CardinalBacker

Everyone's favorite 69 Charger, the General Lee, as one teeny, tiny example. If I say "yeah, my great-great grandfather was a Godly man, a timber man, the third Sheriff of Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, and a Major in the Confederate Army," guess what?....he was a white supremacist.

Here's what I think happens.... Biden picks a VP candidate who would never be elected in the General Election just to please the extreme left wing of the Dem party. He doesn't serve out his full term and we see an extremely liberal president who will help bring us: 1. Stagnant growth... Nobody on the left understands that when you push an anti-business agenda, we all suffer. 2. Gun Control... and instant assault on the 2nd Amendment (keep in mind, it's not about gun violence.. it's about disarming gun owners who are typically conservative). 3. Higher Taxes.... an instant repeal of the tax cuts that were behind the roaring economy of the last three years, plus a flood of new taxes that will hit the middle class hard as well. 4. Attacks on the fossil fuel industry.... SETX will be hit hard. 5. More divisive policies of "social justice" (aka "reparations") which are laughably named because they are anything but "just" to anyone who isn't a minority. 6. An endless parade of investigation into Trump and his associates. 7. Government funded "green energy" hoaxes, aka Solyndra. 8. Student loan forgiveness... we'll all be on the hook for the liberal brainwashing that all of those students borrowed big money to "earn." 9. $3.95/gallon gasoline 10. Government takeover of 401ks I hope I'm wrong, but It'll be interesting to revisit these ideas in a couple of years. I'm guessing that 7-8 of the ten will occur within a year.

Well, we've been unable to separate people who are proud of their Southern Heritage from White Supremacists, so......

None of it matters until the teachers get back into class.

Jeez... I'm trying to find more 5.56 rounds. I'm telling you, there's a freaking run on ammo, and it's not because of Covid.

Fake news.... disregard. It drives me nuts when people make stuff like this up. There's no need for that. Lying about the other side does nothing to bolster legitimate arguments.

I read the article... the city promised the hotels that FEMA would step in. The contracted rate is $200/night per room. I don't know if they still have 5000 rooms rented.... but 5000 rooms at $200/night is a smooth milly per day for four months now.

When they started this program, I wondered who was going to pick up the tab for repairs when they finally get tossed out. My guess is that anyplace that has been housing homeless for four months will need a remodel, if not demolished. Typically the room's occupant would be responsible for damages, but they're broke. Would it fall back to the city, or would the hotel/motel insurance be on the hook?

I get grumpy every time somebody points out that same-race murder rates are pretty similar. It's not wrong, it's just not relevant. But you're right. I'll edit that out.

13% of the US population is black, but 50% of all murder victims are black.... And you're literally arguing that it's okay because other black people are killing them. (insult removed)

I liked him a long better before he became the unofficial ambassador to the Ukraine.

Thanks for all that you're accomplishing, BLM. [Hidden Content]

Sleeping in. Fishing. Golfing. Hanging at the beach. Mowing the yard. Washing the truck. Going to the lake. Flirting with the volleyball coach. Telling stories about how they'd be playing the bigs if their high school coach hadn't screwed 'em. Same as every other summer.

Endless Summer, baby.... Nobody thinks online is an acceptable replacement for in-classroom instruction. We'll just kick the whole thing back off when the teachers feel it's completely safe and THEY are ready to get back to work. The major push to avoid returning to schools is coming from the schools themselves. I think that those objections clear right up when you shut off their paychecks. Don't take my word for it... we all have teacher friends on Facebook. Go check 'em out. It's not too dangerous to go to Austin, Fredricksburg, the lake, the beach, Colorado, etc.... it's just not safe to go back to class.

He has a point. If I want to start looking at my genealogy, I can hit up ancestry.com or familysearch.org and go as far back as I care to go. There’s a history and an accountability associated with that. Those chains of succession were smashed for so many black families during the time of slavery. Instead of birth and death records, the slaves would be cataloged like the livestock instead of included in census records. It’s hard to complain that there’s not a great big sense of ancestry if slavery was part of the reason that sense doesn’t exist like it does in white families. If you believe that the criminal justice system is racist, the the fact that so many young black fathers are racially incarcerated and keeping them from being the fathers that they could be. Lastly, the black guys here posting ARE family guys. Most of them are here because they’ve been actively working with their own kids... but we’re griping at them about the problem of single parenting in their community. How do you explain to a young man w/o a dad in his life that the best day of your own life was when your kids were born? There aren’t any easy answers.

