Craig Bodeker: A Conversation about Race
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Is racism dead in America? Did the election of Barack Obama mean the end of racism? Do you know racism when you see it? Is racism today the same as it was 20 years ago? 30? 40?
This film will change what you think you know about racism. In his groundbreaking new documentary; A Conversation About Race, filmmaker Craig Bodeker redefines the conventional wisdom on Race and Racism.
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tl:dr all white people are racist.
It is interesting that studies/media/popular culture choose to say “black” prison populations before they say “poor” or “working class” prison populations. In other words, there is more emphasis on the colour of a mans skin than there is on the actual reasons as to why certain areas produce more criminals than others. In my opinion, that displays a drastic lack of intelligence and childishness.
Nobody minds mexican immigrants. What “we” oppose are poor people crossing the border from the south. We really dont like desperate poor people, we have enough of those already.
Craig’s documentary, disguised to condemn rasicm by creating a cloud of confusion to the meaning of the word itself. He touched on minority advocates and made justification for supremecist/exteremist white orgarnisations (ie the Klan and BNP over here in the UK). One thing you forget to explain is why Black leaders like Rev Jesse are fighting for Blacks in the first place. They are fighting for equality and fairness in the systems affecting this generation. Systems and structures put in place to disavantage certain groups especially Blacks and some still inplace now(we can go on about this debate). On the other hand the White advocacy group promote hate and regard their followers as superior beings (not the case in minority groups). Regarding your issue on standardised tests and why Asians fair better that Whites, my answer to that is simple. The issue regarding education should never be separated from other matters (ie social injustices that had crippled the black race especially in America and the US) and systems put in place mainly to target blacks and not other races.
Yeah, poverty causes crime. That’s why crime rates spiked during the great depression. (Oh wait. They didn’t.)
That’s why rapes and murders happen, because people are POOR! The less money I have, the hornier I get..?)
As for the other idiot, yeah whites have really kept blacks down. Even though blacks are the oldest race on earth! (And bringing-up the fact that Earth’s oldest race couldn’t develop a written language or a wheel on their own is RACIST!)
These two commenters are JUST LIKE THE DELUSIONAL SUBJECTS IN THE FILM! Reveling in their double-standards and anti-white bias.
Great Job, Craig Bodeker
The comment from the Black lady at 4:35 is the perfect example of what the term “Racism” really means to those who sling it around as a weapon. She says quote: “You walk into a company and you are the only black person there or the only Asian person, or gay person or the only Muslim person, its not very diverse.”
When you really break below the surface of those statements it becomes painfully obvious that what those who use the word racism actually mean is that they are against white people and that diversity simply means non white and whatever is against the traditional norms of American society which just happens to have been founded by white Americans.
In many cases it is not even a conscious understanding. The victimology ideology of the Marxist left has been so ingrained into their heads that they automatically view anything that is white as wrong and as racist. The lady making such comments obviously never put the time and effort into exploring the reason why she may be the only black person in the room. Maybe there were no qualified blacks who applied for jobs, or there may have been others simply more qualified. If I walk into a restaurant in a predominantly all white area, I would naturally expect the staff to be white as well, It only stands to reason. However to the people who have been trained to view all sights of whiteness as wrong and unacceptable, it simply stands as racism that there are no “people of color”, which in itself is a racist statement against white people. A real racist statement, not an imagined one. It implies that somehow whites are devoid of the same status as genuine humans who have more melanin in their skin and have no diversity or worth.
No doubt, said woman would think nothing of walking into establishment in a black community and seeing the site of an all black staff. To her, that simply would mean diversity. Non whites = diversity, whites = racism.
