Fatman -
I agree with a lot of what you have said Fatman, however I disagree with your conclusion. I still believe the actions of the generations that preceded us affect us to this day. This is the easiest example I could come up with:

Picture the human race as a marathon. In America, each generation is 1 leg of the marathon. Well, the marathon started with white men running full speed at the start of the race while they held the black man from leaving the starting block. Eventually, the white men realized it was wrong and let the black man leave the starting block and enter the race. After a number of legs of the marathon, our generation now has the torch and we are running with it. Is it now fair to look back at the black man's team and wonder why they are so far behind? Is it fair to say "It is not fair to blame me for the black man being so far behind, I wasn't even born when they were preventing his team from starting the race?". Is it fair to say "that happened so long ago it no longer affects us"?

Unfortunately, life is not a board or video game. We do not start out with the same amount of money and the same opportunities. It is not to say that black men cannot achieve everything that a white man can, however he now has to work hard enough to diminish the lead that the white man was given in this marathon. In America, you can achieve anything you want. However, if you are white, you can achieve it a lot easier. Your family gave you a head start with slavery and now it is your lead to lose.

Once again Fatman, your post are intelligent and I agree with almost all of them. Keep the bunny pics coming!

Gia -
I am sorry that the shit with you and IR/racism keeps coming up. The fact of the matter is that racism deals with hate and not with like. Just because we need to be tolerant of other races does not mean that we have to like them all. It is completely your preference as to whom you sleep with. What you are and are not attracted to has absolutely nothing to do with racism.

Furthermore, in an industry that still thinks of IR as taboo, regardless of what you are attracted to, it may have still been in your best interest not to do IR shit. I do not consider black ministers who would never marry a white women because some of their congregation would also look at it as taboo as a racist; I look at them as a realist.

Tinker -
You are a fucking idiot. I cannot tell if you have no understanding at all of the statistics you quoted or if you have a good understanding of them and are just being sarcastic. The World Health Organization, the CDC and The World Bank all site that the one of the conditions that promotes the spread of HIV and AIDs is poverty. Without money, testing and condems are obviously out of the question. Furthermore, they are all agree that the origination point was in West Africa. If you came on to post that HIV and AIDS are the highest in one of the most poverty stricken areas where the disease also originated, then thank you for this conclusion Captain Obvious. Lie down before you hurt yourself.

Your point about America is highly misguided. Aids is not spread in porn by only black men. The last black man that did spread AIDS in porn was Darren James and that was because he left North America and started fucking chicks in South America. I am not sure where you are from, but there are more cases of AIDS Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, South and South-East Asia then in North America. Eat Shit Jack Ass.
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