Capitalism Is Racist?
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“You can’t have capitalism without racism” comes from a 1964 Malcolm X speech while he was still active in the NOI. While I’ve read the work and can understand his perspective, I can’t agree with the sentiment.
Malcolm Little moderated his views after leaving the NOI (after actually under taking the Hajj and learning what real Muslims believed, Malcolm realized ol’Elijah Mohamed was as full of shite as his hand picked successor Louis “Calypso Gene”Farakhan)
Good stuff.
“You can’t have capitalism without racism” comes from a 1964 Malcolm X speech while he was still active in the NOI. While I’ve read the work and can understand his perspective, I can’t agree with the sentiment.
Malcolm Little moderated his views after leaving the NOI (after actually under taking the Hajj and learning what real Muslims believed, Malcolm realized ol’Elijah Mohamed was as full of shite as his hand picked successor Louis “Calypso Gene”Farakhan)
Good stuff.
FITS: when you characterize Voter ID laws as a ploy to suppress minority voting..or Sanford denies funding for a Law Enforcement memorial, but sneaks largess into the back pocket of corrupt administration at SC St…YOU are JUST like These Ignorant Black American-Hating Bigots.
You cannot be half-way. You are either a Racist against white people or not. You stole all you could, when you and Sanford had the treasury…and by championing the Gestapo Black Racists, you are no different…
FITS: when you characterize Voter ID laws as a ploy to suppress minority voting..or Sanford denies funding for a Law Enforcement memorial, but sneaks largess into the back pocket of corrupt administration at SC St…YOU are JUST like These Ignorant Black American-Hating Bigots.
You cannot be half-way. You are either a Racist against white people or not. You stole all you could, when you and Sanford had the treasury…and by championing the Gestapo Black Racists, you are no different…
Gee a mural in some obscure school as a lead in for an article?Hey Fits why not hang out at the train tracks and watch the trains pass by?Lots of interesting graffiti on the train cars.Hell you could probably get five or six stories out of those!
I don’t know, those trains can move pretty fast. The pictures might come out blurry. Hopefully there’s some good stock photos he can find, though!
You’re a buttplug.
Yeah, story doesn’t matter, right?… until those little brainwashed bastards start shooting you and your offspring in around ten or so years because you’re (presumably) white. Seriously, I hope they take you/yours out first.
Gee,I bet some of your best friends are Black? i presume,however,you are opposed to Republican “outreach” efforts.Must be a Tom Davis supporter!
Gee a mural in some obscure school as a lead in for an article?Hey Fits why not hang out at the train tracks and watch the trains pass by?Lots of interesting graffiti on the train cars.Hell you could probably get five or six stories out of those!
I don’t know, those trains can move pretty fast. The pictures might come out blurry. Hopefully there’s some good stock photos he can find, though!
You’re a buttplug.
Yeah, story doesn’t matter, right?… until those little brainwashed bastards start shooting you and your offspring in around ten or so years because you’re (presumably) white. Seriously, I hope they take you/yours out first.
Gee,I bet some of your best friends are Black? i presume,however,you are opposed to Republican “outreach” efforts.Must be a Tom Davis supporter!
Tom Davis: Against indefinite detention, for censoring free speech. What other constitutional rights does he pick and choose to allow or deny?
Seriously, though, what’s the context of this? What school? Was it drawn by a student? Did the student draw it of their own free will? If a student did this willingly, why censor them? Even if the statement is absolutely dumb, let others judge it appropriately.
The free market of ideas is a “free market” is it not? Would you be as outraged if he/she drew a Gadsden flag instead?
Also, the “free market” doesn’t work to fill the needs of mankind, it works to fill whatever is profitable, which tends to be fairly neutral (although in many cases, unscrupulous behavior towards your fellow man tends to be highly profitable). Needs that aren’t profitable aren’t filled. That’s not too bad if you are young, healthy, smart, capable of working in a profitable field, capable of finding a job in said field, and nothing bad ever happens to you to jeopardize your financial well-being.
The free market isn’t inherently evil, it just isn’t an end-all be-all solution to running society.
You mean Fits and Howie Rich are WRONG?My whole world is shattered!
Mr. Davis is not against free speech; so long as it is speech of which he approves.
Tom Davis: Against indefinite detention, for censoring free speech. What other constitutional rights does he pick and choose to allow or deny?
Seriously, though, what’s the context of this? What school? Was it drawn by a student? Did the student draw it of their own free will? If a student did this willingly, why censor them? Even if the statement is absolutely dumb, let others judge it appropriately.
The free market of ideas is a “free market” is it not? Would you be as outraged if he/she drew a Gadsden flag instead?
