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To: epicure who wrote (283597)	11/21/2015 11:56:40 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

it really is getting over the top with Trump and his asinine supporters the country seems to be going backwards I'm sure ISIS is rooting for Trump or Cruz to become Potus... more divide, more holy war, more black against white, white against black

To: epicure who wrote (283597)	11/22/2015 12:23:53 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

<<Who doesn't love it when a bunch of white guys attack a black guy->> I don't like it. All my life, I have attempted to ally myself with African-Americans wherever I am. And it warms my heart, at how often they recognize my sincerity and accept me. During the three weeks I was playing poker at the Bellagio, I made friends with several African-American fellows playing. It is interesting, how often when we see each other, we both make a slight nod. That nod, recognizes a sort of friendship and common alliance. It is actually a quite thrilling experience. The nod, is something innate and visceral, and something we used I am sure over millennia to signify solidarity in the event of aggression or danger.

To: epicure who wrote (283597)	11/22/2015 1:11:00 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

So true. The racists sure spend a lot of time calling the victims "racists." It works for the rabid base. Sample Limbaugh, or Savage (his books are primers for the modern Arian Nation.).

To: epicure who wrote (283597)	11/24/2015 11:59:35 AM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540724

In Berkeley and Oakland, I've been around prejudice and racism over my 62 years. And pretty intense discussions, beginning in my integrated-but-separate middle school in the middle of town. Its so deep, sometimes hidden and always extremely complicated. For example, more black vs. black memes than most people realize. And the poison of smokes, guns available like candy, drugs and alcohol aimed at poor communities and the already broken families coming out of the slave era and what came next. And an elected government (plus the symbolic Chief with all that shiny brass) that fear the virtually "secret police" -- and their colossal political influence through the most powerful man in town, the POA President. The police and criminal justice system that enforce and perpetuate the social divides. But even on the left with folks who pride themselves in progressive thinking, its hard to have a conversation about defining and taxing the economic advantages of "white privilege" when you get down to "who pays." And should such money be invested in education, social justice programs, or just cash reparations for -- just how do we define the African American class victims? Does it include "of color" in general? OMG, we gotta focus on this but if its not horrible out-of-control Ebola epidemics breaking out in the homeland (it was Obama's fault too for not closing the borders, remember?), its ISIS & Iran Americans are dominated by - also Black Muslim Obama's fault.