Kristy Swanson had never heard of Malcolm X
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HarveyManfredSinJohn — 11 years ago(September 17, 2014 04:21 PM)
I will endeavour to respond to your post in full later (and in fact I do agree with some of your points now that you've corrected your argument suggesting that Jews are mostly wealthy).
However, I want to ask you where you've come to this absurd notion that Southern Europeans are part of what the Nazis described as the 'Aryan race'. Of course one doesn't have to be blonde haired and blue eyed to be an Aryan, and plenty of Germans, Anglos and Nordics possess dark hair and brown eyes. But Mediterraneans, including the Greeks, Italians, Iberians, Turks and Southern French were never regarded as Aryans and there is nothing in historical texts or online to suggest otherwise.
I did a quick search to see if there was anything to back up your contention and I found nothing. This is the first link, outside of Wikipedia (which outlines the various racial gradings adopted by proponents of Nordicism, which I alluded to in my last post), that addresses Southern Europeans:
http://historacle.org/hitlers_supermen.html
A few of the things you said in your last post were true but you should stop peddling the offensive lies that Hitler considered Southern Europeans as Aryans. He didn't and all evidence backs my position. The Nordics view Southern Europeans (i.e. the people of the PIGS countries who are currently bearing the worst brunt of German-led austerity) like me as they've always done, as swarthy, feckless, inferior mixed-breeds. So be it. I don't want to belong to their fair-haired, blue-eyed club anyway. But don't tell me we've always been members even after they've continually shut the door in our faces. That's just rubbing salt into the wound.
We're poor ethnics and we stand side-by-side with other ethnics like the Africans and the Jews against the Northern European socio-ethnic elite, as well as the KKK and Aryan Brotherhood who hate us Catholics/Papists almost as much as they hate the 'Negro' and the Jew. If you're a 'left-winger' as you claim to be I find it frankly astonishing you'd object to my position.
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gabby_bm — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 01:10 AM)
Not recognizing someone by a picture on a pendant is hardly indicative of ignorance nor naivete. I probably wouldn't recognize a picture of Rosa Parks or Eleanor Roosevelt by some tiny picture on a pendant. But that doesn't mean I need to read their autobiography. It just means i need to be more familiar with that person's picture- andmaybe a better picture than a tiny picture in a locket.
Did Swanson ask "
who is Malcolm X
"? If she didn;t then maybe John Singleton was responding with bigotry and assuming the little white girl was ignorant.
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HarveyManfredSinJohn — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 08:42 AM)
My fault. I didn't copy out the entire quote properly. If you check the link and the article (it's a short article) Tyra Bans says "Kristy Swanson had never heard of Malcolm X". Also, would you really confuse Malcolm X for Sammy Davis Jr? Even if you didn't know what Malcolm X looked like?
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gabby_bm — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 08:02 PM)
Fair enough. I'm sure there's a large faction of young people who don't have a clue about the heroes who have made life better for all of us- or at least raised more awareness than had they not ever fought their fights at all.
Our fights.
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HarveyManfredSinJohn — 11 years ago(September 19, 2014 06:58 AM)
I guess. Kristy Swanson is a sweet but privileged white girl though. I don't know if she'd consider Malcolm X to be a hero who made her life personally better.
A lot of white, mainly rich, kids go through life blissfully ignorant of the struggles experienced by the oppressed. It means very little to them. -
evanmang87 — 10 years ago(April 05, 2015 12:44 PM)
HarveyManfred- sadly, I can say from working with mostly African American students for years in an inner city school system, that many of today's high school students of all colors don't know who a number of important historical figures are or simply don't care. If it's not a cell phone app or celebrity gossip, they aren't interested in "old people" and "stuff that happened before I was born" even in regards to civil rights icons.
And it's not just "kids these days" either. The % of American adults who can't identify who the US fought in World War II, identify major countries on a map, the basic cause of the Cold War, even who the current vice president is judging by recent polls is appalling. Ignorance is bliss in this country.