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I am George Zimmerman (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Apr 2012 OP
You go girl! JNelson6563 Apr 2012 #1
Amazing 90-percent Apr 2012 #2
holy shite. nashville_brook Apr 2012 #3
She actually gives me hope for the future generation. She isn't buying "the system". LOVE her Justice wanted Apr 2012 #4
Where did she grow up? mactime Apr 2012 #5
No. Grandparents live on teaching their sons and grandkids. Baitball Blogger Apr 2012 #7
Valid point mactime Apr 2012 #9
She may have been raised in a white island. Baitball Blogger Apr 2012 #10
Anywhere, USA. xxqqqzme Apr 2012 #15
Yup that was my take on it also gopiscrap Apr 2012 #17
Wow! K and R goclark Apr 2012 #6
I kept on being distracted from what she was saying by the cue cards she was reading. vaberella Apr 2012 #8
Why is that of importance to you? xxqqqzme Apr 2012 #14
Back at the ranch tooeyeten Apr 2012 #11
What a lovely intelligent girl zeemike Apr 2012 #12
On 4/5 & 4/6 there were 1,413 views of 'White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack' on DU, marzipanni Apr 2012 #13
Yeah, but... jjewell Apr 2012 #16
wow! that kid is really going to make a difference. shireen Apr 2012 #18
Right on. blackspade Apr 2012 #19
as they say in church...BINGO! anon-y-moose Apr 2012 #20

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
1. You go girl!
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 09:56 AM
Apr 2012

I'd love to see this young lady in Congress some day. She's got a bright future ahead, her parents have good reason to be proud.

Julie

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
2. Amazing
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 10:02 AM
Apr 2012

Presumably a product of our American Educational System and this young woman can really think!

We need such clear minded thoughtful people back running our totally corrupted institutions!

I would gladly slip a banana peel under Scalia's foot at the Supermarket if I knew he would be replaced by a person such has this!

-90% Jimmy

 

mactime

(202 posts)
5. Where did she grow up?
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 11:04 AM
Apr 2012

That she was taught to fear black people? If she was 90 that would make some sense.
Admittedly, I only immigrated to America when I was in my teens so things could have been like that before the 90's but she looks younger than me.

Baitball Blogger

(46,755 posts)
7. No. Grandparents live on teaching their sons and grandkids.
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 11:34 AM
Apr 2012

After a major hurricane which knocked out the power, my son's friends came by and helped clean up the yard so I had a lot of time on my hands with nothing to do. Keep in mind that everything outside a five mile radius was normal around here, so I decided to do some gardening and cleaned out a bed to plant some bulbs. It was an area about six feet from the property line. All during the time that I worked, a ten year old boy was standing on a brick wall across the street keeping an eye on me. His grandfather was an ex police chief for an organization where the owner of the lot next to me also worked. Another neighbor told me that that this ex-cop referred to his landscaping workers as his N-----s.

You know, when you grow up in a household like that, where you see the advantages that comes with authority, you just learn to accept that power structure and everything that holds it up. To do otherwise would mean that you're just like everybody else.

 

mactime

(202 posts)
9. Valid point
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 11:42 AM
Apr 2012

But she makes it sound like everybody was raised this way, including Zimmerman. I am sure there are some people who are raised by racist grandparents but that number has to be minimal. For her rant to make any sense it would require that every white person was raised to hate non-whites and I am saying that is simply not the case.

Baitball Blogger

(46,755 posts)
10. She may have been raised in a white island.
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 11:59 AM
Apr 2012

Last edited Sat Apr 7, 2012, 01:03 PM - Edit history (1)

If that's her entire reference point, then she's talking the way she sees it. She would have remained within the same cliques in school, church and after school organizations. Heavy indoctrination. (i.e. it's goingn to get worse with private schools.)

Yes, yes, yes. In the 21st Century these insular communities exist. The autocrats hover around you in places you never expect to find them.

Using the same example I mentioned in the other post, the man whose lot is next to mine is a boss hog lobbyist. In my daughter's last two years of school, when boss hog didn't even have a kid enrolled in high school, he pulled the strings to come and MC at my daughter's games. The father who use to do it before he arrived was wonderful. We had a feeling of continuity. But his daughter didn't make the cut in her Senior year, which, surprise, left an opening for an MC.

Imagine what that reminder was like every game, every time I should have come to relax and watch my daughter play, and I had to hear his commanding voice over the intercom reminding me of the strings he could pull in the city.

You all have no idea what's behind racism. It's not just to tear down the black man. It's to remain in a position of dominance. It's what I call the plus minus. Every time they succeed in pushing someone down the ladder, allows them to step up one rung higher. That's why racism needs to be fought on both ends of the spectrum. Not just because of what they're doing to minorities, but what they're doing amongst themselves to benefit from their unquestioned way of life.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
15. Anywhere, USA.
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 04:09 PM
Apr 2012

She is speaking of the subtle ways it has wormed it's way into the very culture. It can be up front hate, taught from birth or it is picked up along the way as you grow up. It was accepted practice in my family as I grew up. But I had African-American teachers as early as the 3rd grade, throughout jr. high and high school. Those excellent teachers made it easy for me to reject what was practiced by the family.

goclark

(30,404 posts)
6. Wow! K and R
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 11:15 AM
Apr 2012

Edit to add....

I was so impressed with this young lady.

As an African American, I admire her compassion and her message.

vaberella

(24,634 posts)
8. I kept on being distracted from what she was saying by the cue cards she was reading.
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 11:40 AM
Apr 2012

Made me wonder if she really wrote and was sincere.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
14. Why is that of importance to you?
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 03:47 PM
Apr 2012

Clearly her passion is real. Her thoughts expressed w/ intensity.

She is not far off the comfort mark if viewing the piece, was so 'distracting'.

She appears to be reaching to 'next page' her editorial. (See the screen light reflecting off her face?)

tooeyeten

(1,074 posts)
11. Back at the ranch
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 12:13 PM
Apr 2012

of white people, National Review's John Derbyshire writes another view

[link:http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz1rN5Kn2Zw|(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods. ]

marzipanni

(6,011 posts)
13. On 4/5 & 4/6 there were 1,413 views of 'White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack' on DU,
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 03:19 PM
Apr 2012

a thread by WilliamPitt. If you didn't already read it, I recommend it-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002521603

jjewell

(618 posts)
16. Yeah, but...
Sat Apr 7, 2012, 04:25 PM
Apr 2012

I wouldn't suggest she go out wearing a "I am George Zimmerman" t-shirt.

Anyone who saw her wearing one would immediately get the wrong idea.
The yahoos would go "right on", and progressives in general, and blacks in
particular, would be turned off, nor would she receive the opportunity to
express her viewpoint.

Excellent video and essay though...

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