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Originally Posted by Otorongo
Yes, that is your claim. And the feeling is mutual. You calim I don't understand, welkl i think you assume too much about me as well.
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I don't have to claim anything...you have done a masterful job of putting your ignorance on display.
Prior to the Mandela administration...could blacks claim discrimination in South Africa? What about Indians in colonial India...I mean, both groups comprised the ethnic majority, no? How then could their claims of discrimination be legitimate...by your jackass reasoning?
I call it jackass reasoning because how else would one explain the idiocy that states
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But your experiences on the islands where you are the majority are hardly the same as Afro-Americans or other Afro-Diasporic people in countries where they are a minority. Sorry if I don't buy all the trauma claims by some of you that I'm supposed to have no clue about. What clue do you have? That you visit another country and experienced some discrimination?
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Racial discrimination, class discrimination...you name it...it's rife in the caribbean where post-colonial attitudes still persist. Where the nuances of color (which asininely claim to be instructing us on about from time to time...the facking nerve) still play a significant part of the social fabric.
-Where ethnic minorities constitute the economic majority.
When the the manufacturing industries and largest swaths in the overall business sector is owned and operated by ethnic minorities.
-When scholarships for study at foreign university...the only way out of a depressingly oppressive system...when recipients of those are overwhelmingly non-black...let's call it what it is and put aside the minority/majority bullshit.
-When certain entertainment spots can blatantly turn you away for not having the 'right look'.
-When you are considered "too dark" or "too tacky/picky head" to marry into certain families
-When money buys you entre into the highest social strata in society...but when you examine said membership...overwhelmingly non-black, indicating quite revealingly where the money and consequent power is consolidated.
When you look at these things and you suffer adversely as a result of them...you don't need a facking white man to call you 'nigger' to your face to understand the meaning of discrimination. So don't tell me no bullshit about me being from 'the islands' means I can't facking relate to the sting of discrimination. Get the fu
ck out of here with that presumptive ignorant bullshit.