Pop has a message for White People

[Atl Spur]

Yawn!!!! Boys you can do better than this I hoped! Black people are mean scary people......boo!

[Texas_Ranger]

Seems a lot of people have messages for white people.

Looks like a bunch of cool guys... but even cool guys deserve to just drop dead sometimes, so i hope that can happen to them.

[Nathan89]

I remember when the media crucified white high school kids wearing Trump hats because one of them smirked at an asshole beating a drum in his face.

[Nathan89]

I think this is old video but damn.

[Dirks_Finale]

I think this is old video but damn.

The media wont even report stuff like this. Perfectly acceptable because it's one of those evil and 'privileged' white folks getting beat down again. Must be their "righteous anger".

And this why I can not support BLM. There are some within their movement who are the equilivant of the KKK. Racist as and really only care for themselves.

Demonstrate peacefully. Do not destroy property that does not belong to you. Do not block traffic and do not attack others. Great men like MLK would not approve of this non-sense.

[Nathan89]

Don't participate in cult propaganda folks.

[exstatic]

A lot of goalpost moving going on. I condemn, ALL personal attacks, no matter the skin color of the attacker or victim. That being said, it’s not the police attacking those white people. That’s the issue, systemic racial bias by the police. Find me decades of footage of police systematically attacking and killing scores of unarmed white people. , find me ONE video of a cop taking down an armed to the teeth white militia protester, you know, someone who could actually do them some harm or kill them. You won’t find it, because the militias and the cops share the same agenda, the suppression of minorities.

[Phenomanul]

A lot of goalpost moving going on. I condemn, ALL personal attacks, no matter the skin color of the attacker or victim. That being said, it’s not the police attacking those white people. That’s the issue, systemic racial bias by the police. Find me decades of footage of police systematically attacking and killing scores of unarmed white people. , find me ONE video of a cop taking down an armed to the teeth white militia protester, you know, someone who could actually do them some harm or kill them. You won’t find it, because the militias and the cops share the same agenda, the suppression of minorities.

Stop living in the past. As a society we need to move on (and certainly learn) from the mistakes of our past. Hold people accountable for their present actions. It's asinine to hold anyone accountable for what their great-grandparents or grandparents did - what type of twisted sense of justice is that?

If any of this had anything to do with "white supremacy" then why do Vietnamese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Indonesian Americans, Indian Americans, Egyptian Americans and Pakistani Americans earn more per capita than White Americans? Why do they excel academically over White Americans? Do you think that perhaps other factors are involved that are being entirely glossed over by this mass delusional narrative?

It's entirely a cultural problem. Obama said it best when he said that a fatherless home was the greatest, single factor in determining if Black Americans would succeed in life:

But if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.

You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children. We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.

How many times in the last year has this city lost a child at the hands of another child? How many times have our hearts stopped in the middle of the night with the sound of a gunshot or a siren? How many teenagers have we seen hanging around on street corners when they should be sitting in a classroom? How many are sitting in prison when they should be working, or at least looking for a job? How many in this generation are we willing to lose to poverty or violence or addiction? How many?

Yes, we need more cops on the street. Yes, we need fewer guns in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. Yes, we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more after-school programs for our children. Yes, we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our communities.

But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — it’s the courage to raise one.

(more big black bold text for ElNono)

I would posit, as many other prominent black leaders have suggested in the past, that the absentee father dynamic is an insidious form of ins utionalized oppression that has been imparted upon the black community by decades-old Democratic policies aimed at keeping the black community financially dependent on the government. That dynamic has largely empowered the Democratic Party at municipal levels - even when NOTHING changes. The government financially incentivizes black mothers to remain unwed which unfortunately propagates misery on to the next generation. Some Black Americans have woken up to this pattern, but they are being largely shunted by the mob. They get called "race traitors" and other derogatory terms. The BLM movement is nothing but a cover for the Marxist takeover of our society.

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A lot of goalpost moving going on. I condemn, ALL personal attacks, no matter the skin color of the attacker or victim. That being said, it’s not the police attacking those white people. That’s the issue, systemic racial bias by the police. Find me decades of footage of police systematically attacking and killing scores of unarmed white people. , find me ONE video of a cop taking down an armed to the teeth white militia protester, you know, someone who could actually do them some harm or kill them. You won’t find it, because the militias and the cops share the same agenda, the suppression of minorities.

And you're full of . Recent examples:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1271233774852833281

If you think cops don't do dead white people...

[ElNono]

I would posit, as many other prominent black leaders have suggested in the past, that the absentee father dynamic is an insidious form of ins utionalized oppression that has been imparted upon the black community by decades-old Democratic policies aimed at keeping the black community financially dependent on the government. That dynamic has largely empowered the Democratic Party at municipal levels - even when NOTHING changes. The government financially incentivizes black mothers to remain unwed which unfortunately propagates misery on to the next generation. Some Black Americans have woken up to this pattern, but they are being largely shunted by the mob. They get called "race traitors" and other derogatory terms. The BLM movement is nothing but a cover for the Marxist takeover of our society.

So the part you're playing to eradicate systemic racism is pointing fingers at the victims? Is that it? That's convenient. It's intellectually lazy, but convenient.

