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To: Cyropaedia
"Dealing with race is about educating white folks,"

This is a buncha happy horsesh*t, my fellow FReepers. I grew up on a farm in western NY state (born 1950). When I was about six or seven, I went to the local GLF with my Grandfather (a Scot). After he purchased a few items, we approached the cashier. In front of us was a a black man. Grandpa stated, "Out of my way, nigger." The black gentleman stepped aside and allowed my Granpa to purchase his goods.

There's two mistakes here. One, Grandpa (obviously) and two, the black American for stepping out of the way and allowing the racism to perpetuate.

Today, fifty years later, I hear no casual nor overt racist statements amongst my friends, family nor business associates.

My point is, whites have come a very long way. In my opinion, much more than any other group. It's reeducation. The Great Leap Forward.

102 posted on 01/02/2004 3:08:34 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
My point is, whites have come a very long way. In my opinion, much more than any other group. It's reeducation. The Great Leap Forward.

** I agree wholeheartedly.
106 posted on 01/02/2004 3:15:44 PM PST by cyborg
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
My point is, whites have come a very long way. In my opinion, much more than any other group. It's reeducation. The Great Leap Forward.

But as far as the black vote, Republicans haven't. Ronald Reagan won a bigger chunk of the black vote than any Republican has since. Even someone as pathetic as Clinton won a large majority of this voting blok.

108 posted on 01/02/2004 3:19:14 PM PST by FITZ
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Wow! I grew up in the south in the same time frame, but never saw even the most prejudiced of my family or neighbors so anything so rude. A lot of folks didn't like blacks and would say so, but they still treated them decently.
152 posted on 01/02/2004 4:31:48 PM PST by sweetliberty (Controlling the ACLU by feeding it our liberties is like controlling sharks by chumming the waters)
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