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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 06:44 PM
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jebldmm

Your arguments are irrelevant because the argument isn't that racism doesn't exist, or that it isn't a serious issue. The argument is that sexism is more common than racism and is more socially acceptable.

Um, sorry they are all relevant and deal exactly with the issue of what is more socially acceptable. Take Black men in education as just one example, just recently the radical feminist group American Association of University Women recent report, and as repeated by one of the BS writers, there is no boy crisis when you dismiss black males and then ignoring them for the rest of the report. It was all about how white females are still behind or just even with white males.

Or how society has completely ignored the biggest victims of crime. Where are the classes and workshops for young black males on how to avoid being a victim like there for young females at many universities and schools?

Where are the signs in the break rooms showing black males making 57 cents on the dollar (or what ever the exact number is)? By law in many if not most states there is a similar one for females.

So yes, it is still far easier in society to be racists.

When you correct for economic factors, you will find that black men tend to do better than white women, overall. Most of the problems of black men are the same problems faced by poor white people - bad nutrition, bad education, frustration with the lack of possibiliites.

That is just a bullshit lie right there. No, when you correct for economic factors you will not find black men doing better than white women. The only way to come up with that bullshit is to compare just college grad black males versus no college females. No, most of the problems faced by poor blacks are not the same as poor whites either. Poor Black Men are more likely to be victims of crimes than Poor White Men. Poor Black Men are more likely to hit the statistical area which can not explain the lack of pay, the area where discrimination shows.

How can you compare a young women being required to stay at home with her children and then being abandoned by her husband to a black man who goes to a bad high school and never gets a decent job? You can't. The situations aren't comparable. But they are both wrong.

Where and who are requiring young white women to stay at home with the children? There are no laws that I know that require this in fact there are laws that say the exact opposite; if a women is on welfare they have to go back to work in a prescribed time. The numbers do not bare out your victim hood feminist version you try to paint either of the man abandoning some poor hopeless victim women with about 80 percent of all divorces being initiated by the female.

The difference is that people care about the black man and are working to fix inner city schools. If a woman gets abandoned with children, society tends to blame her for having so many kids she can't support.

Right, they have been fixing inner city schools now for what 50 years with no real progress. Hell they are starting to backtrack if you measure by the number of drop outs. There has been no serious discussion about changing the funding structure of public eduction so until this happens I am not impressed by any attempt to fix poor school districts.

Where is all this societal blame for having so many kids? During the 80's and 90's war on welfare mom's virtually all of the art showing welfare queens and the language that was used was to describe inner city black women not white women that where the majority of welfare mothers.

But you only have to look at this thread to see that there are many who argue that sexism is a myth and women just complain too much and to see people defend sexism against Couric (like with Clinton) as "well, in this case SHE deserves it". Can you imagine anybody saying that Obama is so offensive that he deserves to be attacked in a racist way?

No one defended sexism against Couric in this thread as she deserved it. What many have said was there is no sexism in the case of Couric and/or the amount of sexism claimed does not fit with the reality on the street. And no i can't imagine anyone saying Obama is so offensive that he deserves to be attacked in a racist way as he is a great guy but I have seen the same thing said about just about every high profile black athlete, many if not most black politicians especially Jesse Jackson and Sharpton.

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