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OK, point taken. But really all this thread makes me think of is the badger song... with different lyrics of course.

I was thinking Chitlins. And then leave the snake, just try to work "Alabama Black" into the lyrics.

But close enough!

The civil rights movement can sometimes lack integrity. Has this become the main focus of Jesse Jackson's time, or is it just a little side project of his? It seems like banning the N would be pretty low on the overall priority list of the continued civil rights crusade. I don't know anybody who's gotten shot 50 times, right before a wedding, for using a WORD.

Society is at a point where quiet, unspoken racism is more dangerous than ever. The KKK may be not be marching in DC anymore, but I can think of a few parts in Alabama where you can still get pulled over for being black after 8 PM on a week night.

My business partner can't talk money with certain customers, because he's black. If he starts discussing money like he actually knows what he's talking about, the prospect will get this funny look on their face; like someone just fed them a mouthful of rotten fish. But when I step in, because I have to, they look relieved again. It's OK, that uppity N was just forgetting his place and trying to do business like a white man.

Maybe Jesse's just getting old and frustrated, and he wants to score some kind of victory before there's no more air left in his lungs. He probably realizes that the battle against discrimination IS a battle of culture. Mind of Mencia might be a mildly entertaining show, for example, but it's pretty ************* Who the hell is going to watch Mencia's show without hearing something they've already heard thirty million times? The issue is not that people haven't HEARD of equality, it's that they turn a blind eye to it.

It's like when Kanye West opens his big, stupid mouth and says that George Bush doesn't care about black people.

REALLY, Kanye? Did you forget that out ALL by yourself? Did you then devise that cunning plan to combat discrimination by just waving your proverbial **** on TV? Well played, sir... well played.

The tacit endorsement of thug glamorization by people like BET, whose entire platform is allegedly based upon the cultural flowering of Black America... it doesn't help. It is, in fact, the silent partner of the unspoken institutes of prejudice that continue to reign in White America.

Banning a word? Futility. We need LESS silence and MORE talking.

But I do agree with Totem. He's my n--... I mean, he's totally rad, dude.

I have a question if there are two races in a given area under one goverment and one of these races gets special treatment not paying taxes goverment handouts etc. would those special treatments be racist.

N;gger is now, always was, and always should be an appropriate way to refer to a class of people. That people not in that class take offense to it's usage is simply indicative of ignorance on their part. I like nothing better than strapping on my helmet and walking in to a ring of dice throwers on the wrong side of the tracks, yelling "n;gger!" and turning to run.

They call me Dan. Danger Seeker Dan.

As much as I hate that affirmative action is necessary, I think it would be better worded as "it's ok to recognize that racism exists in order to fix a problem". I would love to believe that if we ignore it, it will go away, but I'm not functionally retarded so I guess that's out.

Nexa

I understand what you're saying, but racism is *already* institutionalized by our society at the most basic levels. AA seeks to *counter* an already existing institutionalization of racism in the only effective way that the government can at this point, unattractive as it is to you and I. Once AA is unnecessary to put all of our citizens on equal footing (or at least try to), I'm all for ditching it. You know, in a perfect world...

Nexa

Where are the hordes of slack-jawed minorities being shunted into positions of high influence and prestige, again? You people make it sound like the ACLU is exhuming Attila the Hun and making him a Senator.

This argument sounds an awful lot like, "All black people on welfare drive Escalades and have multi-platinum rap careers."

If I were to come in here and say something like, "All white people with high-paying jobs have them only due to centuries of nepotism and graft," I'd be laughed out of town like Peewee Herman.

As much as I hate that affirmative action is necessary, I think it would be better worded as "it's ok to recognize that racism exists in order to fix a problem". I would love to believe that if we ignore it, it will go away, but I'm not functionally retarded so I guess that's out.

Have my children.

:)

No. An institution is an "official" part of some structure.

It's an act right? No one who can walk upright can really reasonably be this fucking stupid.

You're making it too obvious, pull it back a little.



Edited, Dec 5th 2006 4:56am by Smasharoo

It's a good thing there's no sort of racial bias in our society anymore. That's why we have all those female Asians and blacks on our money. Not, you know, notorious rednecks and Indian fighters.

Whew.

Now that racism is completely over, a view propagated only by certain enclaves of white people (of a demographic historically not dissimilar to the one which benefits the most from its perpetuation), we can get to electing a new president.

Because it's not like the Bush family represents white interests or anything.


Oh, wait... HOW hard did the NAACP have to hound Bush to get him to even appear and give a speech? Huh.

Who did John McCain visit first? Alabama A&M, or Jerry Falwell?

I'm so glad I can see an equal dispersal of religious and political views whenever I turn on the major news networks. I tell you, I really enjoyed Bill O'Reilly's last rant about how traditional soul food is underappreciated by the common American, or about how most people only think of Guangdong regional dishes when they think of "Chinese food".

Did I ever mention how cunning of a plan it is for the media establishment to quietly forment a mistrust of all things Muslim for the past several years, when Arab diplomacy is at its most critical? And I'm so glad that the average American has a clear, lucid understanding of WHY terrorists hate us so much.

OH WAIT. They don't hate US... they hate our FREEDOM. My bad. Jealous haters, all playa-hatin' and whatnot. They just don't know how to keep it real.

I haven't even gotten to how our aloof, condescending attitude toward foreign relations has funded and trained our nation's most militant adversaries in recent years? Or how Iran's revolution was sparked by the callous incompetence of a puppet leader WE handpicked?

I bet it's all those minority 5 star generals who were handed their job out of affirmative action. Either that, or it's the pimps on welfare.


Edit: Aww, there goes my "decent" user rating.

Edited, Dec 5th 2006 10:58am by rckndl

The idea of Affirmative Action seeming to be an insult is a rationalization propogated by people in power to justify the maintenance of their power. Basically, it's not about being less qualified but ensuring that rather people aren't specifically discriminated against because of their race and gender in certain companies. Given that we have two women and one African-American CEO in the Fortune 500, Massachusetts has the second elected African American Government since the reconstruction and Iraq has a higher percentage of women in office, I think the status quo isn't equality currently and thus the need for protective measures.