When people have been told that they are not capable of achievement, eventually some of them come to believe it. They begin to believe that they are not capable of any more than what they have thus far done. Those examples are things that black people perpetuate that have the effect of them keeping themselves down, as opposed to being oppressed by an outside force.
A black person who goes to college for computers is not going to compete with a white kid who has been plastered to his computer monitor since he was 11, anymore than a black kid who starts playing hockey when he turns 18 is going to make an NHL team (or any kid who starts playing/doing/learning anything is going to make the Pro level of it if there are other people who have already been doing it 10 years - that counts musical instruments, sports, etc.)
The problem is twofold: Lack of access to computers for black children/teens, and a culture that doesn't support "wasting time" messing with technology. (Not that white culture was greatly supportive of my nerdy endeavors but at least my parents didn't stop me beyond demanding I go outside more.)
This is what Michael Gerson calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Oh, those poor negroes never really had a chance. The ghetto is such a terrible place... s Shenanigans! It's possible for anyone with the drive, determination and ability to achieve success. Racism may be an obstacle, but it's not insurmountable.
I've had a computer in front of me, nearly continuously since I was 8. I finish my Master's Degree in C.I.S. in five weeks. It's absolute bullshit that there are serious external impediments to black success. If people can find a way to buy $400 sneakers, they can buy a computer.
It's an open secret in the black community that there is a serious anti-intellectual influence. Black kids who strive and achieve academically are ostracized by other black kids and resented by the white kids for making them look bad. It takes a strong will and a strong support system for a kid to deal with that. My parents brooked no excuses for not living up to my potential. I will do the same for my children. I can't explain it, and I can't excuse it, but it's real and thank God that it's not universal. Just like in the society as a whole, you're seeing a bifurcation of the African American community. You have black achievers who are going to college and having successful careers and you have people who don't achieve. People who think that the drug game is their only ticket out of poverty. This is why you have 30% of black men being incarcerated at one point in their lives. It took generations to create the problem, and will likely take generations to fix it, however I don't know what the answer is. All I can do it be the best father I can and raise my children to achieve in life.
16 year old isn't a child. It's late teens, almost an adult. That's why the whole video should be considered as violence against adult, not teaching your child (and even then it would go seriously over the top). But fact is, 16 year olds are adult already. Most can act and think that way too. At least I could.
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It's fairly obvious that 16 is MIDDLE teens, not late. And no it's not the same as a prepubescent child, but it's also not an adult. Perhaps you were capable of adult-like thought, but I would suspect that had something to do with your parents preparing you for adulthood and progressively treating you more like an adult as you got older. This girl's father was treating her very much unlike an adult, if you strike another adult you go the fuck to jail.
just say'en (or repeating) " if it ain't broke don't fix it " seems how i keep hearing that i not understand it. you know becaus of the kde3 - kde4 shinangians. ( i still have debian on all my machines because of it )
I used to be a Mandriva user. I stuck with Spring 2007 just because I didn't want to give up KDE 3.5. For me, the deciding factor to move to Ubuntu was Trinity KDE. I would still be using Mandriva 2007 if not for Trinity.
Why do we have to fight change every step of the way?
Because not all change is progress.
I'm one of those people who absolutely despise KDE4. I used several versions and then two years ago, I discovered Trinity KDE. I think it's wonderful. If not for Trinity KDE, I would have gone with xfce or something else, but I lost all interest in KDE with the 4.x series.
It takes a special kind of fool to equate what Israel does to the execution of six million Jews. The Palestinians are in no risk of becoming extinct. One does not have to approve of everything Israel does, but when you frame things the way you do, well, it just makes look either like an evil fucking bastard or a plain worthless brainless moron.
To be pedantic, the Jews were never in any real danger of extinction. There were enough in the US to keep that from happening. I'm not trying to lessen the impact of what happened, just pointing out the absurdity of claiming that people aren't suffering because they're not all going to die.
