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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (48429)	7/10/2013 11:05:04 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

Racism only really matters as it pertains to who has the power. When segregation was law in the south the black schools were far inferior to the white schools. And blacks lived in constant fear for their lives. What you may really be seeing is anger, not racism, put forth by a people who were beaten like dogs for four hundred years, first as slaves who were bought and sold, whipped and tortured and so, brutally mistreated, and then in a segregated south for another 100 years with brutal black chain gangs and all. Their culture and family were destroyed while they lived in constant fear. It was illegal even to teach them to read. So to call a black a racist, is a little rich!

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (48429)	7/11/2013 12:43:58 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

>> Racism is alive and well in America—among black people It isn't surprising when you have a president who attacks white cops for legitimate arrests of blacks. When every black talking head on TV news is claiming that the black president's [predictable] failures are a result of racism, and a department of justice which is, apparently, supporting the whipping up of racial frenzies over the trial of a white man accused of killing a black kid. Never mind that black kids are killing each other all over the country -- from Chicago to New Orleans, over turf wars and marijuana. We choose, as our first black president, a man who is not qualified to sit on the city council of a small town. It should be no surprise he is an abject failure. Nor should be be surprised when race relations are set back as a result. We could very well see race riots in major cities this weekend. You couldn't pay me to walk around the French Quarter or Beale Street this weekend if G. Zimmerman is acquitted.