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14 black male students in Cambridge

  • 03-05-2017 10:37am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    14 black male students in Cambridge posed for a picture, the intended message:

    "Young black men don't grow up thinking they'll make it here. They should."

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39787690

    All or at least most of the students are from Africa.
    You look at the African Americans & the crap they have to put up with. Not from racist/fascist/white supremacist/KKK/white privilege but from liberal/SJW's/white feminists/white apologists. They are constantly being told that the system is against them that white people have an advantage over them etc. Strange how Asians & Africans in America can beat the system. Keep telling someone they will never make it & they stop trying. The focus should be on encouraging the African Americans to put in the hard work to get better education & clean up their neighbourhoods.
    The following 2 videos really show the idiocy that African Americans have to put up with

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZemTmR3Ue4


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    Are they also part time male models?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭NoCrackHaving


    Ehm, last I checked Cambridge was in England not the United States, just saying....


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Ehm, last I checked Cambridge was in England not the United States, just saying....

    Is there not an American Cambridge as well?


  • Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I am not sure what your point is.
    Why do you think they are African rather than British?
    What has any of it got to do with African Americans?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    14 black male students in Cambridge posed for a picture, the intended message:

    "Young black men don't grow up thinking they'll make it here. They should."

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39787690

    All or at least most of the students are from Africa.
    You look at the African Americans & the crap they have to put up with. Not from racist/fascist/white supremacist/KKK/white privilege but from liberal/SJW's/white feminists/white apologists. They are constantly being told that the system is against them that white people have an advantage over them etc. Strange how Asians & Africans in America can beat the system. Keep telling someone they will never make it & they stop trying. The focus should be on encouraging the African Americans to put in the hard work to get better education & clean up their neighbourhoods.
    The following 2 videos really show the idiocy that African Americans have to put up with

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBxZGWCdgs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZemTmR3Ue4

    Must have been the racist/fascist/white supremacist/KKK/white privilege who set up this, then?

    "Cambridge is one of 27 universities that are currently members of the Race Equality Charter (REC) - a scheme designed to address the representation of staff and students from ethnic minority backgrounds."


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Is there not an American Cambridge as well?

    Yes Cambridge Massachusetts. Harvard University


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Who gives a rats ass?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭NoCrackHaving


    Is there not an American Cambridge as well?

    Indeed there is, in Boston but the article is about Cambridge University in England so therefore the entire OP is just plain unconnected to the article.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭ Siena Stocky Thanksgiving


    Who gives a rats ass?

    SJW's and snowflakes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I am not sure what your point is.
    Why do you think they are African rather than British?
    What has any of it got to do with African Americans?

    It's just your average rant of a fellow who blames all their failures and struggles on 'libtards' and 'cucks' and other such nonsense.

    I wouldn't read to much into it, not worth wasting the brain matter on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    14 black male students in Cambridge posed for a picture, the intended message:

    "Young black men don't grow up thinking they'll make it here. They should."

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39787690

    All or at least most of the students are from Africa.
    You look at the African Americans & the crap they have to put up with. Not from racist/fascist/white supremacist/KKK/white privilege but from liberal/SJW's/white feminists/white apologists....

    Aaaaand I'm out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    I am not sure what your point is.
    Why do you think they are African rather than British?
    What has any of it got to do with African Americans?

    Saw the interview this morning with some of them & they were African.
    Africans & Asians in America do better academically than African American & better in life in terms of employment etc. My point being is it because African Americans are constantly being told by liberals that they wont make it because of the system so have they just given up?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,447 ✭✭✭weemcd


    The deck is unbelievably stacked against black people in America, and if you can't see that you are deluded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    weemcd wrote: »
    The deck is unbelievably stacked against black people in America, and if you can't see that you are deluded.

    Really?? The ones that work hard or have talent seem to do OK for themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,436 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    weemcd wrote: »
    The deck is unbelievably stacked against black people in America, and if you can't see that you are deluded.

    Depends on The State etc. Yes being black has disadvantages in some parts, but mostly its best applicant gets job, or best student gets the reward no matter what colour, religion or even gender.

    Of course they're exceptions but they are in minority. Unless things have changed hugely from when I lived there 10-11 years ago, which I doubt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Ehm, last I checked Cambridge was in England not the United States, just saying....

    Yes well done.....My point was why is it that Africans can do well in education but African Americans dont do as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Who gives a rats ass?

    True. Don't they realise that 99.999999% of white people will never make it there either?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Saw the interview this morning with some of them & they were African.
    Africans & Asians in America do better academically than African American & better in life in terms of employment etc. My point being is it because African Americans are constantly being told by liberals that they wont make it because of the system so have they just given up?

    It might be a bit more complicated. My guess is that Africans that go to the US and do well tend to be from Nigeria and are from their middle class. So they are kind of a self selected group of people that probably had doctors etc as parents so of course these people are likely to do well.

    But yeah there is definitely a political narrative being pushed to make it look like whitey is keeping the black man down which avoids asking awkward questions.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Is it really that hard to understand??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    I remember when After Hours used to be about relevant Irish stuff.

    It's all that American drama binging on the Sky box isn't it?


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I think the black people in Cambridge are being shoehorned into some kind of argument about African Americans. Not sure if the OP has really thought this one through...


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Can someone please just tell me what I'm outraged about?