Not to mention the vast amount of generalizations you're making there. Why don't you just call them welfare queens too? This is much more complex than 'didn't have a father'.

And the whole 'living in the past' is more convenient talk. That's basically the stuff you don't want to talk about, and avoid like the plague with whataboutism.

[exstatic]

And you're full of . Recent examples:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1271233774852833281

If you think cops don't do dead white people...

So, no police actions against whites.

[Phenomanul]

So the part you're playing to eradicate systemic racism is pointing fingers at the victims? Is that it? That's convenient. It's intellectually lazy, but convenient.

Not to mention the vast amount of generalizations you're making there. Why don't you just call them welfare queens too? This is much more complex than 'didn't have a father'.

And the whole 'living in the past' is more convenient talk. That's basically the stuff you don't want to talk about, and avoid like the plague with whataboutism.

Your dismissiveness of my overall message is the only intellectually lazy tactic at play here. Your accusation of finger pointing misses the point altogether. The root cause cannot be race based when other minority races excel in American society. What's ironic is that the bulk of my post was written by Obama himself.

Does Racism Cause Fatherlessness?

Some recognize the problem of father absence in the black community but object, “Racism is causing fatherlessness!” If that were true, the plight of the black family would have been far worse in eras of overt racism. Instead, early 20th-century black women married at higher rates than their white counterparts.

As the nation emerged from Jim Crow, 25 percent of black children were born to unwed mothers. Today that statistic is 72 percent. Instances of racism exist today, but you would be hard-pressed to argue anti-black racism is worse now than in 1900 or 1964.

If racism were the primary problem, Nigerian Americans also would not be among the most successful immigrant groups in our country, but they are. Much of their success can be attributed to strong marriages and strong families. In Nigeria, only 4 percent of children are raised in single-parent households, compared to the overall U.S. rate of 23 percent.

Leftist Policies Feed Poverty

Racism is not primarily responsible for the dissolution of the black family. Leftist policies are. Renowned economist Thomas Sowell explains, “The black family, which had survived centuries of slavery and discrimination, began rapidly disintegrating in the liberal welfare state that subsidized unwed pregnancy and changed welfare from an emergency rescue to a way of life.” This way of life has kept many black children stuck in cycles of generational poverty.

But because family breakdown, not racism, is overwhelmingly responsible for high rates of child poverty, the solution is found in marriage. The success sequence — 1) get at least a high school degree, 2) get a full-time job, and 3) get married before having any children — lifts 91 percent of youth out of poverty. Marriage is our greatest anti-poverty weapon.

Father Absence Increases Crime

It’s sickeningly obvious that instances of white cops targeting and brutalizing black suspects exist, but racism isn’t the main explanation for the massive numbers of black men in prison.

Regardless of their race, children who grow up without dads, especially boys, are more likely to commit violent crime. Fathers teach children different lessons than mothers do. One of those vital lessons is teaching children to police themselves through rough-and-tumble play, straight talk, and a disciplinary style inclined toward getting kids to take responsibility for their actions.

Fathers provide their sons a role model of what a strong and self-controlled man looks like, and for daughters they model what a father and husband should be. When a father fails, or is flat-out absent, a young man is more likely to encounter his first enforced boundaries at the hands of police. Prisons could be renamed “centers for dad-deprived boys,” and black boys are dad-deprived more than any other demographic.

That’s not to say that children, black or otherwise, who grow up in a broken home are doomed. President Barack Obama is an example of a man who overcame great odds to reach the pinnacle of power and success. He also, by his own admission, suffered from the absence of his father.

Fathers Foster Academic Success

Blaming systemic police racism for the struggles of black Americans is easier than doing the hard work of building and repairing families, but if we seek real change, our energies need to be focused on the hard work — or the home work. As senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Ins ution Shelby Steele notes, “You can have the police go to as many sensitivity trainings as you want, it’s not going to read a story to a child at night before he goes to sleep so he’s developing his mind … [and] serious about the academic and educational development [needed] … in order to be successful.”

Steele understands how father absence affects the racial achievement gap. While it’s true that black students are often unfairly disadvantaged by living in districts with poorly performing schools, family plays an often ignored role in school success.

Academically, black students, 65 percent of whom are being raised by single parents, struggle most in school. White students, 24 percent of whom live in single-parent homes, tend to inhabit the middle ground. Asian students, 15 percent of whom have single parents, generally occupy the top-achieving academic strata. The correlation between kids in single-parent homes and academic struggles is glaringly obvious, but it seldom factors into discussions aimed at helping black students succeed.

What happens when fathers, regardless of race, marry the mothers of their children? They raise successful students. A meta-analysis of 30 studies found student success has infinitely more to do with family than with race. The researchers concluded, “The family elements that were most strongly associated with a reduction in the achievement gap were coming from a two-biological-parent family and high levels of parental involvement.”

Even more interesting, when the study factored in the religious faith of an intact family, “The achievement gap totally disappeared” (emphasis added). When their emotional needs are met in the home of their married mother and father, black students are just as capable of academic success as kids from any other racial group.

