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I'm so sick and tired of the race card.

I'm so sick and tired of the race card. My parents are immigrants. They didn't have the language privelage that [non-white] natives have. It's such a sorry excuse blaming your failure on others. There will always be inequality in the world. Somehow against the odds my parents worked their asses off and put our family in a favorable position. It took working two jobs, going to school for 8 years but somehow they did it. I can't stand hearing racial this or that. But to appease the racists out there, Morgan Freeman has many times been asked if it's impossible to be successful as a black person, to which his response was 'look at where I am now, that is evidence that you can be successful" [paraphrased]. You have to want it, not whine about something else.

Posted by peterhadlaw on Jul 10, 2015, 5:27 PM

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I'm so sick and tired of the race card.

peterhadlawJul 10, 2015, 5:27 PM

I'm so sick and tired of the race card. My parents are immigrants. They didn't have the language privelage that [non-white] natives have. It's such a sorry excuse blaming your failure on others. There will always be inequality in the world. Somehow against the odds my parents worked their asses off and put our family in a favorable position. It took working two jobs, going to school for 8 years but somehow they did it. I can't stand hearing racial this or that. But to appease the racists out there, Morgan Freeman has many times been asked if it's impossible to be successful as a black person, to which his response was 'look at where I am now, that is evidence that you can be successful" [paraphrased]. You have to want it, not whine about something else.

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