WHY?

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OLDGUY

Monday, February 24, 2020 8:21 PM

Black demographic = "victimhood"
Politicians like to tell us how bad things are and how they emphathize with us and make promises for what they'll do to fix things, to 'take care" of us.

then after they have our vote and our money....results?

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 24, 2020 9:03 PM

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Originally posted by OLDGUY:
Black demographic = "victimhood"
Politicians like to tell us how bad things are and how they emphathize with us and make promises for what they'll do to fix things, to 'take care" of us.

then after they have our vote and our money....results?

Results?

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I will note that my recent book Taboo: Ten Facts You Can’t Talk About makes this same point at some length, pointing out that quite a few contemporary Black problems have very little to do with slavery. For example, the Black rate of “illegitimate” out-of-wedlock childbirths was 11 percent in 1938, barely 70 years after slavery ended, but today hovers around 74 percent—and the illegitimacy rate today is approximately 35 percent for American whites. The welfare policies of the 1960s frankly have been a greater cause of this multi-colored social issue than racialized oppression 150 years ago. The same could be said of a dozen other issues, from opioid and cocaine abuse to high rates of local incarceration, which seem to bedevil our poor white countrymen roughly as much as blacks, while having little effect on West Indian immigrants who are also almost entirely descended from slaves.

https://quillette.com/2020/02/17/sorry-new-york-times-but-america-bega
n-in-1776/

I don't even want to get into the rate of alcoholism and drug abuse among the American Indian tribes.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Monday, February 24, 2020 10:15 PM

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BRENDA: I am not trying to start an argument. I am just trying to understand the why of us being left out.

SIX: I hate to say it Brenda, but it's all about the ROI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_social_statistics_of_Native_Ameri
cans
Native Americans make up 1.01% of the people currently living here.
That means, generally speaking, our lying and thieving politicians on either side don't give a shit about them.
Democrats should, at least in theory, pretend to care though. Maybe you should ask the Democrats on this board why we routinely have discussions in this country about bathrooms and other transsexual rights when they only (allegedly) account for 0.6% of the population in the States.
The only time I ever hear about Native Americans in politics is when somebody on the Democrat side is (falsely) alleging that they're being prevented from voting. Then two weeks later they stop pretending to care again.

BRENDA: I do understand Jack that your politicians don't really care about Native Americans.
Maybe no show is better than a false show down there.

SIX: I do appreciate you not taking that the wrong way.
It's deeper than "they don't care about Native Americans" though.
They don't care about any of us, period.

'Zactly

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There just happens to be over 60% white people, over 12% black people and over 11% Mexican people here, so they have to pretend a lot harder with everybody else.
One day, maybe we'll all wake up and realize that while they're doing a damn fine job getting us to separate each other by skin tone and gender just like they want us to, it's not doing any of us any actual good in the long run.

Hear hear!

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The only separation that matters at the end of the day is class.

Indeed.

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And as long as they divide us they remain on top.
My theory behind why they pretend so hard to give a shit about transgendered people is because they know that it easily further divides people whenever the topic is brought up, and it divides divisions even further.

Yep

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Look at what it's done to the feminist movement in recent years. They're fractioning off from each other over the rights of men who decided they are women. The loudest of them on either side of the issue one step away from eating each other alive.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Absolutely.

IMHO, talking about, electioneering to, promoting "the black vote", the "womens' vote", the "brown vote", the "LGBTQX vote" is the worst sort of pandering.

How are "black" issues any different than "white" issues" How are "men's issues" any different than "women's"* (*with the glaring exception that women have babies and men don't)? How are "Native" issues any different than "LGBTQ" issues?

Don't we all basically need the same things? A safe place to live? Meaningful work at a living wage for those who can, and help for those who can't? Equality under the law, and an equal chance in the economy? A good education (one that will lead us to educating ourselves for the rest of our lives) and health care? Good food, a clean environment, and agency over our individual and collective futures?

The noise about bathrooms and reparations is just that: noise. It's people wanting to be treated ... not equally ... but BETTER THAN. Privilege. How about we just aim for a society that rewards work with an assured future, treats everyone fairly, gives everyone the same opportunities, has clean politics, respects the environment and thinks about future generations, and holds out a helping hand for those who can't work?

I've been asking - for years now- what are America's (and Americans') interests? It's not that hard to figure out. This pandering to one victim group over another ... bonus points added if you belong to more than one!!! .... is sickening

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, January 9, 2025 4:41 AM

people and cultures go extinct...maybe not total extinction but replaced by another culture until the original fades away

Demographics and Election Buying Economics?

Bolivian Fruits
https://www.tasteatlas.com/best-rated-fruits-in-bolivia

the Native Firsts of Bolovia the Native Indian American 41.5% of the Bolivian population, economics, a sizeable population but dropping

also Samoa, Greenland, New Zealand, Guatemala, Peru, Chile

mostly gone now in the USA but still strong culture and political bloc in Alaska, 23% of the indigenous people live in Alaskan Native villages

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 10:22 PM

'We committed 7 years ago': SA forges ahead with Indigenous truth-telling commission
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sa-presses-ahead-with-landmark-tru
th-commission/0brrv6evg

Blood, sweat and years of fighting impossible odds for Indigenous leaders
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/blood-sweat-and-yea
rs-of-fighting-impossible-odds-for-indigenous-leaders/news-story/4cda47e85d2e177f6dc72edb10965b1f

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