The Ins ution Most Black Kids Lack Is Marriage

The shameful time in U.S. history when blacks were excluded from the ins utions of education, business, and government has passed. America’s centuries-long systematic segregation has been replaced by targeted searches for minority enrollees and employees in our nation’s most prestigious universities and businesses. African Americans have been elected to the most powerful positions in government and hold the highest offices in many of the cities currently overrun by Black Lives Matter protests.

The only ins ution to which today’s black children are routinely denied is marriage. Their plight won’t improve until they receive equal access to this foundational ins ution, which unites the two people to whom children have a natural right — their mother and father — for life.

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So, no police actions against whites.

Did you watch that video? Prove it: Who were the three people who died? What race were they?

[exstatic]

Did you watch that video? Prove it: Who were the three people who died? What race were they?

Your link took me to a twitter thread. If you want to show a specific tweet with specific content, link to the tweet, not the thread.

[Dirks_Finale]

What's messed up is that you can't even talk about the fatherless issue or they call you racist for speaking the truth. Bill O'Reily touched on it and there was outrage because a rich old white dude was saying it. But 2Pac was saying the same thing ((("You know what it makes me unhappy When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy"))). Should not matter who is saying it when the truth is told.

Your dismissiveness of my overall message is the only intellectually lazy tactic at play here. Your accusation of finger pointing misses the point altogether. The root cause cannot be race based when other minority races excel in American society. What's ironic is that the bulk of my post was written by Obama himself.

[pad300]

Your link took me to a twitter thread. If you want to show a specific tweet with specific content, link to the tweet, not the thread.

Huh, I click on that link and it works - takes me to a specific tweet with a video to play...
here's the youtube version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FSoZBujeg

[Atl Spur]

What's messed up is that you can't even talk about the fatherless issue or they call you racist for speaking the truth. Bill O'Reily touched on it and there was outrage because a rich old white dude was saying it. But 2Pac was saying the same thing ((("You know what it makes me unhappy When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy"))). Should not matter who is saying it when the truth is told.

No one condones dead beat dads homie! There are so many systems in place to perpetuate this phenomenon; you gotta get out that bubble. A simple google search will afford you so much information you obviously refuse to access. Stop cherry picking and sensationalizing foolishness..... I’m black, I have a child and his dad isn’t his mom!

[Dirks_Finale]

Great! Thank you for being a good dad. But the statistics overall are still grim, I'm afraid.

No one condones dead beat dads homie! There are so many systems in place to perpetuate this phenomenon; you gotta get out that bubble. A simple google search will afford you so much information you obviously refuse to access. Stop cherry picking and sensationalizing foolishness..... I’m black, I have a child and his dad isn’t his mom!

[Atl Spur]

Huh, I click on that link and it works - takes me to a specific tweet with a video to play...
here's the youtube version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FSoZBujeg

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Where shall I start? Every race has experienced death at the hands of police, some justified more than others but no group has been terrorized like black people! History is super insightful to help shape the future; check out 13th on Netflix for a snapshot.

[Atl Spur]

Great! Thank you for being a good dad. But the statistics overall are still grim, I'm afraid.

My post was a request for you to research why this might be prevalent based off historical data....... is that request clear enough?

[ElNono]

Your dismissiveness of my overall message is the only intellectually lazy tactic at play here. Your accusation of finger pointing misses the point altogether. The root cause cannot be race based when other minority races excel in American society. What's ironic is that the bulk of my post was written by Obama himself.

No, that's called whataboutism, and it doesn't address systemic racism at all.

When your response to people of color earning less than their white counterparts for the same job, having longer sentences for the same crime, being racially profiled, having less opportunities, etc is "but what about asians and pakistanis?!" it's a lazy deflection that doesn't address the issue at all.

You then try to crowbar judeochristian bull to make you feel better, that, again, has nothing to do with the subject at hand. This isn't a problem of indoctrination. Different groups of people have different cultures, are proud of them, and they don't want anything to do with yours.

Have you even given some thought that what works for you might not work for somebody else?

You might as well bring up the last buzzword when blaming the victim... but Chicago! You'll have conservative bingo on black folks.

[ElNono]

What's messed up is that you can't even talk about the fatherless issue or they call you racist for speaking the truth. Bill O'Reily touched on it and there was outrage because a rich old white dude was saying it. But 2Pac was saying the same thing ((("You know what it makes me unhappy When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy"))). Should not matter who is saying it when the truth is told.

You can certainly talk about it. It's just unrelated to systemic racism.

[Nathan89]

Something tells me that the wage gap between the black and white individual is about relevant to the bull wage gap between male and female that leftists have been spewing about forever. The general push for affirmative action hires is going to hurt black people though. Even those that are just as good will be tarnished. It's unfortunate how many ways government intervention backfires on the people they are claiming to help.

[Nathan89]

[ElNono]

Something tells me that the wage gap between the black and white individual is about relevant to the bull wage gap between male and female that leftists have been spewing about forever. The general push for affirmative action hires is going to hurt black people though. Even those that are just as good will be tarnished. It's unfortunate how many ways government intervention backfires on the people they are claiming to help.

It's isn't bull if it's real.