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To: one_less who wrote (499033)	7/28/2009 4:39:57 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576823

>> However, there can be no doubt about what Boxer did. There is an insidious form of racism that is, in many ways, more harmful than overt the racism of the past. When you have blacks siding with an obviously guilty OJ Simpson. Or a black president instinctively blaming a white cop in an altercation. Or (in my opinion) using the name of Emmett Till to raise money for a "memorial fund" which turns out to be nothing more than a plot to extort money. Or the NAACP using the daughter of a murdered black man to read ad copy for the Gore/Lieberman campaign in an effort to paint Bush as a racist when nothing could have been further from the truth (and it is a blot on Lieberman's record that he refused to condemn the action at the time). It is all racism and sets back the causes of minorities every day. Including the most abused minority of them all -- white males.

To: one_less who wrote (499033)	7/28/2009 4:47:24 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576823

>However, there can be no doubt about what Boxer did. It wasn't lynching, special drinking fountains, or separate schools but it definitely rose to a level of racism of sorts, whether or not she was conscious of that fact or not when she planned it, Alford certainly drove the point home for her. She should have apologized by now but she said she will be able to raise millions in campaign money over it. Boxer did nothing wrong. Alford went up there, he said, to speak on behalf of black Americans. Boxer cited the NAACP to say that, no, actually he didn't. How is that racist? Alford gets tons of money from groups like ExxonMobil to say that he speaks for the black community. He's an astroturfer. -Z