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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (134941)	7/25/2013 11:06:35 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And you've assumed I'm a racist. Why? Where did Chinu call you a racist? You remind me of the white woman I heard talking to a friend at the gym yesterday. Apparently, the woman is from NYC [don't know what she's doing out here]. She was explaining to her friend that she was invited to a political meeting to meet the NYC mayoral candidates when she got back to NY. She complained that on the invitation every ethnic group was represented by some group except whites........and that the meeting was exclusionary. Her friend pointed out that if it was exclusionary why was she, a white woman, invited. Her friend didn't say anything. Then her friend asked her what white group did she want on the invitation. Again the complaining friend said little.....mumbling something about how no groups should be on the invitation. At least three times during the conversation, the complaining woman said: I bet you think I am a racist................which begs the question, Bread, are you a racist?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (134941)	7/25/2013 10:52:28 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Good question and thanks for asking. Going back to the thread of exchanges we have had with this post being the latest in the thread, you have consistently held a negative opinion about those who live in the projects (who are predominantly of the African-Americann and Hispanic race. Your opinion is that they are responsible for their sad economic conditions, that they are the ones who have a very high rate of crime etc. Your thinking stops there and maybe that is because you have hit your thought limit or because you have a prejudice against those races. Do you seriously believe that a child is born a criminal or is the criminal youth a product of the society? Or rather shall we say the village, the same village that Bill C. and Barack O. has benefitted from. So should we just stand around and continue to blame the single mother for the child who turns out to be a criminal? And what is worse is that when we have folks like Bill C. and Obama succeed because of "the village", we as a society quickly jump up and take the credit. Ponder if we should be a society who would want to spend money to build jails, fund a military invasion that murders innocents abroad, or better still violate the sovereignty of nations like Iraq just to fatten the pockets of the American oil barons. Or would that money be better spent if we opened up schools and community centers in these projects and catch these kids when they are young and malleable. I bet, judging from your line of thinking based on your posts, you would not want any money spent in the projects and instead want to divert those funds to have our military murder innocents abroad. And that is why I consider you a racist. You care a hell what happens to these folks because they are from a different race.