CardinalBacker

You don’t even understand what affirmative action is. It’s PREFERENCE given to people based on their race. And here’s the thing. It doesn’t matter to me if that’s how your dad got his job. I’m certain that it did a lot of good for your family. But it wasn’t fair, and somebody else never got that opportunity based on their skin color. Here’s the real problem. Black people always want to talk about race when it benefits them. There aren’t enough black qbs in the nfl… they need to do something. But you don’t have a problem with most of the running backs, corners, and safeties being black. You aren’t saying “oh, we need more white guys in the secondary…. This just isn’t fair.” You play the race card when it benefits you. You’re right… you can’t erase the past…. But you can’t live in it either. And supporting a modern injustice just because your granny supposedly had to ride on the back of a bus 60 years ago is pathetic. I’d be more worried about why my community is still choosing to ride buses in 2023.

You believe that you deserve compensation for things that didn’t happen to you, and it should be paid by people who didn’t even commit those acts. It’s as stupid as me going to the courthouse tomorrow and filing a lawsuit against you because in 1862 my grandfather got ran over and killed by a covered wagon driven by somebody whose not even kin to you. And if you don’t want to pay me $600,000 then there’s something wrong with you.

But that’s the problem. If your dad was given a shot based on his skin color, then somebody else lost a shot based on their skin color. How is that okay? It’s not. But I’ll fill you in on a secret. A large portion of the black population can focus on nothing but race. I know a woman whose dad worked a job at Dupont that he fit because of Affirmative Action, then she went to college, and her kids are at private universities. She’s the most privileged person that I’ve Eve heard described, but if you ask her she’ll say, “yeah, but it was all done in spite of white supremacy, official oppression, and 400 years of slavery.” ”Equality” doesn’t mean that you get to go to the front of the line because you’re black.

“Principal’s Cones.”

I’ll use an example… Let’s imagine young black dude that’s in his early 30s… didn’t finish high school, has a felony, 4 kids by 3 different women, won’t show up for work five days a week, can’t hardly speak the king’s English, and has a neck tattoo. Can’t even get a TWIC card to get into the plants. That’s all systemic racism, oppression, 400 year legacy of slavery, and white privilege all working against him…. That’s what you’d have us believe. Except the guy really does exist… I know him-it’s all true except for the part about being black. This dude is white. I can freely admit that this guy is a screwup. But you can’t consider the possibility that our imaginary black guy is to blame for any of the problems he has. It’s all racism. You cry about systemic racism, but you can’t point to a single policy in effect today that negatively affects black people. On the other hand, until yesterday we could look at affirmative action in college admissions as just one of many codified examples of policies that “help” blacks people at the expense of other racial groups. Privilege is a lie.

Yes, they did… they had the same opportunities as my parents. They weren’t honest with you. It’s all simply self-victimization. No matter what, it isn’t your fault because of the blue-eyed boogeyman OR you did it in spite of the blue eyed boogeyman.

Investigation insinuates that the construction crew was doing a great job when Hickman came in and changed everything up.

Racism exists in more ways than you think. Asian kids with super grades who can’t get into top level schools because their race is “over represented.” Meanwhile kids with lower scores are admitted because of their skin color. How is that not institutional racism. Affirmative Action is just racism by another name. Whether your goal is white supremacy or “social Justice,” it doesn’t matter. It’s just helping one group by means of hurting another, and there really is no justification for it. Somebody else pointed out two things that I’d never thought of in regards to how affirmative action has hurt black kids, too. If you accept a kid who isn’t up to the normal acceptance standards but gets in based on his/her skin color, you’re automatically setting them up to be the worst performing student in the group. Quite often the water is just too deep once they’ve been “gifted” acceptance based on their color instead of their abilities and intellect. Secondly, pretend that you are a black kid who got in the old fashioned way. You really ARE that guy, regardless of your race… except everybody thinks that you got in because of your race. You’ll spend all of your time trying to prove your worth. I’m aware of multiple examples where qualified individuals were passed over in favor of less or even unqualified minority candidates. Texas DPS in the 1990s and KCS Railroad in the 1970s just from personal examples.

