posted by geeblock
Are the police not part of the government? He stated that he has been pulled over 20 times for having a nice car? If you just chalk that up to a one off of racist individuals you start to see the disconnect between him and what people see in real life. The entire police/court system is absolutely slanted against poor people and black people make up most of the poor people. Meaning black people are documented by many studies to most likely to receive longer sentences, jail over probation, ect..than white people with similar records and crimes.
So when he tells people that their feelings aren't valid and they dont understand what is happening, of course he is not going to be accepted. He basically is saying that im smart and you are dumb and blind let me help you understand. Just because something is taken out of the law books doesnt remove the problem from society when it has been interwoven into our fabric. Did people stop drinking during prohibition? Cocaine is illegal do people not do drugs? There is a huge difference from clapping your hands and saying welp hey there are no laws stopping anyone from being successful, and examining the effects of the 170 years of oppression that you mentioned.
I'm quite sure his 20 traffic stops don't reflect what happens to other poor black people, once he flashes his credentials, so again he is lacking a connection to the people he is trying to convince that they should listen to him.
As far as his talking points like i said i don't disagree with everything he says. Every part of this country isn't racist, and black people are doing better than ever. That being said nothing he said is any different than the information put out after the biden speech from tomi, candace owens or tucker carlson. Unless you can point out things that i have missed.
I wouldn't agree with white people using the term uncle tom, however I would never tell another black person they couldnt use it if thats how they really felt. I don't know enough about him to know whether or not he believes what he says or not to make that judgement. I really only heard of him this week. He seems to tell people to not play the victim and then play the victim. He seems to feel like he and other white people are now experiencing racism. (he talks a lot about white oppression which i'm sure is popular and will get him re-elected but again is that the most important issue right now? even if you think its a problem?) This again hurts his credibility.
As far as reverse racism goes i will never put in on the scale of real racism to even have that conversation. Most of your examples of it will center around a college application or scholarship or a job opportunity that went to a minority while ignoring the other 50 that went to some other white person because their parents are important or rich.
overall like i said its not all gloom and doom like the dems would say and its not nearly as great as tim scott would have you believe. i can totally understand why he doesnt seem to be able to make a connection with black people. It didnt come off as authentic to me. he seemed to be talking down to people. I also think it was terrible optics for them to trot him out there to do the response in the first place. They dont seemed to have changed one thing since 1985 and still arent reading the room, that most people simply dont agree with them. They really need to come with some new ideas or policies that reflect how this country has changed in the last 40 years
1. So you admit that the justice system is "slanted" against poor people and not necessarily blacks, then you realize your mistake and say "oh, and blacks make up most of the poor people". It can't be both, either the system is slanted against poor or blacks, can't have both.
2. He NEVER told people their feelings aren't valid. Did you even see the speech? You can't just insert things that were not said. It ruins your whole rest of your post/argument to say that he said something that he most certainly did not. That takes away your "I'm smarter than you" argument for him as well.
3. The problem with your next argument is that the median age for all minorities is 31 years old. So roughly half of the minorities were born between 1990 and now, 30+ years after the last government sponsored racism was perpetrated. Are you really trying to tell me that the majority of minorities alive today are being "kept down by the white man" even though they themselves have never experienced government sponsored/systematic racism, and they were even born 30+ years AFTER it was over? Come on, even their grandparents who ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH Jim Crow laws are laughing at that dumb idea.
4. There is actually government sponsored racism against whites now to "make up" for all the government's wrongs of the past. You actually mentioned one of them in affirmative action and college acceptance credentials. On top of that there are many government contracts that they SPECIFICALLY will only give to minority owned businesses and/or they give minority owned businesses the first look regardless of their credentials.
You lost the argument when you said that he told other black people their feelings were invalid. Nothing was even close to being said that resembled that at all.
