hypersenstative twit

Now you've misquoted him. He wrote: " our only hope is that blacks' (or colored's if you prefer) fixation on white women continues, they'll eventually disappear."

He didn't say "hopefully...they'll disappear." He seemed to be saying that the only hope of avoiding racial guilt-trips for eons is for such intermarriage to occur that people cease to be race-conscious.

Whatever. My only point is that throwing around accusations of racism is not really conducive to reasoned discussion.

 

I totally agree, very similar to saying that anyone who doesn't dance to the same drum beat is supporting terrorists or accused of treason, just bad debate.

If, as many religions believe, we all came from the same gene pool, then.......?? And, with all the bad things going on in the World, how is inter-race name calling helping an any way shape or form?


c

 

i'm not going to bust out a huge semantic debate, but if neophyte wished to advocate racial unity, he would probably have avoided doing it in such an obviously inflammatory tone replete with blaming slavery on the blacks and hoping for their disappearance resultant from their fixation on white women

aaa is humorously far out on a limb with his interpretation. if you want a reasoned discussion on racism, you have to be able to acknowledge it first

 

Bingo.

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2006/05/political-paranoia-of-left-parts-i-and.html

 

sure there are a lot of people like that, but not most. you guys are on some imaginary crusade to prove someone else's feelings of inferiority. it kind of suggests an inferiority complex in itself.

 

in our community we refer to black people as Nigers (short for Nigerians)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

exactly like how people refer to Asians as Chinese

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butterflies are not moths and moths are not butterflies

apes are not monkeys and monkeys are not apes

and ...

 

I notice that the secular progressives don't like O'reilly. I think it is because he nails them for what they are, an overvocal minority of the political spectrum along the left end. O'reilly is left of center, he is an old school Cathlo-Democrat and the left 25% of his party seems as afraid of him as they are of Bush...

 

lol california republicans are some of the most vociferous. can you imagine if hillary wins with you already surrounded by eco moonbats on all sides. talk about fear! it's easy to understand why you get a kick out of bush resentment

 

I dont know how many of them here are from Niger or Nigeria and thus could be possibly called Nigers in that context. I suspect not many. Why can't they just be Americans, and when a need occurs (say you have a white guy who robbed you and a black guy who set you up to be robbed ), you would say the white guy robbed me, the black guy set me up. If you had no need to make a differance between the two or point them out for anything in a social situation then they are just two people no? In most cases noone refers to southern mountain people as rednecks and midwestern farmers as hicks anymore (except for open minded liberal democrat hippocrits who don't like their political views, then it seems to be ok for some reason), and I dont see any reason to continue using words that, while commonly used in the past, never had a much of a positive meaning to them. (Colored for example replaced Nigger and was a a term trying to respect blacks etc etc etc). Anyway, its very late, I feel like I have an elephant on my eyelids so I'm gonna try to go to sleep if my stomach will let me.

Brandon

 

More blacks and Hispanics live in prison cells than in college dorms

By Stephen Ohlemacher
ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:01 p.m. September 26, 2007

WASHINGTON – More than three times as many black people live in prison cells as in college dorms, the government said in a report to be released Thursday.

The ratio is only slightly better for Hispanics, at 2.7 inmates for every Latino in college housing. Among non-Hispanic whites, more than twice as many live in college housing as in prison or jail.

The numbers, driven by men, do not include college students who live off campus. Previously released census data show that black and Hispanic college students – commuters and those in dorms – far outnumber black and Hispanic prison inmates.

Nevertheless, civil rights advocates said it is startling that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to live in prison cells than in college dorms.

“It's one of the great social and economic tragedies of our time,” said Marc Morial, president and CEO of the Urban League. “It points to the signature failure in our education system and how we've been raising our children.”

The Census Bureau released 2006 data Thursday on the social, racial and economic characteristics of people living in adult correctional facilities, college housing and nursing homes. It is the first in-depth look at people living in “group quarters” since the 1980 census. It shows, for example, that nursing homes had much older residents in 2006 than in 1980.

The new data has limitations. In addition to not including commuter students, it does not provide racial breakdowns by gender or age, though it does show that males make up 90 percent of prison inmates.

Also, most prison inmates are 25 or older while 96 percent of people in college housing are age 18 to 24.

The data show that big increases in black and Hispanic inmates occurred since 1980. In 1980, the number of blacks living in college dorms was roughly equal to the number in prison. Among Hispanics, those in college dorms outnumbered those in prison in 1980.

There are a lot of reasons why black students do not reach college at the same rate as whites, said Amy Stuart Wells, a professor of sociology and education at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Black students are more likely to attend segregated schools with high concentrations of poverty, less qualified teachers, lower expectations and a less demanding curriculum, she said.

“And they are perceived by society as terrible schools, so it is hard to get accepted into college,” Wells said. “Even if you are a high-achieving kid who beats the odds, you are less likely to have access to the kinds of courses that colleges are looking for.”

Students who don't graduate high school are much more likely to go to prison, said Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Nearly 40 percent of inmates lack a high school diploma or the equivalent, according to the census data.

“The criminal economy is one of the only alternatives in some of these places,” Orfield said. “You basically have the criminalization of a whole community, particularly in some inner cities.”

Blacks made up 41 percent of the nation's 2 million prison and jail inmates in 2006. Non-Hispanic whites made up 37 percent and Hispanics made up 19 percent.

Morial, who is a former mayor of New Orleans, said the political debate over high incarceration rates for minorities hasn't yielded results. He said conservatives blame a lack of family values while liberals blame a lack of government programs, with neither side seeing the whole picture.

“We do, in the African-American community, need to instill a stronger value on education,” Morial said.

But, he added, minority students also need more early childhood education, longer school days, longer school years and more meaningful summer job opportunities.

“We need to get serious about true investment on the front end,” Morial said.

Among the other findings in the census data:

Men made up about 90 percent of prison and jail inmates in 2006, down from 94 percent in 1980.

About 9 percent of prison inmates were immigrants last year, up from about 4 percent in 1980. Immigrants made up about 13 percent of the total population in 2006.

Non-Hispanic whites made up about 73 percent of the 2.3 million people living in college housing in 2006. Blacks made up about 12 percent, Asians about 7 percent and Hispanics about 6 percent.