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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ananas
If the roles were reversed, would the outcry, the extraordinary efforts at reasoning and excusing behavior that tiptoes the line of illegality, the knee-jerk raising of the "race-card" flag be at the same level? I suspect not - unless there has been an ingrained history of persecution, unequal treatment under law, and race-based crimes against whites by blacks. Let's do the time warp again.
Why should people of color have to tread more lightly around white public servants?
The President of the United States should address issues such as these - not because he shares ancestry in both the ethnicities involved here - but because it's incidents like these that plague this country and prevent us from moving forward. His job is to lead this country, and like others before him, he knows that silence is not the best response.
Roachboy- that was one fantastic post.
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I don't think that the POTUS should be addressing such issues. Having had more layoffs in our company, and seeing that while the DOW is going up, the prices of goods and services increasing, while my pay stays flat.... that's something he should be addressing.
I just watched yet another news conference regarding this topic where he's addressing it yet again, asking if anyone has contacts with the press to get off the professor's lawn. While it's said in jest, sorry, I don't see it as important in comparison to more bank failures just 4 more last week bringing the total to 54 for 2009.
But like people have said about racism, "if we don't talk about it maybe it will just go away" maybe that will work with our economy too.
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