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My thoughts - obviously the original thread referenced was done for pumping and thats it - but that said Im amazed at how many people think racism (at least the ability for someone to speak their mind freely and if they happen to hate something, speak freely about that) is something that ought to be hushed up and not ever be uttered as it may lead to "banning" or even worse - everyone hating that person for his utterences.
Grow up people - just because its "politically correct" to say you are anti-racist and you feel like you ought to push that "good feeling of everyone getting along" its total BS. There are places in the good ole US where racism (and I dont limit my opinions to black/white or any of the stereotypes) is so abundent that the people claiming to be anti-racist are the very ones being the racists - they just dont see it in themselves as they must be to pure to notice.
I grew up in the 50s and 60s when racism of the black/white communities was rampant - to the point that my mother, who was an outspoken civil rights reporter working for a newspaper in southern Georgia wrote inflaming articles against racism - so Ive seen my fill of burning crosses on my front lawn
I now (after journeys around the world and back) live in a small southern town where up until 3 years ago it was against town law to celebrate Independence day(the 4th of July for foreign people) as it was also the day in 1863 when this town fell to the Northern "invading" Army and the Confederacy was demolished around here.
You think that little rude comments you see posted on these board consist of racism - lemme tell you that you havent seen real racism - where certain colors of skin decide whether you have access to bathrooms in city hall, where to this day, you are not considered an equal to another color no matter what job, education or class you hold in a community.
The other side of this is that while the "practice" of racism is against the law since I believe it was around 1965, the ability to speak your feelings in public and to not only speak them, but to write them is not only protected by the Constitution, but every American should fully support the rights of any other citizen to speak as they want no matter how much you disagree - if you dont allow that, you have just taken away the first and most important freedom we all enjoy and might as well just kick back and wait for the facism that will have to replace that democracy if you will not support every citizens right to their own thoughts(hell I served in the military for 12 years defending the Constitution and every article in it)
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