Also, the “free market” doesn’t work to fill the needs of mankind, it works to fill whatever is profitable, which tends to be fairly neutral (although in many cases, unscrupulous behavior towards your fellow man tends to be highly profitable). Needs that aren’t profitable aren’t filled. That’s not too bad if you are young, healthy, smart, capable of working in a profitable field, capable of finding a job in said field, and nothing bad ever happens to you to jeopardize your financial well-being.
The free market isn’t inherently evil, it just isn’t an end-all be-all solution to running society.
You mean Fits and Howie Rich are WRONG?My whole world is shattered!
Mr. Davis is not against free speech; so long as it is speech of which he approves.
Update: The Beaufort County School District (the principal at the school) has posted following:
I am responding to your inquiry regarding a painting that was on display
at Robert Smalls Middle School from February 28 through March 18, 2013.
The artwork in the photo is a small painting, not a mural as the
close-up photo that has been circulated appears to indicate. It was
included in a group of paintings done by students in an 8th-grade
Advanced Art class and displayed in a hallway gallery during Black
History Month to commemorate various aspects of the Civil Rights
Movement. This hallway gallery is home to regularly rotating displays
of student artwork.
In this recent display on the Civil Rights Movement, groups of art
students within the 8th Advanced Art class teamed up to produce the
paintings. One group researched the movement’s history and chose
Malcolm X. The quote is from a 1964 speech by Malcolm X, which should
have been indicated by the students at the bottom of the quote but was
not. The attribution of the quote to Malcolm X was added later.
All materials for the Civil Rights Movement paintings were purchased by the
school’s PTO, and other artwork included depictions of Maya Angelou and
the Harlem Renaissance. All of the paintings in this display have
already been “rotated off” to make room for the next display.
In retrospect, because this artwork display illustrated a period of
American history, the students should have included appropriate text
along with their paintings that provided the proper historical context.
Without that context, someone viewing the paintings might have
mistakenly believed that the students or the school were endorsing a
particular political or social viewpoint, which certainly was not the
case.
Please contact me with any questions you may have.
Excellent response
When you get a few minutes why don’t you see if you can get a response from Cockroach Senator Davis about two ladies at a local library who were allegedly fired as a result of his appearance at the library. Specifically ask him if he stood with the ladies in their time of peril or did he cut them loose.
Don’t believe the record has ever been set straight
Don’t shoot the messenger! ;)
Screw public school and the racist little bastards in it!!!!!
Update: The Beaufort County School District (the principal at the school) has posted following:
I am responding to your inquiry regarding a painting that was on display
at Robert Smalls Middle School from February 28 through March 18, 2013.
The artwork in the photo is a small painting, not a mural as the
close-up photo that has been circulated appears to indicate. It was
included in a group of paintings done by students in an 8th-grade
Advanced Art class and displayed in a hallway gallery during Black
History Month to commemorate various aspects of the Civil Rights
Movement. This hallway gallery is home to regularly rotating displays
of student artwork.
In this recent display on the Civil Rights Movement, groups of art
students within the 8th Advanced Art class teamed up to produce the
paintings. One group researched the movement’s history and chose
Malcolm X. The quote is from a 1964 speech by Malcolm X, which should
have been indicated by the students at the bottom of the quote but was
not. The attribution of the quote to Malcolm X was added later.
All materials for the Civil Rights Movement paintings were purchased by the
school’s PTO, and other artwork included depictions of Maya Angelou and
the Harlem Renaissance. All of the paintings in this display have
already been “rotated off” to make room for the next display.
In retrospect, because this artwork display illustrated a period of
American history, the students should have included appropriate text
along with their paintings that provided the proper historical context.
Without that context, someone viewing the paintings might have
mistakenly believed that the students or the school were endorsing a
particular political or social viewpoint, which certainly was not the
case.
Please contact me with any questions you may have.
Excellent response
When you get a few minutes why don’t you see if you can get a response from Cockroach Senator Davis about two ladies at a local library who were allegedly fired as a result of his appearance at the library. Specifically ask him if he stood with the ladies in their time of peril or did he cut them loose.
Don’t believe the record has ever been set straight
Don’t shoot the messenger! ;)
Screw public school and the racist little bastards in it!!!!!
It’s a 50 year old quote from Malcolm X. Putting aside it’s merits or lack thereof, I’m surprised the kids knew the quote. Hey, maybe they’re teaching history. Kudos.
It also provides the coiffed hair brigade is storming up those ramparts to do battle with the faux outrage of the day.
More than likely social studies, not history. Had they taught it in context, it is unlikely to have made “the wall”.
Yep – Black History Month celebration – social studies…
Social Studies includes history.
Not in this case, they are taking historical events out of context and studying them in the “social context” vice a “historical context”. The difference is that you wind up venerating people and things that are not necessarily who or what they really were. Malcolm Little had repudiated much of what he said and did for the NOI by the time of his death.
