Are blacks a privileged race or a superior race? If blacks are a privileged race is that because they deserve it and if not, whose fault it it?

[Adaeva]

Privileges and apparent privileges that blacks have:

· It is well know that the percentage of blacks in the NBA and NFL is much greater than their percentage of the population. However, that is based on talent so that is probably deserving.

· Blacks are in about 50% of advertisement but blacks are only 15% of the population and the number of black in movies is greater than 15%. Is that because blacks are also superior actors.

· In advertisement, you often see stupid white men but you never see a stupid black man. Why is that?

· Blacks are admitted to Harvard and other Ivy League college with lower test scores than Asians and whites. It that a privilege?

· Blacks have the NAACP. Are whites allowed to form a national association for the advancement of white people?

· Apparently it is permissible for blacks to have a Congressional Black Caucus. Is it permissible for whites to have a Congressional White Caucus?

· More than a third of food stamp benefits — over $10 billion per year — are issued to African-Americans. Based on their percentage of the population, that is 2.5 times what whites receive. Is that because blacks are privileged, is it because blacks are highly intelligent and know how to game the system, or is it because blacks are lazy and/or have lower intelligence?

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A primary reason that blacks are privileged is because not only almost all blacks but most whites believe blacks deserve privileges, will attack anyone with terms such as racist that suggest otherwise, and are quick to defend any black person. Conversely, few, if any, people believe whites should have any privileges, nor will they defend whites and never white males.

[Sasahara]

Yes they are priviledged, no they are not superior.

I can't speak for your other points but I can talk about the two points regarding commercials. No they are not superior actors, and color blind casting proved that.

Once upon a time the woke crowd thought black actors were better than white actors. So they introduced color blind casting, a system ment to pick the best actor regardless of race. When it increased the amount of white actors instead of black ones, they discarded it, labled it racist and decided to go full force on picking people based on their skincolor instead. And introduced diversity quotas. So you have tv companies and movie companies that insist on using a chosen percent of black people, regardless of if they were the best or not.

And the reason you don't see stupid black men anymore, is the same a lot of modern movies have the "strong independent woman who need no man" or the gay people are rarely the butt of the joke anymore, whiny entitled people can't handle seeing token characters being the short end of a joke.

[Adaeva]

Your comment about color blind casting was very interesting and informative.

[Bricealan]

@Sasahara Netflix does that on a regular basis,

[KostasKouvalis]

They definitely aren't superior, but they certainly are privileged and they think very highly of themselves, despite their incompetence in many things. I will agree they are superior in athletics and they also excel in the entertainment industry. For many black people this is the only way to achieve something and I feel they are deserving of these. But in other areas, they've gotten a lot of help from affirmative action. But what drives me the most nuts is that blacks, especially in Africa, are always saying how they want White people to stay out of their way and they are perfectly capable of running things themselves. And they dream of living in a Wakanda-like society, when in reality they get lots of money from White people and can't survive without White people holding their hand. I tell you, there is nothing worse than black nationalism.

[Anonymous]

I've never seen a group of people more presumed to be a victim of anything than them. Even when they are the aggressors. I've never seen more excuses made for any race than them.

Jessie Smollett for instance. Everyone just believed him no matter how stupid his story sounded. When he was found out people STILL made excuses why he was justified.

Michael Brown in Missouri was a thug... yet when he got shot we decided to just ignore all of the crimes he committed. It's as if a black person can murder someone and the cop has to nicely tell him to go home.

Meanwhile, Tony Timpa is not only murdered by police... but laughed at as he was dying and there is little to no outrage. By the way, Tony was white.

[jshm2]

That's as daft as asking if women are "privileged or superior".

The answer is still "no" as the number who are "successful" in no way matches the number who are not.

In fact, you could argue that there is no "superior" or "privileged" as race itself is a social construct. What you actually mean are political and social classes - but then would ned to admit the "American dream" was actually a lower classes nightmare.

[RolandCuthbert]

This is the kind of hard-hitting topics a relationship forum needs. Racists complaining that "Black" people have it easy.

Racism is some weird, weird shit.

[ParaAustral]

They are privileged because of affirmative action and policies like that. They are superior to Whites (not sure about other groups) because they are more ethnocentric and willing to fight for themselves. White people are stupid and can't think ahead, and because of that will probably be extinct within the next few generations. Survival of the fittest, meanwhile Africa's population is growing and will take over Europe and America.