You and I disagree… I think that your success comes from your actions, and from having a firm foundation of people in your family as examples. I think that most people who are successful and people who are unsuccessful both get there via their own actions and the support given to them by their families. A person’s race has nothing to do with it. If we can accept that a lot of white people are screwups and make absolute wrecks out of their lives, then why is it not okay to admit that the same is true for some black people? “No, it’s racism.”

If you kept going backwards you’d find someone someplace. That’s why the “descended from” argument is such a joke. You have two parents, four grands, 8 great grands. The average person is seven generations removed from the time of slavery. Every person seven generations removed from the time of slavery has 128 direct ancestors from that single generation… 256 if they’re eight generations removed. And we’re surprised that one of those 256 people may have been a slaveowner (or slave, for that matter). Im just trying to figure out which one of my ancestors were enslaved so I can get my reparations, too.

We should beat Buna. Wins over HJ and Liberty would be considered a surprisingly good outcome. FWIW, I don’t think we’d be any better with Coach Snocone wearing the headphones.

It's crazy.... they have so much "evidence," but just yesterday the motion to impeach the "Big Guy" failed to move forward in the Republican House. I mean, I don't understand. It's all there on Hunter's laptop. It's a slam dunk. Must just be those pesky RINOs again. Psych! It doesn't exist. It (like Russian Collusion) never occurred.

Beaumont?

Heck, Davy Crockett’s brother sired a kid with Davy’s wife while Davy was away. What does Hunter Biden’s sex life have to do with “Christian” people voting for Trump? Like i said… Trump could assault a family member and most of y’all would ask him to sign your MAGA hat before he left

What’s joke is that y’all can’t even defend your messiah… and you can’t even find anything actually wrong with the job that Biden is doing. You think that attacking the president’s son is going to somehow win the election for Trump. Talk about jobs? Talk about the stock market? Talk about inflation coming back down? Talk about how we’re at peace? Nah, let’s talk about Hunter’s laptop. Because that’s all y’all have.

The difference is that nobody is day that Hunter Biden should be President.

“It’s okay, honey…. He’s really good for the economy.” That’s what y’all think OTHER husbands and dads should say to their female family members.

🤣😂🤣 Don’t be mad… just pretend trump said it, not me. Then you’d just bob your head and clap like a seal.

Trump has been ACTUALLY attacking female members of other peoples’ families and these guys have zero problems with it. The problem is for a brief second I caused them to imagine that it was their family member who Trump attacks next and guess what? They didn’t like the thought of it. For the briefest of moments they felt what the rest of us feel when we hear about Trump’s misdeeds.

It’s a fair statement. Y’all thought it was cute when trump said Megyn Kelly was probably menstruating. You laughed it off when Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women. It wasn’t your problem when Trump was paying off porn stars with whom he’d had affairs. The fact that he cheated on his wives repeatedly wasn’t a reflection of his character according to y’all. When he was proven to have sexually assaulted Jean Carroll, y’all just wrote bigger checks to his re-election campaign. But y’all want me to believe you’d have a problem if he forced himself on your old lady? Bull-you’d puff your chest out and say it didn’t matter because he’s good for the economy. Y’all would be just like Ted Cruz… still out campaigning for the man. Fwiw, it only stings if it’s true.

So you’re okay with Trump grabbing women by their 🐈, as long as it’s not your wife? How cavalier.

Absolutely.

I mean.... who could resist? No offense, but most of these guys would be honored if Trump had less-than-consensual sex with their wife/daughters.

Yeah, Repubs electing a reality tv star with a bad combover and cheats on his First Lady/nude model with porn stars (while still being sent here by God) didn’t diminish us a bit. That’s ignoring the facts that he had ZERO political experience and is a complete jerk.