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View Poll Results: Is the United States Currently Less Racist than it has Ever Been?
Yes 69 74.19%
No 24 25.81%
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Old 06-05-2020, 02:56 PM
 
Location: New York City
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I agree 100%, this whole conspiracy theory that racists are everywhere has got to stop


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3POpubeoIc
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Old 06-05-2020, 03:02 PM
 
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My parents immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from a third world country, about 15 years after the Civil Rights Movement. They said they experienced far more racism back then than they do now. I am a brown skinned person that speaks with no discernible accent and get perceived by Black as some but my actual race by most in my upper class,b but ethnically diverse suburb. When I travel to more homogeneous white regions of the U.S., most automatically assume I'm Black but there are still a few that can tell my actual race. I have experienced a few cases of overt racism but more covert racism. I still think I have FAR more opportunities in America than I would have 50 years ago. If I lived in the 1950s, we would have been restricted to "colored" neighborhoods and Jim Crow. I do fear a resurge of racism from the riots and angry whites closing themselves off to all "people of color" based on the violent acts the rioters committed against random innocent whites that had nothing to do with George Floyd.
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Old 06-05-2020, 03:03 PM
 
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Never been less racist does not been it is not racist...
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Old 06-05-2020, 03:06 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Never been less racist does not been it is not racist...
Please watch the video and listen to some of what John McWhorter has to say. He is an intellectually honest academic and backs up all his claims with reason and evidence. Racism is being used as a crutch and wildly over-emphasized as a cause of disadvantage in the modern day US. It's the "noble victim complex"
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Old 06-05-2020, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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Never been less racist does not been it is not racist...
Exactly. Less racist = racism is over. We still have plenty of structural racism to solve. Just because people aren’t burning crosses and wearing white hoods doesn’t mean the work is done.
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Old 06-06-2020, 08:18 AM
 
Location: New York City
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Exactly. Less racist = racism is over. We still have plenty of structural racism to solve. Just because people aren’t burning crosses and wearing white hoods doesn’t mean the work is done.
What exactly is this mysterious "structural" racism? Everybody is claiming this yet nobody seems to have any real evidence. Seems like racism is always the excuse
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Old 06-06-2020, 08:36 AM
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What exactly is this mysterious "structural" racism? Everybody is claiming this yet nobody seems to have any real evidence. Seems like racism is always the excuse

Yeah, I was going to ask the same thing.
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Old 06-06-2020, 08:39 AM
 
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It is possible for racism to exist and to be used as a crutch much like sexism and ageism...

And of course we are doing better today than years ago but we can do better.

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Old 06-06-2020, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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From my point of view very wealthy and successful people
like Robert Smith, David Steward,Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan
will not be protesting the streets in this country .They are too busy working.


Wealth knows no color except the color green ..................I suggest everybody work towards it.
And yet Jordan gave $100 million to organizations for racial equality yesterday. So he obviously still sees racism - - as any person with half a brain would.
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Old 06-06-2020, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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This whole thing looks like opportunists have taken advantage of the killing of George Floyd to further their agenda.

Think about this - it makes zero sense that mayors told cops to stand down with the looters and rioters but allowed them to go after peaceful protesters.

Where the hell did the bricks come from? I saw photos and videos in cities all over the country, of piles of bricks with some wondering why they suddenly showed up since there was no construction being done in the area. And in one video I saw, peaceful protesters walked past an area that was loaded with bricks and nobody noticed them. Then a group of white guys dressed all in black with their faces masked go and start handing them out.

I'm not saying locals didn't loot - some of them did (both white and black - this is not a racial issue). But much of what we saw appears to have been incited by outsiders.

This seems too orchestrated to be organic. Someone wants the races warring with one another.

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