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TheLardDork94
Institutionalised racism --> poverty --> violence --> bad prison system --> poverty --> violence... hun
MixxieMeese
This shit makes me tired.
ekstw
I always down vote Facebook bullshit. Plus, this is just stupid. If I only had two down votes to give for my country....
PabloDiabloman
The problem is judging based on appearance. You're missing a huge part of the issue and actually perpetuating it.
gethiptothewiz
This site really hates black people and then tries to dress it up as revolutionary thinking
kellycorn
RobertLoewen
I generally find people who say the phrase "I hate everyone equally" often have simplified views on races which is a very complex issue
PhailRaptor
The race portion is actually very simple, and merely a coincidence when you look at the actual problem.
RhetoricalRobot
Race is a simple issue.
IveBeenSlackingMyWholeLife
Kind of everyone whether they say that or not. anyway, here's wonderwall.
IreallyMGur
They don't want to know, don't care and won't learn the history. Easier to be ironic and say no lives matter.
TheZett
Its funny how only the USA has a "race problem" and still thinks of humans in "races".
hakunamatatas
It is funny how people think American is the only place with a "race problem". Dude, you should do a little reading into Asia.
TheZett
No one gives a shit about poorer asian countries, though
hakunamatatas
Yeah because Japan and South Korea are so poor and 3rd world.
TheZett
I didnt know that Japan & Korea are the only asian countries. - I said "poorer" for a reason.
TestAccount321
Oh, this ol' boy again! One that the OP doesn't even PRETEND that it isn't aimed at black people!
DrFawxy
Pretty sure the point of it was not to hate all black people
PrivateIsotope
Just hate the black people that visually for a stereotype.
AlienPumaSpaceTrain
The most insidious racism hides itself under a thin veil of being anti-racist. We are all a little racist, whether or not we realize it.
AlienPumaSpaceTrain
I'm not racist. I want to say that I'm uncomfortable with what I perceive as the black community while not appearing racist. --OP, probably
nousernamesavailablemeow
There's also huge influence of money in the pics...the top half has none, the bottom half has plenty.
JohnnJames
In reality, that's just an excuse plain and simple. Been through both conditions and I didn't leave my kids or join a gang. Excuse.
TriumphOfMan
I've been homeless and broke before. I didn't turn into an thug or a criminal, neither should anyone else.
ImpactFPS
So I mean if you didnt, everyone else can, right? I like your morality argument. :-p
thepduke
While that's true, there is no need for money to limit what you can become. My father's family could hardly afford to put food on the 1/?
thepduke
Table. His father, my grandfather, worked In a leather mill making ends meat. Yet my dad had the mindset that he was going to get out of 2/?
thepduke
The town he grew up in because he didn't want to end up living his life there. So he worked his ass off in school, worked many jobs and 3/?
thepduke
Sent himself to college through student loans. He even went on for a masters. That hard work and determination got him to where he is now4/?
thepduke
An execute of a major corporation. He is my inspiration because he literally earned every penny he has. And went against the odds. 5/?
Wheresthatmeteor
There's a difference between appearances and behavior. And there's a root to all behaviors. God I hate this website.
damspam
Right? What keeps me coming back is remembering when imgur used to be FUNNY. I keep hoping it will return that way but I'm doubting it
GeorgeCrae
starting to hate it too
nartman23
Seriously. I can't believe shit like this gets voted to the top. Imgur's community feels like it's being run by middle school aged boys.
ChameleonFacedGoon
Imgur is mostly cancer these days
LetumComplexo
"I hate any culture that glorifies violence." -OP, probably
meganical
I love how he only includes two races. What the hell do you think about all the other cultures? I would bet all my savings OP is white
Miramooke
So you're cool with black people so long as they look, act and talk white.
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Miramooke
I never said educated and hardworking was anything to with being white. That was your assumption.
Mewmus
explain to me exactly how someone acts "white" ?
Miramooke
If you don't already know, watch some tv and movies and you'll get the idea
Groznek
I pretty much automatically tune out when people suggest that speaking AAVE means you're uneducated.
SoundFuture
From the pictures all you can assume it that they look white. I have friends that dress like that but in no way act or talk white. /1
SoundFuture
Unless you're assuming fighting for your freedoms and openly expressing affection towards your children is white. 2/
SKIG13
This is such an oversimplification. And why push more hate? How's more hate going to help anything? This is a granny level post right here
Gorapora
"I'm not bigoted as long as everyone dresses and acts exactly like me".
Kiore
"I don't like cultures that glorify violence" proclaimed the culture that adores Quentin Tarantino.
Irishda
"CHRIS KYLE IS AN AMERICAN HERO FOR GUNNING DOWN ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN NEW ORLEANS!"
