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    Arrow Not trying to stirr trouble but....

    ....some of you need to read this.

    "The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege"

    From Amazon:

    "What is it like to be white, poor, and socially marginalized while, at the same time, surrounded by the glowing assumption of racial privilege? Kirby Moss, an African American anthropologist and journalist, goes back to his hometown in the Midwest to examine ironies of social class in the lives of poor whites. He purposely moves beyond the most stereotypical image of white poverty in the U.S.--rural Appalachian culture--to illustrate how poor whites carve out their existence within more complex cultural and social meanings of whiteness. Moss interacts with people from a variety of backgrounds over the course of his fieldwork, ranging from high school students to housewives. His research simultaneously reveals fundamental fault lines of American culture and the limits of prevailing conceptions of social order and establishes a basis for reconceptualizing the categories of color and class.

    Ultimately Moss seeks to write an ethnography not only of whiteness but of blackness as well. For in struggling with the elusive question of class difference in U.S. society, Moss finds that he must also deal with the paradoxical nature of his own fragile and contested position as an unassumed privileged black man suspended in the midst of assumed white privilege."

    The write of this book is black. I want to sent him a million flowers and give him free lap dances for life.

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    just because a black person says something about blacks....doesn't mean its right... so the fact that the writer is black...makes no difference to me

    look at the black news reporters on fox....





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    White Privilege isn't that all whites automatically have money and power and great lives. It's about the fact that acquiring these things is easier for whites because of the white power structure already in place which prefers hiring and giving opportunities to whites over blacks. Even with Affirmative Action, a black person has less of a chance at getting a job than a white person. In fact, white women benefit the most from Affirmative Action (because as people often forget or just leave out because it's inconvenient to their world view and preconceived notions, AA was created to help all minorities and women, not just black people).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss_Luscious View Post
    White Privilege isn't that all whites automatically have money and power and great lives. It's about the fact that acquiring these things is easier for whites because of the white power structure already in place which prefers hiring and giving opportunities to whites over blacks. Even with Affirmative Action, a black person has less of a chance at getting a job than a white person. In fact, white women benefit the most from Affirmative Action (because as people often forget or just leave out because it's inconvenient to their world view and preconceived notions, AA was created to help all minorities and women, not just black people).

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    Oh man (shakes head) - I never knew either of you were poor whites and knowing their struggles.

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    I just feel like the "Powers That Be" try to keep us apart and we keep falling for it. I'm sorry I sound like a total hippe but if we could just put the blame and differences aside and see how we're all exploited, we could change things, you know?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ms. Mia Roberts View Post
    just because a black person says something about blacks....doesn't mean its right... so the fact that the writer is black...makes no difference to me

    look at the black news reporters on fox....
    Did you read at all? This isn't about a black person saying things about black people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss_Luscious View Post
    White Privilege isn't that all whites automatically have money and power and great lives. It's about the fact that acquiring these things is easier for whites because of the white power structure already in place which prefers hiring and giving opportunities to whites over blacks. Even with Affirmative Action, a black person has less of a chance at getting a job than a white person. In fact, white women benefit the most from Affirmative Action (because as people often forget or just leave out because it's inconvenient to their world view and preconceived notions, AA was created to help all minorities and women, not just black people).
    *shakes head*

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoolaTwist View Post
    Did you read at all? This isn't about a black person saying things about black people.
    I'm sure she understands that, but why would you even bother adding that a black man wrote it, anyway?

    What difference does the race of the writer make, really?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss_Luscious View Post
    White Privilege isn't that all whites automatically have money and power and great lives. It's about the fact that acquiring these things is easier for whites because of the white power structure already in place which prefers hiring and giving opportunities to whites over blacks. Even with Affirmative Action, a black person has less of a chance at getting a job than a white person. In fact, white women benefit the most from Affirmative Action (because as people often forget or just leave out because it's inconvenient to their world view and preconceived notions, AA was created to help all minorities and women, not just black people).
    I was just explaining this exact point yesterday.



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    Quote Originally Posted by HoolaTwist View Post
    *shakes head*
    No need to shake you head at me. I was just clarifying exactly what White Privilege is. I didn't come up with the definition. See for yourself:

    white privilege, a social relation
    1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
    b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc.
    2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non–white persons.
    3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative.
    b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class.
    4. a. To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.
    b. To avail oneself of a privilege owing to one as a white person.
    5. To authorize or license of white person or persons what is forbidden or wrong for non–whites; to justify, excuse.
    6. To give to white persons special freedom or immunity from some liability or burden to which non–white persons are subject; to exempt.

    Also:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege
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    ^^^ To supplement the full definition, here's an essay about white privilege written by an associate director of the Wellesley Collage Center for Research on Women.

    http://mmcisaac.faculty.asu.edu/emc598ge/Unpacking.html

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    ...and it goes to show you when you start a thread " not tryin to stirr trouble, but..." i can almost promise you the drama wont be far behind....