Professional sports is a good platform to observe the double standards that the Marxist left have put into place in America. The National Football League is not a very diverse institution. On average annually blacks make up around 70% of active players, while Whites make up generally less than 30%. There are no Cornerbacks in the NFL who are white, nor are there any starting white players at the positions of running back. Despite the fact that blacks are already overrepresented according to their size of the general population, all we hear is how blacks have not traditionally been afforded opportunities at the Quarterback position, despite the fact that there are a number of black players who actually do play the position, many of whom are starters. We have media talking heads constantly talking about racism in relation to the QB position, with not a word said about how white Americans have been shut out of certain positions and are drastically underrepresented in the NFL according to their general population. We have the Rooney rule which says that NFL teams must give interviews to minority candidates despite the fact there are a number of black coaches in the league. The league now wants to expand that to upper management as well. It is clear, to the NFL, diversity simply means Non white. The same is true for major league baseball. White Americans make up roughly half of all major league baseball players, Foreign Hispanics, many of whom are black make up roughly 40% of the league, while American blacks make up generally 10% or less in any given year. Ironically 10% is very close to their makeup of the general population in America, yet from the talking heads in the media blacks are said to be underrepresented in baseball. Take into account the many foreign born Hispanics who are black and blacks are not underrepresented at all by race. However, MLB and media make a distinction between foreign born blacks and African Americans for the purposes of their crusade to get more blacks into the game while nothing in the way of any similar program is in effect to worry about the proportion of white Americans. Again, in the eyes of MLB and the media diversity simply means non white.
There is a pattern developing here that anyone who is not dishonest nor extremely myopic should immediately notice. That pattern is that white = bad = racism and is something to be struggled against while non white = good = diversity and is something to be promoted. There could not be a better example of REAL RACISM!
As a white South-African I just giggled at this movie. You have not seen anything yet, wait until your a minority. We say minority rights they say racist. It never ends, sometimes I wonder if they will only be satisfeid when we are all exterminated.
This film simply “rediscovers” what was known for decades… that white people are being exterminated through immigration. That is what the religion of political correctness amounts to: preparation for self annihilation.
The consequences of the new method of enslavement and extermination by immigration are well depicted in Jean Raspail’s brilliant “Camp of the Saints”. White Americans in the United States, who are, of course, much less numerous than the population statistically counted as White, will probably become an actual minority in ten or twenty years, and in some regions (e.g., California, Arizona, Texas and major cities) massacres of the dumb brutes will probably begin before that time. Americans will never resist, they have been too well bred by leftists to have retained their natural instincts of self preservation. Well, a nation of imbeciles is unfit to survive anyway, and the boobs will doubtless enjoy swilling beer and squatting in hypnotic trances in front of television screens until their doom overtakes them.
As a so-called ‘black man’, I must say that anybody who is honest about this subject does know that white guilt is a major driving force in our society today…White people need to stand up for themselves, and stop worrying so much about what other groups think…I’ll even go as far as to say that I DO BELIEVE that whites/asians are more gifted academically(on average) than other races, race IS NOT a social construct and political correctness is white suicide.
Great video. I find it interesting how the opposition to this piece of work have no proper or, at least, ill-informed arguments, besides already being troubled by their often poor use of the English langauge and the actual understanding of the contents of this work.
For instance, their first response is to point to socio-economic factors, which, supposedly, decide crime rate. If they want to play that game then, fine, it is fairly easy to see that socio-economic status is correlated with race in every nation, and not just in America. Why is this so?
The only way to explain this is to get into even touchier issues on race, such as inherited intelligence.
I would like to respond specifically to Ronald L.’s comments above. His remarks about the video’s detractors’ poor use of the English “langauge” [sic] are amusing. The timing of this spelling error, inadvertent or intentional, caused me to laugh out loud at a time when I needed a good laugh. I also want to ask him whether he thinks that Africans during the slave trade era were captured and sold into slavery because they were lacking in inherited intelligence, or if there might have been some other reason, such as not wanting to be shot.
Rob L. : Europeans never enslaved anyone in Africa they bought slaves in Africa from either Arabs and mostly from other Africans.
Tim: I like your statement, but do you also support minority rights for whites in South-Africa? And what have you done to support minority rights for white groups in Africa? Or does the rules suddenly not apply anymore, because now we are suddenly Nazi’s?
Dear You-Know,
I will concede the historical accuracy of your comment, but I said nothing about Europeans in my post. Quite frankly, I don’t see what your point is, other than perhaps just to add a historical tidbit to my comment.
Best,
Rob