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	<title>Comments on: Why Blacks Should Think Twice About Supporting Ron Paul</title>
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		<title>By: marem</title>
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		<description>! Nice site 
Keep posting, and mate thanks. 
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Keep posting, and mate thanks.<br />
there is nothing in the world I enjoy more than learning. In fact, i&#8217;d rather be learning now!</p>
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		<title>By: Ubqqwaij</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks!,</description>
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		<title>By: Holly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>does anyone know who took this picture because i am competing in a national patriotic illustration competition and was wondering if i could get permission to use this picture. thank you</description>
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		<title>By: unbiased</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My definition of racism: treating people differently because they have a different skin color.

Example: Someone says &quot;all blacks are bad&quot; =&gt; racism.

However, the opposite is also true. A black saying &quot;all whites are bad&quot; is also racism. Note that saying &quot;all whites are racists/all blacks are racists&quot; is racism as well.

But racism does not mean treating people negatively. Supporting black people more than white people is also racism, even if it might be intended to fight racism, it is racism itself. The strange thing is, if you&#039;re not a racist, people will likely call you a racist. Why? Simple: If someone says &quot;I don&#039;t think black people should get support that white people don&#039;t get&quot; he will be called a racist, because people assume he does not like black people. There might be some people that think so because they are racists, but most people aren&#039;t. The opposite is true. Giving black people a support that white people don&#039;t get is racism, by definition. Look at the definition of racism again: Treating people differently because of race. So what is it if not racism? 

Racism does not merely mean treating people worse because of race, but also treating people better because of race. In the end, if you do any of these two things, you are a racist. That&#039;s a fact. 

Let me say three more things:
1. I&#039;m black myself.

2. I am not a Ron Paul supporter, but he is definitely not a racist. Nobody (including Obama) is more anti-racist than he is.

3. I support Obama, but not because he is black as I am, but because of his views on certain issues. However, even though I support him, I am concerned. It seems to me that many people are just supporting him because he is black. Same with Hillary, it seems to me that many people support her just because she is a woman. I&#039;m against both of these things. You shouldn&#039;t support a presidential candidate ONLY because of race/gender. That&#039;s ridiculous. More: That&#039;s racism. Again, look at the definition: Treating people differently because of race. Voting for Obama because he&#039;s black is by definition racism (note that I&#039;m saying this EVEN THOUGH I&#039;m supporting him and EVEN THOUGH I&#039;m black myself.) Why am I saying this then? Because I&#039;m using LOGIC and ARGUMENTS to make my decision, and not emotions. Emotionally, I could say: Obama is black, I&#039;m black, I should vote for him because I feel connected to him. But logically, that would be racism. And, honestly, anyone who votes for somebody just because he is black/white, man/woman, or who does not vote for somebody because of any of the things mentioned above, should have no right to vote. (Of course, I don&#039;t mean that, but still...)

We&#039;re all individuals, we&#039;re all humans. Differentiating people because of skin color, gender, or something like that is artificial in my view. Dividing people in black and white is an artificial division. In my opinion, it is the same as dividing mankind in people that wear glasses and people that don&#039;t wear glasses; it&#039;s the same as dividing mankind in people that are above 6 feet and people below 6 feet; it&#039;s the same as dividing mankind in people that have the favorite color green and people with a favorite color different than green. It&#039;s artificial, it&#039;s useless, and it&#039;s unfair. Everybody should have the same rights because he is a human being, and not because of anything else, because every other differentiation would be artificial. And in this point I strongly agree to Ron Paul.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My definition of racism: treating people differently because they have a different skin color.</p>
<p>Example: Someone says &#8220;all blacks are bad&#8221; =&gt; racism.</p>
<p>However, the opposite is also true. A black saying &#8220;all whites are bad&#8221; is also racism. Note that saying &#8220;all whites are racists/all blacks are racists&#8221; is racism as well.</p>
<p>But racism does not mean treating people negatively. Supporting black people more than white people is also racism, even if it might be intended to fight racism, it is racism itself. The strange thing is, if you&#8217;re not a racist, people will likely call you a racist. Why? Simple: If someone says &#8220;I don&#8217;t think black people should get support that white people don&#8217;t get&#8221; he will be called a racist, because people assume he does not like black people. There might be some people that think so because they are racists, but most people aren&#8217;t. The opposite is true. Giving black people a support that white people don&#8217;t get is racism, by definition. Look at the definition of racism again: Treating people differently because of race. So what is it if not racism? </p>
<p>Racism does not merely mean treating people worse because of race, but also treating people better because of race. In the end, if you do any of these two things, you are a racist. That&#8217;s a fact. </p>
<p>Let me say three more things:<br />
1. I&#8217;m black myself.</p>
<p>2. I am not a Ron Paul supporter, but he is definitely not a racist. Nobody (including Obama) is more anti-racist than he is.</p>
<p>3. I support Obama, but not because he is black as I am, but because of his views on certain issues. However, even though I support him, I am concerned. It seems to me that many people are just supporting him because he is black. Same with Hillary, it seems to me that many people support her just because she is a woman. I&#8217;m against both of these things. You shouldn&#8217;t support a presidential candidate ONLY because of race/gender. That&#8217;s ridiculous. More: That&#8217;s racism. Again, look at the definition: Treating people differently because of race. Voting for Obama because he&#8217;s black is by definition racism (note that I&#8217;m saying this EVEN THOUGH I&#8217;m supporting him and EVEN THOUGH I&#8217;m black myself.) Why am I saying this then? Because I&#8217;m using LOGIC and ARGUMENTS to make my decision, and not emotions. Emotionally, I could say: Obama is black, I&#8217;m black, I should vote for him because I feel connected to him. But logically, that would be racism. And, honestly, anyone who votes for somebody just because he is black/white, man/woman, or who does not vote for somebody because of any of the things mentioned above, should have no right to vote. (Of course, I don&#8217;t mean that, but still&#8230;)</p>
<p>We&#8217;re all individuals, we&#8217;re all humans. Differentiating people because of skin color, gender, or something like that is artificial in my view. Dividing people in black and white is an artificial division. In my opinion, it is the same as dividing mankind in people that wear glasses and people that don&#8217;t wear glasses; it&#8217;s the same as dividing mankind in people that are above 6 feet and people below 6 feet; it&#8217;s the same as dividing mankind in people that have the favorite color green and people with a favorite color different than green. It&#8217;s artificial, it&#8217;s useless, and it&#8217;s unfair. Everybody should have the same rights because he is a human being, and not because of anything else, because every other differentiation would be artificial. And in this point I strongly agree to Ron Paul.</p>
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		<title>By: internationalman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think you simply don&#039;t understand that the back of racism was not broken by the federal government, but by Black Americans themselves. This myth that Black Americans needed state intervention to find their way is just that: a myth. Black Americans were making progress long before the white saviour of the Federal Gov&#039;t came to the rescue. And it has been empirically demonstrated again and again that black progress has been retarded by so called federal protection.

I think you need a good dose of Walter Williams&#039; &quot;The State Against Blacks&quot; where he dismantles **empirically** every notion you propagate above.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you simply don&#8217;t understand that the back of racism was not broken by the federal government, but by Black Americans themselves. This myth that Black Americans needed state intervention to find their way is just that: a myth. Black Americans were making progress long before the white saviour of the Federal Gov&#8217;t came to the rescue. And it has been empirically demonstrated again and again that black progress has been retarded by so called federal protection.</p>
<p>I think you need a good dose of Walter Williams&#8217; &#8220;The State Against Blacks&#8221; where he dismantles **empirically** every notion you propagate above.</p>
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