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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (5776)	1/12/2017 1:24:14 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 367686

That post you just made on segregation in the South is the perfect metaphor for how you don't seem to understand even the simplest things correctly. When you say I can't presume to know what African-Americans think is so much nonsense as to be breathtaking. Not only can I presume to know what they think, you could know what they think if you knew any history. What do you think Martin Luther King was doing with his million man march? What do you think all the demonstrations in the South in the 1960's were about? When you cannot tell the difference between states that have LAWS that that dictate segregation, and social segregation that was found in the North, you cannot be trusted to know anything correctly. I couldn't have given you a more simple question and you got a solid F on it. And then you go on to say that you can't legislate morality. Of course you can legislate morality. What do you think the laws against slavery, or antidiscrimination laws are? Society has an obligation to legislate morality when it impinges on the citizens unfairly. Trying to have an intelligent conversation with you is exactly like trying to have an intelligent conversation with fog. You post a zillion posts, and yet you can't even understand institutional segregation is so horrific. There was not one thing in your post that showed the slightest bit of awareness to the horrible condition of institutionalized segregation in the South. Trump got here with thinking like yours, and Trump will destroy this country with thinking like yours. I just don't know how a person whose thinking is as poor as yours lived as long as you did to be quite honest. <<Message #5776 from i-node at 1/11/2017 10:53:59 PM >> See the difference? African American's do. You really cannot presume to know how African Americans, generally, feel. But we can talk about polls. Overall in MS, about half believe in interracial marriage. But if you look at the cross tabs, you find that it is predominantly older people who hold that view. In 1958, 4% of Americans held that view. The change, from 58 until now has been almost linear. Why would MS not have the same slope as the USA? It could be the fact that younger people tend to escape most places in MS in favor of places like Memphis, St Louis, or other states while the over 65 group stays put. And the fact is that young people in MS approach USA statistics while older people stick with their beliefs. And you would be shocked to learn that while 87% of Americans claim to support interracial marriage, but if asked about their own family members, that figure drops to 42% for blacks, 13% for whites. Nationwide. Your allegation that this is a southern thing or a Mississippi thing, is simply not factual. When you consider all the facts it is easy to understand the sociological rationale for MS moving more slowly to adopt new norms: The younger people are leaving, and a lot of northerners (and southerners) are promoting do as I say not as I do. -------- Message #5776 from i-node at 1/11/2017 10:53:59 PM I-node:" You really may want to consider this as a lesson. Legislating morality is a tough thing to do. It is very difficult to make meople think like you do, no matter how right you believe you are. You really cannot presume to know how African Americans, generally, feel"