Melania hosts military wives.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2018 11:23 am
Fixed it for you.BackInTex wrote:Looks like a bunch of white women who's spouses are serving our country and they want to get jobs and work, too.
silverscreenselect wrote:Fixed it for you.BackInTex wrote:Looks like a bunch of white women who's spouses are serving our country and they want to get jobs and work, too.
By the way, according to Pew Research, in 2015, 40% of active duty military personnel were minorities (including 17% black and 12% Hispanic).
I'll leave it to our resident expert Flock to parse the significance of these details.
How do you pull that many military names more or less at random without a single family of color?BackInTex wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:Fixed it for you.BackInTex wrote:Looks like a bunch of white women who's spouses are serving our country and they want to get jobs and work, too.
By the way, according to Pew Research, in 2015, 40% of active duty military personnel were minorities (including 17% black and 12% Hispanic).
I'll leave it to our resident expert Flock to parse the significance of these details.
Why do you see race in everything? Why do you liberals have to bait every situation with race? We would be a lot closer to where Dr. King and all of us would like to be if you'd just fucking stop it.
We've gone from signs on the door that say "No Blacks Allowed" to a room of 50 women who are spouses and mothers of members of an organization that is 40% minority without a single minority person in the room. The odds of that happening by chance are approximately 1 in 8,000,000,000,000. By contrast, the odds of winning Powerball are only about 1 in 292,000,000. It's pretty hard not to notice race when you have examples this egregious, unless you make a conscious effort to ignore it.BackInTex wrote: We would be a lot closer to where Dr. King and all of us would like to be if you'd just fucking stop it.
So you really believe non-white people were explicitly, purposely not invited?Bob78164 wrote:How do you pull that many military names more or less at random without a single family of color?BackInTex wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:
Fixed it for you.
By the way, according to Pew Research, in 2015, 40% of active duty military personnel were minorities (including 17% black and 12% Hispanic).
I'll leave it to our resident expert Flock to parse the significance of these details.
Why do you see race in everything? Why do you liberals have to bait every situation with race? We would be a lot closer to where Dr. King and all of us would like to be if you'd just fucking stop it.
I can see two possible explanations. First, families of color weren't invited. Second, the families of color who were invited declined. The second explanation is innocuous (from this perspective). The first decidedly is not.
It's easy for us to ignore race because white privilege is real. It's not right for us to ignore it, but it is easy. That's because I know damn well that neither I nor my son will ever be stopped for driving while white. I'll never be asked to explain my presence in my own dorm, and neither will my son. I'll never have to worry about whether an employer is uncomfortable hiring me because of my skin color. And because that's the case both for me and my extended family, we have enough resources available that my son will be able to graduate from the college of his choice without suffocating under a mountain of debt.
The New York Times recently (within the last month or two) published a story I found startling. Perhaps someone else could find the link. The story recounted, based on a study with a large number of subjects, that the sons of rich black men are much more likely to end up in poverty than are the sons of rich white men. Conversely, the sons of poor white men are much more likely to become rich than are the sons of poor black men. I had thought that the primary reason that money is distributed in grossly uneven ways across races was the "catch-up" problem -- for well-known historical reasons, black families start out worse off than white families, and if we could correct that we'd come a long way toward a society where equality of opportunity was more than a myth. This story makes clear that there's much more work than that to do. --Bob
I don't know how it happened that such a large group of military families didn't include a single family of color, but giving the military's demographics, it's startling, to say the least. I'd really like to know how the invitees for that event were selected. --BobBeebs52 wrote:So you really believe non-white people were explicitly, purposely not invited?Bob78164 wrote:How do you pull that many military names more or less at random without a single family of color?BackInTex wrote:
Why do you see race in everything? Why do you liberals have to bait every situation with race? We would be a lot closer to where Dr. King and all of us would like to be if you'd just fucking stop it.
I can see two possible explanations. First, families of color weren't invited. Second, the families of color who were invited declined. The second explanation is innocuous (from this perspective). The first decidedly is not.
It's easy for us to ignore race because white privilege is real. It's not right for us to ignore it, but it is easy. That's because I know damn well that neither I nor my son will ever be stopped for driving while white. I'll never be asked to explain my presence in my own dorm, and neither will my son. I'll never have to worry about whether an employer is uncomfortable hiring me because of my skin color. And because that's the case both for me and my extended family, we have enough resources available that my son will be able to graduate from the college of his choice without suffocating under a mountain of debt.