Clayless
And weapons designed soley for killing.
whyteraven74
And three Godfather movies, Good Fellas etc etc etc
John9910
Yeah but the line between fiction and reality is easily discerned by sane and rational people
Bonerhitler
Our government literally justified torture by saying jack bauer would do it.
Kiore
Exactly.
letsnotandsaywemight
"A culture that glorifies violence", then a pic of a guy in military uniform?
Habreon
yes, but we pay him to be violent
PhailRaptor
So love of country is violence now?
Flapjacktastic
So being given a gun and shooting whoever politicians tell you to is love of country now?
Mewmus
defending the country is love of country
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Against who? We haven't been in a defensive war since 1815.
Mewmus
against anyone that MIGHT attack, so what if we havent been attacked by another country lately
Silvercypher
Wow..I was just thinking the same thing. lol +1
MagnificentButcher
"I have a problem with a culture that glorifies violence" posts picture of a black man in uniform as a postive thing....
Mewmus
if you are going to try to say that a picture of a black person in a military uniform as a bad thing then i'm going to say FUCK YOU
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
U.S. uniform no less..
Mewmus
black man in uniform that happens to be a BRIGADIER GENERAL. requires at LEAST a Masters Degree. he has his act together....do you?
tripnok
The military is one way out of impoverished areas. It tells more about you, that you assume a service member is instantly a killer. Bigot?
whyteraven74
And that's the problem, the military shouldn't be a way out of poverty.
MagnificentButcher
lol so you only like the ones that kill who you say should be killed huh?
MeHoyMiBoi
Well you could also say he's a good guy because he chooses to risk his life for others
whyteraven74
Last I looked war is pretty fucking violent.
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MagnificentButcher
Where do you see a any police in uniform in the pictures? what I typed was a quote from what OP posted
MagnificentButcher
any*
Heavymettle
Military glorifies country, not violence. If it does anything, it excuses violence. It isn't the same thing as a gang which does glorify it.
unscot
And you know this because you've interviewed gang members?
Mankytoes
Come off it, of course the military glorifies violence. As an outsider, it's clear American militarism and general violence are linked
Heavymettle
You attack your own argument by stating you are an outside opinion and you back it with nothing. Every ad plays "strong nation" not shooting
Mankytoes
I don't think that attacks my opinion at all, being an outsider helps me be objective
Heavymettle
Being an outsider means nearly 100% of your "knowledge" is second hand and likely given with inherent bias.
Heavymettle
Seems like your "outside opinion" is based on hearsay from the internet. You probably caricature the country as fast food and rifles.
Mankytoes
It's based on Americas huge military spending, aggressive military behaviour, overt nationalism (eg pledging allegiance to the flag, etc.
Heavymettle
the pledge of allegiance lmao. Definitely outside opinion. It is an old tradition that is kept around just because it is old.
Heavymettle
something you'd know if you weren't looking from the outside. It is less impactful than your country having a national anthem.
whyteraven74
And yet how does the military bump recruiting? By promoting that if you join you may get to engage in violence.
Heavymettle
Military bumps recruiting by doing just what I said, glorifying nationalism and sense of country. They don't have ads promoting violence.
PhailRaptor
Gonna need a source for that statement. I have yet to see such a commercial in 26 years.
Ssssssssssss
Don't try arguing with a troll.
whyteraven74
The whole "Defend your country" thing is implicitly about the possibility of war. Also there have been commercials showing tanks, Apache...
whyteraven74
helicopters, howitzers, various Naval ships etc etc.
deadlaughter
Notice how all the people you hate dressing and acting "black", while all the examples emulate good "white" culture? Yes, you're racist.
Mewmus
can you explain how someone acts "white" ?
deadlaughter
of black culture. "Acting white" means, first and foremost, not acting "black". 2/
deadlaughter
I didn't say act white. But typically it means speaking and acting in accordance to white American norms. We all know the stereotypes 1/
idrinkfromacup
Your actually the problem bro. Since when is hoodrat culture "black?" Oh yeah, since always. But the first step to changing that is by ackno
idrinkfromacup
wledging that and having black people refuse to have that culture represent them, instead of getting mad at "whitey" for being "racist" for
idrinkfromacup
not accepting the general criminal fuckery that exists wtithin the hoodrat culture
unscot
Why does black culture have to be "hoodrat?"
idrinkfromacup
I don't know, you tell me bro. Define "Culture". Because black movies, music, clothing, slang, almost everything references gangs and thugge
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ry completely disproportionate to any other race. I'm not saying all black people are like this. I'm saying to pretend it's not an issue spe
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cific to black people is fucking delusional.
Grarius
Saying that certain actions or clothing belong to the Blacks is racism itself
deadlaughter
No, ignoring the racial stereotypes that society has placed on certain groups is racist.
unscot
If you see someone wearing a kimono, it isn't racist to say they're wearing Japanese clothes, dumbass.
