"Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."
"Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."
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Damn, white people lack the wherewithal to resist that much? Pale folk apparently love to succumb and do nothing, like lazy people.
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I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection
MLK, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
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That quote was taken out of context, though. He wasn't talking about all black women...just several very successful black women in specific, after they all admitted that they wouldn't have gotten to where they are in life, without the benefits of affirmative action.
Because that totally changes the context of what he was saying. Amiright, guys? It's so much better when you know he was talking about certain black women*. Right? And how affirmative action is what's bad because it's basically "stealing a white persons slot". How is that racist?
(/s...obviously)
White guys are selected for gender and race all the time, and they would not have gotten where they are in life without it.
That's different, though. That's how it's SUPPOSED to work. Not the other other way around. /s
I've seen this argument a few times and it's like they lack self-awareness. Like it's somehow not racist because he named just about every prominent black woman in politics before saying racist shit? They have to know their arguments are ridiculous, it's just trolling.
Yeah, consider that "the white men's slot" was only considered their due because of centuries of expectations of privilege, passed down from white man to white man. Same as the "black woman's slot" in the elementary school kitchen had always gone to black women, by Tradition. Those sidelined white men are now welcome to apply to cook platters of food for the children they claim to care so much about.