Playing the race card.
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ResearchMonkey
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Aren’t we being non-PC also with this statement? Isn’t "Hood" a rather offensive term like saying ghetto?markjs said:
Some people can pull that type of thing off in most cases, others just can't because it sounds so un-natural for them to say it.
I can imagine you getting beat-up fairly often regardless of racial make-up of the room.
I was raised since 4y/o with the proper terms "colored folks" and "negroes'. (occasionally the less-than attractive terms were heard in times of anger and rage)
markjs
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No, can't say I ever had the problem of getting beat up a lot, nor have I beaten very many people up in my life. I have however lived in "the hood" and I have been involved in more than one shootout (never me having the gun). Tacoma's "Hilltop" area was my home for a number of years.
FluerVanderloo
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Only temporarily jumping in.
I don't understand why it's so offensive for a white person to call a black person anything but "African American", but if a black guy called a white guy any of the derogatory terms commonly used, it's ok.
I read this somewhere as well. Reguarding the term "African American": let's say hypothetically that a white man is born in South Africa and moves to the United States. Is he not an African American? Wouldn't calling him such offend the black man who heard it?
My racist comment for the night: white people have become the minority.
I don't understand why it's so offensive for a white person to call a black person anything but "African American", but if a black guy called a white guy any of the derogatory terms commonly used, it's ok.
I read this somewhere as well. Reguarding the term "African American": let's say hypothetically that a white man is born in South Africa and moves to the United States. Is he not an African American? Wouldn't calling him such offend the black man who heard it?
My racist comment for the night: white people have become the minority.
I cannot speak for TD or Gato due to undue anglo heritage but my point still stands...a caucasian born in South Africa, emigrating to the US & then becoming a citizen of the US is not an African American either. He (or she) is an American.
I do understand your point however.
I do understand your point however.
FluerVanderloo
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You're right, but thanks for seeing my point.
Inkara1
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I learned all I need to know about this working for minimum wage at a one-location pizza joint. My boss had a hard time making payroll a lot of the time, even at minimum wage. Even though the opening of Fresno State's new $100-million arena across the street helped, unless things pick up more, he might not be able to weather the next minimum wage hike. Keep in mind that for every dollar in salary, you also have to pay a certain amount to the Worker's Comp insurance company. If you give a guy a pay raise, you also pay more into that fund even though his job is no riskier than it was at the lower wage. Also, keep in mind that most jobs that get outsourced overseas pay well above minimum wage; most minimum-wage jobs are service-type jobs that you can't outsource, like stocking shelves at a 99-cent store or churning out pizzas. That means that the minimum wage rate won't affect the rate of manufacturing jobs moving overseas... but for Mr. Small Business Owner, it could be the difference between staying open and folding, or it could result into the dollar store turning into the $1.25 store or the price of your favorite pizza going up $1 or $2. That extra quarter here and dollar there seems small by itself, but it really adds up and the increased wages don't go as far as lawmakers would like. It's not something you can just fix with an unfunded mandate.Thulsa Doom said:
Gato_Solo
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In some ways, Inkara is correct. Small business owners, who employ quite a few people in the US, are the ones who pay minimum wage. The profits are razor thin (I know, because my fiancee owns a small store), and any added cost could crumble your profit base, and cause you to close your doors. Wal-Mart, Sears, et al, can just cover the cost by shifting where they buy their merchandise...and remember, they buy in enormous quantity...and not have to raise prices in order to meet payroll. Once a small business raises prices, unless they're the only game in town, they're doomed to failure. It's the way the business world works. 
Large corporations who move their HQ's outside the US, however, can be 'punished' a totally different way. The US government has a strict 'buy American' program, and has had it in place since the 1990's. The only time it's not enforced is when there is no like product on the market, or the price for the US item is exhorbitant (remember the $500 toilet seat?). Make it a 100% buy American within the US, at market cost, and to hell with those corporations that move their businesses for tax purposes.
Large corporations who move their HQ's outside the US, however, can be 'punished' a totally different way. The US government has a strict 'buy American' program, and has had it in place since the 1990's. The only time it's not enforced is when there is no like product on the market, or the price for the US item is exhorbitant (remember the $500 toilet seat?). Make it a 100% buy American within the US, at market cost, and to hell with those corporations that move their businesses for tax purposes.
PowerballWinner
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If parts of the Republican Party is racist, I'll tell you why African-Americans don't mind joining that party - they don't care. Many of them I've met don't care how racist problems get, they just accept problems as they come like mindless sheep. The party claims to be of morality and there are African-American Christians who follow the Bible and its morality and so they join the party like sheep.
Gato_Solo
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PowerballWinner said:
And those who follow the Democratic party are open-minded free-thinkers, right? Your argument is only based on an ignorant assumption, that minorities cannot make a decision on their own, and must be led. By placing religion into the argument, you are being tactless as well. If, and I do mean if, the minorities who are republican are rich, then they have proven themselves not to be sheep. They have broken out of the mold that society wants to place them in...poor to middle class, and under-educated to average intelligence...
You are, in my opinion, the worst kind of racist...one who doesn't acknowledge his own racism by trumpeting causes that make him/her feel less guilty about him/her self.
ResearchMonkey
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The point is fairly clear; racism on the national level is being kept alive as an ideal by those that fuel the tensions, the dems and militant AA's.
Have you seen the fear-mongering billboards in the south?
Have you seen the fear-mongering billboards in the south?
ResearchMonkey
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chcr
Too cute for words
Well, I don't really consider Missouri to be part of the south, but that's pretty despicable politicking no matter where it is. If you can't stand on the issues, make up new ones. As has been mentioned before in this thread by people more qualified than I to comment on the subject, I've never noticed that the democrats or republicans have been a particular friend to minorities unless they believed those minorities could specifically help them achieve a goal.
Edit: Another question. Is there more than one?
As has been mentioned before in this thread by people more qualified than I to comment on the subject, I've never noticed that the democrats or republicans have been a particular friend to minorities unless they believed those minorities could specifically help them achieve a goal.Edit: Another question. Is there more than one?