Grarius
That's because it's Japanese culture practiced mainly by the people who were born in Japan. Black skin on the other hand is a colour (1/2)
Grarius
someone is born with and therefore is not equal to a culture, which is acquired and taught by ones parents
unscot
Black American is a culture. Just like Jewish-Americans have their own. This country is much more segregated than you choose to believe.
IveBeenSlackingMyWholeLife
It's not racist but....
RomanGod17
Getting really tired of this BLM bashing up here. Was really hoping this was a place to escape from world.
Mebbeno
World is everywhere. Escape impossible.
buckeyes995
I can't believe Bernie Sanders stuff and shit like this can get so many upvotes, probably some from the same people.
ahnteis
Great. Now what are you going to do about systemic poverty?
wonderbug
how about trying to fix a culture that glorifies stupidify and gun violence?
strongindependentguineapig
wow there, making imgurian think might get you killed or worst...expelled.
er0k66
Legalize prostitution?
SoundFuture
That would definitely help with the national debt, as well as make the profession safer.
er0k66
also allow people who want out a safe and legal way to do so... but lets not let facts get in the way of faux-morality
textilelover
I actually wrote a paper in a String Theory class how legalizing prostitution would solve most urban problems.
GoogolMaximus
We as a society need to try and teach that everyone can do it. It is harder for some but set goals. There is nothing systemic but attitude
whyteraven74
Except not everyone can as things are. We as a society can make it much easier.
GoogolMaximus
Through education. It is the only way. We need to teach people that if they are free....THEY are responsible to USE their freedom.
khazaria
Free coffee, like he said.
sodacanking
oh lord, stop.
whyteraven74
So we should just let people suffer in poverty in the wealthiest nation that has ever existed?
sodacanking
people should better themselves. and stop pretending that "the man" is keeping them down. go to school, stop having kids. don't do drugs.
Panda4hire
We take Donald trump's money and buy everyone jobs. Duh.
B0ULLIE
I mean, obviously
amatoantoni
We just need some small loans of a million dollars.
RWM90
CodyPug
Legalize drugs so they won't end up in jail and push for community involvement bring back playgrounds so kids can play in n not be in street
SteveD31415
Legalize drugs so they can be unemployable.
SoundFuture
Or at the very least take all the minor drug charges back down to basic misdemeanors and get rid of "three strikes" and similar rules.
PurdyPics
Ask the Federal Gov't, they're the ones financing it, and have been since LBJ's Great Society. Fed money destroys black inner city families.
whyteraven74
I see someone has never studied the history of slums and things like red lining.
UmbralEntity
Yea! Don't try to fix something until you can fix all things!!
SeaHutch
"What poverty? Black people choose to be there." -Imgur
snet328
Or the culture of poverty, of which disproportionately affects people of color?
footfoe
more jobs.
Brogan75
Listen to your teacher in class, or your homework, study.
BronzeLeaguePro
Make people finish high school, get married before having children and not break federal laws, and it's already solved.
whyteraven74
No it's not.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
"Make people..." is the kind of idea that never leaves the realm of theory, because it can't actually function in the real world.
BronzeLeaguePro
Are you telling me black people can't finish high school and get married before having kids? That sounds racist to me.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
Not at all. I'm telling you that neither you nor anyone else can "Make people" do anything they don't want to do without violating liberty.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
Find ways to personally help them, convince them, entice them, reward them, but using force to make people do things is essentially slavery.
doodybird
Don't need to do anything about it if you get free slaves.
JaxenChaz
Make it really simple and easy to enter the marketplace? Free market FTW.
kasaku
Like back in the good old days, when more people were poor.
Immolator1001
Lol people are like "try hard in school" but the Chicago public schools are all getting shut down.
zapbranagan
That is a complex question; however, I'd wager killing police officers and white people is probably the exact wrong answer.
whyteraven74
Well that's a helpful answer, not.
itsthevoiceman
What are YOU gonna do about it?
SkippyTheWonderHamster
End payroll tax, corporate gains tax, and income tax, so instead of "getting a job" people can start their own businesses,
SteveD31415
How convenient for rich white folks.
whyteraven74
None of that keeps people from starting a business.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
You be surprised how difficult it is to start a successful business larger than a one-man operation. Regulatory overhead is a bitch.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
End minimum wage laws so people can opt in to taking jobs they can get, and learn new skills to establish careers, much like internships,
SkippyTheWonderHamster
And end the drug war, which is the legit origin of nearly all remaining systemic institutional racism in our society today.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
Thanks for not debating this one. It's good to have at least a *LITTLE* common ground, agreed?
SkippyTheWonderHamster
I would also add End Welfare, because welfare is a poverty trap intended to secure a permanent voter base, but that step must come last.
whyteraven74
Except it's not a poverty trap. Also how lovely you think people should be left to suffer you immoral sick fucking asshole.
whyteraven74
What a great idea, let's have people working jobs that leave them dirt fucking poor. How about this, if you don't want to pay good wages...
whyteraven74
don't be in business because you are a selfish fuck who hurts people?
