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Originally Posted by Fast Forward
That's the catch-all "cop out" that's been employed by american blacks ever since Martin Luther King's dream was lost - or forgotten - or tarnished. That "cop out" is also the reason why the subject has never been poperly discussed and why no solution is in sight. There's not even a stategy or a game plan.
The "hole" or perpetual loop-hole in your statement is that you can never supply "a valid reason" to someone who's not interested in the solution. They prefer calling you a racist. And in so doing keep frustrations high and the true subject of American racism at arms length.
Racism was incorporated into America by way of the white racist but it thrives (today) by way of the black racist.
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I think that I can say as a natural-born American raised in the South speaking to someone who's just visited and never lived here that you don't know what you're talking about.
There is a hole in my statement. I acknowledged it when I made it in the very first paragraph of my response. My experience with racism in the US, which is by its very nature more comprehensive and complete than yours, is that the folks that cry racism first are a much smaller number than the 98% that you claim. My experience is that those folks are about 10% of the total, and that it's not always the same folks that make the claim.
Racism thrives today everywhere. Perhaps you only choose to see the Black against White racism, but it's there between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, Indians and Pakistanis, Blacks and Koreans, Whites on Mexicans and any number of other groups that I could point out if I chose to think about it longer than the 10 seconds I devoted.
As far as discussion of the problem goes, what the hell do you think this whole thread is about?