tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post2053317032528194917..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: Whites feel like a minorityRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-6772788931247050132011-03-14T07:17:13.636-07:002011-03-14T07:17:13.636-07:00Also,
"It just happens that America's hi...Also,<br /><br />"It just happens that America's history of slavery has been inflicted on every race, whites included."<br /><br />In actuality, the number of whites subjected to slavery in history is very small.<br /><br />"All I am saying is that todays slavery is placed on all working Americans ..."<br /><br />You are pretty close, but to be accurate you might switch it to argue about the money that Americans are forced to pay in over-taxation. That is where the real problem is.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-3740160162510534482011-03-14T07:14:52.154-07:002011-03-14T07:14:52.154-07:00Sorry, they quit their jobs. Striking is a form of...Sorry, they quit their jobs. Striking is a form of quitting, that's all.<br /><br />They did end up making unrealistic wage demands, way above the value of the work, which pretty much wiped out the industry. <br /><br />This has nothing to do with the rap stuff. Yes, I am concerned with working Americans. Not those who throw away their jobs and work to wipe out industries.<br /><br />I guess me, and the 90% of American workers who say "Union? NO" were all born of privilege.<br /><br />"It has been proven time and again that the most successful big businesses offer incentives and relief for their workers."<br /><br />That's a good point, and a good model. As oppose to outside political pressure groups (unions) coming in and destroying the company and the jobs along with it. Hello, Flint, Michigan!dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-66616422750075232442011-03-10T16:10:46.306-08:002011-03-10T16:10:46.306-08:00They went on strike DMARX, which means they picket...They went on strike DMARX, which means they picketed along with their wives for better health care from getting black lung working the mines.<br /><br />As we can see, you are more sympathetic towards the machine that reaps the wealth than you are for working Americans. It is obvious you have never worked hard labor because you were born from privilege.<br /><br />It has been proven time and again that the most successful big businesses offer incentives and relief for their workers. Seems American businesses get a weird hard on for keeping working people suffering and expendable subjects rather than human beings.<br /><br />Japan is a good example. A popular trend called "karioke" originally began when Japanese office workers lived onsite of businesses, sleeping and relaxing instead of commuting daily from outside rural cities where they lived.<br /><br />Solutions DMARX, its called solutions, and you would make for a better citizen instead of your petty play on words, stick to hip-hop, that might be where your real talent lies!<br /><br />Let adults do the talking.Burtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-49097198914285684482011-03-09T18:05:41.611-08:002011-03-09T18:05:41.611-08:00"During the 1970s, working whites were violen..."During the 1970s, working whites were violently oppressed in Kentuckys Harlan County "<br /><br />Actually, they weren't workers. They left their jobs.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-75099520566736760392011-03-06T07:56:58.216-08:002011-03-06T07:56:58.216-08:00During the 1970s, working whites were violently op...During the 1970s, working whites were violently oppressed in Kentuckys Harlan County over miners safety and living conditions that were equal or worse to that of some Indian reservations, inner city black ghettos, Latino barrios and other third world countries.<br /><br />I am fully aware of America's oppression on EVERYBODY regardless of race when it comes to big business and the energy companies powerful political machine throughout American history.<br /><br />It just happens that America's history of slavery has been inflicted on every race, whites included.<br /><br />All I am saying is that todays slavery is placed on all working Americans that pay into a purse that ends up in the top 1% ridiculously wealthy and our democratic system combined with protest or strikes (both violent and non-violent); boycotting consumption of certain corporate products and holding ALL officials, private and public accountable for decisions and policies is what will save whats left of American ideals.Burtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-6270155933530911142011-03-05T23:41:05.839-08:002011-03-05T23:41:05.839-08:00okay, sorry Burt, just reread your entire comment ...okay, sorry Burt, just reread your entire comment and I agree with the last two paragraphsJainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-23308967333838238392011-03-05T23:39:07.257-08:002011-03-05T23:39:07.257-08:00good grief, it reminds me of the boyfriend of a fl...good grief, it reminds me of the boyfriend of a flatmate I had 20+ years ago at varsity. He, being white, stated that white men were becoming a minority in New Zealand, and she, who is Sri Lankan, without missing a beat quipped that, if that were so white men in NZ were rather over represented in parliament, the police force, the court system, as principals, as policy makers as CEOs, as managers, as doctors, on governance boards etc.<br /><br />Burt said .. "It is just and predictable that whites experience the same sufferage and sacrifice as the rest of America's people have." hmmm - there is an white underclass that has never had a slice of the pie and who probably never will, who have always been exploited - agreed that this occurs under the 'white' system. It inflicted by those in power happy to exploit the uneducated who have always gone without and have always been mocked as such. It is a ploy of the powerful to play the 'have nots' off against each other and your comment indicates you fall into that trap as much as working class whites do. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I don't support their sentiment - I just believe that smug 'suck it up' to those truly suffering is not helpful in long term healing.<br /><br />No one is free while others are oppressed.Jainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-34413864335084375782011-03-05T23:16:17.655-08:002011-03-05T23:16:17.655-08:00"From being a privileged group to the new vic..."From being a privileged group to the new victims?" Really?<br /><br />What cultural deprivation and oppression do whites face that is not self-inflicted?<br /><br />They want the right to impose their religious and social values through using political might that has not diminished since Columbus, hence the Tea Party Movement. The Ku Klux Klan was a legitimate policy organization in some states enough to march on the mall in DC at the turn of the last century. How is this oppression?<br /><br />While America's minorities have died not only while serving in the armed services believing the sacred words and ideals of an inclusive nation, most have been attacked violently throughout American history. I think all races have sacrificed life and limb for "freedom".<br /><br />The Civil Rights Movement opened doors African Americans, but most of the time, blacks had to force those doors open at the cost of bloodshed and death. Most Americans do not even know that Africans were here long before Europeans arrived in living with native peoples here. <br /><br />Asian Americans were weaved into the America's landscape at least a hundred years before Pearl Harbor and never get any recognition for it.<br /><br />Latinos I consider natives from Central and South America. I feel they are more legitimate and aboriginal than Americans of European blood.<br /><br />It is just and predictable that whites experience the same sufferage and sacrifice as the rest of America's people have.<br /><br />The elephant in the room is not America's white people, it is the system and government created by white America that has turned its back on its own people and now attacks them. Whites are only getting a taste of what minorities have been getting for centuries.<br /><br />Anglo-America has roots and cultural ties to Europe, they (some) just refuse to accept their Irish, German, English etc., roots and choose to cling to the archaic myths of a glorious nation that is based on myths and white supremacy.<br /><br />Whites want it both ways. On one hand, they want to be nationalists and cultural imperialist towards other races that were equated to animals and beasts from their founding government and never recognize existing nations and cultures before them while at the same time plunder the globes indigenous populations for resources and lands without international interference.<br /><br />The Tea Party Movement is simply the same old mob rule privileged whites that garnered genocide hundreds of years past and throw tantrums until the government bends, and the government listens. All other groups (minorities) faced bullets and bloodshed.<br /><br />Tea Party people and working poor whites are on opposite sides. The working whites in America are only being used by the Tea Party the way George W used the Christians to get re-elected and in the end, they really don't matter or count as a voice.<br /><br />I would say to my white brothers and sisters, we are not so different after all, are we? Instead of whining about the results of your self-bastardization(s), join the rest of us in our common plight to prosper and fight against the common foe of these times, the thieving rich!Burtnoreply@blogger.com