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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The US is a signator to the UN Commitee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) under which it submits reports on government action to eliminate institutional racism.
You can read the latest official US report: here
The ACLU released a responsive independent shadow report highlighting the pervasive institutional, systemic and structural racism in America.
You can read the ACLU report: Racial & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice.
It sounds to me like you take the same approach as the Bush administration....as long as laws or institutional policies dont explicitly use terms like "black, African-American, etc", then there is no institutional racism in the US.
But I dont expect you will take a report from the ACLU very seriously or the UN CERD either for that matter.
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They are great reports. You and the ACLU get busy and prosecute, get them all, I'm all for it. But why get so personal and of course ... (trumpets please)
invoke George Bush when frustrated in a challenging discussion?
Sleep tight zzzzzzzzz
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
I finally had a chance to look back on your previous post and couldn't help but notice that you were citing FrontPage. As much as the idealist in me would like to think otherwise, the pragmatist has to admit that there's just about no way a discussion with someone who thinks anything from FrontPage is worth referencing is going anywhere. They make Fox look like they actually are fair and balanced. Incidentally, one of my favorite college professors was also in the top 5 of a FrontPage poll regarding the most "dangerous" professors in America. We tried to vote him up higher so that he'd beat his good friend Noam Chomsky, and it was close, but alas Chomsky won.
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uh ... that would be from the "front page" of Asia Times Online. So quick with the dismissive "credible sources" comebacks ... didn't bother to notice the link sourcing the article. I wouldn't have expected anything less.
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No one is addressing your questions because they are based on a faulty premise - that Rev. Wright's statements were bigoted - or at least a premise which a large number of people in this thread disagree with.
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Faulty, how so? Back it up if you can.
So then the issue is settled? I'm sorry, because the majority of posters agree with you, that's a win?
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
We're not changing each other's minds; just let the thread die.
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Then let it die ... It just takes jumping off, letting go, then moving forward ... much like moving beyond racism and bigotry.
I'll live up to my own example.