[quote]The reason the racism charge is so effective is that the US has a long long history of being racist and even today there are a lot of racist tendencies. The US is one one of the least racist countries in the world, but it is far from color blind.
Black Slavery, Chinese exclusion laws, treatment of the Indians, banning negros from baseball and banning negroes from professional golf as late as 1990, U of Alabama never had a black football player until after 1974 when Bear Bryant said "Cunningham ran all over my skinny little white boys", U. of KY never had a black basketball player until 1976, 38 states banned black white marriages until 1964.[/quote]
You are being dishonest about the Alabama-UCS game, I believe Wilbur Jackson was on the team, he was not allowed to play as Freshmen weren't in those days. Oh, Coach Bryant beat Trojans 17-10 in 1971 when he installed the "Wishbone". The team was filled with "skinny white boys" I don't know if they were that skinny, you might want ask John Hannah, be careful if you ever phrase it that way. You have a very odd line of thinking to be on a conservative site, it sounds rather liberal and race-baiting the comments you're exposing.
Ok, I got my year wrong. It was 1970, not 1974.
Interesting is this:
"Yet African-Americans who played at Alabama in the 1970s offer glowing accounts of Bryant's fairness and character. Bryant negotiated to bring Southern California's integrated team to Birmingham in 1970, resulting in an Alabama thrashing led by African-American runner Sam "Bam" Cunningham. As Bryant later said, "Cunningham did more for integration in Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King Jr."
I happen to like the truth. The truth is the US has been one of the more fair and least racist counties in the world. The truth is the US does have a racist past. The truth is things are better now than ever. The truth is some percentage, my guess is about 10% of the US are white bigots or closet racists.