@raphjd:
Clearly, you view gender equality as sexist. The women in my life know I'm adamant about equality.
What you call "black experience" isn't what all blacks face. Sean "Puffy" Combs (sp?) grew up in a better area and had more money than most white kids. My black friends grew up just as middle class as I did. They hate BLM and similar groups more than I do. They are the ones other blacks call "coons", "whitewashed" and other hate filled things.
White privilege doesn't exist when non-whites can freely, and in front of the police without fear of arrest, force white kids to walk through a creek to get to class. BLM and the other prove black and female privilege, while totally disproving white and male privilege.
Sorry, I think Rachel is a liar who got busted. BUT, as I said before she is nowhere near as bad as Talcum X.
No, I view you making every single issue dealing with women about "women hating men" as stupid. There are issues that women deal with that have nothing to do with men because, quite frankly, men don't have a pussy or ovaries or a uterus. You don't have the same hormonal makeup as a woman, so you have no idea what women can and can't relate to one another about.
Anyway, thank you for making my main point. I said the black experience is unique and that black culture is the experience good, bad and in between. I never said it was a monolithic experience. The experiences differ individually but collectively they form black culture. Condoleezza Rice and her experience is a part of black culture. Ben Carson being a renown surgeon and now being our U.S. Secretary of HUD and each and every one of his other experiences are a part of black culture, for better or worse. No, they did not make their advancements because they were black, but because they are brilliant at what they do. They've shown that given the right opportunities, black people can excel and go on to do great things, which is the opposite of what many racists believe. You also made my point by bringing up Sean Combs, he did indeed grow up with better opportunities but that did nothing to stop him from being wrongly profiled by police in New York City as a young man. Colin Powell was also racially profiled by police numerous times. Are you denying their detailed experiences of racial profiling by police officers? I would only call a black person a coon if they agree with racists who openly deny opportunities to other black people. If a black person willingly denied or sat back and watched a white colleague deny a highly qualified black person for a position and give that position to a white person who has zero qualification for that position, that black person is a coon and complicit in racial bias. If a white person gives a black person an opportunity and that black person has zero qualifications; meanwhile, there was a white candidate for that position, I would call that white person immoral for manipulating the cause of affirmative action. The program should solely be in place to make sure QUALIFIED people who normally get looked over don't get looked over for people who have way less qualifications and/or experience than the person picked over them. Abuse in the system is a huge problem, but I myself have benefited from the system working the right way given I had way higher SAT scores and a much higher GPA than many of the white students I ended up getting into the same college with; like exponentially higher.
I don't know what you're trying to get at with that "white kids walking through a creek" situation, but you have used it approximately 25 times on here and it's further proof that you attribute one incident to an entire race of people. When I talk about racism and for example its role in denying black people the right to vote, I never say all white people did this because that would be wholly inaccurate. It wasn't even a majority of white people who did that because not every white person had the position to deny giving a ballot to a black voter, only those in positions to do that. Beyond that, it was mainly an issue in the South so that makes the number even smaller. Still, it was significant enough to cause lynchings, beatings and a whole host of other bad things during that time period. Why do you attribute isolated incidents to an entire population of people unless you're talking about black people who view other blacks exactly the way you do?
Rachel did lie but only to hide from the complication of race in this country. Something in her personal life got her to that point, and she related to black culture for a reason. My belief is that she truly did it because she deeply compared her struggles as a white woman to the struggles of black people or more specifically black women. If I were living in Brazil right now because I couldn't come back to the U.S. because I was in love with a Brazilian man who couldn't get legal U.S. citizenship status due to illegal immigration and the problems it has caused, I would be in a similar situation to you and I'd hope you would be able to say "I can relate to that," and that you'd offer me some words of advice. Sorry you're in that situation, by the way.
