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Old 08-31-2005, 01:47 PM  
dig420
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Originally Posted by scoreman
I never said there was a racist community. All I was pointing out was that lack of education and intelligence are not prerequisites to be a racist. Some of the scariest racists I met where these two guys in the dorms at Berkeley who were good ol boys from Alabama and Tennessee. Both were very very intelligent. One went on to be a surgeon and the other is a lawyer on Wall street from what I was told. I never met anyone more convinced that blacks were an inferior lot than these two.
Strange, considering that the surgeon should have known that skin color is a phenotype displayed across a wide range of genotypes. Usually educated people let go of ignorance when they have a choice, but not always.
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