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Seattle .Hoo

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You're so funny. There is absolutely no doubt I benefitted from being


white. My dad grew up dirt poor in Arkansas, then joined the Navy, and got into college on the GI Bill and his first house from the VA program; awesome governmental programs that were denied to most black people and which prevented them from building the wealth that their white counterparts did. He worked as an engineer, but he wasn't a multi-millionaire trust fund baby. My sister and I went to good public schools, segregated, of course, until I was in fourth or fifth grade. You think maybe I grew up in a more economically viable household and had more opportunities? You think maybe the black people where we lived in north Alabama didn't have the same opportunities?

Maybe that's the kind of equity you're talking about? It's the very definition of systemic racism. And you're damned right, I benefitted and still benefit.

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Posted: 01/20/2022 at 5:07PM



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Gov. Youngkin continues to slay it (link) -- JMHoo 01/20/2022 3:41PM
  By canceling Thomas Jefferson? -- WahooMatt05 01/20/2022 4:05PM
  The word is equity, not equality. ** -- Hoodafan 01/20/2022 4:15PM
  It comes from a Latin word meaning equal -- WahooMatt05 01/20/2022 4:18PM
  You don’t get it. ** -- HoodatB 01/20/2022 5:13PM
  You don’t get it -- HoodatB 01/20/2022 5:15PM
  So you were born on third base....... Got it. ** -- Hoodafan 01/20/2022 5:11PM
  On what base, pray tell, do you believe you were born? ** -- southdenverhoo 01/20/2022 5:22PM
  5th. And hit a triple. Duh. ** -- Hoodafan 01/20/2022 9:24PM
  He would probably claim he was only a bat boy. ** -- VaTechie 01/20/2022 8:24PM
  Off. Or Less works. ** -- 111Balz 01/20/2022 5:36PM
  More like first or maybe second. But yes. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 01/20/2022 5:12PM
  Probably stealing second... ** -- tchoo 01/20/2022 5:51PM
  That's good. :D ** -- Seattle .Hoo 01/20/2022 7:34PM
  That’s a big-time whooosh ** -- 111Balz 01/20/2022 4:43PM
  Ok -- HoodatB 01/20/2022 4:10PM
  Perfect if you're a pussy ** -- 81_Hokie 01/20/2022 3:57PM
  Don’t spread yourself too thin, JM. ** -- hooshouse 01/20/2022 3:53PM

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