Comments on: #WhitePrivilegeMeans http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846 Creative Discussions, Inspiring Thoughts, Fun Adventures, Love & Laughter, Peaceful Travel, Hip Fashions, Cool People, Gastronomic Pleasures, Exotic Indulgences, Groovy Music, and more! Wed, 09 Nov 2016 11:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » Constance Wu Slams Matt Damon’s Great Wall Film for Perpetuating a ‘Racist Myth’ http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-129080 Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » Constance Wu Slams Matt Damon’s Great Wall Film for Perpetuating a ‘Racist Myth’ Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:02:56 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-129080 […] Josie: I’ve read stats on black men being incarcerated but not much on the women. Much of what you posted was all new news to me. Thank you for enlightening me. […]

]]> By: Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » Tim Wise: There Are No Accidents Only Precedents http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128864 Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » Tim Wise: There Are No Accidents Only Precedents Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:02:50 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128864 […] thank you Social Butterfly for posting that short video of Tim Wise. I thought everyone should watch it if they haven’t. […]

]]> By: Social Butterfly http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128816 Social Butterfly Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:56:27 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128816 In keeping with the theme of the blog today, I wanted to share Tim Wise. He makes a great statement on white privilege and why race and class politics are what they are in the US. It’s a good video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pufqZHMG9Oc

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]]> By: Cynthia http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128815 Cynthia Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:51:48 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128815 I have plenty of white girl friends who have much less education(some don’t even have a high school diploma) who make more money than I do with a college degree in accounting.

]]> By: Bill http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128814 Bill Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:49:07 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22846#comment-128814 Yes, Michelle, you have covered this topic well in the past, yet, it continues to be a denial whites use to make themselves feel superior. I like this from one of your blogs.
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The phrase “all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights” does not appear in the Constitution, although a very similar phrase does appear in the Declaration of Independence. Indeed, the Constitution, at least as it stood before the Civil War, had very different things to say about the subject of human equality. It provided, for example, that “[n]o person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” The original Constitution also contained explicit language prohibiting Congress from banning the importation of new slaves until 1808.
Nevertheless, DeMint is technically correct that “the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution.” That’s because the Thirteenth Amendment provides that “[n]either slavery nor involuntary servitude. . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The Thirteenth Amendment did not, however, simply come into being because Abraham Lincoln had a “love in his heart that comes from God.” Rather, it happened because Lincoln led the nation in a massive big government program known as the “Civil War“.

During this war, the United States raised an army of over two million service members who clashed with a Confederate army of about half that size. Moreover, the war effort increased federal spending nearly 25 times. As the leader of a centralized government in Washington, DC, Lincoln also issued a document known as the “Emancipation Proclamation,” which ordered slaves in the Confederate states freed.
Notably, while the Thirteenth Amendment ended the legal practice of human chattel slavery, state laws such as the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws were enacted in the South to maintain the inferior status of former slaves and their descendants. These laws were eventually eradicated by big government as well, primarily through legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
It’s also worth noting that the Confederate system of government differed from the Union’s system in that it placed far less power in a strong central government. While the United States Constitution, permits the federal government to “lay and collect taxes . . . and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” for example, the Confederate Constitution excluded the power to “provide for the general welfare.” Thus, the United States Constitution permits major national spending programs such as Medicare or Social Security, while these programs would have been unconstitutional in the Confederacy. Similarly, the Confederate Constitution includes a rigid limit on national infrastructure spending — forbidding its congress from “appropriat[ing] money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce” — a limit that does not appear in the United States Constitution.
So Jim DeMint is correct that there was a belligerent during the American Civil War that rejected “big government.” He’s just wrong about which side that was.
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Today’s blog has given me others to copy and save for those times when all I want to do is smack the white idiot who claims he is what he is because of his work ethic rather than the privileges he gets because of the color of his skin.

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