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You have distorted my comments about Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their related organizations. Nowhere in my previous post did I state that they claim the negro to be an intellectually superior being.


"they go to extreme measures to show the negro as intellectually superior beings"








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Am I a racist? No, I don't think so.




Well, it's a fairly simple question. If you believe that blacks and whites possess inherent differences, irrespective of their environment or upbringing, that determine their intellectual capacity or their ability to advance in society, then you're a racist. Whether you are or not though, you should have the courage to state it openly and stand behind your beliefs.


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I am, however, fed up with African-American culture.




Jazz, blues, R&B, rock, gospel, hip-hop, and virtually every other form of popular music originated in black communities. In those few venues traditionally open to blacks, principally entertainment and sports, they've flourished and been the driving force behind artistic innovation and athletic achievement. Eliminating the contributions of African-Americans would eviscerate our culture so dramatically as to make it unrecognizable.
To each his own, but I don't wanna live in a world without Sly Stone.

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I also realize that the ills of the African-American community are largely self-inflicted, but possible thanks to wrong-headed white liberal activists and policy-makers who have enabled the African-American community to deteriorate. White men like me did not created the conditions you see portrayed on "The Wire", which are horrible but no worse than large swaths of every urban center in the USofA.




While steering clear of blaming "white men like [you]", or any white people specifically. What glorious utopian past has the African-American community deteriorated from? 300 years of institutionalized slavery, another hundred years of de facto slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, red-lining, and systematic discrimination that were only outlawed a generation ago? With not even 50 years of equal protection and opportunity under the law [ laws instituted by whites I hasten to add ], do you really think the disproportionately high levels of poverty and crime plaguing black communites are "largely self-inflicted" problems?

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