Charles Barkley on Race. Doesn't side with Race-Baiters

[El OchoCinco]

And we are pointing out its not just politicians now.
I have said this before.

Literally in my textbooks in elementary school in the NYC school system (before I moved to Greewich Ct) my middle school our history books and lessons would talk about the Melting pot of America. I vividly remember one lesson and the images in my textbook because it was the first I became aware my history teacher had alcohol on her breath.

The message was always big praise for the fact that peoples and cultures would come from all over the world and melt into the character and greatness of America.

Now... we divide out the cultures and the races.
Why the change?

The answer is not a good one.

There was no change, U.S. was always a melting pot but not everyone wanted it to be. The founding founders were all based off of immigration to the new world but once established, they looked down upon anyone non-European/white that came. Slaves, Chinese immigrants that buil the railroads, Irish in the 1800s, Jews, Latinos...all those groups were met with resistance and racism well documented (Help Wanted No _____ Need Apply signs in the 1900s).

Just because history teaches us U.S. is a melting pot does not mean it was always welcoming to others to come here and still isn't in certain ways.

Even more confusing are the people who came here and 1 generation later looked down on others trying to do the same thing.

Whites wanted the new people to simply assimilate and become white americans and immigrants here for a generation did not want new immigrants to get the same benefits they had.
But what makes us the melting pot is we are a mix of everyone that comes in. We are far less racist than we were in the 1800s but the white america crowd, though smaller in numbers, is still pretty vocal.

For example, imagine Cubans in Florida who escaped Castro and have a nice life speaking out on allowing any Cuban refugees to come to the U.S.... they are some of the strongest opponents to the U.S. accepting more asylum seekers from Cuba. Like they were not in the same boat (maybe literally) one generation before and now want to deny others the same chance. I have seen the same with Vietnamese, Africans and Latinos. You got here and now shit on those who trying to do the same thing one generation later. So it is not just the white europeans definitely.

This is not something politicians created, it is just something they USE because it is an easy tool. Don't blame the politicians for creating division, they simply use it effectively.

 

[Scataphagos]

People are waking up. Youtube will probably take this video down, while at the same time lying and saying they want unity.

"Poor blacks have been voting Democrat for 60 years, and they're still poor". -- Charles Barkely

 

[El OchoCinco]

The only problem with this argument is that America IS divided by race. Whether it’s housing, schools, work you name it.

Speaking about the obvious divisions is not race baiting. Charles Barkley is in a position where race doesn’t affect him like the average minority so he pretends that the division doesn’t exist anymore.

If I had to psychoanalize Barkey I’d say He is in denial probably because he has feelings of guilt he doesn’t want to deal with.

Charles might have faces some of it in his early years in Alabama but his profession in the NBA and now as an analyst/spokesman he certainly is in the wealthy club that gets whatever they want.

Chalres is not a mensa candidate by any stretch of the imagination and I hate the fact people are acting like he made some deep revelation that woke up the people. Race is just an issue like any other politicians use to divide us so they can scare you into voting.

As for division, people do forget that it is divided by race. In the 1700 and 1800s, only white men were considered people under the Constitution and the laws and in society. Children and women had no rights and definitely neither did slaves who were considered property. I would say Blacks in NY and MA fared much better being free but small %.

After Civil War, the sore losers in the South refused to treat their new Black countrymen the same and that division even existed in the 1970s with the SC still having to outlaw certain segretation laws. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to go to the same schools or clubs and to the same houses and neighborhoods but we claim their "segregation" is their own fault.

America will always have a division of race exploitable by politicians. When the racists, though fewer in number, stop landing in positions of power, it would help a lot. But GOP and Dems enjoy using race and immigration because it is the easiest way to scare you to vote and trump used it so well in 2016 regarding Mexico. Dems used race in 2020 very well.

That will never change.

 

[El OchoCinco]

"Poor blacks have been voting Democrat for 60 years, and they're still poor". -- Charles Barkely

How does a political party or politician make you rich because I would love to know.....also GOP refuses to do anything for the poor while handing out welfare to corporations, so not sure GOP has a high moral ground to stand on...

Politicans don't make people rich or poor, they can simply remove barriers via lawmaking.

 

[Tony Stark]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Barack_Obama_2008_presidential_campaign_endorsements

 

[Tony Stark]

 

[gwb-trading]

As he should be.

 

[newwurldmn]

And we are pointing out its not just politicians now.
I have said this before.

Literally in my textbooks in elementary school in the NYC school system (before I moved to Greewich Ct) my middle school our history books and lessons would talk about the Melting pot of America. I vividly remember one lesson and the images in my textbook because it was the first I became aware my history teacher had alcohol on her breath.

The message was always big praise for the fact that peoples and cultures would come from all over the world and melt into the character and greatness of America.

Now... we divide out the cultures and the races.
Why the change?

The answer is not a good one.

the melting pot describes America’s immigration past with rose tinted glasses. Italians, Irish and other Europeans were attacked the way Indians, Hispanics and Asians are now.

The history book i was given in my NJ high school (a very famous history text book) said that a slave owner would rather risk an Irishman’s neck than a Slave’s in doing roof work.

 

[jem]

The melting pot was an ideal.
It was a message.
It was the propaganda.
I did not argue that it was true.
In fact it's irrelevant whether it was true...
The point was the message was to unite cultures not divide them.

I know people faced adversity...I too have stories about grand parents and great grandparents overcoming adversity.
But, that is not the point.

the melting pot describes America’s immigration past with rose tinted glasses. Italians, Irish and other Europeans were attacked the way Indians, Hispanics and Asians are now.

The history book i was given in my NJ high school (a very famous history text book) said that a slave owner would rather risk an Irishman’s neck than a Slave’s in doing roof work.

 

[tsznecki]

The party and racist people of the Confederate states has been dividing the country for over 100 years until today and they wont be stopping anytime soon.

Are you really saying there are no racists in Union states or in the Dem Party at all?

Got a bridge to sell you then.