Race in America

xoxoxoBruce · 09-08-2020, 01:32 AM

What's the point? If my success is 5% or 95% luck so what? I have no control over that so I'm certainly not taking advantage of anyone, not cheating anyone. It's nothing to feel guilty about. Sometimes I come home from the casino with full pockets and sometimes with empty pockets.

Griff · 09-08-2020, 06:35 AM

Here's another book on race which I haven't read.

https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins...9564092&sr=8-2

I did hear an interview with her though and her thoughts would seem to give people wiggle room on the are you a racist question by casting

the whole thing as a caste system where folks are given expected roles which they can break out of if they happen to have the right talents. She was very thoughtful about what this means to a poor white. She mentioned that when MLK visited an untouchables school in India he was introduced as an American untouchable which apparently had quite an impact on him.

She wrote a well received book on the Great Migration a few years ago.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-10-2020, 10:43 PM

There is no reason you can't be here pissing off extremists on both sides.

09-08-2020, 01:32 AM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	What's the point? If my success is 5% or 95% luck so what? I have no control over that so I'm certainly not taking advantage of anyone, not cheating anyone. It's nothing to feel guilty about. Sometimes I come home from the casino with full pockets and sometimes with empty pockets. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-08-2020, 06:35 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Here's another book on race which I haven't read. https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins...9564092&sr=8-2 I did hear an interview with her though and her thoughts would seem to give people wiggle room on the are you a racist question by casting the whole thing as a caste system where folks are given expected roles which they can break out of if they happen to have the right talents. She was very thoughtful about what this means to a poor white. She mentioned that when MLK visited an untouchables school in India he was introduced as an American untouchable which apparently had quite an impact on him. She wrote a well received book on the Great Migration a few years ago. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

09-10-2020, 10:43 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	There is no reason you can't be here pissing off extremists on both sides. Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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