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I do not know that movie. I am assuming he's the disney princess?

Great article.
Seems the first lady had her share if issues at Target.

"Even as the first lady," she told the magazine, "during the wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf."

Of course, if I couldn't reach something on a high shelf, and a wookie was conveniently near by...

The Lion King. Would you like a copy for Christmas? I could send you a Simba and a Nyla to hold while watching it. Amazon Prime can have it there Saturday.

Huh. I think I saw that movie once.

So nyla's the disney princess?

So have we decided to install a lawn jockey in front of the White House?

He's acting stupidly...

Someone PLEASE remind him that he IS the hired help!

He can rest with benefits in a couple of years...until then...back out to a golf course and quit bitchin...KENYAN KING!

Not to confuse the issue, but I've always wondered why only whites, none of whom ever owned a slave, are vilified as the perpetrator. Perhaps those who feel aggrieved should the sue members of their own race, but of a different tribe/clan/village, who ACTUALLY captured them and sold them to the slave traders?

The slave-trade ships were built by Yankees, therefore they have the higher moral ground.

Um, wait ... (?)

President Benson thankfully gets ANOTHER 17 day Hawaiian vacation to ponder the struggle.

Let me state it a different way. Slavery as we know in the US, which is the topic is du jour ad nauseam, is based upon slavery that existed from colonial times through the late 1800's in the US. I haven't met any 150 year old former slave "owners" so for the sake of argument I'm assuming they are all pushing up daisy's.

Absolutely they were treated improperly, and that's putting it mildly. But, at some point we as a nation need to get past it. Many many people were mistreated. And yes some worse than others. But, to keep bringing it up as if it just ended last week serves but one purpose. It generates income for the "civil rights" leaders. Without it, they cease to be relevant. Just how far can the victim card be played?

We mustn't forget that Japanese were interred during WWII. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese died driving railroad spikes coast to coast. Twenty million Jews perished in the Holocaust. But, as a whole these ethnic groups have moved on and prospered.

Yet, I seem to recall a few weeks ago a certain congressman was once again on the floor of the house talking about reparations for descendents of slaves. Reparations that people who never owned or are descendents of people who never owned slaves would have to pay through taxes collected from them.

So if someone wants to understand racism, perhaps they should ask why people feel the way they do. The answer may be surprising.

^ I thought that was common knowledge ^

The Southern White Elite Upper Class saw themselves above not only slaves, but also common white folk, or, the cracker people.

Not too much difference between the rich folk & middle class of today, eh ?

Just for fun, if y'all weren't aware, Google Irish Slaves.

Relations today are a product of all that happened before. Just as individuals have memories, groups of people and societies do also. Personal experiences are handed down through generations, from parents to their children and then their children. Some of the uglier acts of discrimination in our nation's history by the majority against minorities, especially when economic conditions were bad, are not written and discussed in the history books that are part of the public education.

Many of the laws promoting discrimination against specific peoples: restrictions on immigration, marriage, property ownership, citizenship, voting, taxation, have been repealed over the years, especially after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. (1964!!!...only 50 years ago) Many of us were alive then and had lived as second class partial persons/citizens before that was the law of the land. We also knew that it was by no means unanimous nor supported by a large number, almost half, of all Americans. We knew it was vigorously opposed in many parts of the country. Imagine knowing that nearly every other person in your country didn't want you to have the same rights and opportunities he had.

When discriminatory laws were repealed, the power and wealth imbalances that flourished during their existence did not default to an equality among all. The hatred that existed, on both sides, did not magically melt away. The people in power who proposed, passed and supported the laws of legalized bigotry and their progeny who perpetuated them did not disappear nor did their feelings and beliefs about the minorities subject to the oppression change. Those who were denied equal opportunity and basic human rights for long periods in our history and then freed or declared equal by law were equal in name only.

It is much easier to say let's forget the past when one's path has been made easier by it, than for those who were hindered and shackled by it. Written by a member of the Model Minority.

Yup

If everyone would just ignore Victor when he pulls his contrarian bullsh*t, he might stop doing it.

Nah. That's just wishful thinking.

You wish for too much MACS. Some people can't stand it if the world isn't their personal echo chamber.