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To: JohnM who wrote (19976)2/26/2002 2:12:44 AM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>there are other, far more significant, reasons for an increase in race hatred (though I'm not at all certain you are right on that point) and the most prominent among them has been the willingness of the Republican Party via its alliance with the rabid right to give far too much credibility to race hate talk.<<

Having travelled extensively throughout the US over the past 30 years, I see much less race hatred. Parts of the most rural areas of some southern states and a few isolated pockets up north display a continuation of hatred, but they seem far less than what I observed in the Seventies.

There is a greater amount of verbal denigration going on in certain quarters, that is mostly political. Republicans are frustrated with the bloc voting of blacks and seem to think trotting out the ghost of Abraham Lincoln should change their minds. Democrats get frustrated with similar bloc voting by the Cuban-American community in South Florida. And many on both sides get annoyed by simplistic race-card players (Sharpton, Jackson) and race-baiters (Helms).

But the numbers of lynchings have diminished considerably, and race riots. The only place where I can see an increase is towards Middle-Eastern folks (or them what looks kinda Ay-rab), which is more fear than outright hatred, for the vast majority of Americans. That's usually not racism; it is a survival instinct.
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