Barbella
Senator
There was nothing to "arbit", no matter how much you wish there was.
Recently I was fortunate enough to be able to spend a week in the South...
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Barbella
Senator
It most definitely "struck a cord". It laid bare the mind boggling racism of the American Leftist.
Barbella
Senator
It was. I enjoyed it.
BobbyT
Governor
You're right, there's not. Your little week vacation means nothing to whether or not there's racism in the south. I'm glad you realize that.
BobbyT
Governor
Why? Because so many black people in one place amazed you? You should get out more often from your Lily white enclave. Seriously. Trust me, there's all variety of ethnicities out here away from your polo party HOA gated community. Come to new mexico; you'll see all number of less than white folk. It'll shock ya.
WE should meet.............I'll pay for dinner...............
ya from NM...why be an [Unwelcome language removed] bobby................
well we should meet____________tell me where_________________
BobbyT
Governor
I'm in southern pines tonight, have been all week, but I leave tomorrow after we get done working to drive over to le jeune.
EatTheRich
President
Here's an example of racism I noticed the last time I was in the South. I visited Ft. Lauderdale and stayed in a hotel, and I found that all the maids and taxi drivers I encountered were Black, while every concierge and nearly every waiter was white. Of course, racism is found in the North too, and in some ways (school segregation) it is much worse. But it looks different when you go different places. Here in Montana a visitor might be hard-pressed to see signs of anti-Black racism, but he'll only have to read the local letters to the editor for a week or spend a few hours in the wrong bar to hear an overt attack on Native Americans in terms that might be pretty vicious.
The grocery store I go to once a week is one where at least half of the customers are black and at least half of the workers are black. I have walked to my car in the dark in near proximity to young men in hoodies many times and I have never once felt any sort of nervousness. Everyone is nice to me (and everyone else far as I can tell) in that store and skin color doesn't matter there.
I agree with you that the real racists are the Leftists who keep bringing it up and obviously notice it first.
There are people in this country who want more than anything to stir up trouble between races. We all know who their leaders are and they aren't Conservatives. They are disgusting .
Yes. There is.
oicu812
"Trust, but Verify"
EatTheRich
President
It's racist to observe that people of different races are treated differently?
oicu812
"Trust, but Verify"
nobody said it was...its RACIST to ASSUME its due to RACISM...
that puts you squarely in the racist camp...
EatTheRich
President
So we should assume that disparities in access to jobs are never due to racism, no matter how widespread they are and no matter how much external sociological data exists to conform the hypothesis that racism is the reason?
oicu812
"Trust, but Verify"
YOU can ASSUME anything your heart desires...
PROVING your ASSUMPTIONS are FACTUAL, is quite a different matter entirely....
Queen Titania
Senator
This is just a question.
Taking your post at face value, assuming it is fact. I give you two solutions to your problem. 1) Make laws that ensure that there are equal amounts of black and white people in every sphere of work in the catering industry. 2) Allow things to evolve at their own natural pace. Which one would you choose?
EatTheRich
President
I'm not necessarily going to commit myself to equal numbers of Black and white employees, considering that in most parts of the U.S. Blacks are a relatively small minority. But I absolutely think there should be laws with quotas to ensure that opportunities at all levels are open to people of any race.
I also don't think there's anything "natural" about the weight of hundreds of years of institutionalized racism, reflected in present-day power structures including ongoing naked racial violence.
