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thompsonx -> RE: African complicity in the slave trade.... (4/28/2010 7:44:44 AM)
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ORIGINAL: xBullx
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Jerry Jones built an Empire for the most part on his own, Mike Brown had one handed to him. People respect Jerry and all his ego-eccentric ways because he earned his own way. Mike does things a bit less than orthodox and people chastise the shit out of him, imply he had it all given to him and he therefore doesn't deserve what he has or our respect. What's right? I don't know...
A better question might be who the fuck cares (besides football junkies)?
Give me a fucking break Jerry Jones built an empire on his own?
He is a university graduate,frat boy (kapa sigma) oil zillionaire.
How is that on his own?
Sorry you might have to be a professional football player to understand the above analogy, but it works across racial lines as you'll see in a minute.
Yeh right
Everybody likes a man that earns his own way and doesn't seek advantage through some idealistically concocted sense of entitlement. Michael Jordan has virtually everyone in his corner pulling for him and his success with the Bobcats. He came from almost nothing and through very hard work has become someone that, even with his humanistic faults is a hero to virtually all of us.
Of course there is his unique talent that no amount of hard work will replace
All that any of this reparation discussion does is drives a deeper divide between the races. Everybody that doesn't “have it all” could feel that they are being slighted or cheated by those that do “have it all”;
Well this discussion is not about "everybody" it is about a subset of everybody that the rest of the set of everybody took advantage of.
that's not a color sentiment. It is actually my opinion that the political establishment is using this very condition to fuel their machine. It has to be obvious that the Dems have greatly benefited from the racial equation as of late. The Pubs use it too, attacking the ACORNS and such, anything that might fire up their white base.
My god you have a firm grasp of the obvious
The problem isn't the average American, it's our lack of legitimate leadership. Those that lead us now, both black, white male or female want to subjugate you as Americans. Even Obama only pays lip service to the “greater good”.
And this was different when?
Until recent decades it was almost impossible for some folks that were and are Americans to get a chance,
RockefellerCarnagie,Swift,Westinghouse[8|]
but nowadays America has the Avenues for any man to make it big. It just takes a lot of very, very fuckin' hard work,
Bill Gates worked hard?
Ted Turner worked hard?
ADM worked hard?
Cargill worked hard?
Horatio Alger plays well in the fourth grade but in the real world it is contacts and colusion.
dedication to your own cause as well as the cause of those helping you (your employees). I mentioned Michael Jordan above, but what about President Obama, General Powell, Stanley O'Neil or and Kenneth Chenault; and while we're at it how about a black female or two, Paula Madison or Secretary Rice.
All of the above EARNED their way to the top,
ROFLMAO
Gawd I just love your hutzpa lumping someone like Mike with a punk like chenault
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2010/03/what-did-ken-chenault-do-to-earn-796-million.html
just like the majority of white Americans have had too do. And when they have gotten to their personal and professional top they belong there and are treated as such. Is it easy?
If you are connected it is a piece of cake....look at your buddy kenny (the shark) chenault.
Hell no, it never has been, did they have to work harder then others, I suspect so.
Didn't kenny the shark prep at Andover before he matriculated at Harvard....(kenny was a poor underpriviledged black kid from Long Island)
But I relish the challenges of my days and when I succeed, damn does it feel good. I suggest we cease all this discussion of entitlement and go out and work, and claw our ways to where ever it is we want to be.
You don't seem to have any problem taking advantage of your entitlements but you don't want others to have the same power?
How come that am???????
I'll respect any man or woman that has earned it and damn anyone that says that they only achieved greatness because of some misguided reparation or entitlement program.
Everyone who has achieved true greatness has done so with the help of those around them and those who came before them. Your mindset of the lone pioneer carving out an empire with nothing but his bare hands is nothing but a figment of your imagination.
If a man wants the respect of those he would call his peers he must earn it, if he just wants a free ride he can kiss my ass.
The free ride is ok for your ass but no one else????
Why come???
So get out there and get to work, the future is yours if you want it bad enough.
Fuck it I am retired[;)]
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