According to the libs, racism and sexism are rampant in America. Communism and socialism exist only in the minds of the conservatives.. Liberals are jerks.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

"Contemporary racism is not conscious, and it is not accompanied by dislike, so it gets expressed in indirect, subtle ways," he said."

Gee, I wonder if this could have anything to do with the modern day civil rights movement which is in itself inherently racist.  It seems to me that race relations are bad specifically due to the liberal policies intended to improve them.  Almost no one believes there is any difference between the potential of blacks and whites but when you have govt policies telling you otherwise what are you to do.  The "indirect, subtle" racism they mention is due to affirmative action and like policies.  It has nothing to do with skin color it has to do with another group not being held to the same standard as you for purely superficial reasons. 

All Liberals are anti-American. 

Really, you'd think racism is an American phenomenon.  Well, I hate to break it to any of you lib trolls that might be slithering around this site: racism, or any kind of bigotry, is a human problem.  In fact, the U.S.A. is probably the least racist of the "white" countries in the world.

Mexicans use the words "gringo" and "wetto"(sp?) freely.  French-Canadians hate English Canadians and vice-versa and they all think Blacks are great, especially since there are so few of them in Canada.  Europeans have hated each other for centuries. African Hutus hate African Tsutsis.  Chinese hate Tibetans.  Muslims hate everyone - even other Muslims. 

This is a human flaw, not an American one.  But don't tell Liberal intellectual elites this - they think everyone else is an idiot.

I think the article did a good job distinguishing the results of the poll from the various commentators. I think the article could have spent more time discussing the fine points of the polls questions and sample methods.

I am generally favor of articles like this one because (in my view) it promotes an introspective take on race relations. I should note that I have a loose pro-affirmative action bias myself, so that probably affected my reading of the article.

I like affirmative action because I do not think race quotas should be legal in the workplace. (I have heard arguements that race quotas should be legal on the grounds that if a business owner is a racist person, he should not be forced to work with people he hates to run a business. These do not convince me because it is reasonably difficult for a small business owner to get convicted in an affirmative action civil lawsuit.) I do not agree with affirmative action policies regarding academic admissions.

I believe it was Lesley Stahl who, last night, brought on to discuss this important story, two of the biggest racists in America, Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.

Apparently David Duke, being in Iran, was unavailable.

"If a cab passes you by, obviously it is frustrating, it's degrading and it's just really confusing, because this is akin to being in the South and being refused service at a lunch counter, which is what happened in the '60s and '70s," he said."

Why when the talk turns to racism does it always have to use the cab example? And why does it always imply white vs. black?  The majority of cab drivers that I've seen in NYC are non-white, so if there is racism, IMO it's not from whites.

I think it's more about economic discrimination.  A driver has to make the most that he/she can off a fare.  If a person holding a suitcase is hailing a cab, the driver will automatically go to that person no matter what the color, with the hope that that person will be going to the airport (a bigger fare in NYC than just going a few blocks). 

If there is racism in the cab industry, why don't black people put in a few drivers that do nothing but pick up black people?

An honest discussion of race is impossible in today's world.

The cab driver doesn't want to take a fare to a slum gang infested area of the city and be robbed, killed by a stray bullet or mugged because he is not of the 'hood.  Now that's good racism for him and bad racism for the fare.  Is this racism at all?  The question would beg some study.  If you go to San Francisco and try to tell a cab driver (even if you are white, Chinese or Arab) that you want to go to the slums, four of five will offer you the curb to look for another cab.  That's racism?

So, like all other Liberal examples, it is shallow and out of context.

I never think of race unless I'm being browbeaten over the head by the likes of Al Sharpton who wouldn't know racism if it bit him and I think it has already done that.

Take the money out of milking White Guilt in America and you find very little group think racism.  There are pockets such as in the White Supremacy gangs or the Black Panthers and many others, but taken as a whole these folks do not represent the many in America who simply try to lead their lives treating others as they would appreciate being treated.

On the other hand, I lived through the Civil Rights struggle era when these 'kings' of racism opportunism were created and I don't remember hearing nearly as much about race at that time for such an extended period as I hear today.

So, we must not be making progress.

Oh, yeah.  How can we make progress when the goal posts are being moved on a daily basis.  Now, being against Gay Marriage is akin to being against the Civil Rights Act of 1965.  Now, being an Evangelical Christian is equilivant to being a White Redneck Racist.

The Left is very good at equlivance.  They equate Republican inaction on Foley to condoning predatory sex maniacs.  They equate Emmanual's gamemanship with 'good' politics.  They equate morality with rigidity of thought and they equate Republicans with Nazi's when Bill Clinton (or was it Hillary) was getting off on bugging some royal phone in England and France.

My gosh, what is power if you can't use it to eavesdrop on the hot stuff in the world and then look smugly around at everyone else as if they were just plebes on the lawn.

I don't see many statues of black men with cane poles in yards anymore.

The real issue today is the anti-Jewish sentiment of the Liberal Elite, not the subtle but unrecognized racism of all those Americans out there.

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