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U.N. working group suggests U.S. work on racial reconciliation

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Its all Obamas fault.

[roll eyes]

Here's the scoop: too many white Americans (mostly Republican) just cannot share the near infinite bounty of this continent with blacks. It is that simple.

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Black SabbathJAN. 30, 2016 - 08:03AM JST Its all Obamas fault.

[roll eyes]

Here's the scoop: too many white Americans (mostly Republican) just cannot share the near infinite bounty of this continent with blacks. It is that simple.

You've got to be kidding Black Sabbath! To make it partisan isn't the democrats the ones that continue the entitlement society that in recent past rewarded single mothers with multiple children? Don't you think that in itself destroyed many families in the inner city?

What astounds me is where is the guilt for the European nations which traded slaves bound for the Americas? Where is the guilt from other nations in the Americas? And what about the native Americans? Have they not paid dearly for the settling of the Americas?

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You've got to be kidding Black Sabbath!

Well, no. Your trotting out the old tired right wing bs about Welfare Queens and white guilt kinda proves my point.

America hasn't even apologized for the slavery, let alone Jim Crow, and Red Lining.

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too many white Americans (mostly Republican) just cannot share the near infinite bounty of this continent with blacks. It is that simple.

No. Too many Blacks play the "race card" in this day & age. Its as simple as that.

blacks facing disproportionately high unemployment, lower income levels, less access to education,

Sure some discrimination still exists, I'll wear that shoe. But the black community needs to wear the other. I mean, as a people, who long does it take to git ur act together??

The civil rights movement didn't just happen yesterday.

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Too many Blacks play the "race card" in this day & age. Cutting taxes is always good. Teachers needs guns. Mexicans are rapists. Women bleed too much.

Bombing brown people is good.

Vote Republican!

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@Wc626, "the black community", you mean like Ben Carson? "Who" long until Ben gets his act together and makes more than a half-hearted effort on the national stage?

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That's funny...........if we are going that route then roughly 300,000 Northerners died fighting against slavery aka the Civil War. We do not hear the Black Community praising their efforts. Anytime a white is involved and a black person dies the black community jumps all over that. Yet where were they when the two black guys raped and killed a white preachers pregnant wife? Some people still have problems with racism and it goes both ways. We will never "as a society" live in complete harmony. When you go to a high school football game.....it's Us against Them, fights can break out over the fact that you're from another town...not another color. Fun fact of the day - http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/

Remember... "Pants Up Don't Loot" & get a job.

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deadbeatles

I wrote [roll eyes]. As in, snark. Sorry if that was unclear.

So, yeah, I know wheres I stand. Lib Dem and proud of it.

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Anybody who denies that Obama has been the most divisive president in recent US history is fooling themselves.

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Anybody who denies that Obama has been the most divisive president in recent US history is fooling themselves.

Anyone who denies that the Republicans have used Obama as an excuse for dividing their country more than during any presidency in history is fooling themselves.

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Mireille Fanon Mendes and Ricardo A. Sunga III, are anything other than impartial, both are compromised by political prejudice, hampered by un-reasoned logic and historic oversimplification. These 'U.N. working groups' wallow in a ideological false consciousness only investigating or taking aim at the easiest political targets. The pompous self congratulatory moniker, 'U.N. Working Group of Experts' is a contradiction in terms, always investigating democracies and poking their self-righteous tongues out and ranting towers of babble.

Mireille Fanon-Mendès could give a fig for the victims' families of the 129 dead or the 360 seriously wounded, when she came out with this derogatory nonsense after the Paris attacks....

A Note from Paris - Mireille Fanon-Mendès France.....

http://indianculturalforum.in/index.php/2015/11/18/the-paris-attack/

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Anyone who denies that the Republicans have used Obama as an excuse for dividing their country more than during any presidency in history is fooling themselves.

That is too true. A president of African American descent!? NEVAAAA! When Obama first hit office, they tried to wipe him with, "He ain't 'Murican. His birth certificate ain't legal!"

And then that was followed with terms like, Obama will never leave office, he's king Obama, dictator Obama, etc.

Then the really wonderful people said, "he must be the anti-Christ!" All because we have our first "black" president. Personally I would have loved the first black president to have been female and see how they would have tried to pull this off without really pi**ing off a whole lot more people.

I know this because 2 of my co-workers are exactly that way. And both of them have pretty cushy lives, middle~upper middle class suburban Caucasian males. Anyone who denies that the Republicans have used Obama as an excuse for dividing their country more than during any presidency in history is fooling themselves.

Reparation for slavery isn't really all that important to me, but it should be noted that there is obviously some very heavy racist undertones still plaguing America in this day and age that needs to be addressed. In the year 2016 we still have too many people that have a nasty mindset. While I don't consider this to be an extreme problem in the state where I live I have experienced prejudice even here around about 20% in my lifetime.

It's not supposed be about "white guilt" it's about fixing the problems that we still have with prejudice. Because the first thing that some people see when they look at me is, "Uh oh, a darkie.... either he's a gang banger, a thug, a muzzie (which can't be determined by skin color, but that doesn't matter to them.), or an ex-con".

To be honest it's the Native American's that they need to pay attention to as well. I'm proud to be of Afro-American descent and even better I have both Caucasian and Native American in my bloodline. So when I'm told, "Go back to Africa" I get a good laugh out of that.

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It's not supposed be about "white guilt" it's about fixing the problems that we still have with prejudice.

This is something a lot of white people have a problem with. They think that by admitting that black people were (are) treated with prejudice, it somehow takes away from white people somehow, or that it makes white people lesser. It's on par with the right-wingers in Japan who think that admitting the sex-slave issue somehow makes Japan lesser now, or takes away from Japanese people now. When the opposite is true, Japan admitting it's wrongs and dealing with them would make Japan stronger, and white Americans admitting and accepting prejudice against black people, while working to remove it, makes America stronger - whites, blacks and all. Trying to pretend it didn't and doesn't exist just prolongs the problems.

Hopefully we'll get past all this in our lifetimes.

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Obama's policies are his weakness not his skin color. I think he is an honest man, honerable and has integrity. I would have dinner with the man if given the chance as long as the topics of conversation are not politics. I cannot say the same with Hillary.

Obama did jump to conclusions with Treyvon and Furgesson long before the facts where in. That was a blunder and helped racial divide.

When it is said Caucasians are racist in a blanket statement or even republicans are racist is shallow and untrue. Look around wherever you live racial bias and cultural bias as well as hundreds of others exist. The same can be said for genders also. Unfortunately it's a human trait.

Blacks in USA have even more opportunity than similar non-black children in the same situation. Inner city youth, many are animals. They respect nothing but the elder jailbirds and not enough are raised with loving care from parents. Those parents themselves didn't learn the importance of a loving, caring family structure.

@HonesDictator, some may look at you in the way you describe. Most don't. Attitude is everything. Show respect and you get it. Show disrespect and, well you know. That goes to all races. A white kid with attitude is just as much a thug as a black boy. And I think you know yourself, opportunity is there for all. It's not exclusive as many would have us believe.

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HonestDictator: It's not supposed be about "white guilt" it's about fixing the problems that we still have with prejudice. Because the first thing that some people see when they look at me is, "Uh oh, a darkie.... either he's a gang banger, a thug, a muzzie (which can't be determined by skin color, but that doesn't matter to them.), or an ex-con".

Or 'black person angry about racial disparity and his two middle~upper middle class suburban Caucasian male coworkers'. Or angry about whatever.

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