"We Need To Have A Conversation About Race"? No, We Need To Shut Up About Race And Engage With People As Fellow Humans
Nobody wants to be berated for being white -- or whatever color they are.
All these people saying the old, "We need to have a conversation about race" miss that. As I write in "Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck," criticizing people doesn't make them want to change; it makes them want to clobber you.
Well, check out this amazing guy, Daryl Davis. I thought his story was too unbelievable to be true, but it does seem to be true. (Looked it up a few places.)
And here it is -- via @MarcoRandazza:
Black man convinces 200 racists to abandon the KKK by befriending them https://t.co/nwImGS33Nt
— Shauna (@ShaunaGee) June 11, 2017
We do need to have a conversation about race--one in which people aren't shouted down and vilified for making demonstrably true statements about group differences.
Rex Little at June 11, 2017 10:51 PM
"We need to have a conversation about race," when uttered by a black person, means "You need to sit down and not say a word while I harangue for several hours about why you're responsible for every single problem I have."
Patrick at June 12, 2017 5:08 AM
"We need to have a conversation about race," when uttered by a black person,
Or a white democrat
means "You need to sit down and not say a word while I harangue for several hours
dee nile at June 12, 2017 5:31 AM
Yeah, when any kind of a leftist talks about a "conversation", they mean "I talk, you shut up". As far as the conversation about race? We had that conversation already, back around 1965, and we pretty much decided what to do about it at that time. I was young then but as I recall, a guy named Martin Luther King had a good idea.
Cousin Dave at June 12, 2017 6:30 AM
The problem is that group guilt is being assigned. Should we assign group guilt to all blacks for the Rwanda genocide? For the slave trade itself (blacks captured blacks to sell)? For all the murders currently going on in black neighborhoods?
cc at June 12, 2017 8:12 AM
There's a great kids book called "Enemy Pie" that everyone should read.
Amy Glin at June 12, 2017 8:14 AM
"The problem is that group guilt is being assigned. Should we assign group guilt to all blacks for the Rwanda genocide? For the slave trade itself (blacks captured blacks to sell)? For all the murders currently going on in black neighborhoods?"
Just quit the lying about it being someone else's fault. That'd be enough.
To read "popular" media, the only person capable of responsibility is the white male.
Who is then blamed for it.
Radwaste at June 12, 2017 9:26 AM
Go Patrick! Exactly.
another Amy at June 12, 2017 9:39 AM
If group guilt is to be assigned, why not assign it to the Democrat Party - the founders of the KKK, the authors of Jim Crow laws, and the opponents of all civil rights legislation until the 1960's. If reparations are owed I think they could make a case that the Democrats owe them. The problem with the Democrats is they'll want to pay for their guilt with someone else's money.
Ken R at June 12, 2017 6:26 PM
The KKK had two hundred members? That weren't fed informants, I mean?
Richard Aubreyr at June 12, 2017 7:23 PM
"We Need To Have A Conversation About Race"
What Patrick said.
Plus we need to start a rational, historically accurate, conversation with AFRICANS who waged wars against fellow AFRICANS to enslave those fellow AFRICANS to sell to the Europeans and Arabs.
charles at June 13, 2017 4:53 PM
I think I already had that monologue from Eric Holder. I was waiting for him to apologize for all the dead Mexicans that his little gunrunning sting gone awry killed, but he never got there.
I'm good.
MarkD at June 15, 2017 1:50 PM
I think I already had that monologue from Eric Holder. I was waiting for him to apologize for all the dead Mexicans that his little gunrunning sting gone awry killed, but he never got there.
I'm good.
MarkD at June 15, 2017 1:50 PM
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