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelovelylenee View Post
    ...and it goes to show you when you start a thread " not tryin to stirr trouble, but..." i can almost promise you the drama wont be far behind....
    Damn girls you are so right. What the hell is going on with SW lately.

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    and the sagas of "Black Life" continues....

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    back to author Shelby Steele ...

    (snip)"“White privilege is a disingenuous idea,” he adds. In fact, now there is “minority privilege.”

    “If I’m a black high school student today, there are white American institutions, universities, hovering over me to offer me opportunities. Almost every institution has a diversity committee. Every country club now has a diversity committee. I’ve been asked to join so many clubs, I can’t tell you. ... I don’t have to even look for opportunities in many cases, they come right to me.”

    Of course, there is still racism in America. At ABC News we’ve aired hidden-camera video showing sales clerks spying on black customers, cab drivers passing blacks to pick up whites and employers favoring white-sounding names.

    Steele says those are minor problems.

    “The fact is,” he adds, “we got a raw deal in America. We got a much better deal now. But we can’t access it unless we take ... responsibility for getting there ourselves.”

    He makes good points. White privilege does still exist, but Barack Obama’s success is more evidence that it’s not the whole story. There are plenty of people in America who want to vote for someone because he is black. Or female.

    It’s not politically correct to say that. Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro said she wouldn’t have been nominated for vice president in 1984 were she not a woman and that Obama would not have been doing so well were he not black. “Could I have said ... his experience is what puts him there? No. Could I say because his stand on issues have distinguished him? No ... If Obama were a white man, he would not be in this position. ... He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

    For saying that, she was repeatedly called racist. The heat got so intense, Ferraro had to resign from Clinton’s finance committee, and Clinton disavowed her remarks.

    There is black privilege — and white privilege. It’s time to stop complaining about past discrimination and to treat people as individuals, not as members of a certain race. "(snip)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    back to author Shelby Steele ...

    (snip)"“White privilege is a disingenuous idea,” he adds. In fact, now there is “minority privilege.”

    “If I’m a black high school student today, there are white American institutions, universities, hovering over me to offer me opportunities. Almost every institution has a diversity committee. Every country club now has a diversity committee. I’ve been asked to join so many clubs, I can’t tell you. ... I don’t have to even look for opportunities in many cases, they come right to me.”

    Of course, there is still racism in America. At ABC News we’ve aired hidden-camera video showing sales clerks spying on black customers, cab drivers passing blacks to pick up whites and employers favoring white-sounding names.

    Steele says those are minor problems.

    “The fact is,” he adds, “we got a raw deal in America. We got a much better deal now. But we can’t access it unless we take ... responsibility for getting there ourselves.”

    He makes good points. White privilege does still exist, but Barack Obama’s success is more evidence that it’s not the whole story. There are plenty of people in America who want to vote for someone because he is black. Or female.

    It’s not politically correct to say that. Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro said she wouldn’t have been nominated for vice president in 1984 were she not a woman and that Obama would not have been doing so well were he not black. “Could I have said ... his experience is what puts him there? No. Could I say because his stand on issues have distinguished him? No ... If Obama were a white man, he would not be in this position. ... He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”
    For saying that, she was repeatedly called racist. The heat got so intense, Ferraro had to resign from Clinton’s finance committee, and Clinton disavowed her remarks.

    There is black privilege — and white privilege. It’s time to stop complaining about past discrimination and to treat people as individuals, not as members of a certain race. "(snip)

    from http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinio...lls_obama.html

    Now i know that shelby steele does not do her reasearch and sounds like a crack pot to me....

    first off, what are "white american institutions"?

    second, with all that great work of diversity committees and "black priviledges"... why are white students still outnumbering black students 9 to 1(or more) in the majority of universitys and private institutions?

    and third, we already argued the whole obama is where he is because he is black.... so is bush where he is because he is white? was clinton where he was because he is white?
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    #1 - you might want to check out . He's actually a fairly well known figure outside of mainstream media (where conservatives of any race, color, or creed are generally not welcome)

    #2 - well for starters, black Americans only constitute 13% of the US population (i.e. 1 in 8 Americans). Add to that the fact that college admission, at the very least, requires a high school diploma as a pre-requisite. As to potential reasons why the percentage of black high school graduates is lower than the percentage of white, asian, or hispanic high school graduates, I refer you back to Shelby Steele.

    #3 - arguably, as Geraldine Ferraro has indirectly pointed out, the election of every president prior to Obama did not involve 'white guilt' as a major issue in voter candidate selection.


