Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
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America is racist, thats why.
Such a blanket label is BS and you know it. That kind of remark is one of the reasons for no black presidents. Too many black "leaders" seem to look for racism under evey rock, all the time. I have heard arguments in the local school system that uniform punishment for breaking well defined rules, particularly violence, are unfair to blacks because they fail to account for the differences in "black culture". I have heard black college students on spring break defended when they burned cars and looted. Claims that they were only arrested because they were black. I personally know of a black man caught on video tape stealing very expensive product from a company. He was immeadiately fired. He was back at work the next week, proud to proclaim that lawyers from a black advocacy group had threatened the company with long and expensive litigation (claiming discrimination - totally baseless BTW) if they did not give him his job back.
Racism is not gone yet in the country, I grant you. But it is not everywhere. Not the cause of every black person's problems.
Want a black president? Run a qualified candidate who doesn't present blacks as outside the mainstream majority culture. Who doesn't absolutely require finding racism for his fortune and prestige. It is certainly OK to fix it when you really find it, but don't shoehorn it into every issue.
Colin Powel was once just such a possible candidate. His race would have been insignificant in any consideration I might have given to voting for him. He, his son, and John McCain have all been tainted by the Bush Administration, making them far less electable in the future.