Opportunity and advantage are two different things.. Think of it that way...

Keith

Ah yes the " what about" syndrome.
Affliction caused by information bias.

Please read Evo's horseshit above to see exactly why Tim Scott is wrong.

Fish on...

Todd

yes, Lebron and Mike both had the opportunity and advantage to get themselves to where they are today...

i was never granted either of those...

am i mad?

NOPE

as it should be..

treat people with respect, this includes cops, and people you disagree with....

You mean having a work ethic and drive to succeed?

Can't argue with that.

Ironic.

The difference between you and them is they worked for what they achieved.
You're not a victim, you're a lazy dum that watches Fox News way to much.

The problem is that not all people are born or treated equally, but the suggested outcomes and remedies are.
Thirty-five years ago, in my senior year,I got a new locker partner who had just moved over from Germany, where his father had been stationed. This was a young, African-American man. I am not sure of his fathers rank, but I got the impression he was higher ranking. In any case, when we started takling he stated that he was in the honors program in Germany and was planning on going to college. We only had one class together, and did not talk much. A couple of months later we were talking and I asked where he had applied at. His reply was shocking. As long as he got a 2.0 or better, UW had promised him a spot because he was black. The problem I saw with this was that they had closed down any applications for white students and we needed over a 3.0 grade average. My school was fairly mixed, with a lot of white students whose background and situation was a lot poorer. So, he was elevated over other students based off his race. At the time, it made little sense to me, as there were also other black students who needed help much more than he did. But, in fairness, years of discrimination needed to be remedied and making sure minorities got a leg up probably made sense.
Now, 35 years later His kids, and probably his grand kids, are still expected to be held down and needing help, based solely off race. It does not matter if they are rich or successful, only their race. This allows his grandchildren, which could be very well off, to step over poorer children both black and white. It does nothing but create racism in under achieving whites and does little to help disadvantaged minorities.
All the goals of affirmative action can better be reached by using class, income, location, and other factors.
For example....... limiting applications or scholarships to students from a particular school or district, with income guidelines, from single parent households, and are the from the first generation in their family to attend college.

Speaking of basketball, evo is a bit like Karl The Mailman Malone......he delivers.

Is evo mad..?

Definitely.

Great thread, good insight into how some minds don't work.

Updated.

To be fair, it is probably a hard pill to swallow to be both an automatic recipient of white privilege, and to have done absolutely of value, anyway.

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Todd

For some people, it is a very hard pill to swallow. I personally think that is where most racism emits from today. Hearing everyday about how much advantage white people have, allows both black and white under achievers something to focus on, with negative effects throughout our country.

Now there is an astute, but sad, observation.

I don't disagree, because it makes some people feel like they can't get ahead, no matter what they do...and others do fuckall nothing, and feel like it's their just desserts to get what they want, anyway.

Guess which is which?

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Todd

I can almost guarantee that there are people of all races that fall in each of the categories. And many poor people probably fall into both.

I am sure you are right...but that's like some dumbfuck Evo or Lindsay Graham saying there's no racism cuz Oprah, if you pretend it's all the same.

Fish on...

Todd

Wait a second!?! This REEEVo is mad?:



Say it ain’t so....

any pronoun goes these days. If it, he, she, they, smoke, they poke.