    I'll also add that both authors Kirby Moss and Shelby Steele eventually boil down to making the same point ... that being POOR and POWERLESS is no longer the exclusive province of black Americans (if it ever was to begin with).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    #1 - you might want to check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Steele. He's actually a fairly well known figure outside of mainstream media (where conservatives of any race, color, or creed are generally not welcome)

    #2 - well for starters, black Americans only constitute 13% of the US population (i.e. 1 in 8 Americans). Add to that the fact that college admission, at the very least, requires a high school diploma as a pre-requisite. As to potential reasons why the percentage of black high school graduates is lower than the percentage of white, asian, or hispanic high school graduates, I refer you back to Shelby Steele.

    #3 - arguably, as Geraldine Ferraro has indirectly pointed out, the election of every president prior to Obama did not involve 'white guilt' as a major issue in voter candidate selection.
    you didn't explain what "white american institutions" were...





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    I can only assume that the 'White American Institutions' that Shelby Steele was referring to are institutions that were at one time officially segregated i.e. the colleges and country clubs he makes direct reference to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    #1 - you might want to check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Steele. He's actually a fairly well known figure outside of mainstream media (where conservatives of any race, color, or creed are generally not welcome)

    #2 - well for starters, black Americans only constitute 13% of the US population (i.e. 1 in 8 Americans). Add to that the fact that college admission, at the very least, requires a high school diploma as a pre-requisite. As to potential reasons why the percentage of black high school graduates is lower than the percentage of white, asian, or hispanic high school graduates, I refer you back to Shelby Steele.

    #3 - arguably, as Geraldine Ferraro has indirectly pointed out, the election of every president prior to Obama did not involve 'white guilt' as a major issue in voter candidate selection.


    I'll also add that both authors Kirby Moss and Shelby Steele eventually boil down to making the same point ... that being POOR and POWERLESS is no longer the exclusive province of black Americans (if it ever was to begin with).
    the argument never was that. There were poor powerless whites back when the slaves were first freed... But no matter how poor and how powerless those whites were... it was better than being black. Its the i'd rather be white poor and powerless than black poor and powerless.... thats where white privilege stands...





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    and i also don't think white guilt was why obama won... but i'm not gona argue that with you...seeing as you are gonna believe what you want no matter how much we argue...and niether point can be proven





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    ^

    White guilt was not why Obama won. Obama would never have won, for instance, in 2004, when the US public were running scared after 9-11. Obama won because Bush fucked up hugely and people are ready for something very different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie View Post
    back to author Shelby Steele ...

    (snip)"“White privilege is a disingenuous idea,” he adds. In fact, now there is “minority privilege.”

    “If I’m a black high school student today, there are white American institutions, universities, hovering over me to offer me opportunities. Almost every institution has a diversity committee. Every country club now has a diversity committee. I’ve been asked to join so many clubs, I can’t tell you. ... I don’t have to even look for opportunities in many cases, they come right to me.”

    Of course, there is still racism in America. At ABC News we’ve aired hidden-camera video showing sales clerks spying on black customers, cab drivers passing blacks to pick up whites and employers favoring white-sounding names.

    Steele says those are minor problems.

    “The fact is,” he adds, “we got a raw deal in America. We got a much better deal now. But we can’t access it unless we take ... responsibility for getting there ourselves.”

    He makes good points. White privilege does still exist, but Barack Obama’s success is more evidence that it’s not the whole story. There are plenty of people in America who want to vote for someone because he is black. Or female.

    It’s not politically correct to say that. Hillary Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro said she wouldn’t have been nominated for vice president in 1984 were she not a woman and that Obama would not have been doing so well were he not black. “Could I have said ... his experience is what puts him there? No. Could I say because his stand on issues have distinguished him? No ... If Obama were a white man, he would not be in this position. ... He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

    For saying that, she was repeatedly called racist. The heat got so intense, Ferraro had to resign from Clinton’s finance committee, and Clinton disavowed her remarks.

    There is black privilege — and white privilege. It’s time to stop complaining about past discrimination and to treat people as individuals, not as members of a certain race. "(snip)

    from http://www.desertdispatch.com/opinio...lls_obama.html
    Your quote doesn't refute white privilege at all. In fact, it gives some specific examples and also states that there is in fact white privilege although it's not the sole reason some blacks have a hard time in this country. No one says that black people have no chance to succeed but the idea is that white people already have an inherent advantage because they are white. It's not exclusive to America. There are plenty of countries where the majority has an advantage over the minorities. If the roles were reversed in America (with the history reversed as well) then we would have Black Privilege and whites would be the ones suffering from it. Whites would need things like Affirmative Action and such.

    No one is saying it's some nefarious plan by whites to keep black people down or something. It's just a sociological mechanism which is natural to humans (pick people who resemble you the most).

