Mark Cuban; Any Thoughts ?

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Mark Cuban: I'll cross street if I see "a black kid in
a hoodie" or "white guy with a shaved head and tattoos"



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Mark Cuban spoke at the GrowCo conference in Nashville earlier today, and The Tennessean’s Shelley Dubois transcribed some snippets that are sure to be recycled in the news cycle:

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http://thebiglead.com/2014/05/21/ma...-or-white-guy-with-a-shaved-head-and-tattoos/



 




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He isn't defending his position well...

its just as jumbled as Cuban's original words.

He isn't addressing Cuban's points and he isn't able to adequately respond to the opposition.

What SAS is saying has NOTHING to do with what Cuban is talking about.

SAS is using tired stereotypes. He is talking about sagging jeans and using slang and job interviews?

What in the hell does that have to do with the point Cuban himself apologized for?

We ALL understand people have prejudices...that isn't some grand revelation by Cuban.

What exposed Cuban is the SPECIFIC comparison he chose to use...

he KNEW he was going to be interviewed, he KNEW that he had previously made comments attempting to defend Sterling.

So if Cuban wants to continue with his 'smartest guy in the room' act then he has the suffer the consequences when he is called out.

SAS is wrong...not because we should be aware of our surroundings, realize our appearance effects how others treat us etc.

He's wrong because he KNOWS that Cuban was speaking from a position of power, of someone fully aware of how racism is institutionalized in this country and how he included has benefited and continued to benefit from it, that White people need to justify their years of oppression and enslavement of our people yet be seen as innocent and he pandered to that.

Ya'll want to fall for the okey doke fine...but remember all that basic bullsh*t SAS was spewing is exactly what THEY gonna use to continue to divide and conquer us.
 
I am prejudiced against all snakes even though some are harmless.
 
My thoughts? Another media distraction.

President Obama and the corporatist are negotiating another economic give away to the wealthy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (TPP); NAFTA on steroids.

Employment levels are still anemic and the quality of jobs being created sucks.

Too many people are being killed by gun violence and the the politicians have conceded the gun issue to the gun nuts.

Our first amendment rights are slowly being chiseled away to the corporations, yet the so called constitutionalists offer nary a peep.

These issues get little or no space in the national press.

These are my thoughts.
 
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