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Before Obama was elected, Limbaugh stated that race relations would deteriorate under Obama. Have you ever seen the country so racially divided?
I wasn't alive in the 60s and don't remember the Rodney King riots, but I've never seen the country this torn apart by race, and I think Ferguson finally blew the lid off the pressure cooker.
It's been a steady drumbeat of racial issues the last few years. The Skip Gates arrest outside his home a couple years back, Trayvon Martin, and now Ferguson. In each one of those cases, the media and the "advocates" seem to want to drum things up and get people upset. It's certainly worked.
Do you think race relations are going to continue to deteriorate? I'd say this is the worst it's been since the 60s.
This is called the "ignorance of youth". Mind you, I'm not calling YOU ignorant. It's just that you didn't live through the 50s and 60s. I remember the school integration riots of the 1950s. My sister-in-law, growing up in Maryland, Maryland, mind you, remembers segregated lunch counters and she just turned 60 this month. This was all under a Republican president, Eisenhower. I remember when MLK was killed in 1968. The national guard was called out to Pittsburgh and camped in the football stadium of my college. There were tanks driving town the streets. It seemed like what my dad had told me The Soviet Union was like. I could go on and on.
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I´m in my 50´s and grew up in New Orleans. Race relations have been a struggle my entire life and I wouldn´t say they are any worse now. Less so in Seattle, in fact, not really much of a problem because people don´t separate themselves racially to any large degree here.
As for Obama, I don´t see him as a racial divider or concilitor, he´s more of a divider based on political philosophy. However, I do see Holder as more of a racial divider.
Well, Seattle is one of the whitest cities in the US. A lot of people there do not "walk the walk".
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Black man?
Last I checked he was half White (bi-racial) & was raised by White grandparents after the Kenyan father & trailer trash White mother abandoned him.
Trailer trash? She had a PhD!
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I'm in my 30's & the only time I have seen this country so racially divided was after the OJ Simpson trial in the 90's under fellow Democrat, Bill Clinton.
Never have I seen that under a Republican president, not in my lifetime.
Me personally, I'm hosting Thanksgiving tomorrow for family and some friends and there will be a mix of ethnicities there and I. don't. give. a. crap. what their pigment is, they are my friends.
If I know my recent presidential terms correctly I believe that was Clinton. Glad no one was killed and that the damage to property was exponentially less than L.A..
Were you trying to make a point? Mine was that democrats aren't the only ones who have these events happen under their watch. I think yours adds another notch to the Dem column. Was that your point?
Excuse me?
Cincinnati riots April 9-13, 2001
GW Bush January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009
In the future, when someone actually agrees with you, it's usually best to just take it as such.
I agree. Crazy events happen all the time. Doesn't matter who's in the White House.
Detox. Hurry. Someone has poisoned your mind pretty badly.
So hearing the truth upsets you? You need to open your eyes and admit the truth...
The only thing that has poisoned me is having a corrupt, evil president who is intent on destroying America..
So hearing the truth upsets you? You need to open your eyes and admit the truth... The only thing that has poisoned me is having a corrupt, evil president who is intent on destroying America..
Are you kidding me son!!! The conservative hero Jefferson Davis was the only president that "actually" was intent on destroying America!!! Luckily that idiot only represented red necks, and was put back in his place before any real damage could have been done to this country...
Before Obama was elected, Limbaugh stated that race relations would deteriorate under Obama. Have you ever seen the country so racially divided?
I wasn't alive in the 60s and don't remember the Rodney King riots, but I've never seen the country this torn apart by race, and I think Ferguson finally blew the lid off the pressure cooker.
It's been a steady drumbeat of racial issues the last few years. The Skip Gates arrest outside his home a couple years back, Trayvon Martin, and now Ferguson. In each one of those cases, the media and the "advocates" seem to want to drum things up and get people upset. It's certainly worked.
Do you think race relations are going to continue to deteriorate? I'd say this is the worst it's been since the 60s.
The election of a black president was just too much for most racists to bear: they've been peeing their pants for six years now.
Police brutality and discrimination towards blacks has always existed. Discrimination and open racism was much worse earlier in U.S. history, e.g. blacks being declared 3/5s of a person, slavery, lynchings, Jim Crow, segregated schools, segregated restaurants, running blacks out of town.
At least the days of all-white juries are over----that's one improvement.
20 percent of the country is married interracially, more than half of new borns being born are not white. those stats alone tell you the country is mixing fine among itself.
the last remnants of racism lay primarily at the feet of the white male, particularly the conservative white male. conservative white men are more likely to be against interracial marriage, and are more likely to be racialist in thinking then any other group.
Only on the internet. Race is only a sensitive subject on the internet. :P
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Someone has poisoned your mind pretty badly.