    It can be transcended but it is not easy to push against the power structures already in place. The problem with both your and Shelby's ideas is that you assume that the reason black people don't succeed is because they don't try. That's not true. There are some black people who just need to get the fuck out of their own way but your run-of-the-mill middle class black person who's just trying to get that job or get that promotion isn't failing for lack of trying. The assumption that's being made applies mostly to the stereotypical "ghetto" blacks and is then spread over the entire race.

    All you need to do is look through some of the black dancers threads on here to see how white privilege works even in the microcosm of stripping. The things we have dealt with are not imaginary. It is real whether you personally chose to believe it or not.
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    For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege,
    or who are looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

    White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol
    Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your
    family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you
    or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black
    and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified
    as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

    White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'fuckin' redneck,'
    like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone
    messes with you, you'll 'kick their fuckin' ass ,' and talk about how
    you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a
    responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather
    than a thug.

    White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six
    years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of,< BR>then returned to after making up some coursework at a community
    college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to
    achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as
    unfit for college, and probably someone who only got into in the first
    place because of affirmative action.

    White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town
    smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state
    with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island
    of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people
    don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S.
    Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means
    you're 'untested.'

    White privilege is being able to say that you support the words 'under
    God' in the pledge of allegiance because 'if it was good enough for
    the founding fathers, it's good enough for me,' and not be im mediately
    disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was
    written in the late 1800s and the 'under God' part wasn't added until
    the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and
    terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you
    used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous
    and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

    White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make
    people immediately scared of you.

    White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an
    extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the
    Union, and whose motto is 'Alaska first,' and no one questions your
    patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your
    spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with
    her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's
    being disrespectful.

    Whit e privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and
    the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of
    women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end
    to child labor--and people think you're being pithy and tough, but if
    you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month
    governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in
    college and the fact that she lives close to Russia, you're somehow
    being mean, or even sexist.

    White privilege is being able to convince white women who don't even
    agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your
    running mate anyway, because suddenly your presence on the ticket has
    inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your
    party a 'second look.'

    White privilege is being able to fire people who didn't support your
    political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being
    a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and
    merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in
    Chicago means you must be corrupt.

    White privilege is when you can take nearly twenty-four hours to get
    to a hospital after beginning to leak amniotic fluid, and still be
    viewed as a great mom whose commitment to her children is
    unquestionable, and whose 'next door neighbor' qualities make her
    ready to be VP, while if you're a black candidate for president and
    you let your children be interviewed for a few seconds on TV, you're
    irresponsibly exploiting them.

    White privilege is being able to give a 36 minute speech in which you
    talk about lipstick and make fun of your opponent, while laying out no
    substantive policy positions on any issue at all, and still manage to
    be considered a legitimate candidate, while a black person who gives
    an hour speech the week before, in which he lays out specific poli cy
    proposals on several issues, is still criticized for being too vague
    about what he would do if elected.

    White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose
    pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize
    George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly
    Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian
    theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who
    say the conflict in the Middle East is God's punishment on Jews for
    rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you're just a good
    church-going Christian , but if you're black and friends with a black
    pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of
    Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign
    policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on
    black people, you're an extremist who probably hates America.

    White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by
    a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you
    such a 'trick question,' while being black and merely refusing to give
    one-word answers to the queries of Bill O'Reilly means you're dodging
    the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

    White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school, then
    to Yale and then Harvard Business school, and yet, still be seen as
    just an average guy (George W. Bush) while being black, going to a
    prestigious prep school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and
    then to Harvard Law, makes you 'uppity,' and a snob who probably looks
    down on regular folks.
    White privilege is being able to graduate near the bottom of your
    college class (McCain), or graduate with a C average from Yale (W.)
    and that's OK, and you're cut out to be president, but if you're black
    and you graduate near the top of your class from Harvard Law, you
    can't be trusted to make good decisions in office.

    White privilege is being able to dump your first wife after she's
    disfigured in a car crash so you can take up with a multi-millionaire
    beauty queen (who you go on to call the c-word in public) and still be
    thought of as a man of strong family values, while if you're black and
    married for nearly twenty years to the same woman, your family is
    viewed as un-American and your gestures of affection for each other
    are called 'terrorist fist bumps.'

    White privilege is being able to sing a song about bombing Iran and still be
    viewed as a sober and rational statesman, with t he maturity
    to be president, while being black and suggesting that the U.S. should
    speak with other nations, even when we have disagreements with them,
    makes you 'dangerously naive and immature.'

    White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
    anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
    black and experiencing racism and an absent father is apparently among
    the 'lesser adversities' faced by other politicians, as Sarah Palin
    explained in her convention speech.

    And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly
    allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W.
    Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing,
    people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is
    increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters
    aren't sure about that whole ' change ' thing. Ya know, it's just too
    vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same,
    which is very concrete and certain.

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