What White People Fear

[pirana 0]

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Dancing in public?

Jumping? "White Men Can't Jump"

Did you see the piece on The Daily Show about the whites only basketball league in Atlanta.

Absolutely freakin hilarious. Three middle-aged white guys with a typical Bubba build, playing a little half-court against one very talented young black man. No contest.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[spiccoli 0]

People shouldnt be so vague in their thread titles; I was expecting this to be about asian drivers.

we need to talk about your flare..

[tkhayes 126]

I am white - and I fear NOTHING - Ha ha haaaaa!

[dreamdancer 0]

the president is white...

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The country is now facing an increase of 244 percent increase in the number of Patriot groups (militias and other organizations that see the federal government as their enemy) in 2009. At the same time, there has also been an increase in the number of anti-immigration groups throughout the country. These groups grew from 173 in 2008 to 309 in 2009, a rise of nearly 80 percent.

Are we facing a setback after so much work done in the last decades to overcome division and hatred in America? As Mr. Doudou Diène, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, stated after visiting several states in the U.S., "Racism and racial discrimination have profoundly and lastingly marked and structured American society.

The U.S. has made decisive progress. However, the historical, cultural and human depth of racism still permeates all dimensions of life and American society."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/02-7

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[dreamdancer 0]

a tipping point...

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Legal scholars suspiciously question the timing of the post-racial and colorblind idealism sweeping America.

“At the precise historical moment when race has become a tool for undoing racism and when the non-white population seems finally poised to surpass the white group, color blindness has emerged as a new racial ideology,” observes Ian Haney Lopez, a University of California law professor of mixed heritage. “Color-blind adherents wield it mainly to forestall any recognition of, or response to, racism's deep and continuing legacy. In the context of Latino demographics and racial counting, however, its partisans see in color blindness a means of obscuring the rapidly approaching shift from a white-majority to a white-minority country.”

A provocation: Should the US stop tracking its inhabitants’ race, as the colorblind movement would have? Or should we endeavor to track race more comprehensively and nimbly?

Put bluntly, the 2010 and future census efforts need to count Latinos more accurately, and to upgrade the crude tools of its architects. This is not just academic question; it rouses our national self-awareness and safeguards our democratic integrity, by forcing us to face our demographic future with eyes wide open.

http://www.alternet.org/story/146298/racial_questions_rock_the_census?page=entire

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[tonyhathaway 0]

I am afraid someone will catch me separating my whites from colors in the laundry.......

My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

[rhaig 0]

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I am afraid someone will catch me separating my whites from colors in the laundry.......

racist!

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Rob