[Bgs-list] Did they do the right thing?

[Rob Currie]

No, they didn't do the right thing in my humble opinion!

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:27 PM Rob Currie <robdcurrie at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I think everyone is so uptight these days. We have become a bunch of
> sensitive, soft, video-game playing, low testerone/ crybabies while real
> discrimination & bigotry continues to plague people of color and other
> minorities. I would rather laugh at a joke about our racial, cultural,
> economic, social or other differences or even have a non-black person call
> me the N-word that get shot down from 41 bullets by a police or private
> citizen standing their ground. Or even the persistent & unchecked
> institutional and early childhood racial discrimination, along with the
> unfair & unequal punishment that accompanies that. These struggles &
> challenges are what's worth fighting for as they endure even as we
> constantly break down racial barriers in all areas of American and
> international socio-economic. Imagine after the last 50 years we are still
> having people being the 1st Black, Latino or etc., breaking glass ceilings.
> Women of all racial backgrounds are making more progress towards an even
> playing field than any other similarly discriminated or oppressed
> socio-economic groups such as Black or Latino males or even children & the
> elderly, it seems. We keep worrying about the wrong thing or getting your
> struggle co-oped by some marketing executive.
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:50 PM Chris Miller <lcmille at clemson.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have some thoughts Curtis,
>> Chris
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Dec 6, 2018, at 8:34 AM, Curtis D White Sr. <cdwhite at clemson.edu>
>> wrote:
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>> What do you think?
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