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Originally Posted by luciferase75
It's really a shame when the PRESIDENT can't even trust his own people. No sense of civil duty, just pure racial hate. He won it fair and square, get over it already. Slavery is long gone, time to let it go, on both sides.
I'm just so sick of that. Race jokes, hey that's funny. I love a good race joke, even when I'm the doofass getting laughed at. Real racism, no that's not funny, or fun, or called for. I wish whites and blacks could just bury the fuckin hatchet already.
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As long as it's not in each others' back.
Seriously though, I believe race relations, and the improvement thereof, is a process.
Not a situation where, okay, we have a black president, we're not racist. There is still a fair amount of confrontation that has to go on.
Anybody here talk with black folks about OJ or the Rodney King riots? Anybody try to understand why blacks constantly poll with widely divergent numbers from whites on issues like trust in the legal system, opportunities in the US, and so on?
There remain very few who openly advocate racism. Now we are in a far more subtle game, where racism remains hidden, but no less powerful for all of that.