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Originally Posted by Feachie
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white privilege blinds most of you guys, it's sad really. i'm half white, but i'm not stuck on this "Oh, well so what if they had a rough spot in history" you don't understand, they still get shit on to this day.
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I'm gonna take a chance at giving trolls some future ammo...because this is absolute truth. My whole family is black. I'm a Steve Martin in
The Jerk kinda guy (even though I'm half Native American, which has its own historical perspective)...and I'm not saying this to make anyone think I'm "down with the brown" 'cuz I seriously don't give a rat's ass...instead I'm saying I have some insight. My 10 brothers and sisters - ya, I said 10 - all work for a living, and none of them are on welfare.
I work as a security supervisor for coal mine sites in WV. It ain't blacks stealing copper wire from mine sites, and breakers from deep miners...it's the fricking cracker meth heads. And to those of you who think WV doesn't have entire communities that are primarily black and have some notion that
Deliverance is the norm, you're sadly mistaken.
Back on point. Coal mines own WV. In most mines across the state, you won't see
a single black. Not a coincidence...because I can tell you firsthand that the security firm I work for (which is owned by the same company that owns the mines, go figure) has an unwritten policy not to hire blacks. Can't happen? Not in this day and age? Believe it...money talks, corruption walks. The worst part is...one of my brothers actually owns a PI/Security firm here, has several years behind him as a cop, and was a personal bodyguard for several celebs...and he can't get a job where I work. I was told flat out I couldn't hire him....officially because it may be a "conflict of interest", but behind closed doors it was "we won't hire blacks". Civil liberties? This wouldn't be the coal owners' first trip on that merry-go-round...and they
don't lose.
This is just a microcosm...a reflection of what exists in the rest of the country but is diluted and obfuscated. It's an invasive, pervasive cancer, and things won't change because the
money belongs to the massahs...the "good 'ole boys" and their networks.
It also saddens me to see this community has so many racists. Usually, bigotry is the order of the day, and that's OK, because stupidity and ignorance can be overlooked...but the pure hatred pouring out of some of the people here disgusts me.
Peace.