From my perspective, it seems like we (white people) carry a lot of blame from the black community. To me, it seems like too much blame. But I use the word "seem" because all I have to base it on is the opinions that I'm presented with. I don't see how we get things figured out if person "A" believes that most of those problems are self-inflicted, and person "B" believes that most are the result of racism. You have person "B" trying to push ideas forward involving privilege, systemic racism, oppression, etc.... basically assigning blame to others and person "A" saying... "wait....here's an instance where that's just not correct." My biggest gripe is that (in my opinion), all of this unrest is over the 5-6 percent that I believe is caused by racism, while we ignore the 94-95 percent that would be self-inflicted. It's really hard to convince someone like me that sees things as "black and white" to ignore the obvious and try to understand and focus on what I don't see.

Seriously... Lets do an Informal poll.... I'd just like to know how other people feel. I respectfully ask that anyone with enough balls to answer not have their answer criticized or questioned. There can be no singling out of posters for their opinions. As far as the current condition of black community, I believe that racism has had an effect. But what percentage of the circumstances in the black community as a whole do you believe are caused by racism? I'm not even kidding... If you'll answer this question, I won't even criticize or question your answer, and I beg others not to do so, either. I'm not a big excuses guy... I believe in personal responsibility and accountability for one's own actions. That's just how I live my life. Based on that I've got the opinion that overall, racism accounts for somewhere in the mid single digits.... So put me down for something like 5-6 percent racism, and 94-95 percent bad choices.

Systemic racism is not the major problem facing the black community today.... not even in the top 25, probably Slavery existed. So did the Ice Age.... and it has nothing to do with why my beer in my refrigerator says cold. Most black communities are former white communities that were destroyed after the whites left... go figure. Before you start crying about Tulsa, do a little reading. the death toll on day one was 10 white, 2 black. If you ask me, I'll quote you and say that those blacks "started a confrontation and found out they picked the wrong white boys." At the end of the firefight, 12 people were killed: 10 white and 2 black.[21] As news of these deaths spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded.[2] White rioters rampaged through the black neighborhood that night and morning killing men and burning and looting stores and homes, and only around noon the next day did Oklahoma National Guard troops manage to get control of the situation by declaring martial law. About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $32.25 million in 2019). Their property was never recovered nor were they compensated for it. (32.25 million in damages in today's numbers... by comparison, the damages caused by BLM in Minneapolis alone this year are over $550 million. So cry me river about ol' Tulsa). MLK, JFK, RFK..... all killed in the 60s. All Civil Rights Leaders? Nope... but let's cry over black ones. They're special. Yup... Whites just dropped off pallets of coke in black communities and they had no idea what to do with it. Those poor blacks were forced to sell it on the corners in a vain attempt to rid their neighborhoods of the poison. Still ongoing, btw. That's the bull that I'm talking about. Black people destroy their communities with drugs use and sales, and STILL try to blame white people Every black kid out there can sing song after song by "artists" who glorify drug abuse, but it's still the fault of racism. Like I said.... it's not racism that holds the black communities back... it's a victim mentality that ooze from every direction in the black community.

I believe you are correct, sir. Biden by a lot.

Politics is just like pro wrestling... they all get up and talk big for their fans, then have a fake fight and they all ride home together in the same car.

Lol... 5'8" George Zimmerman was attacked by 6'2" 17 year old Trayvon Martin. I highly doubt that an armed guy would bother bare-handedly attacking a guy that towered over him. [Hidden Content] But like I said... why let the fAcTs get in the way of a good fairy tale, SETX.

If I'm bouncing somebody's skull off of the concrete and they kill me, it's not murder. [Hidden Content] I doesn't matter how cute my 7th grade class photo was. The fact that so many people believe those false narratives is what has us in the mess that we're in today.

I saw a Tiktok the other day and the cameraman sounded to be black, and he was filming a younger black man who was helping a black kid about 7 weld on a log trailer. Both had on welding hoods. The camera guy was saying “Look at that... I raised a good daddy right there.” Or something along those lines. That kid is so fortunate to have those kind of men in his life. I liked and followed, lol. [Hidden Content] I went back and found it.

True, true, true..... and slavery had an affect on that. The number of young black dads in prison even more so. I don’t think that dismantling the justice system is the answer, though, and as a white dude I don’t know what I can do to help. I don’t have a voice in the community that needs the message.

It’s totally true. He hasn’t said so explicitly, but I’d bet a small sum that Santa had a legit father figure. It’s been proven over and over that a kid’s best chance of being raised above the poverty level and all of the problems faced by people living in low socioeconomic situations is to be from a nuclear family. From the BLM mission statement. [Hidden Content] ”We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” I guess that’s what young black kids need.... less father figures and more “it takes a village.”