I agree that in the 70s Japanese cars were regarded as crap, but I seem to remember then steadily getting better though the 80s and in the late 90s they became a real force to be reckoned with in the American marketplace.
It never ran on fusion. It was a gasoline powered automobile, only the time circuits were electrical and they needed fusion to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts(Jigawatts) of electricity to operate.
In the same way that withholding evidence from the police is a crime in virtually every civilised country?
It's only withholding evidence if the police ask you for it and you don't provide it.
For example, if high crime neighborhoods. Nearly everyone knows who is dealing the drugs or shooting people but because they're afraid they don't report it to the police. By your reasoning, they could clean the whole place out by charging everyone as an accessory.
It's called being an accessory. If you know person A broke into a store and stole a bunch of jewelry and do not report it you are also an accessory. You're expected to report known criminal violation.
I get that it's illegal to possess child porn. I get that it's illegal to make child porn. How in the fuck is it illegal to know that someone else has child porn?
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When people have been told that they are not capable of achievement, eventually some of them come to believe it. They begin to believe that they are not capable of any more than what they have thus far done. Those examples are things that black people perpetuate that have the effect of them keeping themselves down, as opposed to being oppressed by an outside force.
LK
True, but which gets you the mos respeck from the homies in da hood?
My answer to that is to hell with the hood.
Inner cities are toilets. If you can get out, you should.
LK
"I finish my Master's Degree in C.I.S. in five weeks"
Must not have been a very demanding curriculum. Most MS degrees take a few years.
No. I'm just that good.
"If people can find a way to buy $400 sneakers, they can buy a computer."
"It's an open secret in the black community that there is a serious anti-intellectual influence. "
So are these examples of "soft" or "hard" bigotry?
Those are examples of internalized racism.
LK
A black person who goes to college for computers is not going to compete with a white kid who has been plastered to his computer monitor since he was 11, anymore than a black kid who starts playing hockey when he turns 18 is going to make an NHL team (or any kid who starts playing/doing/learning anything is going to make the Pro level of it if there are other people who have already been doing it 10 years - that counts musical instruments, sports, etc.)
The problem is twofold: Lack of access to computers for black children/teens, and a culture that doesn't support "wasting time" messing with technology. (Not that white culture was greatly supportive of my nerdy endeavors but at least my parents didn't stop me beyond demanding I go outside more.)
This is what Michael Gerson calls "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Oh, those poor negroes never really had a chance. The ghetto is such a terrible place... s Shenanigans! It's possible for anyone with the drive, determination and ability to achieve success. Racism may be an obstacle, but it's not insurmountable.
I've had a computer in front of me, nearly continuously since I was 8. I finish my Master's Degree in C.I.S. in five weeks. It's absolute bullshit that there are serious external impediments to black success. If people can find a way to buy $400 sneakers, they can buy a computer.
It's an open secret in the black community that there is a serious anti-intellectual influence. Black kids who strive and achieve academically are ostracized by other black kids and resented by the white kids for making them look bad. It takes a strong will and a strong support system for a kid to deal with that. My parents brooked no excuses for not living up to my potential. I will do the same for my children. I can't explain it, and I can't excuse it, but it's real and thank God that it's not universal. Just like in the society as a whole, you're seeing a bifurcation of the African American community. You have black achievers who are going to college and having successful careers and you have people who don't achieve. People who think that the drug game is their only ticket out of poverty. This is why you have 30% of black men being incarcerated at one point in their lives. It took generations to create the problem, and will likely take generations to fix it, however I don't know what the answer is. All I can do it be the best father I can and raise my children to achieve in life.
LK
I believe in spanking, under the right circumstances. What this man did was not spanking, it was beating. It's not cool.
LK
16 year old isn't a child. It's late teens, almost an adult. That's why the whole video should be considered as violence against adult, not teaching your child (and even then it would go seriously over the top). But fact is, 16 year olds are adult already. Most can act and think that way too. At least I could.
