Occupy Movement: Now you see how it feels to be Black in America

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[RayWilliamJohansen]

amen, but be careful white people are going to get mad.

[theadviseshow]

@RayWilliamJohansen about what aren't they are out there because they can't get jobs and losing everything. Black people know how that feels all too well so why be mad

[SavMacCauley]

The "occupy" movement and the "MRA" movement are really just two branches of the same tree. Both are predominantly driven by white males who are for the first time in their lives dealing with the same issues that Black men have faced from DAY ONE.

[technologic21]

God this is SO true. I thought about this every time I scoped out my local Occupy encampment.

I didn't see a whole lot of black folks down there. Why? Because Black folks already know the score. They've been there done that. Now a bunch of rich suburbanite white kids with self-entitlement issues feel exploited?! Now you know what it's like to be black!

You put it right into perspective, hell yeah!

[TheTampaChik]

@taptap69tap Bwahahaha!!! True and funny as hell!

[dewfish]

truth.

[MadameRee]

@MadameRee (Cont)It reminds me of the "First They Came" quote from Martin Niemöller during Nazi Germany.First they came for the communists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak out for me.

[MadameRee]

@MadameRee (Cont)It reminds me of the "First They Came" quote from Martin Niemöller during Nazi Germany.First they came for the communists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak out for me.

[MadameRee]

Good video. You make an excellent point in that the participants in the "Occupy" movement are not active racists or maybe not racists at all, but are guilty of being passive when blacks in America had issues with getting economic parity and power.

[watitduful]

They'll still use racism as one of the many tool to divide & conquer in order to keep everyone too beefed out to see what's really going on.Just a broader version of the Willie Lynch theory in a sense.At the end of the day it's all about the mighty dollar.

[trini467]

They need to read Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Pierce). The author redefined "distance" in the early 20th Century: The only thing rich white people want poor white people to keep. They needed to wake up a long time ago...like when their kids were being sent off to war for nothing. Let's see how long the majority stay stuck on stupid.