"sure I've been called xenophobic. I just happen to believe that America is the greatest country and the other countries aren't as good. That used to be called patriotism." - Kenny Powers

Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.  Am I doing this right?

No, I don't want to own slaves. No, I don't think people from "insert country here" are better or worse than "America".

I just think each country should cater its immigration policies to favor its own citizens and longevity/prosperity.  Europe or the US admitting hundreds of thousands of people who are quasi illiterate, lack a skill and don't speak the native tongue, is a retarded immigration policy. Just because you're bored working your McJob in London, Paris, Toronto, Berlin or NYC and want to believe you're making the world a better place by inviting in people who have no interest in adopting your culture doesn't make you intelligent or enlightened. It just means you're a shit head who has that luxury and probably haven't taken a step out of your bubble.

As long as hajis are shooting and blowing up westerners, you're bleeding heart cries to bring in people too stupid or craven to fix their problems at home. Bringing them all to the west doesn't improve the problem and only extends their drama to the west.

I still remember half of you saying Bucket/Ron/DJ/Finck was the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Has James gone back and deleted any post before 2016 yet. 

That being said, I have nothing against their contributions and think Robin was a great addition to the band.  Better is an awesome song and kudos to them for putting up with all the BS for over a decade in some cases.  But I'm glad to have Slash back.

No, I'm calling out the nonsense that suggests any other culture has contributed anything close to western culture.  The color of your skin means dick to me and just because Newton changed the world and he and I share a similar skin pigmentation, means nothing.  Every person should be judged based on their achievements.  People who go around bragging about what a distant relative or person of similar appearance achieved are idiots.

But black people aren't treated lesser than whites.  The actual numbers and crime statistics don't support that claim.  The most well payed and highest academic achievers are Asians.  The same people who were treated just as poorly as any black slave.  Yet one group is at the top of the ladder while the other is at the bottom.  Black slaves were given citizenship after the civil war.  Look up US v Wong kim Ark to see how Chinese people were treated after that.

It's a misrepresentation of truth to say that blacks are less valued.  King didn't bring up race, the other idiot was making the tired point of the GOP being nothing but angry white people, in the larger aspect of the BLM nonsense.  King only pointed out that western society (at no time did he say white) has done more than any other culture of note.  When you're trying to claim that other groups created "surgery" or "ink", you've completely gone off the reservation. 

So the media runs with a talking point, and everyone covers their ears and pretends that western civilization isn't the basis for everything the world does today.  Again, I care what individuals do, not some larger, arbitrary group.  But if you want to go down that route, blacks contribution to this country was agriculture in the dying south.  Industrialization is what made America great, and they as a group had little or nothing to do with that.  But I'll take a million Neil Degrasse Tyson's over a million Willie Robertson's any day of the week.

Is what he said not true?  I'm not one to take pride in the actions of other people, but western ( European ) culture and in turn American culture has done more to progress this world than any other.  I mean, Africans hadn't even invented the wheel when Europeans found them. Native Americans didn't have a written language until the 17th or 18th century.

Colonization is what brought the rest of the world into the modern era.  If you had to name the 5 most important people or their inventions in the past 1000 years, can you name one person who isn't white?

Notice I'm talking about what King actually said and not that blurb in your attached image.

Is there a single African nation today where your average person is 1/10th as secure and comfortable as your average black in America?

But where is the line drawn?  And no government can oppress its people without the military helping them do it.  Edrogan can issue edicts, but if his military and police forces don't enforce them, he's a lion with no teeth.

A lot of people in the US thought Bush/Obama was a tyrant.  You could spin a million different things to a point it appears a threat.  If you believed Bush was behind 9/11, shouldn't you want the military to remove him from power?  If you think Obama is setting up FEMA camps to imprison citizens who disagree, shouldn't the military intervene?

I believe in Democracy, as flawed as it is.  The military's purpose is to follow the orders of the democratically elected leaders.  That Turkey's military has assigned themselves as the keepers of secularism and freedom (an admittedly honorable notion) doesn't mean that they have the legal authority to do so. 

As they allegedly had F-16s locked on to Edrogan's plane and didn't fire makes me think this may all have been a hoax anyway, especially with the purging that has occurred since.  The EU should put pressure on Turkey to conform to western standards, but I don't believeTurkey will ever be admitted to the EU.  It would open Europe to a flood of Islamist like never before as poor, uneducated Arabs enter Turkey through Iraq and Syria.  And since you need universal approval to enter the EU, it's very unlikely you're every going to get unanimous consent.