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It's fairly obvious that 16 is MIDDLE teens, not late. And no it's not the same as a prepubescent child, but it's also not an adult. Perhaps you were capable of adult-like thought, but I would suspect that had something to do with your parents preparing you for adulthood and progressively treating you more like an adult as you got older. This girl's father was treating her very much unlike an adult, if you strike another adult you go the fuck to jail.
LK
just say'en (or repeating) " if it ain't broke don't fix it " seems how i keep hearing that i not understand it. you know becaus of the kde3 - kde4 shinangians. ( i still have debian on all my machines because of it )
I used to be a Mandriva user. I stuck with Spring 2007 just because I didn't want to give up KDE 3.5. For me, the deciding factor to move to Ubuntu was Trinity KDE. I would still be using Mandriva 2007 if not for Trinity.
LK
Is "Trinity" a deliberate allusion to "Unity"?
No. I believe it's a reference to the Holy Trinity.
As I understand it, Mr. Pearson is a devout Christian.
LK
Why do we have to fight change every step of the way?
Because not all change is progress.
I'm one of those people who absolutely despise KDE4. I used several versions and then two years ago, I discovered Trinity KDE. I think it's wonderful. If not for Trinity KDE, I would have gone with xfce or something else, but I lost all interest in KDE with the 4.x series.
LK
It takes a special kind of fool to equate what Israel does to the execution of six million Jews. The Palestinians are in no risk of becoming extinct. One does not have to approve of everything Israel does, but when you frame things the way you do, well, it just makes look either like an evil fucking bastard or a plain worthless brainless moron.
To be pedantic, the Jews were never in any real danger of extinction. There were enough in the US to keep that from happening. I'm not trying to lessen the impact of what happened, just pointing out the absurdity of claiming that people aren't suffering because they're not all going to die.
LK
Thinking Israel is no better than all the other fuckers over there in the armpit of the world is hardly antisemitism.
When someone accuses you of being an antisemite for not choosing the side of Israel over the Palestinians, remind them that arabs are Semites too.
LK
Don't let them ruffle your feathers. The reason they do this is because they lost a girl to a black guy and can't get over it.
LK
So were the Japanese cars in the 90s
I agree that in the 70s Japanese cars were regarded as crap, but I seem to remember then steadily getting better though the 80s and in the late 90s they became a real force to be reckoned with in the American marketplace.
LK
I still have the email receipts, they made this change here back in May.
LK
They did this where I live several months ago.
LK
It never ran on fusion. It was a gasoline powered automobile, only the time circuits were electrical and they needed fusion to generate the 1.21 Gigawatts(Jigawatts) of electricity to operate.
LK
In the same way that withholding evidence from the police is a crime in virtually every civilised country?
It's only withholding evidence if the police ask you for it and you don't provide it.
For example, if high crime neighborhoods. Nearly everyone knows who is dealing the drugs or shooting people but because they're afraid they don't report it to the police. By your reasoning, they could clean the whole place out by charging everyone as an accessory.
That's idiotic.
LK
It's called being an accessory. If you know person A broke into a store and stole a bunch of jewelry and do not report it you are also an accessory. You're expected to report known criminal violation.
[Citation Needed]
To be an accomplice, you have to take part. To be an accessory, you have to give aid to the person who commits the crime.
LK
It isn't illegal to know that someone else has child porn; it's illegal to know about it and not report it.
[citation needed]
LK
if you know someone else has been breaking the law, /and you don't report it/, that makes you an obstruction to the law
Maybe in some third world toilet, but not in any orderly first world nation.
Here's the US Code, please feel free to show me where your definition is included in the law.
LK
I get that it's illegal to possess child porn. I get that it's illegal to make child porn. How in the fuck is it illegal to know that someone else has child porn?
LK
Because this guy's ePenis is bigger than yours and he wants the whole world to know about it.
LK
A Mac IIx, you must have been one of those rich kids. I had a Mac Plus and I fucking loved it!
LK