(06-13-2015 01:24 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  I haven't seen anyone (although I may have missed it) ask the basic question: why would anyone want to be black? It's like someone saying they want to be poor, or they want to be gay, or they want to be retarded.

I don't mean this to be trite but rather to question motivations. Either there is some perceived benefit from being black, or for being a member of any victim class, or there is a psychosis in play.

If there is a benefit from being black, wouldn't that deny the existence of white privilege? Is there in inherent benefit of being a victim?

That lady did it to become important, make a name for herself, and she has been an activist type her entire life for the most part.....on behalf of black issues, so just become black.

There are plenty of successful black people in the USA, probably here more so than any other country.

(06-13-2015 01:39 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(06-13-2015 01:24 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  I haven't seen anyone (although I may have missed it) ask the basic question: why would anyone want to be black?

Because, when there is money to be handed out to be black, native american, or whatever, whats the harm in a little fudge on an application stating you are something you are not.




Once Obama is out of office, we may get to see if he really qualified for foreign student aid, or if he took it illegally.

If there was gobs of money being handed out to black people, I would've never had to go to the USCG.

(06-12-2015 08:39 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  so now that they know she is white, do they kick her out for being white?

There have been white people in high positions in the NAACP for 106 years now. Just like there have been Asian black panthers and one with a very high position.

I'm actually James Bond trapped in the body of a middle-aged, overweight, Christian who works in insurance.

(06-13-2015 04:56 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  I'm actually James Bond trapped in the body of a middle-aged, overweight, Christian who works in insurance.

So I'm guessing you dont work for GoDaddy.

(06-13-2015 05:08 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(06-13-2015 04:56 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  I'm actually James Bond trapped in the body of a middle-aged, overweight, Christian who works in insurance.

So I'm guessing you dont work for GoDaddy.

Yes, it's safe to say that.

(06-13-2015 04:53 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(06-12-2015 08:39 AM)NCeagle Wrote:  so now that they know she is white, do they kick her out for being white?

There have been white people in high positions in the NAACP for 106 years now. Just like there have been Asian black panthers and one with a very high position.

Ivan Allen Jr., prominent white mayor of Atlanta was a member.

Think I heard something like 12 or so people started it and they were all white 'cept one black I believe.

And I'm a swallow. European. In the coconut transport business.

(06-13-2015 06:17 PM)Paul M Wrote:  And I'm a swallow. European. In the coconut transport business.

Perhaps you would know the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Does this mean there are now only 5 black people in Spokane instead of 6

If someone is delusional and thinks they're black, that's ok with me. I don't care at all.

(06-14-2015 07:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  

Kind of telling that the conservatives are continuing to harp on Warren despite it being a wholesale non-issue. Maybe you just can't find anything else?

(06-14-2015 08:01 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(06-14-2015 07:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  

Kind of telling that the conservatives are continuing to harp on Warren despite it being a wholesale non-issue. Maybe you just can't find anything else?

I am more Native American than Warren and I wouldn't dare insult Native American's by claiming to be Native American. If Warren would LIE about small crap like this what else would the LYING BIATCH LIE about?

(06-14-2015 08:10 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  

(06-14-2015 08:01 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(06-14-2015 07:59 PM)THE NC Herd Fan Wrote:  

Kind of telling that the conservatives are continuing to harp on Warren despite it being a wholesale non-issue. Maybe you just can't find anything else?

I am more Native American than Warren and I wouldn't dare insult Native American's by claiming to be Native American. If Warren would LIE about small crap like this what else would the LYING BIATCH LIE about?

I learned as a small boy that a liar will also steal from you and a thief will also lie. That's proven to be the case such more often than not.

If you can find a politician who hasn't lied about worse, I'd be surprised.

(06-14-2015 08:37 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  If you can find a politician who hasn't lied about worse, I'd be surprised.

Warren wasn't a politician when she began lying about her ethnic heritage. She was an professor working her way up to a well paid tenured position at Harvard. She has zero proof of her ethnic claim. Zero.

But maybe you are ok with academics lying about their ethnic heritage to benefit themselves and hep themselves get ahead? Everybody does it so that makes it ok?

Newsflash…everybody doesn't do it and if you can't prove your Native American heritage with a certificate of admission from a Tribe or a provable blood quantum from a genetic test you absolutely should not declare it as your ethnic heritage.

Quote: But maybe you are ok with academics lying about their ethnic heritage to benefit themselves and hep themselves get ahead? Everybody does it so that makes it ok?

There is absolutely no evidence that she used this to get ahead in an academic setting. None.

Quote:Newsflash…everybody doesn't do it and if you can't prove your Native American heritage with a certificate of admission from a Tribe or a provable blood quantum from a genetic test you absolutely should not declare it as your ethnic heritage.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, but on the list of things I'm concerned with a politician lying about, it's about as low on my radar as you can get. And the fact it's still bandied about 4 years after the fact is somewhat telling in that nothing she's done in a policy stance has shown similar inconsistencies.