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Posted by streetcarman1 on Fri Aug 29 15:22:14 2014, in response to Re: Sorry, Black People; White America is Still Racist, posted by Nilet on Wed Aug 27 19:40:02 2014. The first points are being posted to display why there are no privileges for Black Americans. If you have succeeded in life, it does not mean anything because White America will still look down on you because of the color of your skin. These examples prove that point. Has Bill O'Reilly ever been stopped by a cop or handcuffed because he was mistaken as a criminal? no.....never will. Has he ever walked in a neighborhood where he was challenged because of the color of his skin did not match the local residents in the area? no..never. Mr. O'Reilly lives in Plandome, NY where most if not all his neighbors are White like him. He talks about how he grew up working small jobs here and there before he became successful in the media. That right there is PRIVILEGE as he had OPPORTUNITIES that people of color may not have.--------------------------------------------------------------------- http://uptownmagazine.com/2014/08/lapd-charles-beck-nate-parker-kametra-barbour-oprah-forest-racial-profiling/ Charles Belk and Other Unbelievable Incidents of Racial Profiling Posted by UPTOWN on Aug 28, 2014 A producer was arrested and detained for six hours on Friday because he seemingly fit the description of a black male bank robber. Charles Belk, 51, had a planned a night of fun at a pre-Emmy’s party when he was stopped and arrested by police around 5:30pm in Los Angeles. He was taken to the station and detained without being allowed a phone call or given an explanation of why he was arrested. The Harvard-educated producer spoke out on Facebook about the unfortunate incident. After missing the party and finding himself in a situation that people usually only hear about, Belk realized that being tall, black, and bald had its repercussions. He loosely resembled the suspect who was also tall, black, and bald – and the LAPD took advantage of this. He took to his wall and wrote: “All they saw was someone fitting the description. Doesn’t matter if he’s a ‘Taye Diggs BLACK,’ a ‘LL Cool J BLACK’ or ‘a Drake BLACK. I was ‘tall,’ ‘bald’ a ‘male’ and ‘black,’ so I fit the description.” Belk has produced many films, and helped coordinate at least four NAACP Image Awards. He received a degree in electrical engineering from University of Southern California and a MBA from Indiana University. He also completed a certificate program in Executive Leadership at Harvard. With these credentials, robbing a bank was hardly on Belk’s mind. The LAPD has since apologized for the mishap, but have said that they were only following procedure – although it took them over six hours to view the tapes and realize that they had caught the wrong guy. Belk isn’t the only recent instance of racial profiling. From children being held at gunpoint to celebs like Nate Parker being confronted by the police, here are some examples of what happens when you’re just going about your daily business – and happen to be black. On August 20, actor Nate Parker was en route to Ferguson, MO to protest police treatment following the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown. He was pulled over by San Marino police on the grounds he was talking on his cell phone and live tweeted the situation. Kametra Barbour and her four young children were held at gunpoint on August 9 by police in Forney, Texas after being mistaken for another vehicle. The mother was handcuffed in front of her kids and police approached the children in the car with guns drawn. The policemen later apologized. Oprah Winfrey told viewers about a case of racial discrimination during a trip to Switzerland in 2013 for her pal Tina Turner’s wedding. When Winfrey asked a Zurich store clerk to see a $38,000 Tom Ford bag behind a glass, the clerk told her “No, it’s too expensive.” Earlier this year, Rashid Polo recorded himself being racially profiled at local store. His vine videos show white employees following him around different areas of the market. Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker was falsely accused of shoplifting at New York City’s Milano Market in February, 2013. The actor stopped in at the deli to buy some yogurt when a store employee patted him down in front of other customers and employees. ------------------------------------------------------------------ From the NYTIMES.COM: Bill O’Reilly and White Privilege Charles M. Blow August 27, 2014 Is white privilege real? Not according to Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly. This week O’Reilly debated the issue of white privilege with a fellow host and then returned to the topic the next day with this doozy of a statement: “Last night on ‘The Factor,’ Megyn Kelly and I debated the concept of white privilege whereby some believe that if you are Caucasian you have inherent advantages in America. ‘Talking Points’ does not, does not believe in white privilege. However, there is no question that African-Americans have a much harder time succeeding in our society than whites do.” It is difficult to believe that those three sentences came in that order from the same mouth. Why would it be harder for blacks to succeed? Could interpersonal and, more important, systemic bias play a role? And, once one acknowledges the presence of bias as an impediment, one must by extension concede that being allowed to navigate the world without such biases is a form of privilege. That privilege can be gendered, sexual identity based, religious and, yes, racial. When one has the luxury of not being forced to compensate for societal oppression based on basic identity, one is in fact privileged in that society. O’Reilly even trotted out the Asian “model minority” trope to buttress his argument, citing low unemployment rates and high levels of income and educational attainment for Asians compared not only