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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (330081)	12/17/2002 7:12:40 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<<This is old, conventional thought and it is just such thought that signals the end of the American Empire. Americans are not supple enough in mind to address the reality of our times. Notions such as "race wars" against blacks where blacks "lose" and whites "win" are foolishness and even five years from now it will be even more apparent how foolish such notions are.>> Don't fool yourself thinking that PC has changed ANYTHING, much less human nature: A serious, as opposed to a marginal, movement by the left to promote reparations would, first of all, destroy what was remaining of the left. If a large majority of blacks were seen to be fanatically committed to reparations, the rise in various white factions would be very rapid, and result in either a race war or a new oppression far worse than Jim Crow. There is a REASON that we all propose the best course toward friendly race relations and common goals, and it has NOTHING to do with "Just getting along.". Consequently, it is critical that liberal racism be defeated and purged-with the rest of the left-from our institutions...