SkippyTheWonderHamster
If people aren't being extorted for 1/3 of their earnings, and if their employers only need to pay their employees, not the government,
whyteraven74
Except people on the bottom end of the income scale aren't losing a third of their wages to taxes.
SkippyTheWonderHamster
for the opportunity to employ them, employees get paid more. Two accountable adults can agree on a wage on their own, and if not nobody can
iPretend
Literally no clue, but the rich should pay for it.
Coopernanner99
Yeah, downvoting because of like a hundred reasons
iPretend
Well it was sarcasm. I feel this is the basic opinion of your basic imgurian.
failphins2
i thought the sarcasm was obvious, and it pointed towards the "solution" so many people want but welfare never got someone out of the hood
PillaPlease
Wait for somebody else to do something about it while going about his merry way.
Lowestscoreever
Double the number of cops to fight crimes and drugs, the leading causes of poverty.
annacondadont
LOLOL you've never read one article on American history have you. It's the opposite cause and effect.
whyteraven74
Poor people don't really do drugs much. Also they tend to do drugs because they're poor.
TurgidMember
So being poor makes you want to do drugs?
HiggsBosonYoFace
Don't know what "systemic poverty" is but the best cure for conventional poverty is education and promotion of family values. Boring right?
insanelyUnoriginal
If you don't know what it is, then learn. If getting out of poverty were so easy, more people would do it.
HiggsBosonYoFace
And if six pack abs were easy everyone would have them. But I can't go to the gym and work out for someone else, and I also can't pull 1/
HiggsBosonYoFace
anyone else out of poverty. It might not be their fault, but it is their problem. If welfare was the solution, poverty wouldn't exist today.
CarolinHR
Lol why are you putting a legitimate economic concept in quotes as if it's made up
spartan8917
I assumed they were just specifying with the quotes.
DixieForever
When you say "economic" you're describing it, not ascribing it to jargon from a branch of the academic discipline, correct?
CarolinHR
Well yes. It's a sociological/ sociopolitical theory. But that also makes it intimately tied to economics so not sure what you're getting at
DixieForever
I'm getting at sociology and political science are not economics.
HiggsBosonYoFace
Just never heard the term before - and it seems redundant? There is definitely an established system in this country that keeps people 1/
HiggsBosonYoFace
in poverty. Part of it is the fact that people feel the need to enable and reinforce poverty. i.e. if you're poor now you'll always 2/
HiggsBosonYoFace
be poor, so why even try to better yourself?
whyteraven74
Except that doesn't fix things in the present. Also poverty undermines the family values things. You want them, fix poverty.
HiggsBosonYoFace
Will they take a check or should I just give them my wallet? Serious problems take time to fix. In the meantime there's financial support 1/
HiggsBosonYoFace
available to the poor. There are also educational resources available to them. I'm not suggesting they should starve on the street.
meanjoegreene
You can't fix the present. Children are the future. I fear the future. We must educate now for a better future
whyteraven74
So you can't feed someone who is hungry right now? You can't deal with issues of wages, health care, child care etc right now? You want...
whyteraven74
children growing up in misery so in some magical tomorrow they won't be suffering? How about fuck you? They are suffering now.
kasaku
Family values don't do shit for the poor.
mousemarie94
I'm just saying, some of the BEST families I've ever met are dirt poor. Shitty people with shitty values transcend socioeconomics.
whyteraven74
Shhhh, family is magic. Never mind it's well established that poverty leads to children born out of wedlock, not the reverse and so on.
spartan8917
Family values are free.
kasaku
No, they aren't. Family values require resources. They aren't just happy feelings.
whyteraven74
Family values don't put food on the table or buy a kid new shoes.
failphins2
Keeps families together, gives them responsibility necessary to better themselves for themselves and family
whyteraven74
If you want solid families get rid of poverty. Poverty tears families apart. Badly.
failphins2
There are a lot of great poor families and terrible rich families, the heart and the pocket are not connected.
SaVillaHg
Family values or at least a sense of morality make it so the poor build for themselves instead of take from others.
whyteraven74
Ah so you don't actually want to help the poor, you just want them to do as you tell them to.
annacondadont
Seriously, go fuck yourself. Your financial situation doesn't determine your values. Get off your goddamn high horse
spartan8917
I think you severely missed their point. They were saying that good values and morality lead to successful decision making for all.
ARandomHelljumper
Correct, your financial situation doesn't determine your values, so it shouldn't be impossible for common sense to apply anywhere.
khazaria
I feel like the rednecks will feel bad for being left out.
CarolinHR
Yeah where's the picture of a redneck holding a shotgun wearing a shirt with a confederate flag on it
CitizenDickbag
Rednecks holding big guns is all-American. It's only when black people hold guns that people get upset.
