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The folks flying the Confederate Flag over the statehouse.
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1-the flag has been gone for quite some time. 2-"this situation" try to keep up with the rest of the class



I wasn't aware that the confederate flag had been flown recently over a government building. But if it had, that would have been wrong.

However... if it's been gone "for quite some time" (does that mean a week a month or more?), then you have to admit that the topic of that boycott/protest has little to do with a flag and more to do with noise and fury.

I don't think Congressman Wilsons comments were appropriate, but neither do I think that he was being "racist" by calling the President a "liar."

I think this "story" is just designed to stir the pot... on both sides.

The NAACP is all about "black rights" which often can be seen as "throwing the race card." - that is their job. FOX is all about publicizing drama and selling "news" to their reader base - that is their job. They both are focused on their "jobs" and not fixing real problems.

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1-the flag has been gone for quite some time. 2-"this situation" try to keep up with the rest of the class



Just responding to the story to which YOU linked.:P

Try to be consistent, there's a good chap.
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the flag has been gone for a few years

the NAACP threw the race card, they threw it simply because a white person made a negative comment to a black person, so who is the racist?

Joe Wilson's comment had nothing to do with race
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The strange thing is there was a study done that actually showed that blacks are the predominant racist ethnic group in this country.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/01/you_may_be_more.php

I now of several other cites of this study and if any of you care enough you can actually dig it up and read it for yourselves, that way nobody can say it was biased because I posted it.

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The strange thing is there was a study done that actually showed that blacks are the predominant racist ethnic group in this country.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/01/you_may_be_more.php



Did you stop and think about the "source" of the "study" you publicly cite here?
Amrem.com is the site for the American Renaissance website. I Googled the phrase "American Renaissance", and this is what came up.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=american+renaissance&aq=0&aqi=g10&oq=american+ren&fp=ee36edbd3c16a1c5

It's a white racist website, Randall. Do you really expect that citing it is going to carry any credibility in this discussion?

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The strange thing is there was a study done that actually showed that blacks are the predominant racist ethnic group in this country.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/01/you_may_be_more.php



Did you stop and think about the "source" of the "study" you publicly cite here?
Amrem.com is the site for the American Renaissance website. I Googled the phrase "American Renaissance", and this is what came up.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=american+renaissance&aq=0&aqi=g10&oq=american+ren&fp=ee36edbd3c16a1c5

It's a white racist website, Randall. Do you really expect that citing it is going to carry any credibility in this discussion?




From the link called "source" in the Amren.com story: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/07/racism.study/index.html

Here is where the "study" was published: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;323/5911/276?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Kawakami&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

I have no comments on the study and had never heard of Amren before. Just trying to be helpful to those who don't bother to read.

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The articles cited did not remotely state, and thus did not support, the conclusion that "blacks are the predominant racist ethnic group in this country", as Warped crudely mis-represented. It simply said that many people who don't consider themselves to be racist may actually be more innately racist than they think they are. And the article specifies that the subjects of the study were "120 non-black participants." So, yes, it does seem that Warped did not bother to read.

And mind you, Warped did not cite the CNN and Science articles directly, he cited the American Renaissance website, so apparently it was the American Renaissance website that commanded his rapt attention. As for American Renaissance, its white-racist agenda is fairly well undeniable. Here's the link to its home page:

http://www.amren.com/index.html

By all means, look at the whole page in its entirety to get a flavor for the obvious common theme. But here's an exerpt from one of the various publications on race that are linked on the page, this one advertised as an "Amazing New Book About Africa":

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Dr. Braun [the author] draws on his years of intimacy with Africans to support two main conclusions. The first is that virtually all Africans take it for granted that whites are smarter than blacks. They haven’t the slightest illusion that they could have invented computers or built airplanes, and they recognize that blacks and whites differ in moral and psychological characteristics as well.

What is more, Africans are not the least offended by these realizations. Unlike whites, they do not see any inherent immorality in acknowledging racial differences. Some clever, westernized Africans have discovered—just as American blacks have—that whites are terrified at the thought of racial differences, and have learned to manipulate this terror to their own advantage. But they, too, Dr. Braun finds, can almost always be persuaded to acknowledge the inherent limitations of Africans.

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Try to be consistent, there's a good chap.


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The folks flying the Confederate Flag over the statehouse.


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Well, good chap-at least you're being consistent.


Why are you posting links to information that's wrong, then?:P Did you READ your own link?
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http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2007/05/blacks_are_more_raci.html

If you wanted to say I am wrong why not read far more than you did.

I will stand by my assertion, there have been studies made that showed this as truth.

If you do not like something that does not mean it is untrue.

Blacks are even racist against other lighter skinned blacks.

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1) disagreeing with the President on healthcare is not racism.

but also

2) that Plancksconstant website is a bunch of bullshit. It's an example of the typical bigot who excuses himself by saying, "Hey, I'm just tellin' it like it is!"
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I will stand by my assertion, there have been studies made that showed this as truth.



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Blacks are even racist against other lighter skinned blacks.



That's quite the blanket statement to throw around.

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http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2007/05/blacks_are_more_raci.html

If you wanted to say I am wrong why not read far more than you did.

I will stand by my assertion, there have been studies made that showed this as truth.

If you do not like something that does not mean it is untrue.

Blacks are even racist against other lighter skinned blacks.



I don't agree with your last statement specifically. If anything personal experience (not studies and so I am not claiming any wide trend) shows the reverse to be true. Simply look at the popularity of skin lightening products within the black community so see the "trend".

For what it is worth my personal opinion is that the whole subject is given far more airtime than it is worth. You can't and shouldn't change people's belief structures - if I hate blacks that is my problem. If I don't employ someone based on skin colour that is my problem (a "good" person selects an employee on merit - so my prejudice potentially exludes a better candidate). I have no problem if a black person hates whites either. The only area that should be of concern is violence against a race - in either physical or verbal form - and the laws for this are well established and of quite long standing.
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No, Wilson yelling "You Lie" was not at all racist.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, NAACP, or the NNPA in this case, do more harm than good and are often (95% percent of the time) the ones who initially pull the "racist" card where it's not needed.

With finger pointing like that.....nevermind, there's just too much to say[:/]

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