Supreme Court kills affirmative action in university admissions

[85SugarVol]

I knew you wouldn't answer the question.

I didn’t think I needed to.

I assumed the link showed that Jalen Rose had called Grant Hill that name because he viewed him as traitorous.

Is that not the case?

 

[C-south]

I knew you wouldn't answer the question.

So rose hates on people that want to (or have) better themselves and so do you.

 

[BowlBrother85]

I didn’t think I needed to.

I assumed the link showed that Jalen Rose had called Grant Hill that name because he viewed him as traitorous.

Is that not the case?

That is the case.

My whole point was ... I shouldn't have said it. I was drunk as hell last night and posting on here. I'm still hung over from it. However, I don't think that I was being racist.

... but I'm done with this topic. Go to the recruiting forum. We landed a 4 star WR today from South Carolina. Picked Tenn over Clemson. Nice pickup!

 

[FLVOL_79]

Supreme Court knocking progressive bullsh!t out of the park during the Biden presidency. Hilarious.

 

[McDad]

Take your lumps, and take solace in the fact that people apparently expect better of you because most of the people *****ing on you ignore the same **** from others on this forum, probably in this thread even. Or don’t. I don’t care. Expectations are easily amended.

BB85 isn't a malignant racist. At worst, he is a benign racist. He got a little too caught up in the topic and pushed the boundary a bit. It happens. He is redeemable (in whatever way he needs redemption from his colleagues, here).
I don't know what can be done to enlighten the malignant racists who show out from time to time here.

 

[85SugarVol]

“It doesn’t have a racial component, he’s just betraying his race.”


you didn’t struggle with the wrongness of assuming dual loyalties based on immutable characteristics in this context.

You comprehend the wrongness of what you said and you’re embarrassing yourself trying to rationalize it with this tortured logic.

You were wrong. It’s gross. Full stop.

Take your lumps, and take solace in the fact that people apparently expect better of you because most of the people *****ing on you ignore the same **** from others on this forum, probably in this thread even. Or don’t. I don’t care. Expectations are easily amended.

Yes, there’s plenty of it on here.

But I think this is a big part of why BB gets so much attention.

I am as far from a racist as one gets ... I am a liberal largely because I could only be a member of a party of diversity and inclusion. I'm against racism, sexism, anti-semitism and homophobia.

I am also against being a sellout. That's my problem with Clarence Thomas.

 

[VOLS INC.]

BB85 isn't a malignant racist. At worst, he is a benign racist. He got a little too caught up in the topic and pushed the boundary a bit. It happens. He is redeemable (in whatever way he needs redemption from his colleagues, here).
I don't know what can be done to enlighten the malignant racists who show out from time to time here.

The racism I commonly see from leftist is what Charles Payne was talking about.

If you believe that acquiring an ID to vote is just too high of a hurdle for black people, you might be racist.

If you believe that basic expectations in school such as reading and being on time for class should be abolished for the sake of black kids, you might be racist.

The list goes on. It’s not direct racism in the way previous generations of black people in America really did experience. But considering an entire race of people simply too inept and/or too ignorant to do some of the most basic task in order to participate in a society is a form of racism.

 

[McDad]

The racism I commonly see from leftist is what Charles Payne was talking about.

If you believe that acquiring an ID to vote is just too high of a hurdle for black people, you might be racist.

If you believe that basic expectations in school such as reading and being on time for class should be abolished for the sake of black kids, you might be racist.

The list goes on. It’s not direct racism in the way previous generations of black people in America really did experience. But considering an entire race of people simply too inept and/or too ignorant to do some of the most basic task in order to participate in a society is a form of racism.

The racism of hate has been replaced by the racism of pity.

 

[Majors]

I'm saying ... I don't know how you can accuse a black man (Bennie Thompson) of racial bias against another black man (Clarence Thomas) ...

Most of the time, when a black man is being referred to as an "Uncle Tom," it is a black person who is making the accusation. It is a harsh thing to say, but I don't consider it to be racist.

“We’ll if you look at his decisions on the court. They have been adverse to the minority community. And the people I represent have an issue with an African American not being sensitive to those issues” - Thompson

Thomas can be personally sensitive to the issues and do right by all races in the eyes of the court.

 

[VOLS INC.]

The racism of hate has been replaced by the racism of pity.

Well said.

 

[RikidyBones]

This is where we will have to agree to disagree :

The unfair treatment of black students seeking a quality education still exists. They are in a system which is still tilted against them. They do not have equal opportunity with other races in this country. They never have. AA was an attempt to level the field.

If you don't agree with that? That's fine. You can put me on ignore. It won't hurt my feelings at all. I don't think I have even seen you in this forum before ... until yesterday.

You haven't seen me in this forum until yesterday?

Can one of y'all Biden kids come get your mans? Now he's lost his memory.

 

[vols40]

I said there is no "racist" component behind it. Of course, it is racial in nature.

Once again, most of the time when a black man is called an "Uncle Tom," it is another black person who is saying it.

How do think Bennie Thompson means it, when he calls Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom," which he has done many times over the last 9 years. That CNN interview was from 2014 ... Thompson has been saying that about Thomas ever since. In fact, he said it again just yesterday.