Mackwop
Look up black vs white open carry social experiment. Its fucking disgusting but its the truth about the majority of police.
SirBrendan
Argument ignores systemic and complex conditions that form communities into cultures of resistance. Treating racism as simple is dangerous
trollprozac
Someone's writing an essay...aren't you?!
TobySomething
Yeah. I'll bet even a lot of those successful black guys also would have stories about being stopped or harassed by cops, too.
Queenofhearts820
Many men in my family have this story. Regardless if they're wearing a suit or not. All successful, ceos and cfos.
wyrmm
I bet they don't.
TobySomething
If you have black male friends, ask them about their experiences with cops. Philando Castile, for example, pulled over 52x prior to last wk.
javjav
Entrenchment into a marginal lifestyle is the real enemy. There is a kind of morality that can get a person out of poverty conditions.
the4getful
Lifestyle here, I can confirm
javjav
It begins by taking in the good parts of the tribal identity while letting go of the bits that anchor entire subcultures into criminality.
javjav
And yes, it's irredeemably complex a problem. But such is the hand we're dealt with. Better start now.
hakunamatatas
And it begins with individuals in their communities. The government can't fix shit for you. You have to take action.
javjav
It used to be done by religions, now it's a battle of ideologies. Stuff like BLM are causing more harm than good so we need alternatives.
fencerman
Funny how you can pretend to be "not racist" but single out anyone acting "stereotypically black" and people applaud you for it.
RhetoricalRobot
Cultures can be distinct and bad.
idrinkfromacup
Because it's the truth? I'll tell you something that literally happened to me yesterday. Was getting off work waiting for the Dart train in
idrinkfromacup
downtown Dallas. Group of black kids smoking weed right in the corner, can smell it a mile away. And yes they were very "stereotypical" pant
idrinkfromacup
s sagging, tattoos, one of them with a bucket hat, loudly cursing and blaring music with complete disregard for everyone around them. One of
idrinkfromacup
them gets caught by Dart police and arrested, and the other one is waddling alongside with his camera phone screaming "LOOK WHAT DEY DOIN TO
idrinkfromacup
DA BLACK MAN!, FUCK DA POLICE! DEY TAKE ME TO JAIL WE GON SCRATCH!" Even after the police left he continued to pace up and down the station
MrPigsington
"I'm not racist, I grab random pictures off the internet and claim I hate people I know nothing about" meh...
Alpine262
What's there to know about someone pointing a gun at a camera?
kasaku
No one in the first three images is being violent at all.
DoesYourMomStillHavePizzaBagels
I agree but some are throwing up gang signs and anything glorifying gangs almost by default glorifies violence I would say
kasaku
What gangs are those signs for?
DoesYourMomStillHavePizzaBagels
I'm no expert but I think three fingers down in the first one is the piru street bloods, could be W for west side crips/bloods in the 2nd?
Mackwop
The pitchfork is Gangsta disciples and the P is for piru aka bloods. Look up the signs and you will see.
CitizenDickbag
http://www.politusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/american-gun-culture.jpg
Alpine262
See, none of those people are black and I think they are all morons that promote violent culture. Thank you very much.
MugsMoney
Oh God, some Islamophobe found out how to write "infidel" in Arabic on a shirt? I thought their bigotry would be confined to English.
mmmmmmShaiHulud
You have a problem with black culture that glorifies violence, is the white culture that glorifies it OK though? (Hollywood American Cinema)
LordFarrenofHouseUPYOURBUTT
I'm not trying to condone gang violence or those people's actions. But Idk if people don't realize how different of a world the ghetto is
SomethingOffensive
It still isn't an excuse. That's kind of the harsh reality of it.
chiefs86
Yeah, which is why the OP suggested that ghetto culture needs to fkn change.
madmadders
Thanks. The whole time I was reading this post and agreeing with it at face value...but it's also pretty problematic.
TheTwenty
Yeah, they probably don't. But that doesn't change the solutions much.
PhailRaptor
That doesn't change the solution. You have to educate the target group as a whole, and create opportunities to escape. ->
PhailRaptor
-> This in part requires the nation as a whole get the economy going which is going to be a nightmare for the politicians to get behind.
CarolinHR
Right? People are like "just tell ur kid to stay in school lol solved it" so incredibly ignorant
Howdoilife
Meanwhile kids have to join gangs just for some semblance of safety on the streets.
failphins2
The ghetto fucking sucks but selling pot didn't get my dad out of it, trade school and hard work did
raginwriter
Of course but not everyone is your dad. Some people succumb to it others succeed. Same goes with everything.
