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To: Alighieri who wrote (576699)	7/17/2010 8:07:37 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570131

It was not only people in power...it was widespread. If you live in the south as I do you would realize that lurking just below the surface even today is discrimination, suppressed and/or tangible....and discrimination is indeed a form of oppression. I have seen in when I have traveled in the south. It made me incredibly uncomfortable. But it is a little more complex than that. Somebody else here said that the korean store owners deserved to have their businesses burned down because they overcharged for groceries. But is overcharging for groceries oppression? It may be bad business, but it isn't oppression. The people who go to the stores can choose to go someplace else if they don't like the values that the store is offering. And here is the point that I am making. The people in power are oppressing us, black, white, euro, african, asian. The bigger the government, the more the oppression. For much of our government's history it was purely white men who were in power. At some point blacks and other minorities joined the ranks of our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government. They joined the group that is responsible for oppression. We now have a black/white mix president. But he does seem to identify with his black heritage more than his white heritage. Obama is "The Man" now. And I certainly do find his policies to be oppressive. And certainly some of his actions seem to be racially motivated. But that doesn't mean that "blacks" are doing the oppression. It means that the people in power are.