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To: michael97123 who wrote (381232)	4/29/2008 3:40:00 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575608

>> Were you against the 1964 civil rights act? I was 10 in 1964. I began attending school with blacks in about '66. I never had any issues with it. However, I grew up with parents who were from a different time, so I'm sure I carried some of that around with me for years. That said, I knew kids who grew up in families where the fathers were KKK members and where the children grew up as racists/white supremacists, and I believe that I and most who I knew in those years were highly offended at THAT behavior and would not have associated with those people. Over the years, I have come to believe that the Civil Rights Act was the right thing to have done. I opposed the MLK holiday when it was enacted. But in retrospect, I believe it was the right thing to have done. I reserve the right to look back on history and decide that I was wrong (or right) about this thing or that. But none of this has to do with racism or bigotry. I'm certainly not partial to my own race any more than I am other races. I don't believe in discrimination based on race and I don't practice it. But that is not to say that facts are not facts. It is a fact, indisputable, that blacks are disproportionately responsible for crime in the United States. It is a fact, indisputable, that whites have been discriminated against by virtue of affirmative action. If you believe the statements are bigoted or racist you simply do not understand the meanings of these words. It is a fact that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are racists as they are constantly trying to discriminate on the basis of race. You cannot make a factual statement then be properly accused of racism or bigotry for stating a fact.