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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (733954)	8/21/2013 2:50:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578290

If you want to use Lee Atwater as justification for seeing racism in every little act whatsoever, including acts where none was intended or even insinuated, then you are doing nothing but trying to make up for your white guilt. The problem isn't that some people like Z see racism when it happens. The problem is people like you don't see it all. How come?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (733954)	8/22/2013 2:28:44 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578290

>Please write a serious response to my post: Message 29063267 Gladly. >You can pretty much take any act, any statement, even any action (or lack thereof) and find some sort of "Southern Strategy" conspiracy behind it. (OMG, banana thrown at black baseball player?!? Must be racist!) Yes. But there are a ton of racist acts that really do happen in this country, and it's really screwed some groups of minorities in this country for generations >That's no way to live, and that's no way to achieve racial reconciliation. All it does is spread the hate and suspicion between races. I live in the real world. Sorry if you don't. >I can't believe you would fall for this nonsense, unless you were trolling, and for your sake I really hope it's the latter. Not trolling one bit. We have a horrendous racial history, and if you've read up on centuries of it, you can see the patterns in it. A banana thrown at a black baseball player is a good example. That particular case may not have been racist, but geez, things don't happen in a vacuum. This happens all the time: thinkprogress.org abcnews.go.com content.usatoday.com en.wikipedia.org So it's not racist? >If you want to use Lee Atwater as justification for seeing racism in every little act whatsoever, including acts where none was intended or even insinuated, then you are doing nothing but trying to make up for your white guilt. It's not about "every little act whatsoever." It's about seeing racism where there have been patterns of racism. And white guilt? Such a stupid term. I don't feel guilty for anything. But I would like to see our problems fixed. Pretending they don't exist does not fix them. If your supervisor was verbally abusing you and you went to HR and they simply said, "No, he's not abusing you. You caused your own problems," would that make you less upset, and would it fix your problem? -Z