed shouting and stammering out: "You're a racist....you....you....RACIST!" Every time a White person makes you mad, lol. That's not civil and it makes you look childish. It's also very poor strategy when actually dealing with racism. If the White person IS a racist....will telling them this and accusing them of it get you what you want? I'm certainly not accusing anyone on this site of this but I DO see it a lot in U.S. society. While REAL racism is running rampant and they're poisoning water systems and indoctrinating children with all types of foolishness....this nigga is calling some White man a racist because he won't let him borrow his cigarette lighter to smoke a Newport. Or because some White woman at Walmart won't let her return her clothes and get a refund without a store receipt.....lol....NOW the cashier is a "racist". Stupid shit. If you KNOW that a White person is a racist....learn how to COUNTER it with affirmative action. Throwing temper tantrums isn't a viable solution in my opinion. As far as Michel goes...... Or any other White person for that matter whether we agree or disagree with them..... This is a Black site and we are CLEARLY in power. Troy has this thing on lock. There are atleast a dozen intelligent Black folks up in here getting busy. We need to ACT like the master of our own home and show some restraint and decorum. Really, we should take a lesson from THEIR play book and don't even bring up their race unless THEY want to talk about it.

Thank you, I shall view this this evening when I get the gardening done. Interesting topic, to be sure!

I hope the coloring contest isn't like the lottery where the winning ticket isn't sold anywhere near me. 🤣😎

Considering there are suspects, that's not a good idea according to code.😁 😎

You're on fire with facts. 😁 POTUS carries a lot of responsibility but very little power. Executive orders are limited. Congress has to approve everything else.😎

You know what man...... I like what you're doing. I like your hustle.

The conditions and forces which make those poor people dysfunctional are structural and by design. Keep them unhealthy, subject to bad food and conditions, poorly educated, and pumped full of media BS, and naturally they'll behave badly. I'm not trying to inject WV into the forum but I mention it for comparative purposes, and it is instructive because we have there a subset of the USA which suffers high levels of poverty and dysfunction, and are overwhelmingly white. I look at their behavior and it makes me feel ill. The grandchildren of farmers who watch grandpa's tractor rusting in the field while they eat junk food and complain about the unpicked fruit which falls and rots on the ground. I just have to remember that I'm university educated, we got out of WV young. I grew up in affluent suburbs of Pittsburgh and L.A., so they perhaps rightly dismiss me as a pointy-headed smartypants outsider if I criticize what they're doing in WV. So I end up having the same view you express. that they are willfully dysfunctional and hurting themselves. The rich of course are behaving rationally. They have to in order to preserve their position of privilege, which requires a lot of manipulation to pull it off.

This pretends that no forces of oppression are arrayed against the people, which is of course an absolutely false assumption. One's individual efforts are laudable, but when the system is stacked against you... then systemic remedies are required. That means one does not sanely close one's eyes and pretend that society is just and functional. Also, your comment regarding Hegel has nothing to do with Hegelian thought, which stipulates that a synthesis is achieved through the interaction of disparate forces. So... add struggle against injustice to injustice. and often a better result is the yield.