My guess is Uncle Benny is jealous. Or he is threatened by Justice Thomas' bravery. No way Uncle Ben could withstand the racial lynching Justice Thomas has, for no other reason than having a different opinion.

 

[StarRaider]

The racism I commonly see from leftist is what Charles Payne was talking about.

If you believe that acquiring an ID to vote is just too high of a hurdle for black people, you might be racist.

If you believe that basic expectations in school such as reading and being on time for class should be abolished for the sake of black kids, you might be racist.

The list goes on. It’s not direct racism in the way previous generations of black people in America really did experience. But considering an entire race of people simply too inept and/or too ignorant to do some of the most basic task in order to participate in a society is a form of racism.

ohhh ohhohh i wanna try

if you call a SCJ a tom.... you are a racist!

 

[AM64]

What does that have to do with anything? There has been inhumanity as long as there has been humanity.
I'm talking about the relay race within the USA.

You were talking about a "relay race" and when the "white team jumped" - didn't seem that you made it a US thing at all. There are probably several periods in history that meet the criteria ... assuming I understand your comment. However, if you historically get past the idiocy of the largely religious sponsored dark ages, the first big "white team" jump probably had to do with Europeans realizing they had to go out and get stuff they needed and couldn't produce at home ... sugar, tea, spices, etc. So if you look at that as a starting point, you can easily gravitate to European sponsored slavery in the Caribbean. African slaves sold by other Africans. You could also say the jump had to do with the end of serfdom in Europe, the rise of the business class having no allegiances to royal families and appointees, and the rise of industrialism ... all things related to nation building and counter to tribal cultures. By the time the US was settled, the people colonizing the US had the lust for individual independence and the nation building down, so I'd say it was still a European attribute imported with the colonizers.

 

[luthervol]

You were talking about a "relay race" and when the "white team jumped" - didn't seem that you made it a US thing at all. There are probably several periods in history that meet the criteria ... assuming I understand your comment. However, if you historically get past the idiocy of the largely religious sponsored dark ages, the first big "white team" jump probably had to do with Europeans realizing they had to go out and get stuff they needed and couldn't produce at home ... sugar, tea, spices, etc. So if you look at that as a starting point, you can easily gravitate to European sponsored slavery in the Caribbean. African slaves sold by other Africans. You could also say the jump had to do with the end of serfdom in Europe, the rise of the business class having no allegiances to royal families and appointees, and the rise of industrialism ... all things related to nation building and counter to tribal cultures. By the time the US was settled, the people colonizing the US had the lust for individual independence and the nation building down, so I'd say it was still a European attribute imported with the colonizers.

Come on man. We were talking about the supreme court rulling reversing affirmative action.
We're talking about nothing but things specific to the US.

 

[AM64]

Come on man. We were talking about the supreme court rulling reversing affirmative action.
We're talking about nothing but things specific to the US.

The continuum didn't start today or yesterday, and it didn't start in a vacuum. The continuum is your baby, and basically you are saying events are never isolated; this isn't the time to start denying history. Besides 1756 or whatever the date you tossed out didn't have much to do with a SC decision on affirmative action.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[luthervol]

The continuum didn't start today or yesterday, and it didn't start in a vacuum. The continuum is your baby, and basically you are saying events are never isolated; this isn't the time to start denying history. Besides 1756 or whatever the date you tossed out didn't have much to do with a SC decision on affirmative action.

Ok - sure.

I'll stick with the relay race analogy - not everyone has to like it or understand.

 

[Weezer]

Are there any other countries that use affirmative action, or are we it? We certainly weren't the only country to practice slavery, but some sure as hell want to act like it.

 

[allvol123]

Are there any other countries that use affirmative action, or are we it? We certainly weren't the only country to practice slavery, but some sure as hell want to act like it.

Slavery is literally alive and well in the world right now. No one gives a F about it.

 

[85SugarVol]

Slavery is literally alive and well in the world right now. No one gives a F about it.

 

[whodeycin85]

So, you think that Bennie Thompson has a racial prejudice against Clarence Thomas? I will once again point out that Bennie Thompson is also black.

Thompson's issue sent a a political issue in which he is using a racial slur to justify it

 

[vols40]

Thompson's issue sent a a political issue in which he is using a racial slur to justify it

"Uncle Ben" of J6 "select committee" fame with his BFF and fellow lard .$$ Liz Cheney

 

[Weezer]

That is the case.

My whole point was ... I shouldn't have said it. I was drunk as hell last night and posting on here. I'm still hung over from it. However, I don't think that I was being racist.

... but I'm done with this topic. Go to the recruiting forum. We landed a 4 star WR today from South Carolina. Picked Tenn over Clemson. Nice pickup!

Maybe slow down on your drinking. And I don't mean that in a condescending way. I've seen you talk about drunk posting before. It's not healthy.

 

[Weezer]

For those that consider Thomas a "sellout", why is there this belief that all black people have to think the same? That in itself, I'm not sure if it's "racist", but it's some form of oppression to say that a black man can't be an individual, that he must be in lockstep with every other black person.