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    I think I've seen this porno!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Depends on The State etc. Yes being black has disadvantages in some parts, but mostly its best applicant gets job, or best student gets the reward no matter what colour, religion or even gender.

    Of course they're exceptions but they are in minority. Unless things have changed hugely from when I lived there 10-11 years ago, which I doubt

    This is the point I'm trying to make, why is it that Asians & Africans can overcome a system that the African Americans are being told is racist?


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I mean, look at Nelson Mandela. If the liberals told him he couldn't follow his dreams, he'd never have become president of South Africa.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    It's all just middle class white people wanting to virtue signal for social cachet. There's a fcuking epidemic of it in western society. Louise O'Neill posted recently after she seen Moonlight and said that it was good to see a film about black people as it wasn't just white people that have stories to tell. These people are as dumb as you can get but yet they think they are profound and progressive. Arsehats the whole lot of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭NoCrackHaving


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Yes well done.....My point was why is it that Africans can do well in education but African Americans dont do as well.

    But what has that to do with England?

    Your OP would make some sense if you were comparing the levels of black men from England getting into university versus black men from Africa or comparing black Americans getting into US universities versus black Africans but conflating the two is a bit stupid frankly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    SJW's and snowflakes

    The irony of the op being this is just brilliant! Some seriously incoherent babbling to jump through mental loops in an effort to push an agenda going on from him/her! :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I think I've seen this porno!

    Yes. Wasn't it in the big flute section


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Ehm, last I checked Cambridge was in England not the United States, just saying....

    Give it time...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    I mean, look at Nelson Mandela. If the liberals told him he couldn't follow his dreams, he'd never have become president of South Africa.

    Yes but its the same with any African American who works hard or has talent, they overcome the so called barriers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Really?? The ones that work hard or have talent seem to do OK for themselves.

    In acting, music and sport.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Billy86 wrote: »
    The irony of the op being this is just brilliant! Some seriously incoherent babbling to jump through mental loops in an effort to push an agenda going on from him/her! :pac:

    How do you know I'm not non binary gender? ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    In acting, music and sport.

    Employment, political the list is endless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    I like Morgan Freeman's take on all this kinda bullshit.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I don't buy white chocolate anymore.
    Just in case.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Keith Prehistoric Munchies


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Is it really that hard to understand??

    Yes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    I
    Have
    Confused


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    OK, so we have 14 Africans get into one of the top universities in the world. In the USA Africans & Asians do well academically & career wise but African Americans seem to struggle. Is it because they are being constantly told that the system doesnt work for them??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    OK, so we have 14 Africans get into one of the top universities in the world.


    In the USA Africans & Asians do well academically & career wise but African Americans seem to struggle. Is it because they are being constantly told that the system doesnt work for them??



    These two facts are unrelated :confused:


    Saying roddy collins used manage Cambridge United is more relevant??
    At least it's in the same country?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Yes but its the same with any African American who works hard or has talent, they overcome the so called barriers.

    Yes, it's statistically highly unlikely but the black kid child born into poverty could potentially achieve just as much as a wealthy white kid who doesn't need to work hard and has no discernible talent! Equality FTW!

    Still don't know what this has to do with 14 Black Students in Cambridge mind!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Yes, it's statistically highly unlikely but the black kid child born into poverty could potentially achieve just as much as a wealthy white kid who doesn't need to work hard and has no discernible talent! Equality FTW!

    Still don't know what this has to do with 14 Black Students in Cambridge mind!

    Just need a rich uncle Phil in Belvedere


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    OK, so we have 14 Africans get into one of the top universities in the world. In the USA Africans & Asians do well academically & career wise but African Americans seem to struggle. Is it because they are being constantly told that the system doesnt work for them??

    14 Africans getting into a college with a student population of 19,000 just shows how lazy African-Americans are, amiright!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    These two facts are unrelated :confused:


    Saying roddy collins used manage Cambridge United is more relevant??
    At least it's in the same country?

    Unrelated?? OK maybe its a little early in the day for you so I'll try again.
    Forget about the logistics
    You have black people from 2 different continents & the ones on the poorest do better in education than the ones on possibly the richest one.
    Why is that??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Yes, it's statistically highly unlikely but the black kid child born into poverty could potentially achieve just as much as a wealthy white kid who doesn't need to work hard and has no discernible talent! Equality FTW!

    Still don't know what this has to do with 14 Black Students in Cambridge mind!

    But why is it that Asians & Africans who move to America do much better?? Not all come from wealthy backgrounds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Unrelated?? OK maybe its a little early in the day for you so I'll try again.
    Forget about the logistics
    You have black people from 2 different continents & the ones on the poorest do better in education than the ones on possibly the richest one.
    Why is that??
    What has any of this got to do with the lads in the photo though??

    Britain isn't even in Europe anymore?


    Im even more lost....is Europe poorer than America?

    Your not making much sense


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Help!!!! wrote: »
    Unrelated?? OK maybe its a little early in the day for you so I'll try again.
    Forget about the logistics
    You have black people from 2 different continents & the ones on the poorest do better in education than the ones on possibly the richest one.
    Why is that??

    Is that what you're really seeing there when you look at that article? What is the socio-economic status of the couple of black people in that picture compared to the socio-economic status of the average African-American.


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