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Lady:

Redlining is agianst the law:
http://www.innercitypress.org/icpilc.html
I bought a house about 8 months ago. I couldn't even get a look at property in anywhere except neighborhoods that had at least 50% "minority". The ones I wanted to see in "the more affluent areas in my price range were dumps or suddenly had "accepted an offer", even though the places stood vacant or in the owners hands for at least another 6 months. I checked and counted. I had a friend call up two of these places, and lo and behold, they WEREN'T sold, neither had they accepted offers. My White friend found this out.

Stopping a motorist without probable cause is against the law:
http://members.aol.com/digasa/stats42.htm

So is shooting an unarmed civilian:
http://www.msu.edu/~varanose/chapter6.PDF
http://officerjellynutz.com/brutality.html

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/inequal/2002/0925census.htm
I'm told that racism doesn't exist. It is just an excuse that Black people use when they don't succeed. I'm told that Black culture is the problem.
I'm told that 'unfortunate incidents' happen, sometimes between Blacks and whites, but these incidents aren't racially motivated. I'm told that Black people DO unfairly target whites; justifying their violence by believeing that white people 'owe' them something, or believe it is okay to exact a little "payback" or whatever. What do you think?

As Always:
"K"

Kelly

I live in an expensive neighborhood. On my very small street there are 2 black families the last time I checked, who are welcomed by all, not to mention the hispanic and 3 oriental families here. The rest of the neighborhood includes more ethnic backgrounds such as several Indian families.

I am tired of the bull and tired of being called racist just because I am white. The last racist person I knew was alive during the time of the horse and buggy and died some 15 years ago.

Sometimes I think that the black community is missing the greatist opportunity they have ever had to truely become part of society, because society is the least racist it has ever been. Instead all I hear is hatred from that community for something that I had no part of (slavery). My advice, which is worth a grain of salt, is to get over it, get out from under the slavery of the dem party, work hard and create great lives for yourselves no matter how you think others view you. I see others doing it and doing it well. It is time to show them what you are made of. Otherwise it will become a self fulfilling view and society at some point will be less accepting.

I'm told that racism doesn't exist. It is just an excuse that Black people use when they don't succeed. I'm told that Black culture is the problem. I'm told that 'unfortunate incidents' happen, sometimes between Blacks and whites, but these incidents aren't racially motivated. I'm told that Black people DO unfairly target whites; justifying their violence by believeing that white people 'owe' them something, or believe it is okay to exact a little "payback" or whatever. What do you think?

I think that blacks in the inner cities have an uphill battle with the dem party, who control the schools(that ensure that they have substandard education and thus have no chance at that executive neighborhood on the other side of town(home school if the family is intact)) and have set up the welfare program to destroy the black family. It is not for nothing that the same party who fought against equal rights for blacks is the same party that has "helped" them so much with the welfare system (helped destroy the black family that is). If you really want to be schocked go back and read what the dem president who set up the welfare program said about locking the blacks in America into voting democrat for the next 100 years.

Anger is fine just use it to succeed. For now little by little African Americans are figuring out that they do not get any where until they do it on their own, and that is the only type of success that will last, and they will be accepted when they do it.

I hope to see you soon in my neighborhood.