America's obsession with race is fascinating
Especially since many seem to perceive race as dichotomous, white or black. The US census has 63 different racial categories, if I remember correctly.
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It's not just America, believe it or not America is one of the least racist large countries.
fact: 87.3% of IMDB users belong to the secret society of cynics.
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Perfectly stated!
shareThat's *beep* American liberals see race in everything. That is why they are so fixated on it.
Its also, what the left does to African Americans. Convince them they're victims, everyone is out to get them, the white man is holding them down cause they're so 'racist' and that is why they struggle after decades of the same *beep* Dems spin this because its easy to manipulate their minds and then portray themselves as the saviors of the black community by pretending they're on their side and sprinkling some handouts to buy votes. The leftist media has perfected this. That is why you hear constant cries and portrayals of racism against a group who doesn't even make up 13% yet made up over half of the murder rate in the entire country in 2010. You hear nothing about the plethora of violence of blacks against whites but if one white cop happens to kill a black person, God help us, riots break out.
They don't bat an eye at Chicago or any of the other crime ridden cities where blacks kill off blacks at alarming rates. Somehow its only an issue if a white person is involved.
You know what group never cries racism? Asians. You know why? Because they are successful and make a better life here and stress the importance of education. They are the opposite of the black and Hispanic communities who are at the bottom and will always be at the bottom in every single category.
Do you work for Fox News?
Asians tend to be better off and better-educated when they come here, so the analogy is imprecise at best. Also, the Asians who immigrate here tend to be harder-working than the average people in their country. Immigrating to America from Asia is not that easy, and thus there is both a selectivity and a self-selectivity to the population that arrives. Indeed, you are failing to account for all manner of variables in the equation.
Chicago, black-on-black crime ... I see that you have your right-wing talking points in hand. If you don't see race in everything, then why do you characterize such crime as "black-on-black"? What about "white-on-white" crime? Rather than turning the matter into a racial one, why not see "black-on-black" crime as being driven by economics? Why not call it "poor-on-poor" crime? Frankly, the conservative obsession with "black-on-black" crime suggests that conservatives "see race" at least as much as liberals. Consider the "Birther" controversy: are you telling me that it was not about race and ethnicity?
The truth is that civil rights leaders such as Al Sharpton do talk about Chicago; the only times that I have seen conservatives talk about it have been to deflect from a controversial case that has left a young black man dead. share