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Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
If you have not yet seen this video, I think it is well worth watching and I think it deserves a wide audience. There is some religious commentary at the end of the video, but of course one does not need to practice religion in order to understand and work for social justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ISwxxw0bU |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Really makes a point |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Really makes a point +1 |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34854 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Really makes a point +2 |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19075 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Really makes a point +3 Link sent to family and friends. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
-1 |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14653 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
-1Really? What don't you like about it? |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
Lost me @ 4:22 with the racist remark "You're black, so you must be great runners". ... |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Those Who Believe DEM/Libs/Progressive/Socialists Running American Cities fO 60+ Years and a Person of your Own RACE, Killed SomeOne You Know or a Loved One-of Same RACE- take Two Steps Forward. Those Who Believe DEM/Libs/Progressive/Socialists Running American Cities fO 60+ Years and SomeOne You Know or You, Lost a Job because of Mismangement of Your City, take Two Steps Forward. Those Who Believe DEM/Libs/Progressive/Socialists Running American Cities fO 60+ Years Make PROMISES to Get Elected and these PROMISES turn to LIES LIES LIES, Take Two Steps Forward. Those Who Believe DEM/Libs/Progressive/Socialists Running American Cities fO 60+ Years and Made Your Life Worse, take Two Steps Forward. etc. etc. etc. Looks Likeee a Certain SomeOnes would of been OVER dA Finish Line without Racing!!! Formula 45 Racin' and WiNNING Yap May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34854 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Lost me @ 4:22 with the racist remark "You're black, so you must be great runners". Obviously you took what was said out of the context it was meant. ;-) Cheers. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
Lost me @ 4:22 with the racist remark "You're black, so you must be great runners". @ 3:00 is the remark. Sorry about that. There are a couple versions of same video out here. With the weeks of diversity training my employer required, that is a racist remark. ... |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
I believe the line that offended you was: "...I guarantee some of these black dudes would smoke all of you." I do not find that comment, in context of this $100 race, to be offensive. Use of the word "some" vs use of the word "all" keeps it from being a racist comment, in my opinion. I listened to the words again and did not hear the particular line you quoted, so perhaps it was in another version of this video, perhaps my ears are aging, or perhaps there has simply been a misunderstanding. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34854 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I believe the line that offended you was: I'm thinking that a deliberate misunderstanding is/might being/be involved here by someone Angela. ;-) Cheers. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19075 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Lost me @ 4:22 with the racist remark "You're black, so you must be great runners". It would be interesting to hear the views of your diversity trainers, on that video. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
It would be interesting to hear the views of your diversity trainers, on that video. I thought it was a good message but they dropped the ball on presentation. No nefarious motives, just a shared opinion from lots of training. For those that doubt here you go. Tell them J Mercer sent you. Equity and Human Rights - City of Tacoma http://www.cityoftacoma.org/government/city_departments/equity_and_human_rights Contact Us Office of Equity and Human Rights City of Tacoma 747 Market Street Room 1044 Tacoma, WA 98402 1 (253) 591-5045 equity@cityoftacoma.org ... |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
What I watched didn't have that line in it but it did have a line stating that if they all started even, then one of the black boys would have won. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
j mercer Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2422 Credit: 12,323,733 RAC: 1 |
"...I guarantee some of these black dudes would smoke all of you." Anybody remember Jimmy The Greek? http://articles.latimes.com/1988-01-17/sports/sp-36803_1_jimmy-snyder NEW YORK — An embarrassed CBS fired a contrite Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder Saturday after the sports commentator said in a much-criticized television interview that blacks were "bred" to be better athletes than whites. The 20 Most Racist Sports Statements of the Past 25 Years http://www.complex.com/sports/2013/10/racist-sports-statements-25-years That was not a $100 race, it was a demonstration of inequity with racist slips of the tongue. This article sums up my feelings better than I can. "What does the $100 race really tell us?" https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/14/100-race-really-tell-us My 2 cents, I'm done. Rail away... har! ;^) ... |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
My 2 cents, I'm done. That commentary does not address whith what to do with those who did not have the advantage of supportive parents. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
...supportive parents. Wow, Now dAts a MYTH. Supportive Parents. So Miniscule, as to be-NO SUCH THING. GOoD ole Academia. Keep gettin' dAt GRANT Money, and KEEP Perpetuating MYTHOLOGY. What a Game. WIN dAt GRANT MONIES MARATHON. ALL STEPs BACKWARDs fO dA TAXPAYERs Race to dA POORHOUSE fO dA REAL American Worker. GIMMIE dAt MONEY GIMMIE dAt FAKE Yap May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
A teacher's job is to teach, build confidence & show that one's choices & actions, good or bad has consequences. What the teacher did in that video, just to get his point across, was much worse than being racist. He humiliated a fair amount of his class. They are aware of their position in life & did not need it to be displayed for all to see & to then compound that humiliation by posting it on social media. With teachers like that, what chance has those students got to rise above their situation? |
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