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Apr 24, 2012 | Posted by: Mr_Bill
Full story: www.theatlantic.com![]()
David Pilgrim was 12 years old when he bought his first racist object at a flea market: a saltshaker in the shape of a Mammy. As a young black boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, he'd seen similar knick-knacks in the homes of friends and neighbors, and he instinctively hated them. As soon as he handed over his money, he threw his purchase to the ground and shattered it into pieces.
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Judged: 1 1 1 Only a total moron would consider the article 'slanted.' You have spammed several threads with the same bullshit! |
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Judged: 8 6 6 Decades of subliminal and blatant racism has a lasting effect that we are still dealing with today. And although the landslide election of the first Black President shows that we are well past the days of “Jim Crow”, the vitriolic hatred and racism directed towards President Obama from the right – such as the congressman who scream out “YOU LIE” at the SOTU a few years ago, and the constant replacement of the “N” word with the verbal attack of communist, Marist and socialist just shows that there is still a disgusting element that has to be eradicated and destroyed in order for this nation to fully heal from the past. But this museum is a necessary reminder for those who want to have selective memory about this nation’s evil history. |
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Judged: 3 2 1 You confuse criticism with racism. Casting a very small fringe as the "right" is nonsense just as the left has characters they do not savor. A true balanced perspective should account for the backlash to racism, historically as well as in the trayvon case which we should remember may have had race artificially interjected: http://news.yahoo.com/justice-trayvon-alabama... "Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he’s in critical condition. According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the kitchen sink. Police tell News 5 the suspects used chairs, pipes and paint cans to beat Owens. Owens’ sister, Ashley Parker, saw the attack.“It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.” Parker says 20 people, all African American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using “brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on.” What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal beating even worse. As the attackers walked away, leaving Owen bleeding on the ground, Parker says one of them said “Now thats justice for Trayvon.”" |
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Judged: 8 7 5 I agree that there has been a backlash to racism – but that backlash came only after images of Blacks being beaten, bitten and hosed in the streets were broadcasted around the world… and that backlash is only in the mainstream of society. And there is nothing artificial when George Zimmerman profiled Trayvon Martin as someone who looks like a criminal, up to no good, on drugs and “they always get away”… Zimmerman has a history of calling the police on Blacks, so anyone looking at these facts sees that race was injected by Zimmerman, and Trayvon was murdered because of it. |
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Judged: 6 4 3 BS as long as blacks perpetuate themselves as victims of racism all it will do is perpetuate racism. You will never change attitudes by trying to force or shame people into believing what you think is politically correct. The only thing which will so called "heal" racism if for black people to be truly successful in their own right not because of some affirmative action program. |
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Judged: 2 1 1 do you mean the footage of the white trucker being beaten by the group of blacks during the LA riots? zimmerman was not a white guy, if he was a black guy then the truth would be known, dress like a thug, get treated like a thug... this is not just for blacks...do white guys in leather vests on bikes get a fair shake? Do hippies with Phish stickers on their car get pulled over more? Do scruffy white guys with longer hair get followed in stores? race was artificially interjected here... I mean: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/03/bozell-nbc-... does this look like someone who was in a fight? http://gma.yahoo.com/warning-graphic-photo-po... its as if no one cares about reality after the manipulated story is out... like folks on the left still say the AZ shooter was a palin fan...that was the report on day 1 and we care little about the real facts... Lastly, as to obama, lots of us voted for him and now regret that. Its funny how we were not racist when we voted for him but we are when we criticize him...yet no one ever called Bush a dumb redneck, RIGHT? |
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Judged: 7 6 4 Your pathetic – which came first; the chicken, or the egg - attitude towards racism is ridiculous. Your solutions are for Blacks to “dummy-up” and just deal with bigotry and racism, and accept the uneven playing field that Affirmative Action addresses. Unfortunately for you and your warped thinking Blacks will never accept the kind of evil hatred that racism injects into our society; and with the coming change in demographics we’ll see how long racist right-wingers will be against laws meant to protect the minority from the majority. |
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Judged: 1 1 1 Since you brought it up I find it pathetic you don't know which came first the chicken or the egg. I can understand ancient philosophers not knowing they don't have the level of understanding we do of the origins of a species. We know that the dna in the first chicken came from the first chicken egg. We know that the donor of the first egg was not a chicken or else it would have the first chicken instead. There would have been either a mutation or a hybrid interaction of species which created the first chicken egg. In either case the donor parents while almost chickens were not chickens. We know the mutation or hybrid interaction occurred before the egg was fertilized because after the dna is fixed. So to make it personal non-marine corp pat; if you are pro life you consider the egg to be a chicken even before laid so you would have to say the egg and chicken were created simultaneously at conception and if your pro choice the egg came first but in neither case did the chicken come first so the best answer to your question is the egg came first. I can only answer these post this way because I paid attention in school. If I were a young black kid and acted the way I did, paying attention, homework before play, conservative dress, speaking proper English in hopes of being accepted as a contributing successful member of society then I would be ostracized, ridiculed, teased, and bullied for acting too white. Hence back to the problem. Black people need to get the chip off their shoulder, work their ass off trying to be deserving of success rather demanding it as some kind of right because of what someone else did in previous generations. If this man really wants to display the true ugly truth about racism then he needs to be accurate in his museum. He needs to include illustrations of black people enslaving other black people so black people could sell the black slaves to the Arab and Spanish slave traders in Africa. White people did not penetrate the interior of Africa until the middle of the 1800's by then a thriving slave trade had been going on for 300 years. It is easy to shine the light on what others did or did not do but that brings no where near the change and success of turning it on yourself. |
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