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Dude from Beligum, they have the best fries in the world
Sexy ya pallet up and listen to ole boy
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Where do you think it came from?
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Wouldn't make a difference.
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Mr.Guy
formerly timidtebow
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Rusty is one of the funniest Nters
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How old were you in 2003?
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Spoken like someone that has never had Belgium fries
If it is two things dudes from Belgium know is riding a bike through mud, and frying potatoes
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Holy **** i hope they get jr and kushner on monday.
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They the waffles are
.Leonidas are the chocolates right? I had Belgium chocolate a couple times, didn't know the brand, but they were pure crack.
Shout out to them for Speculoos too
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In about 2012, 2013, 2014 or so, as it dawned on my how pervasive white supremacy really was, I did feel nervous about admitting my new perspective to people of color and long time white allies to people of color. I was thinking "how could I be this stupid and all these people who were just born knowing about every single method of oppression will laugh at me." My anxiety was relieved when I read and heard accounts from men of color about how they used to be complicit in patriarchy.
While there is no excuse for supporting either white supremacy or patriarchy, I felt a little relieved, on a personal, and I was reminded that privilege often times is invisible to its beneficiaries. When someone as brilliant as Ta-Nehisi Coates can repeatedly admit that he used to be complicit in a system that plundered the female body and Coates is still loved and admired, it made me less scared to admit that I used to be complicit in a system that plundered non white bodies.
As far as your academic aspirations are concerned, good for you. I am sure you get advice from others but I feel obligated to offer up some more. The main thing is that you should cultivate as many relationships as possible with your professors. When students come to my office and it is not a desperate bid to add the class, get an extension on a deadline or to get a grade that they do not deserve, I love to talk with them.
In the short run, talking to your professors, in office hours, can help you find new and better summer reading and academic seminars. More long-term, your professors, especially well established and tenured professors, can open a lot of doors to quality internships, jobs and law and grad school opportunities.
Well, I doubt that we will directly talk Ninja over to the left. What we can do is remind him and people like him that we are all, ultimately, in this American experiment together. The other thing we can do is to present alternative view points and do it more than once.
Things will have to happen well beyond the cope of this board but if or when his ideology collapses under its own weight, our views will have a good chance of filling the void. And hey, if Ninja never flips, there could be marginal posters and lurkers who might be white supremacists, conservatives right now, whose ideology will collapse in a few years and I hope that my reminders about our shared purpose and the fact that anti-racism is no ta plot to shake down white folks, will all be remembered by disillusioned conservatives.
Folks lose faith with ideologies all of the time and they will latch onto whatever has already articulated and offered. One of the major reasons why won wit ha platform of austerity in the midst of a depression back in 2010 was that they had a story to tell about economics and liberals did not have a story to tell. For every liberal who was saying "we had to bailout the banks and now just wait for the stimulus to kick in" we had ten conservatives saying "Wall Street was actually over regulated and we need to pursue austerity in order to get your jobs back."
Robber Baron economics won because people were promoting it. Bad ideas with loud and indefatigable advocates win out over good ideas that no articulates. This is especially true during a crisis and believe me, a whole lot of economic and environmental crises are coming down the pike so I'll tell everyone about the virtues of intersectional socialism, not to win them over right now but to win them over when storms and future recessions crush their existing ideology.
These indictments are Nothingburgers with a side of Nothingfries.
If the Honkerburger had not been shut down by globalists, we would have some real burgers.
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this is the hard-hitting news that keeps me coming back to the politics thread.
edit: damn, you edited too quickly.
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well done burgers smothered in Kraft cheese with raw onion and lots of ketchup and mayo. only way to enjoy a burger.
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See? You're proving people wrong already by acknowledging some of the ways that racial bias in the housing market hurts people of color - including those in affluent areas.
Housing has been one of the largest stores of inter-generational wealth in our society - and one that has been historically denied to people of color. The subprime mortgage crisis triggered the largest loss of Black wealth in the nation's history.
