Ok, well, I certainly do not see eye-to-eye with you. Perhaps you are correct, but I do not think so in the present. Just to be sure, I’ll send an email to Bill Cosby and ask for his opinion on this contentious subject-matter.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158648219X/ref=sip_pdp_dp_0.

When a black person uses the word “nigger” he is not doing so from a position of power relative to the person he addresses that comes merely from his skin colour.

When Niggers use the N-word they are perhaps trying to desensitize themselves to its painful effects.

When Niggers refer to themselves as “Niggers” they are in fact high lighting the most important determinant of the misery of their lives, the fact that white people do not see them as humans with dark skin, but as untermenchen who are inherently stupid, untrustworthy, immoral and evil and who need to be imprisoned as soon as a pretext can be found.

If you want to understand this I suggest you watch the TV series “The Wire” or buy Nate Blakeslee’s book on the 1999 2000 Tulia cocaine busts “Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town” http://www.amazon.com/phrase/blank-waiver/ref=sip_top_0.

I like anyone who has the means to tell someone to go to hell in such a way as they look forward to the trip.

I’ll be the devil’s advocate, ok. I would like to read your explanation as to why is ok for some African American’s to refer to each other as a “nigger,” but not the other races?

I did not say that I was excusing Mr Mcintyre’s hitting the woman.

Male privilege exists and the fact that you are aware of it may give you at least a little understanding of how black people see white privilege.

One aspect of white privilege is illustrated by this case. Were Mcintyre white his attack on the woman would not be seen as proof that all white men are thin skinned, belligerent and misogynist thugs, but since he is black it will reinforce the perception among most white people that most black men are exactly that.

The most significant aspect of white privilege is that cases of white criminality ranging from that of Bernie Madoff to that of Ted Bundy do not in any way create the impression that white people are inherently criminal whereas every case of black crime adds to the impression that blacks are an inferior race.

John,
Gee and I thought you liked me?

None of the above excuses Mr. Mcintyre hitting this woman. There is also something called male privilege in this society. Male violence against women is a world wide epidemic. I would suggest that Mr. Mcintyre does not understand the concept of male privilege. You can’t decry the discrimination that harms you while practicing in the discrimination that benefits you. You have to reject all of them.

It appears that one can no longer subscribe to a comment threads by simply ticking the check box, one has to respond to an email that leads to a word Press logon screen. Is this intended behaviour or is it one of those modifications that webmasters spring on the unsuspecting?

As everyone knows this statement is absolutely true. A person who responds to mere words by getting physical is a loser and deserves to end up imprisoned, losing his job and paying out big compensation to the smart aleck who managed to find the right button to press to generate that wash of humiliation that comes when an enemy finds just that right cheap shot insult.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”

As everyone who remembers what it was like to be at school can attest, this statement is concentrated bovine feces. Words can hurt and hurt and hurt badly. For any person who has not explicitly practiced controlling his/her response to insults there will exist insults that resonate with their past experience to generate a wave of abject humiliation of shame and perhaps of fear.

Let us imagine that it is 1950, a man is in the street and sees someone whom he dislikes and whom he has icome to believe incorrectly to be Jewish and decides to insult him by yelling out “it is a pity that the Nazis did not gas you”. The target of the insult looks around bewildered but is not affected at all because he is not Jewish.

Now let us alter the scenario a bit, imagine the target of the insult is actually Jewish and that all his immediate family disappeared in Nazi occupied Europe and he is the only one to survive but not until he experienced the beginnings of the exclusion of Jews from civil life that began when the Nazis gained power and that prompted him to leave. The same words would have an entirely different effect, they would provoke rage, outrage, humiliation and fear.

Or let us consider the nooses hung in that tree in the high school in Jena LA after the argument about whether blacks could sit under the white tree. To the white students the nooses have no emotional resonances but to the black students they remind them of ancestors or predecessors lynched before lynching was stopped in the seventies. Some of them would feel actual fear and would interpret the nooses as a coded death threat.

