(07-15-2023 02:38 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-15-2023 11:18 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  For instance... you recently posted under "Kaepernick" a complaint (one that you have voiced before) that rich black people are voicing concerns about racial injustices in the US. Your point seemed to be that regardless of their background and regardless of injustices that they saw growing up, once they got rich they should remain silent. Apparently they should not use their platform now that they are famous to lend their voice to those that lack a platform. I was going to push back against that notion but then I decided to skip it as I didn't feel like going back and forth with the Shut-Up-And-Dribble crowd.

I think a big part of the reason that you have difficulty in getting others to engage with you is your penchant for restating what they said in ways that pervert their meaning into something that you want them to have said because that would be easy to argue against.

For example, I did not take OO's comments to mean, "now that you are rich, you should remain silent," but rather more like, "you were obviously able to succeed humongously in that system that you complain of so vociferously. Instead of telling everyone that the system is against them, maybe it isn't, and maybe you'd do better to tell them something that would help them succeed in that system, like you did. Maybe say something like, "Hey I made it big and you can too, the system is not set up to screw you, but you need to understand what works and what doesn't, and my experience says that this is what works." Telling everyone how terrible the system is, when you've obviously made it big in that same system, has a ring of dishonesty and insincerity. Telling everyone, you can make it and this is how, on the other hand, screams with credibility and does far more good in the long run.

It seems apropos now to post that article on reparations from the American Institute for Economic Research. I have no idea if AIER is a real think tank or a place with an agenda. Could be either. Found the article on MSN.

The surprising beneficiaries of American slavery

I am sure there will be a lot of opposition to the thoughts in the article. Fine with me as long as your opposition is to the article and not to me. I see points on both sides, and do not advocate for either.

IAC, it explains why people like Kaepernick and Cori Bush, who think this place is so bad, so oppressive, would not think of leaving.