Liberals Warned Me About MAGA’s Racism. I Didn’t Believe Them—Until Now.

So, you know Colin better than Colin knows himself. You just have hard time admitting when you’ve made a mistake.

He embraced his blackness when he was a teenager. Every human grows into their identity as they age, or should.
what does it mean to embrace one's blackness?

does it mean stop being on time, and stop valuing euro-centric book learning?
 
Put your vote where your mouth is. Blacks vote Dem most of the time because they "know" which side sides with proud boys, white supremists and other lower life forms.....
Agreed. Same goes for women. Why support a party that seeks to subjugate you? Neither party is perfect and both the major parties are better at taking care of themselves than all Americans. They'll each cater to their base during an election year, but watch what happens when a Democrat or Republican doesn't toe the party line. LOL

I've voted Libertarian ever since the Republicans tossed out the results of their own Growth and Opportunity Project. It recommend embracing Hispanics since they are fast growing segment of the American population, religious, family oriented and traditionally conservative. Since most were brown and embracing Hispanics meant substantial immigration reform, the majority of Republicans tossed it out. Thus, solid proof they were racist. I could no longer hold my nose voting for such people.

I support traditional Republican Party values; a strong economy and a strong national defense. The Republican Party had shifted away from those values in the 1990s towards anti-abortion and anti-gay agendas even if it cost the economy and national defense. This is why I felt "the Republican Party left me, I didn't leave the Republican Party".

The LP isn't perfect either, but it's closer to my values than the fucking MAGAts and now DOGEs running the Republican Party.
 
Education isn't being skilled in a trade dumb ass
A slight disagreement. Being skilled is education, but that doesn't mean it should stop there or be limited to it.

Obviously some people can only handle so much so teaching them to use a mop, a leaf blower or even something as technical as a metal lathe may be their limit. I've flown with a few civilian pilots who learned the skill of flying, but lacked a lot of common sense outside the cockpit and, sometimes, inside the cockpit.

One reason many white-collar jobs, especially in management, and military officers are required to have a college degree is so they have a "well rounded education", meaning they know more than simply a skill or knowledge in a single subject.

FWIW, education doesn't have to include a piece of paper from a college or university. It can be autodidactic like Abraham Lincoln or in an occupation or profession such as several years in the military.

In Arbie's case, while I have no doubt he's very skilled as a machinist and in competition shooting, including reloading, it seems his education stopped there. While it's possible he simply quit or didn't care to learn anything more, it seems more likely he's simply unable.


Self-Taught Attorney
It was not hard to become an attorney during Lincoln’s time, but he still underwent hardships in becoming one. In 1837, there were not that many law schools, and most students educated themselves in Law by studying under an attorney for three years and then taking the bar exam, which was nothing but oral back then. Meanwhile, Lincoln only borrowed books from a local attorney and studied legal cases intensively. He took on different kinds of casual jobs throughout his studies to sustain himself. Because he was at a disadvantage because he was self-taught, it took Lincoln four years instead of three before receiving his license. Lincoln had a sharp memory, but his mind was not as fast. It took his mind a while before he was able to grasp the concept at hand. Lincoln himself said that he was slow to understand, but he retained the material in his mind for a long time. He said further that his mind was like steel — hard to etch something on it, but near-impossible to erase the etchings on it.

As a Member of Congress
When he was serving in the House of Representatives, his friends thought it was hilarious that Lincoln spent his free time reading books inside the Library of Congress. However, his self-education enabled him to grow a scholarly power that showed its force in his speeches and writings. His power of speech was driven by his sound arguments and the well-founded knowledge he had learned through his non-stop reading.

 
My take
Skills training and education involve learning, the key difference is that skills training focuses on acquiring specific, practical abilities needed for a particular job or task, while education aims to provide broader knowledge and critical thinking skills, often encompassing theoretical concepts and preparing individuals for a wider range of career paths; essentially, training is "learning to do" while education is "learning to know.".
 
November 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president, my high school history teacher pulled me back after class.

“Are you okay?” he asked me.

Before I could answer, he expressed concern that I should be vigilant in a post-Trump world. “Don’t be surprised if people start telling you to go back to where you came from,” he said.
Pop Quiz: Does Guno absolutely live for DNC hate-driven fear and panic?
 
Libs are racists? Only black president, only black VP. Only black woman nominated for POTUS. While trump ignored all the blacks he sucked up to before this election. Only white billionaires apply......Calling libs racist is like calling Trump decent, stable and smart. lmao
Only black President, was a Trojan Horse and he ran the country into the ground for the last 4 years as well in stealth mode.
Only black VP was a diversity hire who was dumber that Joe Biden.
Only black woman nominated for POTUS. That's a joke. She was installed when Biden's dementia became to too pronounced to keep denying. She couldn't win a nomination, it was all set up by the party bosses. She lost as she should have.
 
what does it mean to embrace one's blackness?

For one: not having to hear yet another white dude ask what it means to be able to embrace who one is in a society so constructed as to preferentially benefit the white people to the point that they don't even realize their skin doesn't give them superpowers.

does it mean stop being on time, and stop valuing euro-centric book learning?

Nah, it means not having to hear bigots blather about things like that.
 
Only black President, was a Trojan Horse and he ran the country into the ground for the last 4 years as well in stealth mode.

How? Was it the tan suit? I bet it was the tan suit. That and the fact that he kept that black skin FOR THE ENTIRE 4 YEARS. The least he coulda done for 'Merica is to be white for a while.

Only black VP was a diversity hire who was dumber that Joe Biden.

Still far smarter than you and probably 15 of your associated in-bred family altogether. :)

 
For one: not having to hear yet another white dude ask what it means to be able to embrace who one is in a society so constructed as to preferentially benefit the white people to the point that they don't even realize their skin doesn't give them superpowers.



Nah, it means not having to hear bigots blather about things like that.
but what does it mean.
 
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