Do you see what I am getting at? When it comes to insults, a white person has a much bigger and varied arsenal to throw at blacks than blacks have with which they can respond. A white guy, a respectable resident of the genteel suburbs shouts “go to hell nigger” at a black guy from the ghetto, the black guy responds with “go to hell honkey” but it is a pathetically weak response. It is like comparing a pellet from an air pistol with a 16″ shell. For the black guy the N word has resonances in historical and personal experience, it reminds him of Jim Crow, of lynching, of army of occupation policing of the suburb where he lives of all his relatives and friends who are doing long sentences in prison for drug crimes. What does “honkey” mean to the white guy, it tells him that a black guy who almost certainly owns less property than he does, who earns less than he does and is likely to die earlier than he will dislikes him, but it causes no fear, no shame, no humiliation.

MvW Mass? I’m thinking at about 2/3 mass for women they start having trouble. At about 1/2, it’s serious trouble. Truthfully this ratio is about right for both sexes. However, depending upon what martial art they study, women have an advantage with their legs because their center of gravity is lower than a man’s (due to differences in the pelvis). As a rule for both sexes, once you reach that 2/3 threshold it’s time to consider doing more damage faster (if left no other option) usually to soft targets like the groin or throat (always dangerous) but sometimes the goal against a larger opponent is simply to control a joint. Pain can be a wonderful motivator in getting an attacker to stop. A properly administered arm or wrist lock (there are several varieties) can make even the biggest of the bad call for momma. All of this assumes the person is normally susceptible to pain (either due to training, biology, willpower or drugs). However, technically speaking a 100# woman can kill a 300# man with one blow. It’s administering the blow that is the issue.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/07-1428.pdf

Are there microcosms where “black” Americans give each other preferential hiring and promotions? Sure. But as a “white” American I’m better off (or we could say “privileged”) having access to the world of Wall Street, where billions and trillions of dollars are slung around among almost exclusively “white” and “asian” people than the opportunity to be a prison guard supervisor.

This “John” genius is technically right that some “black” Americans benefit from limited preferences or short-term preferential treatment. But he’s blissfully missing the forest for the trees. On the whole, “white” people have advantage after advantage over “black” people from job hiring to interactions with police to getting a home or business loan to the reality that “it’s who you know” in business.

This professed “obliviousness” to the reality of day-to-day racism in America is really on par with flat earthers. I sometimes forget how appalling and infuriating it can be to face this sort of self-serving ignorance-by-choice. (Yes, I’m implying that there’s a degree to which such claims are disingenuous.) This guy at Columbia is in no way justified in punching someone (particularly a woman), but it’s vaguely understandable that he could get that upset.

You might find this link enlightening:

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/m0k6317t3p605233/fulltext.pdf

I guess is that you have the attention span of a lightning bolt and are scared to admit it.

There is the intramural basketball team the “Fighting Whites” out in Colorado at some college. Here is their website if you want to buy a shirt:

http://www.cafepress.com/fightinwhite/

John,
If in fact you are a Doctoral student, which is doubtful given your post, you are highly ignorant of US history. My guess is that you are anti-black and afraid to honestly admit it.

“This event is like a fire alarm, a rally against confusion, against delusion, against paralysis,” said Larry Holmes, of the Bail Out the People Movement. It is time for serious and sober activists to return to the basics of speaking Truth to Power. “A Black president is not a Black liberation movement, it is not a workers movement, nor is it a movement to end these racist wars.”

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/road-new-movement-begins-black-back-coalition

You are entitled to your opinion. I very much disagree with that, though. “White privileges” my behind. There is Black History Month, a Black Student Alliance, etc. Gosh forbid a White individual organize a White History Month or a White Student Alliance. Oops, I apologize for not being politically correct. I should have written African American’s.
Where I go to school, the only individuals who get to stay in our doctoral program, those who make two or more C’s that is, are African American’s. I do not the specific reasons, but I can tell you this much, many of us (doctoral students and doctoral candidates) think that this is because “there are not enough African American professors.” It does not matter if they are smart. Do note that one of those, an African American female, personally told me that our University would never dismiss her (for grades) because she was an African American female. She has made three C’s. We (student’s in general) are allowed just one.