[Adaeva]

It does appear to be that way because whites are very obedient serfs that obey their masters even as they are being eliminated. However, it ever there is a race war, numbers will not matter because only Asians can compete with whites in creativity and intelligence which always has and always will win.

[Anonymous]

You forgot to mention that they are allowed to be racist. Imagine whites did this?

https://youtu.be/QY0T7lKj7AMhttps://m.youtube.com/shorts/RfnLx6pk-Qg

[Cassie88]

Enough with these stupid race-baiting questions! Who cares? We're one race, the human race!

[exitseven]

Where I went to college there was a black student union. Imagine having a white student union/

[abc3643]

Why are you asking this question?
And what do you think the answer is?

[Adaeva]

Are you someone that believe some questions shouldn't be asked because, if asked, it cause people to think and discuss which may reveal the truth and that it is better that some truths be hidden?

[abc3643]

You didn't answer my questions.
How you answer my questions informs me how to answer yours.

[abc3643]

What you think is truth may not be.
The world and human nature are much more complex than most people - especially conservatives and libertarians and teenagers realize.

[abc3643]

This is false:
"A primary reason that blacks are privileged is because not only almost all blacks but most whites believe blacks deserve privileges, will attack anyone with terms such as racist that suggest otherwise, and are quick to defend any black person. Conversely, few, if any, people believe whites should have any privileges, nor will they defend whites and never white males."

[Adaeva]

You just proved that it is true.

[abc3643]

No I haven't.
Learn logic.
Here is a great free textbook.
The classic Introduction To Logic by Irving M. Copi, et al.
dorshon.com/.../Introduction-to-Logic.pdf

Download it and study it.

[grega239]

Privilged yes.

Superior... History would suggest otherwise

[Anonymous]

Actually if you look at it Europeans espicially Eastern Europeans represent disproportionately demographics in the NBA.

[msc545]

Yeah, they're so privileged that they get shot dead by cops almost daily.

[Adaeva]

So are whites on the rare occasions they commit a violent crime. Although the difference are no that great for other crimes, at the individual level blacks are 8 times more likely to commit murder and robbery than whites. Even Jesse Jackson admitted blacks were far more violent when he said, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

[exitseven]

it just seems that way because of fake news. When they get shot by another gang banger all you hear is crickets.

[msc545]

@exitseven Excuses won't solve the problem.

[exitseven]

@msc545 The rule of thumb is that is you shoot at the cops, they will shoot back. If you resist arrest you get s beatdown.

[msc545]

@exitseven George Floyd. Philndo Castile.

[exitseven]

@msc545 If George Floyd did not have a fata ldose of fentanyl in him he would not have died. The other guy was a bad shoot. I remember some of my cop friends telling me the same thing. They were outraged about it mostly because they knew that every cop will be portrayed as a trigger happy nutjob by the fake news.

[msc545]

@exitseven Do you actually think that dose of Fentanyl was fatal? I read the autopsy report and it was nowhere close to what it takes, and whatever amount he ingested was hours before. Fentanyl is fast acting.

bad shoot. Like the majority of them. Apologies don't fix this either.

[WonderBell99]

Race is simply a social construct. Focus more on the individuals than their skin tone.

[Adaeva]

What you fail to understand, skin tone doesn't define a race. If it did some whites would be blacks and some blacks would be whites. Skin tone is only one of more than a dozen different factors as determine by their DNA, all equally important. Some Koreans have black skin tones and some Koreans have white skin tones. However, Koreans are neither blacks or whites because it is the other 95% of their DNA that determines their race.

[WonderBell99]

Obviously facial features come into play, and also, there are no "black" and "white" skin tones, just different shades of brown, pink and yellow.

However, no race is superior or privileged. We all have our own hardships.

[Anonymous]

Look up (a racial program for the 20th century), explains everything and it's not a hoax as they want you to believe.

[AngryCarl2]

There's already a Congressional White Caucus. It's called the Republican Party.

[Jerre]

I don’t believe any particular race is a privileged race. We are all equal.

[Sabretooth]

no. but we wouldn't be where we are without them.

[Brokenheartedx]

Wheres that then?

[Sabretooth]

@Brokenheartedx without our country. we did not build America. we planned everything and gave orders... that's it... we forced slaves to do the heavy... and not so heavy lifting.

[Sabretooth]

to those who downvoted me--how many of you work?

[Dav1dTh0ma389]

Nope

[NordicBull]

Deserved