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Mar 18, 2010, 09:36 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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Thank you Byzantine
I don't think we can blame this all on politics.  From my own experience, the people (young and old) who have attacked us have no interest in politics. The hatred has heightened only because we have a black president. When people say it has nothing to do with that, I'd like to know how many black bosses they've had in the past and how hard did they work for their black leader/boss. When I've asked men (and women) on the street if they'd ever work for a black person, oftentimes their response would be "over my dead body."  The same goes for other persons of color.
When I was a little girl in the '60s and questioned teachers and religious leaders about the Civil Rights Movement and MLK, they told me black people were "substandard human beings - more like monkeys - and incapable of learning."  Obviously that isn't true - so why do so many people keep depicting our President and First Lady as gorillas and chimps?
I heard on the news this morning someone grabbed a phone at a Walmart in NJ and announced to the shoppers "Attention: All black people leave the store now." Was THAT supposed to be funny?
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