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I honestly do not think that this problem can be solved with the current outlook. It’s my opinion that we’re all at fault. In many of my threads you have picked up on a statement and made the assumption that it was somehow racially or culturally motivated. While I fully understand where you’re coming from, that’s part of the problem. It perpetuates hate and discontent. It infers racism where there is none. If all you’re looking for is garbage, garbage is all you’re going to find.
I cannot comment what happened in that particular interview with the president because Fox news is notoriously unreliable and unprofessional. After 9-11, co-workers would come to work daily with these outlandish tales that they’d seen on the “news”. I was flipping constantly between NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. I had not heard anything even remotely similar. I finally asked “where are you getting this from.” So I tuned in for a few days. None of their outlandish stories panned out nor did they retract them or give any sort of explanation the next day. They have shocking stories to be sure, but hardly a source of reliable information. I rate them right up there with the public access programs on here that declare you cannot give birth in the hospital because they’re implanting computer chips in the baby’s head.
But famous people do have an impact on the way our society views things. And the more outlandish and rude a person is, the more press they get. How do you think today’s society would receive MLK and his message for the first time? Who would get more press? Martin or Malcom?
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