ThatSplainsItLucy
Just look at all of the "white collar" criminals, politicians, etc., they are just as bad. There is such a thing as free will.
failphins2
Everyone of them has the same choice though, and my dad grew up in a house of drunks and had a family full of trashy leeches.
catiethecookie
Moral of the story is yes poverty is awful but there are opportunities to rise above it out there. We need to educate people on these
hakunamatatas
It is strange to me that people don't understand that even in shitty situations, you still have agency. You don't have to succumb.
PlesiosaurWithElementsOfAnIdeaOfTheLochNessMonsterBoy
The weak succumb, the strong overcome.
rumandbass
And this is the point people miss. When rich people fuck up, they usually have a parachute. When poor people fuck up, it is way harder 1/2
rumandbass
to come back. The law is harder on you, you end up oweing way more money, and it's harder to get a good job.
SerialChillinSpree
The streets is watchin! We still know your dad. Just joking, I dont' even know what that means.
Shadehawk
thats like saying "people commit crime so the ghetto sucks so you have to commit crime to survive which makes the ghetto suck"
ChameleonFacedGoon
The reasoning isn't circular, but the situation is. Conditions started a long time ago and are repeated.
ImpactFPS
It's always easier to criticize others' way of life.
LordFarrenofHouseUPYOURBUTT
How I think we fix the problem is education on both sides.
whyteraven74
Problem, people like OP refuse to acknowledge there is anything they need to learn
DoGoodSeeGood
What do you want OP to learn?
ZacSwenson
I'm not racist but I really want lasagna right now
LookingForMyKids
Whoa man, uncalled for
iscreamfantastic
Too late, I'm offended.
JohnBlevins
I'm not racist either, but that sounds like a really good idea.
celi4
Who doesn't?
oldarchive
samsonguy920
All lives matter except I really wish I had a pony right now.
Sagufu
http://files.explosm.net/comics/Rob/notracist2.png
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
This is one of those cartoons that pops into my head occasionally, has been doing so for years.
RWM90
Fukin bigot
UncomfortableTruths
I'm not a Nazi sympathizer, but do you guys wanna get high?
ZacSwenson
Absolutely!
IBinPainting
Sure, so long as we're not huffing gas.
brettmarkley1
Towelie?
elninjapenguin
Damn, now I have to start my lasagna process tonight. I am excited for my Friday Lasagna.
saintphoo
I AM MAKING LASAGNA RIGHT NOW COME TO MY HOUSE AND EAT OUT WITH MY HUSBAND AND I!
ZacSwenson
That sounds amazing!!
ZacSwenson
That sounds amazing!!
foxholenorman
I'm not racist but I'd really like a cheese steak before sundown
Wheresthatmeteor
Ah lasagna, the great unifier
chunkyFunky
There ya go, you now have 1k likes
boevis
I'm fun at parties, and I always hated this trope because the word "but" is used to introduce something that contrasts with the previous.
ZacSwenson
I understand that I'm misusing "but" however if I used it correctly it wouldn't be a joke, just me saying something racist
ZacSwenson
I understand that I'm misusing "but" however if I used it correctly it wouldn't be a joke, just me saying something racist
ZacSwenson
I understand that I'm misusing "but" however if I used it correctly it wouldn't be a joke, just me saying something racist
boevis
Yes, I get it, thus the "I'm fun at parties" part, I realize I'm killing the joke
ilovemesomelasagna
me too i love me some lasagna
Thatguythatdidthatthingthatonetime
Dude, I'm making lasagna! I'll post a pic ah the finished product
ZacSwenson
What kinda lasagna?
Lasagna
And Lasagna wants you. ;)
ZacSwenson
I've never been happier
Enoch1
Lasagna and manicotti... With some fresh baked garlic bread... Nom nom nom
WhyTheFuckDoINeedAUserNameOkCallMeChris
I'm making lasagna for dinner.
VaultWalter
Thanks for that sudden overwhelming craving.
LeftCollectionBlueBird
Oohh, fuck, me too.
Jacxy
Lasagna is the real cheese cake.
abacaxi
Why do you hate moussaka?
hibsta
That'sa our word
happybunny88
I perfected my lasagna recipe and blow jobs. Very soon after he proposed true story
ZacSwenson
That's a perfect love story
JupiterJedi
You know what? Now that you mention it, I do too! What gives?
v
MyNamesMace
That was close
upperi
AHA!
snet328
OP: "I'm not racist but there are black people and then there are niggers" Essentially what he means. Which is a tad racist.
BitcoinBajjiloinaire
As long as you are not vegan
ZacSwenson
Vegan lasagna exists. It's called soy cheese homeslice
ingloriousimgurist
Almost ready people
gamesthatiplay
You're totally an orange cat aren't you!!! That was probably catist of me. You can be whatever you want and like whatever you want :-)
OneZebraInAHerdOfWildebeests
If only we were all lasagna.
Lasagna
Aw shucks,
Eveythingistaken
If I were lasagna, I'd eat myself so hard.