“Brother, remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant—the one who wanted to help the [Black] Muslims and the whites get together—and I told her there wasn’t a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I’ve lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [Black] Muslim that I’m sorry for now. I was a zombie then—like all [Black] Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man’s entitled to make a fool of himself if he’s ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years.
Malcolm X shortly before his assassination by agents of the NOI.
It’s a 50 year old quote from Malcolm X. Putting aside it’s merits or lack thereof, I’m surprised the kids knew the quote. Hey, maybe they’re teaching history. Kudos.
It also provides the coiffed hair brigade is storming up those ramparts to do battle with the faux outrage of the day.
More than likely social studies, not history. Had they taught it in context, it is unlikely to have made “the wall”.
Yep – Black History Month celebration – social studies…
Social Studies includes history.
Not in this case, they are taking historical events out of context and studying them in the “social context” vice a “historical context”. The difference is that you wind up venerating people and things that are not necessarily who or what they really were. Malcolm Little had repudiated much of what he said and did for the NOI by the time of his death.
“Brother, remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant—the one who wanted to help the [Black] Muslims and the whites get together—and I told her there wasn’t a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I’ve lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [Black] Muslim that I’m sorry for now. I was a zombie then—like all [Black] Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man’s entitled to make a fool of himself if he’s ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years.
Malcolm X shortly before his assassination by agents of the NOI.
Ugh, I meant: It also provides the coiffed hair brigade another reason to go storming up those ramparts to do battle with the faux outrage of the day.
Ugh, I meant: It also provides the coiffed hair brigade another reason to go storming up those ramparts to do battle with the faux outrage of the day.
FITS loves to stir the race pot almost as much as he loves to stir the Carolina/Clemson pot.
FITS loves to stir the race pot almost as much as he loves to stir the Carolina/Clemson pot.
I’m pretty sure capitalism WAS racist back in 1964. But I can’t be sure, because I didn’t know any negroes back then other than my four year old friend Jimmy’s maid.
I’m pretty sure capitalism WAS racist back in 1964. But I can’t be sure, because I didn’t know any negroes back then other than my four year old friend Jimmy’s maid.
Capitalism DOES bring out some of the racism found amongst its followers/members. We all know it.
In what sense? Can you explain what you mean by this?
Its not that hard to fig, sid. I’m talking about the reason for EOE. Maybe more specifically, the reason for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Racism exists, (as well as other forms of discrimination) and its downstream ramifications are easily seen in the statistics of capitalism. Go look at the numbers. Minorities have a much more difficult rat-race up through the ranks of the societal pyramid scheme called capitalism. It is a WHITE and MALE dominated herd control system… AND WE ALL KNOW IT. Its feel-good to pretend it isn’t a racist/discriminating system, but statistics show that its a real thing, and quite easy to see.
Could you elaborate, I don’t understand. Discussing racism is one way to face bigotry, so I hope you don’t mind the lengthy post. Racism doesn’t come from a ’system’, it comes from our individual thinking. Are you saying capitalism makes people think more bigoted than socialism? Nobody can say how people think, and it doesn’t make sense say a ‘herd control system’ is responsible for the way someone thinks.
Do you mean minorities can’t get ahead without ‘help’? That sounds patronizing. Obama didn’t get elected because of EOE. I bet Colin Powell would disagree that he needed ‘help’. How about Sonia Sotomayor?
I don’t agree EOE is needed now, if that’s what you’re saying., In my last years in technology before I quit, companies didn’t give a whit about skin color, gender, sexual orientation. No manager could get away with showing bigotry. Bottom line rules.
Earlier, I personally witnessed how EOE was needed. I was hired as the ‘token’ female engineer in the white male pinstripe conformist rigid bureaucrat giant Defense contractor companies. But I was hot shit good, saving money and improved product. Bigoted Bosses wanted the ’skirt’ on their programs. I didn’t whine when faced with direct and overt discrimination – denied basic tools, overt direct requests for sexual service, company VP patted my ass and called me girlie, boy engineers green mad (cuz I kicked their asses) whined about how I shouldn’t be allowed to do what I did, blah blah. My black boss chortled about emails white guy big bosses sent around about me – don’t send that pit bull to see me, yada. He came up way earlier than me, so he faced way more than I did. The key with his success, like mine, was we took personal responsibility for the hard job of challenging the bigots. Would he have been promoted higher if he wasn’t black? I’d guess yes.
Today? Whites will soon be the minority. Companies bottom line suffers if they are not diverse. Bigotry exists because of the way flawed individuals think. I don’t know how a system can fix our flawed thinking.
The subject is… ‘is capitalism racist’, not ‘does capitalism cause racism’. Stay on target if you can.
