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Originally posted by illesturban
That is fucking BULLSHIT! By that claim we should all be pissed whenever awards are given out to HANDICAPPED or people with disabilities.
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Well that depends. If it's an award for "Best Handicapped Lawyer" or some such bullshit, then no, we shouldn't give them special awards. If it's "won the wheelchair basketball tournament" then sure - - although I will say that many of the wheelchair sport events are open to non-disabled people. The non-handicapped people rarely win because they haven't spent years developing their wheelchair muscles, but it's still open.
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I have been sitting here reading this entire thread and your statement above irked me. There are NUMEROUS awards given out to people who belong to different groups.
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Another member of the "everyone's doing it so it's OK" club.
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Why don't you go bitch about people given awards and scholarships because they are borth with a defect.
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I don't get what you're saying. Are you saying black people are defective and therefore the same rules should apply to them as to the kid that was born deaf? You're comparing apples to oranges here. Being black does not prevent you from succeeding in school. It doesn't prevent you from finding a job, and it doesn't prevent you from being rich. Have you watched basketball lately? What about Oprah? Bill Cosby? Chris Rock? James Earl Jones? (who by the way is black AND had a speech impediment (stuttering) throughout his childhood)
Garrett Morgan invented the gas mask, without which we'd have been in DEEP shit in world war 1. Do we say he was a great BLACK scientist, or just that he was a great SCIENTIST? My vote is for the latter, because specifying black implies that he's an exception to the rule, that most black people can't achieve anything like what he did. I refuse to be racist like that.
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Guess what, minorities are UNDER-REPRESENTED and are usually looked at differently in a way to promote diversity and the understanding of a different culture.
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Well let's see. MLK day. Black history MONTH. Special awards only for black people. And you wonder why people still look at black people differently? It's because there have been such frigging HUGE efforts to
emphasize that they ARE different! Maybe if we started realizing that we're all humans rather than going through life with the dumbassed notion that a black person is radically different from white people, we wouldn't have the problems you're griping about.
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So why is it "cute" and "great" when the mentally challenged boy gets an award, but when a minority who, like the handicapped boy can't help the way they were born, their skin color, gets an award it's "racist." PLEASE.
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Again, unless you're suggesting that black people are retarded, you are comparing apples to oranges. The low-IQ kid does not have the capacity to compete on the same level as those with normal IQ's. The average intelligence of a black person is NOT lower than the average intelligence of a white person. Please stick to like-comparisons if you're going to be racist.
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I just find it hilarious when white people in this country act like they are at SUCH a disadvantage and feel SO offended with the idea of minorities moving up in society.
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And I find it hilarious that you think getting called "African American" as opposed to "black" is "moving up in society." Got news for you. It's not. I have no problem with black people, on their own merit, moving up in society. I do have a problem with ANYONE being treated differently SOLELY BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE. That's called discrimination, it's racist, and it's wrong.
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God FORBID the day there's a black president because we all know a black person could NEVER win legitimately; it'd have to definately be given to them.
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Boy, you do like to read a lot into what I say. Might I suggest reading the posts with greater comprehension next time. I have NEVER said ANYTHING to indicate that I feel black people can't do anything without handouts. I would never say that. Sorry buddy, but the racist here is not me.
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The fact of the matter is, everyone knows this punk ass kid was just trying to be a smart ass and didn't really want to be considered for this award.
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No, the fact of the matter is that YOU ASSUME because the kid is WHITE that he's a punk ass stirring up trouble. You have no way of knowing for real (did you talk to the kid? Did he tell you his motives?) yet because he's white, trying to mess with what you think should be a black award (but which was NOT specified to be a black award) -- You think because he's white that he's being an asshole. That sounds awfully prejudiced to me. I think a good long look in the mirror is necessary before your next misplaced rant.