So, as far as I am concerned, if there is such a thing as “White Privilege,” there most certainly is such a thing as “African American Privilege.”

I am just a cowboy, roll me over ….

erykah,
Of course you are correct and the evidence backing you up is really incontrovertible. However, this Professor acted like a jerk. The ability to act like a jerk runs across all racial, religious and sexual human lines. Many in the Jewish community would for years worry about Jewish crooks and thugs like Bugsy Siegal, Dutch Schulz and Meyer Lansky giving Jews a bad name. After a while Jews came to realize that those bigoted towards them were immune to evidence. Now naturally, Jews are mainly white and names like Schwartz can be changed to Smith, which is a large edge in eliminating prejudice.

To my mind what makes it different for Black people has been the systematic denial of the fact of American Racism still existing since the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the faux end of segregation. White privilege is a fact of American life, only today it is hidden under a polite veneer of hypocrisy.

So dprosenthal,
What stereotypes can we presume from Bernie Madoff being Jewish? John Gotti being Italian-American? etc. bigots need no evidence to affirm their beliefs, their minds have already been made up. There is no negative counter-evidence that would suffice.

“If you want to see Black racism in action, go to work for the Prison System in any state with urban centers. Preferential treatment in hiring and promotion for Blacks as a reward for belonging to a race with a high incarceration rate. Black privilege, if you will.”

Toledophil,
So the whole imbalance in sentencing of whites and black in this country is really a plot by Black people to get themselves prison jobs? How cunning. would I be wrong in thinking that you personally don’t like black people, or will you reply that some of your best friends are black. Hmm.

Done that. My daughter can break a 2″ board with one kick. Imagine what could be done to Mr. McIntyre’s “nads” (assuming he has any), if he was foolish enough to tackle a woman with those kinds of skills.

There is such a thing as racism, but privilege has always been about money and resources. To call it “white privilege” is not only racist terminology proper, but inaccurate as well. That historically there are more poor blacks than poor whites as a percentage in this country is indeed a reflection of racism in other facets of life, but the nature of privilege has not changed since one caveman realized he had more meat than the others and could leverage it to get what he wanted. But if you think there is such a thing as white privilege, go sit a rural Southern courthouse for a day or two. The consistently screwed over by the system? The poor. Their skin color notwithstanding. Yeah, there are a lot of crappy things done on race based “reasoning”. But if you choose to fight such things by using inaccurate and biased terms yourself? I can’t see I agree with your choice, but that’d still be your choice.

might it not be because the black guards were more qualified?

you are just saying that because you are green:)

have you ever heard of a “Watermelon”?

I think George Soros might fit that bill “Green on the outside but red on the inside”

Can a female with martial arts training actually kick a mans ass? Assuming the man just has the average experience with fighting, some school yard brawls and no real training. What could the maximum size differential be?

First, there is no such thing as “white privilege”, only “green privilege”.

Second, you’re biologically male. Unless a woman is REALLY attacking you – not the little slap fight hissy fit either but I mean either in a trained, psychotic fashion and/or wielding a weapon, there is no need EVER to punch a woman in the face EVEN TO STOP HER ATTACK. If she was a threat meriting punching, you couldn’t have simply held her until she calmed down? Perhaps you need to refine your punching guidelines, Lionel. Unless you’re Tom Cruise tiny perhaps and then you STILL shouldn’t be picking on girls because they just might kick YOUR ass. In an ideal world, Ms. Davis would have been a green belt and flipped Mac like a cheese omelet for his efforts. So I’ll just leave it with this advice:

Peoples! Send your little girls to traditional martial arts classes! Help keep jackasses like Lionel in line and ensure a safer dating and social environment for your daughters! And think how much fun someone like Lionel would have in processing explaining to the Crips that he got busted up by a girl he was arrested for attacking.

Wow … doesn’t sound like she received any privilege from Prof. Mac … allegedly.