46% Young Americans Believe USA Is Racist, 44% believe Obama greater than George Washington

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  1. dairyair

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    Almost none.
    It's why life is called progressing. A dirty word to the RW, yes?
    It takes generations to rid inherent wrongs. Would you not agree? How long did we, as a country, think ownership of a human was normal?
    Did we not have a war over the right to own people?
    Change doesn't come easily. It's why humans have had wars forever.
    But change is the only constant in this world.
    We either progress, regress, or stay the same. And rarely is staying the same an option. But most would like things to always stay as they always were. When they were a youth.
     
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    Name a non racist culture?
     
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    You should look it up.
    I believe a black person being owned by a white person is racist. To the black person. But to the white person, it isn't or wasn't at a point in history.
    A bad example, but an example none the less. And it's the founding of this country. And discrimination because of skin color, or sex, or many other things still exists.
    Sorry if you don't like it, but it's true. The ostrich syndrome won't change it.
    But NO, everything is NOT racist, or sexist or any other ist. It depends on which side of the ist you belong to. That is how you think. Only from 1 perspective. As do most people.
    A black man being in a white neighborhood gets pulled over by a cop, because he's black is racist and the cop is over stepping his authority.
    Breaking the law is breaking the law, no matter one's color.
     
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    Why?
    How many cultures are there in the world?
    I can't begin to know each and every one.
     
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    46% of young Americans believe unicorns are real.....what do they know?
     
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    Should be able to name at least 1 non racist culture.
     
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    never said racism doesn't existent but it isn't in epidemic proportion that you believe it is
    because of your confirmation bias you assume something is racist which it isn't


    pulled over because he is black?
    do you have proof? did the cop say I pulled you over because you are black?
    or once again with your confirmation bias you are just assuming with no evidence that was the reason
     
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    Requiring IDs to vote is racist because it is in violation of the 14th Amendment, Section 2.

    *Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.*
    https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=14th+amendment&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
     
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    I could argue that anytime I'm required to have an ID that violates my 14th amendment rights.

    Why is requiring ID racist?
     
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    LOL. Coming from you, that really means...

    something.
     
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    actually the fourteenth amendment reinforces the use of an ID to be able to vote an ID to prove age and citizenship
    "being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States"
     
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    Did you know that they used to print the time of some future lynchings in the newspapers so that it would draw a charge crowd?
     
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    That is not true. When a black guy showed up to vote and he was over 21 he was a citizen without any other proof required. Women were citizens but they couldn't vote even if they were white because the Constitution did not apply to them regardless of their age.
     
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    That is not true because an ID does not show your criminal record, which is a legitimate bar to voting per the 14th Amendment. Some States are doing away with that restriction just as they have done in lowering the voting age. Strictly speaking the 14th Amendment only applied to black men. It prohibited all of the white guys who engaged in rebellion during the Civil War from voting. So rather than amend the 14th Amendment the Congress Critters gave the white rebels the right to vote when the rebel States were admitted to the Union. That actually violated the 14th Amendment. Women were excluded from the 14th Amendment regardless of their age until 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment.
     
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    Dude you talk about racism like some crack pot preacher. “ racism they don’t even know they have”
    You realize racism isn’t something tangible right? Itf not something that you can objectively decide if some one is or isn’t.

    For example You might decide that it racist for white people to laugh at and mock the accent of apu from the Simpson. That’s what some one like you might consider “racism they don’t know they have”.

    Someone like me however would only consider something like actually preventing or wanting to do harm or perhaps even outright avoid a certain ethnicity as racism.
     
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    Someone like Keys will never be the Republican nominee and I am pretty sure we both know why.
     
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    Voter ID is redundant, since if you have ID in the first place, you don't NEED voter ID=) That's the point. The whole reason Voter ID is necessary is to account for all the supposed dummies out there who can't obtain an ID. That's why the black people looked puzzled. "What do you mean I can't get ID?" And THAT's exactly what most non-Libs think. Why can't they get ID compared to everyone else? Its what makes the Democrat issue that black people are too incompetent to obtain ID, either a complete LIE, or so racist its preposterous.
     
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    Muslims live in Israel just fine. I couldn't care less about Palestinians who are led by fanatical terrorists. YES, Palestinians are governed by TERRORISTS. They bomb flower shops. They use women and children as human bombs. They freely lob rockets into neighborhoods. Say that 10X over and over again. Let your inner Antisemite free buddy. Let the hate flow. =)
     
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    There are some people (and some posters right here) who are so deeply racist themselves, they can't fathom that the majority of us are truly not racist. Sort of like how diehard coffee drinkers look at me in disbelief when they find out I don't even like coffee.

    Thirty-one pages into this thread and there are still posters trying to project their racism on the rest of the country.
     
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    Dr. Keyes might have been the Republican Party's nominee back when it was a political party made up primarily of common-sense Conservatives who defend the Constitution as written and amended, and the Rule of Law. But, tragically, the Republican Party suffered a schism as we've seen, with many of us still loyal to the party as it was when "America" truly was "great" -- but with a breakaway faction that became the loathsome, detestable "RINO's" (Republicans-in-name-only).

    Dr. Keyes would never, under any circumstances, have degraded himself into becoming a stinking "RINO".... And, to his enduring credit, Dr. Keyes has always been the total polar-OPPOSITE of "Messiah" Obama and everything Obama represents....

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    Keyes is nothing but a boot licker who didn't have a snow balls chance in hell of being nominated by Repubs.
     
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    What defines a "boot licker"?
     
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    No, I don't agree.
    It might seem like that to you, but you got it wrong.

    Republicans and Democrats are not racist. Whites and Blacks are not racist. Those statements assume the quantifier "all" whether you like it or not. SOME Democrats, Republicans, Whites, and Blacks are racist, but not all. And when you try to qualify such statements with "most," you fall into that same logical trap that makes you seem less than knowledgeable about what it is you're actually saying. Most is nothing more than your opinion unless you can support it with some kind of valid evidence.

    When I recognize the fact that some Democrats act and speak using racial undertones, it does not mean I'm coming over to your side. Why would I want to pretend that one side is righteous and the other side is not? That suggests a desire not to think. It suggests rejecting fact in favor of opinion. If the best we can do is to think and talk in stereotypes and in terms of either/or, there just isn't much in this world we will ever understand.
     
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    A black man Republicans won't vote for.
     
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    I was being serious.
     

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