You were commenting about how his comments were racist. But, if you ever lived here like I do, you would find that race is a way of life down here. It isn't just the whites doing it either. Blacks don't want whites in their communities, etc.

So, that is just the way life is.


Barack Obama is idolized by the negroes of this country. It makes perfect sense and a perfect time for him to come and applaud the actions of a fellow African American mayor.

I mean isn't that the change he wants?

Right....none of us know what the change means.

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As I have seen, and certainly you have too, these things happen in trickles at first, so there usually is no "extreme decrease in people wanting to live there."

I agree with you. This is why my analogy does make sense! You, not being a racist, would not be responding to a perceived threat (the butterfly), but a real one (the crime rate).
When the crime rate goes up, you, and I, and everyone wants to move away from it.
God bless those among us who cannot.

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Unfortunately, many of those are poor blacks, which further increases their proportion of the crime rate. However, it is not because of their race, it's just an unfortunate fact of economic life and they should try harder to better their economic situation. Of course, then you have liberals talking about "affirmative action" that would give blacks money until they didn't have more than their fair share of the crime rate but that's just pointless.

Anyway, your analogy makes a little more sense but it is still somewhat misleading.

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I asked him if he was a racist.
"Just the way life is"...?
It is a sad fact that on this hallowed soil, and under this star spangled banner of freedom, blacks were more than welcomed into white neighborhoods until after January 1st, 1863.

Perhaps if you could see Barak Obama as a man, rather than a race, you might see the unfairness of this comment. But if Mayor Nagin is on the right track, and improving his city, then all canditates should be praising his efforts, not just one.
But this is my sense of fairness.

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That could be the single stupidest thing I've ever read, EVER--in the entire history of stupid things. Racism shouldn't be tolerated period. If it is acceptable on this board, then it would be true that the forum is being run by advocates of racism and possibly racists themselves.

That would be the utmost in deceitfulness, masking a political racist agenda and presenting it as a legitimate forum to discuss politics. Promotion of such polarization can only lead to civil disorder and eventually open war. There is extreme danger to society in fostering these ideas and I urge caution and "farsightedness" to predict where such racist promotions will lead our society into the future. The civil war wasn't really that long ago and was fought over these same principles. If you think about it, the civil war didn't fully end until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and it's subsequent civil rights acts. We've seen the destruction caused when one group of people imposes itself upon another. I urge and warn you not to promote racismby allowing it for the consequences are devastating to all of us.

Finally, if you guys are indeed promoting racist ideals, then at least be genuine and open about it and don't hide it behind some "political forum" and try to deceive people. Seriously, are you trying to start another civil war here? You can't fool all the people all of the time.

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Oh, well. Ok. That's one more thing I have to try harder at!

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I'm not a racist but I could say:

That could be the single stupidest thing I've ever read, EVER--in the entire history of stupid things. Liberalism shouldn't be tolerated period. If it is acceptable on this board, then it would be true that the forum is being run by advocates of liberalism and possibly liberals themselves.

That would be the utmost in deceitfulness, masking a political liberal agenda and presenting it as a legitimate forum to discuss politics. Promotion of such polarization can only lead to civil disorder and eventually open war. There is extreme danger to society in fostering these ideas and I urge caution and "farsightedness" to predict where such liberal promotions will lead our society into the future. The civil war wasn't really that long ago and was fought over these same principles. If you think about it, the civil war didn't fully end until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and it's subsequent civil rights acts. We've seen the destruction caused when one group of people imposes itself upon another. I urge and warn you not to promote liberalism by allowing it for the consequences are devastating to all of us.

Finally, if you guys are indeed promoting liberal ideals, then at least be genuine and open about it and don't hide it behind some "political forum" and try to deceive people. Seriously, are you trying to start another civil war here? You can't fool all the people all of the time.




Come on, at least support freedom of speech for your own sake.

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I used sarcasm once or twice to poke fun at a racist post and it waaas deleted:

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It is. I agree. However, I have nothing but respect for hard working African Americans. The ones I see in this city, however, don't work hard and rather just want to sit on their front porches and swing life away.

I feel the same way for my fellow classmates who are lazy as well.

He is a man. As a black man he should applaud the others of his race that they are doing the correct thing in a city full of uneducated ones who believe it isn't right. Its time change really happen, and Mayor Nagin finally did it. I would think obama would be haulling ass down here.

But, the demolishment happened awhile ago.

I actually drove into one of these beast cities that are now abandoned with one of my friends one night....lets just say that i am thankful that there was a cop car that happened to be around. these are blocks of mid-city that are completely blocked off and are slowly being torn down...but, it was scary as (*)(*)(*)(*)...

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Sure you could say that, but it doesn't really make any sense to anyone but you. Swapping the word "liberal" in for "racist" is quite rediculous. These are two different words with different meanings. Swapping words is not a substitute for an argument, especially one where you appear to be advocating for a person's right to be a racist. It's just not a valid argument at all--quite disingenuous in fact.

Yes freedom of speech and yada yada; alls I'm saying is that it's socially dangerous to promote and encourage racism. That should be a no-brainer.

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