Lasagna
It is a challenge not to indulge too much.
Eveythingistaken
Maybe I'll just eat you instead... Dirtier than intended. Take it how you will.
YarTheBug
bobthealien44
Some of my best friends are lasagna
er0k66
Omg me too
ZacSwenson
And I'm not sexist but that lasagna would go great with a medium bodied cabaret
gorgosaurusrex
I'd prefer a good IPA. But I pair everything with IPAs.
Bolkstoff
After all, life is a cabaret ol' chum!
ZacSwenson
So come to the cabaret Come taste the wine Come hear the band Come blow your horn Start celebrating right this way Your table's waiting
DataMonkeyNicki
Is this a reference or a genuine random comment? Also is this lasagna with meat or veggie?
ZacSwenson
Genuine random and this lasagna has meat and mushrooms
DataMonkeyNicki
Ooo good choice
SnakesAreAwesome
Here have some.
RayGiIIette
*Riots in Baltimore*
InboxMeYarBootyPics
"That's not racist at all"
TheGiratina
I mean technically, that's grammatically wrong. When you 'but', it means a contradiction. There is no contradiction there.
annaofthesouth
"Can't you read?!"
roflsnake
That's what he said, ugh you never listen... typical Mexican
Boredoom
As a Mexican... that was actually on point. Most people don't listen carefully. Carry on...
Fairdinkums
spacecadet103
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/1036782/demetri-martin-o.gif
NOOBonboPRO
"The lasagna just got 10 feet taller"
ARandomHelljumper
But what if they just build an 11 foot fork to eat it with?
SixHundredThousandBees
"He said that you butthead"
Gguyer
I did not lose a leg in Vietnam, to deal with this!
boogaloobear
You have both your legs
Skittleballs
Are you...are you, Christopher Walken? Because your, punctuation makes me think so.
TestAccount321
"Maybe if the negros dressed and acted right they wouldn't have so much trouble!" Oh, thanks for solving the mystery!
chiefs86
(2) even remotely decently and speaking like you have a brain in your head, and people will treat you differently, as they should.
Groznek
This just in, AAVE means you're uneducated, apparently.
chiefs86
It usually does, yes. Nearly every black person I've seen that has intellect has long since left AAVE behind.
chiefs86
Silly imgur, dress and manner are two big factors in job interviews. It's not acting white, it's acting responsibly and professionally.
Bonerhitler
Except that it's white people who decided what "acting responsibly and professionally" looked and sounded like.
chiefs86
(2) And screw us for having a dominant, successful culture and expecting those who live here to integrate, amirite?
chiefs86
Yeah, because we made modern western civilization, dingus. I'm sure if sub-saharan Africa had produced a worthy nation things might be diff
Bonerhitler
Cool so you leap right to saying non-whites have never produced anything of value. You're not even subtle about the racism.
whyteraven74
Except those two things vary wildly depending on the circumstances. Also if you think clothes make someone responsible, oh boy.
chiefs86
They don't, but sometimes acting the part to get a job/career shows you what people actually look for in a successful person.
chiefs86
(2) Not everyone is responsible, and not everyone is successful, but the tools are there for anyone who wishes them.
chiefs86
That's actually a massive part of it. If you look like a thug and speak like you're uneducated, it's a massive difference from dressing (1)
whyteraven74
Do you know how I know you have no idea about rap music beyond what makes it on select media outlets?
chiefs86
It's not about rap music, it's about black people killing each other on the same levels as third world countries in America.
Michaelangelhoe
You don't care about "black on black crime" (like it exists). You just want to reinforce that stereotype that blacks are violent.
chiefs86
No, I'd really prefer if they didn't off each other at rates around 13 per 100K. If blacks weren't perceived as violent criminals (1)
chiefs86
(3) Plus, the police wouldn't be nearly as nerved up about encountering them.
chiefs86
(2) it'd be a lot easier for them to get and maintain a lot of advantages that white society takes for granted.
Shinykittie
slavery and 400 years of oppression clearly has nothing to with it. its all rap music's fault.
sjokoladenam
It feels like more of a US problem. People dont realise that its only 50 years since the big changes happend there, or am I way of?
Mackwop
I know you're being sarcastic but it frustrates me a lot that there is people who legitimately think this.
Heavymettle
Slavery and thousands of years of oppression, not to mention at least one attempted genocide, didn't make Jewish ghettos.
Mackwop
Jews got reparations, blacks got continued oppression and intentional destruction of their communities.
Heavymettle
Jews totally got tons of US compensation, I sure do remember all that land and money they got. Sarcasm.
Heavymettle
Remember the Native Americans? They have been given a ton of compensation (rightly so) and have the worst suicide and alcoholism in the US.
Heavymettle
Yep, African Americans never got any compensation for anything and are clearly, overtly, suppressed and oppressed by everyone. Sarcasm.
