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 whembly wrote:
Never heard of that... is it meant to be derogatory? Or a slang?

Derogatory

 Ouze wrote:

Prestor Jon wrote:
Those kind of memories would be dependent upon where in the US our parents or grandparents lived.

Sure, but now we're splitting hairs. I think it's a reasonable to make a blanket statement that this country's racist past is quite recent.

After all, in 1965, Alabama still had on the books the following law:

"The legislature shall never pass any law to authorise or legalise any marriage between any white person and a Negro or descendant of a Negro."

Oops, did I say 1965? I meant 2000.

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How was I splitting hairs?

Jim Crow laws and segration weren't federal laws, they were state laws. Depending on where you lived you had different experiences with race. The fact that Alabama has miscegenation laws just proves my point, different laws, different states. If my grandfather had grown up in Birmingham Alabama instead of Shelton Connecticut he wouldn't have gone to an integrated school and would have likely had different opinions on racial equality.

Of course, racism wasn't, and isn't, simply a southern problem. Boston, MA, Philladelphia PA, and Newark NJ have all had horrible, violent race riots that dwarf current situations like Ferguson. There are plenty of municipalities well north of the Mason Dixon Line with a terrible record of racism.

Look at places like Chicago IL and Detroit MI today. Black populations in urban locales struggling with high unemployment, failing schools, drugs, violent crime and poverty and those cities are northern states with strict gun control laws, pro-union labor laws and decades of uninterrupted governance by Democrats.

There are plenty of stupid laws still on the books I wouldn't use them to make sweeping generalizationsabout the country as a whole. The Pennsylvania town where I attended college still had a law on the books that forbid sororities from having off campus housing because any private residence with more than a half dozen single women living in it was deemed to be a brothel. Does that make the whole state and the whole country a bunch of misogynistic sexist bigots?

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 Jihadin wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Never heard of that... is it meant to be derogatory? Or a slang?

Derogatory

Soldier has used for quite some time in that manner.





And popularized by rappers too. Spoilered for NSFW language.

I think it would be cool if all white people voted Democrat at the same time that all black people voted Republican. Meanwhile all Indian people could vote Green and all American Native people could vote Communist. Hispanic people would be allowed to vote Independent.

You covered almost all of the colours there Killkrazy, but who are the pinkos going to vote for now?

While I am a fan of equality and Stephen A. Smith, the Affordable Care Act is horrible, and our President is currently using his Executive powers to weaken and divide a country that at this point in time should be coming closer together. Why is it all African Americans should vote or expect something, or all Mexican Americans or whatever...why isn't it all American citizens should expect their leaders to lead instead of serve their own interests and agendas, or only the agendas of their constituents instead of the agendas of the citizens, black white brown green man woman whatever that are the American people. It's amazing that nationalism is often confused for racism. Do I deserve more because I'm a white American? No. Do you deserve more because you're black? No. All Americans have the same rights under the Constitution that's how it's supposed to be. What we should all be voting for is a good leader, we should be demanding that politicians are leaders not just politicians. I wouldn't let Obama take my son for the weekend on a camping trip because I don't think he could keep him safe, and I wouldn't have let Romney take him either. It's time the citizens of this country stop saying "I deserve this because I was born this way," and stand up for all of our rights against the politicians who in all reality only care about their own bottom line. Government dividing the population leads to government controlling our lives. Read history, that's how it works. Using racism over and over in popular media and political posturing does nothing but divide the CITIZENS of America. I really wish we could all just realize that we are Americans first, and then color of our skin wouldn't be bargaining chips or excuses, and someone like Stephen A. Smith could just go crazy about basketball instead of being so concerned with the color of his own skin.


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And as for Jim Crow laws or whatever, if we are going to continue to look backwards instead of forwards, then let's all look at how oppressive governments of the past used old animosities to divide it's people. Worry about now, and tomorrow. Learn from the past instead of using it as some abstract reason to feel like you've been or are being persecuted.

I'd ague it isn't about race politics at all.
I used to be appalled at australian aboriginal living standards, then i watched a special on a low income general australians ( as not all white) living in a proscribed area. Interestingly the outcomes were virtually the same as an aboriginal community.

I 'd not hate to say it. if you put any one in a similar situation you'll end up with the same result no matter the race.

It's socio economics that matter not race.

Less division , more lower economy lifting properties.

Dr.muchachos I can see the separation you are indicating and less of the racial divide.

 Jihadin wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Never heard of that... is it meant to be derogatory? Or a slang?

Derogatory

Do you mean "hapa"? I've only heard the term used by people of mixed East Asian and European Caucasian ancestry to describe themselves.

 Bullockist wrote:
I'd ague it isn't about race politics at all.
I used to be appalled at australian aboriginal living standards, then i watched a special on a low income general australians ( as not all white) living in a proscribed area. Interestingly the outcomes were virtually the same as an aboriginal community.

I 'd not hate to say it. if you put any one in a similar situation you'll end up with the same result no matter the race.

It's socio economics that matter not race.

Less division , more lower economy lifting properties.

Dr.muchachos I can see the separation you are indicating and less of the racial divide.

Funny how govt keeps trying to "fix" the problem of poverty yet so many people remain impoverished. It's almost like they want a segment of society to be dependent on govt programs and therefore beholden to voting for a govt that keeps the subsidies flowing.

I love that a keystone of this suggestion is that the GOP can't do math.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:

 whembly wrote:
Never heard of that... is it meant to be derogatory? Or a slang?

Derogatory

Do you mean "hapa"? I've only heard the term used by people of mixed East Asian and European Caucasian ancestry to describe themselves.

I'm firmly of the opinion that people of mixed asian and caucasian ancestry can have nothing derogatory about them. They are hands down the most beautiful people in the world. Yes Jihadin ,I do include you in that

Prestor john, no matter how much the government helps there will always be people on the bottom and the trouble with being on the bottom is the examples given by the parents there are not very conjusive to ambition or examples of how to live. What I am trying to say is it isn't an easy fix problem as education is the key and not just necessarily to blame on the people involved themselves. I b et half of the institutionally social serviced in Australia have no idea what it is like to live with a good weekly wage - so they have nothing prodding them to go out and get one.