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davereed:

Redditors figured out you’d have to be going about .375c for this to be true.

Best joke?

Relativity: Not just a good idea, it’s the law.

ridiculous and AWESOME!

Hahahahahahahaha  Physics-nerd humor FTW!!!

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themightyfoz:

jonathan-cunningham:

themightyfoz:

jonathan-cunningham:

themightyfoz:

jonathan-cunningham:

This describes the responses I get about the last cartoon…

FOZ: The problem is that this cartoon perpetuates the idea that every person that is not of color got a leg up at some point in their life. Whether it be now or prelife. Which is simply not the case.

The whole point is that it IS the case; every single person who’s alive today has been effected by global and imperialistic racism.  Your grandparents, parents and you yourself were left alone while the grandparents parents and personage of minorities were not.  Wealth (in the economic structure we have today) is passed generationally; there’s no denying that people who were treated better generations ago benefited, and there’s no denying that white people were (and are) treated better than their African American counterparts.  Just look at the incarceration rates on a racial basis to see what I mean.

I think I understand the point you’re trying to make, though; there are plenty of impoverished whites that are being taken advantage of.  Social ills can’t be cured on a solely racial basis, but I have no problem taking from people who inherited their money from parents who benefited from racism and putting it toward social programs for minorities.

FOZ: Been effected? Sure. But I am considered “white” although I am 100% Italian, and when my earliest ancestors (1948) they were “effected” by being discriminated against and treated very poorly. The idea that every white person in this country has benefited by being white is not true. I understand that this is a cartoon, and I do understand and agree that every person is affected for the good or the worse by what their ancestors went through…I just don’t agree that every white person has had it made since they reached Ellis Island. It just is not true.

I also have no problem chipping away at empires that were built on spoiled money, racism, and nepotism.

(also, try getting an interview with the first name Foz ontop of your resume…..it aint the easiest thing in the world…lol)

I’d put Italian Americans into a distinct group from ‘white’, though.  Race is a social construct, and at the time when our Nation’s wealth base was still developing, Italian Americans were used and thrown away like so much refuse and most definitely not given privilege.  When they stood up for themselves?  They were executed. Even so, you still had distinct advantages over African Americans.  For people with light skin, teenage rebellion is treated with levity- for people with brown skin, it’s cause for hard time.

FOZ: Although I do not agree it should be a different group, I wish it was! It would make my career easier! LOL… Or would it? would it make me feel like I deserve  something? I dunno, that is a debate I can’t have because everything I have, I have worked very hard for. I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way.

I am surprised that you brought up the Vanzetti of it… That is something I haven’t heard since my Grandfather. there was so much of that back in the day, and I wouldn’t know because I am lucky to have been born when I was. But the Mafia back then, the protecting ourselves and winning for ourselves can be equated to the Latino and black youth and the gangs. the spoils of the rich force the underprivileged to act for themselves….

Things weren’t exactly always great and beautiful for people with clearly Irish names, either.  As recently as the 80’s, one could get away with still considering us a separate people group from whites.  Then you consider that not everyone who happens to be light-skinned grew up in an area where things were going all that well for anyone, and yeah.  There’s reason you can find white people who get annoyed at being lumped into some mythical group that has always gotten their way and should have to pay back for it.