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Has There Been a Resurgence of Old-Fashioned Racism in the U.S.?
Topic Started: Mar 16 2016, 03:43 AM (2,093 Views)
ImaHeadaU
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Mar 17 2016, 12:24 AM
Many wanted a first black President. I didn't support him but even I thought it would be good for race relations. It turned out to be just the opposite.
If you read the link in the OP, a very reasonable explanation is offered for how this may have happened.
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Mar 17 2016, 02:07 AM
ImaHeadaU
Mar 17 2016, 12:14 AM
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Mar 16 2016, 09:47 PM
In my opinion, every human being is a racist to a degree.
I agree with you on this point.

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I honestly thought it was racist for the democrats to choose Obama over much high qualified candidates for office, based on his race. At the time I was unaware of his true agenda, which saddens me to this day.


Upon what basis do you do you suggest that President Obama was elected "based on his race"?
In recent history, when one of our parties are in office for two terms as president, the opposite party candidate wins the next time. Bush Jr had spent two terms. Bill Clinton was often labeled the white-black president. The democrats had moved to a point they wanted more minorities and women in high positions of government. In my opinion this was much like affirmative action which is reverse discrimination. Obama had very little true world leadership experience and if we added up his legislative accomplishments as a Illinois legislator and US senator he was least qualified of the other candidates on the democrat side. His one unique position as a half white and half black candidate, who happened to consider himself black was the key to democrats choosing him.
I see. It is your opinion.

I believe that the voters found President Obama an attractive candidate for a wide variety of reasons.
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Mostly that he was black.

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Mar 16 2016, 11:18 AM
One question for you Don...

How is Trayvon Martin's death and the aftermath Obama's fault?

As best I can tell, he'd never heard of the kid before he was killed by a Right Wing Nutbar terrified by a bag of skittles.

Does he have a time machine to go back and set it up so it comes out with a dead black kid?

So Obama went back, caused the race-inspired killing, then sympathized with the innocents involved, all to promote racism?

That is the silliest argument I've ever heard.

The US Right has lost whatever mind it ever had, along with any respect it ever had around the rest of the world.

You would be a total laughingstock, if the thought of Trump winning wasn't so terrifying.
Wow Brewster… in your obvious hatred being an expert on everything America you look like the idiot to us Americans that know George Zimmerman was a Hispanic registered democrat.

Get back to me after you spend 48 years living and working here…

Btw, don’t eat a bullet if Trump does get elected. It’s the race for OUR president not yours and this crap seems to control your life.
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Mar 16 2016, 01:15 PM
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Mar 16 2016, 10:25 AM
Obama has set back racial tensions by decades getting personally involved with local issues starting with the Trayvon Martin case and people have been attacked and killed including LE simply for being white because of Obama IMO.
Just how involved did the President get in the Trayvon Martin case? Which people, when and how have they been attacked "simply for being white because of Obama"? Who's LE?

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1) With the Black Lives Matter movement that has started since Obama, why is the truth never explained or understood that most of the deaths are from blacks killing blacks?


Please correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the "Black Lives Matter movement" reaction to too many black people being shot and killed unnecessarily by police officers? I'd guess that some of those officers may have been black but the vast majority weren't.

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2) How would an elderly Canadian that doesn’t live and work in America even get a clue to what they’re talking about?


Possibly by having been born and raised in the U.S., visiting it for extended periods and by reading.
Ok Ima, what year did you move to Canada and why did you move there? And when you do return to America are you going into predominately black areas getting to know and understand the people?

If you answer those questions I’ll fill you in on my background living in Seminole County, FL.
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So, Don, you couldn't answer my question?

It IS interesting that you don't think a Democrat can be a Nutbar. I guess that shows what you think of Republicans

One of us looks like an idiot, and it's not the one on the north side of the border.
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Mar 17 2016, 07:50 AM
So, Don, you couldn't answer my question?

It IS interesting that you don't think a Democrat can be a Nutbar. I guess that shows what you think of Republicans

One of us looks like an idiot, and it's not the one on the north side of the border.
What question did you want answered? I already said Obama has set back race relations by decades and that’s my IMO with a lot more experience on the subject than you have.
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Mar 17 2016, 05:44 AM
Mostly that he was black.

That may well be racial but not racist.
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So you say, but that is not the case.

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Colo think BlackLivesMatter is racial too.
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