Stay up with meanings of words if you can. A racist is a HUMAN with bigoted belief. Capitalism, a system, can’t BE racist, it can be discriminatory and promote certain human beliefs Only HUMANS can be racist. Probably not a good idea to follow fits writers if you care about what words mean.
And capitalism is a system made up of people. Sigh. We could go on with this nonsense forever, I suppose. May I direct your attention back to my initial post that states “Capitalism DOES bring out some of the racism found amongst its followers/members.” Are we done playing this game, now? My goodness.
Very true.It’s like saying slavery wasn’t racist.
Capitalism DOES bring out some of the racism found amongst its followers/members. We all know it.
In what sense? Can you explain what you mean by this?
Its not that hard to fig, sid. I’m talking about the reason for EOE. Maybe more specifically, the reason for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Racism exists, (as well as other forms of discrimination) and its downstream ramifications are easily seen in the statistics of capitalism. Go look at the numbers. Minorities have a much more difficult rat-race up through the ranks of the societal pyramid scheme called capitalism. It is a WHITE and MALE dominated herd control system… AND WE ALL KNOW IT. Its feel-good to pretend it isn’t a racist/discriminating system, but statistics show that its a real thing, and quite easy to see.
Could you elaborate, I don’t understand. Discussing racism is one way to face bigotry, so I hope you don’t mind the lengthy post. Racism doesn’t come from a ’system’, it comes from our individual thinking. Are you saying capitalism makes people think more bigoted than socialism? Nobody can say how people think, and it doesn’t make sense say a ‘herd control system’ is responsible for the way someone thinks.
Do you mean minorities can’t get ahead without ‘help’? That sounds patronizing. Obama didn’t get elected because of EOE. I bet Colin Powell would disagree that he needed ‘help’. How about Sonia Sotomayor?
I don’t agree EOE is needed now, if that’s what you’re saying., In my last years in technology before I quit, companies didn’t give a whit about skin color, gender, sexual orientation. No manager could get away with showing bigotry. Bottom line rules.
Earlier, I personally witnessed how EOE was needed. I was hired as the ‘token’ female engineer in the white male pinstripe conformist rigid bureaucrat giant Defense contractor companies. But I was hot shit good, saving money and improved product. Bigoted Bosses wanted the ’skirt’ on their programs. I didn’t whine when faced with direct and overt discrimination – denied basic tools, overt direct requests for sexual service, company VP patted my ass and called me girlie, boy engineers green mad (cuz I kicked their asses) whined about how I shouldn’t be allowed to do what I did, blah blah. My black boss chortled about emails white guy big bosses sent around about me – don’t send that pit bull to see me, yada. He came up way earlier than me, so he faced way more than I did. The key with his success, like mine, was we took personal responsibility for the hard job of challenging the bigots. Would he have been promoted higher if he wasn’t black? I’d guess yes.
Today? Whites will soon be the minority. Companies bottom line suffers if they are not diverse. Bigotry exists because of the way flawed individuals think. I don’t know how a system can fix our flawed thinking.
The subject is… ‘is capitalism racist’, not ‘does capitalism cause racism’. Stay on target if you can.
Stay up with meanings of words if you can. A racist is a HUMAN with bigoted belief. Capitalism, a system, can’t BE racist, it can be discriminatory and promote certain human beliefs Only HUMANS can be racist. Probably not a good idea to follow fits writers if you care about what words mean.
And capitalism is a system made up of people. Sigh. We could go on with this nonsense forever, I suppose. May I direct your attention back to my initial post that states “Capitalism DOES bring out some of the racism found amongst its followers/members.” Are we done playing this game, now? My goodness.
Very true.It’s like saying slavery wasn’t racist.
How many of ya’ll cried during Okra’s last show?
!!love it. I don’t know who else noticed but I did I’ve been a subscriber since the first year. More!! I’ll be looking when I’m here…
How many of ya’ll cried during Okra’s last show?
!!love it. I don’t know who else noticed but I did I’ve been a subscriber since the first year. More!! I’ll be looking when I’m here…
Thank God for S.C. Sen Tom Davis, tackling the real issues of the day and not even contacting the school to find out more information before circulating a falsity! We need more “taxpayer heroes” like him in our government!
Give me a break. Please wipe the jizz off your chin before you write another article about stupid shit he does like this.
Thank God for S.C. Sen Tom Davis, tackling the real issues of the day and not even contacting the school to find out more information before circulating a falsity! We need more “taxpayer heroes” like him in our government!
Give me a break. Please wipe the jizz off your chin before you write another article about stupid shit he does like this.
You can’t have racism unless you have a multiracial society.
You can’t have racism unless you have a multiracial society.
I guess white faced Tom Davis doesn’t consider unemployed 8th grader black kids as his constituents. Go figure.
I guess white faced Tom Davis doesn’t consider unemployed 8th grader black kids as his constituents. Go figure.
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