to blacks but to whites. Whenever people use racial differences as an argument to downplay racial discrimination, context is always called for. What O’Reilly — like many others who use this line of logic — fails to mention (out of either ignorance or rhetorical sleight of hand) is the extent to which immigration policy has informed those statistics and the extent to which many Asian-Americans resent the stereotype as an oversimplification of the diversity of the Asian experience. A 2012 Pew Research report entitled “The Rise of Asian Americans” found: “Large-scale immigration from Asia did not take off until the passage of the landmark Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Over the decades, this modern wave of immigrants from Asia has increasingly become more skilled and educated. Today, recent arrivals from Asia are nearly twice as likely as those who came three decades ago to have a college degree, and many go into high-paying fields such as science, engineering, medicine and finance. This evolution has been spurred by changes in U.S. immigration policies and labor markets; by political liberalization and economic growth in the sending countries; and by the forces of globalization in an ever-more digitally interconnected world.” Following the publication of the Pew report, the news site Colorlines spoke with Dan Ichinose, director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center’s Demographic Research Project, who was critical of some parts of the Pew report, but seemed to echo the role immigration had played. Colorlines put his response this way: “The more complex and far less exciting explanation for Asian Americans’ relatively high rates of education has more to do with immigration policy, which has driven selectivity about who gets to come to the U.S. and who doesn’t, said Ichinose.” Much of the African-American immigration policy came in the form of centuries of bondage, dehumanization and unimaginable savagery visited on their bodies. And that legacy is long and the scars deep. O’Reilly mentions this in his rant, as a caveat: “One caveat, the Asian-American experience historically has not been nearly as tough as the African-American experience. Slavery is unique and it has harmed black Americans to a degree that is still being felt today, but in order to succeed in our competitive society, every American has to overcome the obstacles they face.” But this whole juxtaposition, the pitting of one minority group against another, is just a way of distracting from the central question: Is white privilege real? In arguing that it isn’t, O’Reilly goes on to raise the seemingly obligatory “respectability” point, saying: “American children must learn not only academics but also civil behavior, right from wrong, as well as how to speak properly and how to act respectfully in public.” Then he falls back on the crux of his argument: “Instead of preaching a cultural revolution, the leadership provides excuses for failure. The race hustlers blame white privilege, an unfair society, a terrible country. So the message is, it’s not your fault if you abandon your children, if you become a substance abuser, if you are a criminal. No, it’s not your fault; it’s society’s fault. That is the big lie that is keeping some African-Americans from reaching their full potential. Until personal responsibility and a cultural change takes place, millions of African-Americans will struggle.” No, Mr. O’Reilly, it is statements like this one that make you the race hustler. The underlying logic is that blacks are possessed of some form of racial pathology or self-destructive racial impulses, that personal responsibility and systemic inequity are separate issues and not intersecting ones. Continue reading the main story Write A Comment This is the false dichotomy that chokes to death any real accountability and honesty. Systemic anti-black bias doesn’t dictate personal behavior, but it can certainly influence and inform it. And personal behavior can reinforce people’s belief that their biases are justified. So goes the cycle. But at the root of it, we can’t expect equality of outcome while acknowledging inequality of environments. Only a man bathing in privilege would be blind to that. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From the Huffingtonpost.com: Bill O'Reilly Is STILL Denying White Privilege Exists The Huffington Post | By Catherine Taibi Posted: 08/27/2014 10:17 am EDT Updated: 08/27/2014 2:59 pm EDT Ah, nothing says "The O'Reilly Factor" like opening up a segment with this: "White Privilege: That is the subject of this evening's 'Talking Points Memo.'" The Fox News host had a heated discussion with Megyn Kelly Monday night about the concept of "white privilege," during which Kelly defended the idea and the evidence that supports its existence. But apparently O'Reilly still wasn't convinced, because he was back at it Tuesday night with another important announcement. "Talking Points does not, does not, believe in white privilege," he said. In case you didn't catch that one, don't worry, here it is written out for you:  O'Reilly went on to drop some statistics about unemployment and how Asian Americans have a lower unemployment rate than White Americans so really we should be talking about "Asian privilege." "There is no question that African-Americans have a much harder time succeeding in our society," he argued. "Even whites do. But the primary reason is not skin color. It's education and not only book learning." O'Reilly has been talking about the idea of white privilege for months now, denying that it's real but also making it known that he is "exempt" from white privilege because he once worked in an ice cream shop. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill O'Reilly: The truth about white privilege http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2014/08/27/bill-oreilly-truth-about-white-privilege |
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