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2021-06-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Don Lemon: 'I Don't Know If America Sees Black People ... as Fully Human'
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Posted by Fred 2021-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [336114 views ]  Top

#1 
Most people treat other people with respect and tolerance in a civilized society, if and until the interactions turn negative, untenable or uncivilized.

Possibly Mr. Lemon, has come across an article on the internet blog, NationalVangard.org which may have raised this question in his mind.
The article is Blacks Aren’t Human with the byline ROSEMARY W. PENNINGTON (EDITOR) · 14 MARCH, 2015. Written with a global sociological view.

I'll provide you some aid Mr. Lemon, this was an opinion piece, and the internet is full of opinions, some reasonable, some not.

You are young Mr. Lemon, a Millennial, you need to pace yourself, lest your world suddenly deteriorates because of prejudicial thinking...
Posted by Glager Peacock5053 2021-06-22 02:15||   2021-06-22 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 'I Don't Know If America Sees Black People ... as Fully Human'

Show us some African-American mathematicians, Don. Cause, to me, you and the rest of African-American celebrities are circus monkeys.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-22 03:21||   2021-06-22 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ You are young Mr. Lemon, a Millennial, you need to pace yourself, lest your world suddenly deteriorates because of prejudicial thinking...

Age is certainly not a guarantor of knowledge but it usually does contain a measure of life experiences and observations. These experiences and observations guide our opinions, thinking and intentions. I believe an applicable term or reference might simply be our desire or intention for 'survival.'

Some form of organized 'civilization' containing positive behaviors and outcomes appears to be a key to survival. While they cannot yet communicate with us, I suspect the animal kingdom might agree.

'Fully human' is certainly not the question. 'Fully civilized' is likely the correct term.


Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-22 05:54||   2021-06-22 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 "Attacks from any privately-owned primate in captivity should be expected because these animals are not living healthy lives where they can express their natural urges and engage in natural behaviors," said Erika Fleury, program director at the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-22 07:05||   2021-06-22 07:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't think communists are human and you surely fit the bill you Lemon.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-06-22 08:02||   2021-06-22 08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 No Don, we don't see you as a fully functioning sentient human being. You only happen to be black.
Posted by Cesare 2021-06-22 08:52||   2021-06-22 08:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Black people apparently make awesome political agitators, and it pays well to boot.
Posted by Raj 2021-06-22 09:43||   2021-06-22 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know how America perceives Mr. Lemon but he has always come across to me as a moron and as a very biased shill for the left.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-06-22 09:54||   2021-06-22 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 g(r)omgoru, you could have just said 'celebrities are circus monkeys'. You might catch some innocents in the mix but in general it's more inclusive and accurate.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-06-22 09:59||   2021-06-22 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Feed the monkey a banana.
Posted by crazyhorse 2021-06-22 11:15||   2021-06-22 11:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Help! Help! My ratings are cratering, and I'll try any fool thing to get them back up!
Posted by Tom 2021-06-22 11:36||   2021-06-22 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 RJ let me parse
(1) Not everyone should be a mathematician - but, a 30 million strong group (given all these affirmative action educational opportunities) should produce some. Unless something is lacking.
(2) Notable African-Americans: celebrities, politicians, university (non-stem) professors just don't make up for (1) for me.
Sorry. I guess I'm a racist. Also male chauvinist pig.
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-06-22 12:56||   2021-06-22 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 To keep from becoming the racist that people like Lemon accuse me of being, I must constantly remind myself that not all black people are as deficient as he is.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-22 14:09||   2021-06-22 14:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Mr. Lemon, video clips like these about the mob twerking on an ambulance (thanks, Skid) also make it difficult for me. I don't want to be a racist but clearly something has gone wrong somewhere. It might help if more prominent people of color would publicly denounce Critical Race Theory, or at least denounce twerking on an ambulance to celebrate a shooting that occurred during a Juneteenth celebration.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-22 14:20||   2021-06-22 14:20|| Front Page Top

#15 No Don, I just see you as living proof that not all humans are even minimally intelligent.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-22 14:54||   2021-06-22 14:54|| Front Page Top

#16 Grom. Katherine Johnson, for one.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-06-22 15:31||   2021-06-22 15:31|| Front Page Top

#17 ^In 1953 she began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s West Area Computing unit, a group of African American women who manually performed complex mathematical calculations for the program’s engineers.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-22 15:47||   2021-06-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

#18 ...Calculations are not math.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-22 15:47||   2021-06-22 15:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Grom, I'm only talking about the second part of your post. Celebrities are trained monkeys and I feel that should be pointed out at every opportunity.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-06-22 17:15||   2021-06-22 17:15|| Front Page Top

#20 ^Not well trained ones.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-22 17:33||   2021-06-22 17:33|| Front Page Top

#21 Don Lemon caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Posted by Lemuel Black3983 2021-06-22 22:19||   2021-06-22 22:19|| Front Page Top

#22 Oregon made it illegal to own chimpanzees in 2010, but anyone who owned an ape prior to that year was authorized to keep the animal for the rest of its life

Hmm. What's more plausible -- that they didn't know the term, or that they couldn't bring themselves to use it?
Posted by Menhadden Shomomp7752 2021-06-22 23:54||   2021-06-22 23:54|| Front Page Top

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