Watts article
Otto
ottosell at yahoo.de
Thu Sep 30 00:42:00 CDT 2004
Well said, the quote mainly says that whites aren't confronted with those
aspects of reality like blacks are. For example white children aren't bitten
by rats on a regularly scale like the children in the black ghettos used to.
It doesn't say at all that whites are immortal.
Otto
> he doesn't say that whites don't fail or get sick and die;
> he says they're not "concerned" with it. they're distracted
> and their streets are quiet, their schools are funded,
> they have jobs and health plans, and life is good before they die.
>
> >>"While the white culture is concerned with various forms of
> >>systematized folly -- the economy of the area in fact depending
> >>on it -- the black culture is stuck pretty much with basic realities
> >>like disease, like failure, violence and death, which the whites
> >>have mostly chosen -- and can afford -- to ignore.""
> >
> >-- wherein we're told that whites don't fail or get sick or die or
> >are subject to violence and ignore sickness, failure, death, and
> >violence because they can afford to -- a statement not only untrue,
> >but nonsensical and illogical as well.
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