Mackwop
What compensation did blacks get? Jews literally got a country and recieve the most help financially that the US gives anybody by far.
Bolkstoff
I like and agree with this, but I just have to say, I hate a culture that glorifies ignorance more, because ignorance begets violence.
notthepersonyourthinkingof
fuck you
xXPlastikXx
And most of these people in pics are that... ignorant af
Blud4BludGod
The ghetto thug culture also glorifies ignorance. God, lived in the HOOD for years- I hate, hate, hate that shit.
Idownvoteifunnyand9gagrepoststoimgur
I want to scream at the top of my lungs when people from the hood claim they are targeted and kept down...NO...FUCK THAT. I am a product 1/
Idownvoteifunnyand9gagrepoststoimgur
Of the projects from the Bronx, NY. I am a minority, and I saw what I had around me and knew I did not want that for my future and for 2/
Idownvoteifunnyand9gagrepoststoimgur
My family. I received an education, I didn't fuck around with crime or drugs, and I made sure I kept a positive outlook. I see the phrase 3/
Idownvoteifunnyand9gagrepoststoimgur
"Change starts from within", however nobody in the hood actually GETS that. They glorify all the wrong, but scream prejudice when it's 4/
micahvanwinkle
THANK YOU
ps283206
Well, to be fair, the military does glorify sanctioned violence...
bondance
The military is extremely proficient in their area of expertise; they take pride in that. They aren't the ones who decide who the enemy is.
foxydelaware
I disagree. The MEDIA glorifies ... anything that gets them ratings. Military, thug gangs, white supremacy gangs, Pokemon... (drop that mic)
DrKriegersClone
I'm not sure glorify is exactly the case. Granted, I don't know a ton of people in the service, but the attitude doesn't seem to be hope 1/
DrKriegersClone
2/ for a shot at combat because it's a chance at glory. More like train and be ready if it has to be done, but happier if it doesn't.
Mankytoes
That's what I thought- "I hate a culture which glorifies violence"- "support our troops!"- hmmmm
At1withnone
Because the only thing our military does is violence. And we instigate it too. We only go to places uninvited and start some shit...just cuz
Mankytoes
The point of a military is violence, when it comes down to it. I guess the only thing about ghetto culture is violence?
SilentHowling
Point of the military is controlled violence to achieve a goal. Precision & accountability.
maxwilder
TRUMP FOR PREZ /s
SailOceanBoat
All this issues are economic policies fallout. The poor, will always be more physically violent, less educated and prone to crimes.
Eldude3513
turdfarmer
Eldude3513
Holy fuck, that legit gave me the goose bumps. Flash back to shroomville
erelyes
I'll have a medium rare this, with a side of more this.
krapmyself
So... American culture?
Monochron
Hur dur!
ImJustinSane
They don't glorify it as much as they are just complacent about it.
Tangarinesquids
Do you sstill think that with trump in office having a war on media?
Flyndaran
Newscasters brag and laugh about how they don't understand a horribly basic science story they are telling. Far more than complacent.
lastminute
The ignorant are much louder than the educated.
NiceCatchBlancoNinoTooBadYourAssGotSacked
We have an entire channel dedicated to ignorance. Ironically called The Learning Channel.
DaddyWolf
Once upon a time that title was not ironic. Over the last couple of decades it all got washed out by increasingly worse reality tv.
razzlestorm
Hey, don't try to take ignorance away from us! We have so much ignorance (antivaxxers) we have cases of measles now. Now we just need polio.
TheTeddyBeer
gotta catch them all?
ImJustinSane
I think Jenny Mcarthy is hoarding all the polio.
azureraptor
I hope she gets polio in her bungholio.
shawnthor
Ouch. We just want everyone to like us. But we try to hard and end up "burning the cookies".
DesertTemple
precisely
Bolkstoff
Honestly I don't disagree, but it's not monolithic. There's plenty of us working to change it everyday!
tropicanah
Haha the difference between America and yoghurt is that if you leave yoghurt alone for 200 years it actually develops a culture.
bondance
Yeah that's a cute catch phrase, but it doesn't really hold up under scrutiny.
SheevGuillotine
Don't want to get into an argument here, but... Hollywood, Broadway, television, jazz, rock, blues, country, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, (1)
tropicanah
It's a joke. Feel free to reply tho
SheevGuillotine
... Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, and thousands of other examples I... (2)
SheevGuillotine
...can't be bothered to list. Whether you like it or not, America has an immensely complicated culture. Also, Imgur is American.
MajorLeagueFister
Eh hem. "Brexit". That is all.
matteyothecrazy
Only 30% of young people voted leave
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
Happens in Australia and England too.
CommanderPiglet
Then they took all the guns away and it fixed a lot of things... (australia)
DaddyWolf
Except the stupid still exists, so...