The New York Times recently (within the last month or two) published a story I found startling. Perhaps someone else could find the link. The story recounted, based on a study with a large number of subjects, that the sons of rich black men are much more likely to end up in poverty than are the sons of rich white men. Conversely, the sons of poor white men are much more likely to become rich than are the sons of poor black men. I had thought that the primary reason that money is distributed in grossly uneven ways across races was the "catch-up" problem -- for well-known historical reasons, black families start out worse off than white families, and if we could correct that we'd come a long way toward a society where equality of opportunity was more than a myth. This story makes clear that there's much more work than that to do. --Bob
You're a real twit. Do you actually think that the White House, or Melania, made a concerted effort to exclude minorities, to ensure a white's only event?silverscreenselect wrote:We've gone from signs on the door that say "No Blacks Allowed" to a room of 50 women who are spouses and mothers of members of an organization that is 40% minority without a single minority person in the room. The odds of that happening by chance are approximately 1 in 8,000,000,000,000. By contrast, the odds of winning Powerball are only about 1 in 292,000,000. It's pretty hard not to notice race when you have examples this egregious, unless you make a conscious effort to ignore it.BackInTex wrote: We would be a lot closer to where Dr. King and all of us would like to be if you'd just fucking stop it.
AMEN!BackInTex wrote:silverscreenselect wrote:Fixed it for you.BackInTex wrote:Looks like a bunch of white women who's spouses are serving our country and they want to get jobs and work, too.
By the way, according to Pew Research, in 2015, 40% of active duty military personnel were minorities (including 17% black and 12% Hispanic).
I'll leave it to our resident expert Flock to parse the significance of these details.
Why do you see race in everything? Why do you liberals have to bait every situation with race? We would be a lot closer to where Dr. King and all of us would like to be if you'd just fucking stop it.
And perhaps the unicorns they were riding in on got stuck in DC traffic.BackInTex wrote:Perhaps the minorities that were invited chose not to come lest the be called "Uncle Toms" by the twits such as yourself. That's a real concern.
Culture is the answer.Bob78164 wrote: The New York Times recently (within the last month or two) published a story I found startling. Perhaps someone else could find the link. The story recounted, based on a study with a large number of subjects, that the sons of rich black men are much more likely to end up in poverty than are the sons of rich white men. Conversely, the sons of poor white men are much more likely to become rich than are the sons of poor black men. I had thought that the primary reason that money is distributed in grossly uneven ways across races was the "catch-up" problem -- for well-known historical reasons, black families start out worse off than white families, and if we could correct that we'd come a long way toward a society where equality of opportunity was more than a myth. This story makes clear that there's much more work than that to do. --Bob
Stop it, you're embarrassing the other liberals.silverscreenselect wrote:And perhaps the unicorns they were riding in on got stuck in DC traffic.BackInTex wrote:Perhaps the minorities that were invited chose not to come lest the be called "Uncle Toms" by the twits such as yourself. That's a real concern.
By the way I believe Bob J's photo came from last year's event hosted by Ivanka (in the center), not this year's event hosted by Melania. Also, for an event honoring military "spouses," there don't seem to be any husbands of military personnel here either.
It wasn't an event "honoring" military spouses.silverscreenselect wrote:And perhaps the unicorns they were riding in on got stuck in DC traffic.BackInTex wrote:Perhaps the minorities that were invited chose not to come lest the be called "Uncle Toms" by the twits such as yourself. That's a real concern.
By the way I believe Bob J's photo came from last year's event hosted by Ivanka (in the center), not this year's event hosted by Melania. Also, for an event honoring military "spouses," there don't seem to be any husbands of military personnel here either.
I know you sincerely believe this, but there are far too many cases in which this breaks down in practice.BackInTex wrote: A good work ethic, a value for education, respect for others and their property, provides a foundation for a successful life.
You're right. It was Military Spouse Appreciation Day, so I guess appreciating is not the same thing as honoring.BackInTex wrote: It wasn't an event "honoring" military spouses.
Do you have to try hard to be wrong this much, or does it come natural to you?silverscreenselect wrote:You're right. It was Military Spouse Appreciation Day, so I guess appreciating is not the same thing as honoring.BackInTex wrote: It wasn't an event "honoring" military spouses.
Over the past year @KellyannePolls & I have been convening experts to understand the employment barriers faced by #MilitarySpouses. 47% of the 600K+ military spouses describe finding work / managing their careers as their greatest source of stress. We are working to address this
LOL. You ARE as stupid as you are dumb. There are many cases where it doesn't work. I said that. Nothing is perfect. The difference between you and me, I guess, is I see the glass as almost full and you see it as not quite full.silverscreenselect wrote:I know you sincerely believe this, but there are far too many cases in which this breaks down in practice.BackInTex wrote: A good work ethic, a value for education, respect for others and their property, provides a foundation for a successful life.
Thank you.jarnon wrote:I don't know what event BJ's photo is from, but I got this from the White House YouTube page:
It's called Celebration of Military Mothers and Spouses, so clearly they're being honored. President Trump, along with Melania, is the host. And the ladies are of all races.