Even if you did everything society prescribes to attain the "American Dream" (earn a college degree, attain a good job, purchase a home), you could wind up losing money - and quite possibly your home - due largely to discriminatory behavior in the housing market.
Beyond that, schools are largely funded by property taxes. We've already mentioned the relationship between the percentage of Black residents in NYC neighborhoods and police stops. Neighborhood demography can also influence access to mainstream financial services: https://www.newamerica.org/family-c...ities-have-fewer-financial-service-providers/
Were we live can dramatically affect our quality of life, and even a relatively modest racial bias can manifest itself in countless ways. We've touched on but a small few.
It's essential to keep the above in mind whenever someone attempts to claim "but Detroit" or "but Chicago" to deflect from or justify the persistence of institutional racism.
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Nike Jordan
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i wouldn't call it racial bias, that's a failure on a consumer product that was too niche' to support itself under weight of da market forces that dictate da worth.
if you market and promote a mono ethnic neighborhood that culturally only appeals to a small % ethnicity, its no surprise only a narrow portion of da consumer base will wanna drop anchor there, just on pure math black people are only 13% of da United States population, and im sorry, i ain't gonna fault people for wanting to huddle in their own comfortable group...us Latinos do it, asians do it, and da aforementioned do it...white people are da most dominant numbers wise so by da default they do it too.
its like me coppin a classic obscure car with expensive NOS parts, applying a custom paint job, and when its time to sell it, act baffled why they're is such a low potential customer base.
those house prices in that black county were fuelled by da speculation of da potentially loans other black families would've been able to get to then take out a mortgage, along with da overall brisk housing market at da time. once housing reform passed and more stringent credit policies were applied, it cut off da cheap money/credit and those potential black families vanished.
thats not a "racism" problem to me, you could argue that Bill Clinton actually meant well when he approved da status quo of subprime mortgages so black families will limited credit could taste da American dream of owning a house, but sometimes da rules of unintended consequences rules da day with da 2008 meltdown.
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Ninja, I have to point out that ceteris paribus, all other variables being equal, being black caused a borrower to have higher interest rate. Black borrowers with equal income, credit scores and down payments would be assigned a slightly higher rate then white folks with the same qualification. Obviously, with the sums of money and time expected to pay off a mortgage, a quarter of a percentage is enormous over life of that mortgage.
Furthermore, all things were rarely equal and white folks tended to have better qualifications because they were more likely to have had middle and upper class parents and grandparents. Higher credit scores, it is easy to have higher credit score when mom and da can help you pay off your $500 limit credit card in college. Other debt, white folks are less likely to have to borrow as much money to go to school or to bu ya car as black folks. White people tend to have better job opportunities after college because most jobs are secured through personal and professional networks, the character of which hinges on your parents' networks.
Notice that i am not even talking about people with really wealthy parents who can hand their kids a big down payment or buy them a starter home outright. Much of white privilege consists of small but impactful transfers of wealth from parent to child. These are sometimes called in vivo inheritance or transfers. A reliable car, half of one's college tuition paid, a mini bailout of a 19 year old's college credit card debt and some professional contacts through your mom and dad's jobs are almost as valuable to a young adult as getting a big chunk of money in middle age when a wealthy relative dies.
When people look to deny white privilege, they point to those exemplify its depth, the sort of white folks who have been well off since the 17th century. The white privilege denial says "look, most white people are not extremely wealthy so white privilege must not be real." To that, I say, the breadth of white privilege is the middle and upper middle class Irish, Italian or Jewish American family that has now enjoyed three or four generations of full whiteness, at the hands America' dominant society, and the small but critical in vivo transfers, both social and financial, keep accumulating generation after generation.
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Ole boy tried to slander Brother al-Latif. Twitter had to shut it down before Dulamah took matters into his own hands and shut up Stone, any means necessary
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