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    • 19 Dec 06
    • 9:57 am

    Democrat vs. republican is a smokescreen. democrat will give you the boot without the bootstraps and republicans give you the bootstrap w/o the boot. in the end the status quo remains the same and no major shake in the current parties can really help the truly disenfranchised.

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    • 21 Dec 06
    • 10:49 am

    if you are familiar with the preamble it is the government that is to promote the general welfare of its citizens. bm did you respond to rh?

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    • 13 Dec 06
    • 12:28 pm

    \affirmative action, civil rights and desegregation are all born for the desire for equality. can we say that this is an equal society? for what ever reasons we cannot. the latest politics of conservative payback make it less so. should we return to segregated school? should we return to separate and unequal? should we return to jim crow? the selfish desire to see our own (sons, nieces, cousins kin, kind, ethnic) prosper is part of human nature and is the essential base of racism. realizing this we want our children to marry with in our group. is that wrong? what is …

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    • 13 Dec 06
    • 12:34 pm

    blondemike please read any book by molefi asante and understand how your sterotypical opinion of africa is part of a eurocentric tradition of seeing themselves as the greatest and the only.

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    • 13 Dec 06
    • 3:13 pm

    bm think on this african american fought hard and died and were lynched and were raped faced tragic circumstances after slavery. look up the red summer of 1919 when returning vets killed blacks carte blanche because of the shartage of jobs. we had little black girls blown up in churches to get civil rights-- your concept of equality in just certain cases like justice just does not fly. as of a few years ago in texas blacks were still being lynched dragged behind pickups etc. i am not one fairly young who does not wish to ask for anything from mainstream …

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